“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At 9:18 Jane told me she was starting to get the “pyramid feeling.” For explanations of this subjective experience see earlier sessions: 411, 412, 413, 419, etc. She said, “I think I’m going to get the other one,” meaning Seth’s larger personality. The pyramid effect seemed to make her hold her head quite still and even, as though performing a balancing act for the subjective pyramid. I suggested she relax her neck and she did so.

This is in connection with the lectures you are being given having to do with time and identity. Though numbers are abstract they can serve our purposes well here. One number, for example 7, can be considered itself as an identity. Now, it may become a portion of other numbers in infinite varieties, and yet it is always itself.

(Pause; one of many.) It may be a portion of many groupings yet still retain itself. Three and four will add to seven, yet three and four are their identities and will always be so in your terms. The numbers on the other side of zero, the minus numbers, represent identity in that time of relative nonbeing. The paradox is that the numbers therefore cannot be conceived of as not being, so the minus sign is used.

These multidimensional intensities would be considered as inherent qualities belonging to each number. (One minute pause.) They would represent other dimensional realities inherent in the number itself, and since numbers are only symbols they would therefore represent other dimensional realities inherent in the unit for which the number stood.

As one number quite simply can be added to another without denying the validity of either number, nor the individuality of either number, so a different kind of grouping also takes place (pause), involving (pause), mathematical manipulations of these other intensities that reside within the number units.

Pretend then that behind or within but unseen by you, behind or within the number 1, for example, there are an infinite number of other 1’s, lined up so to speak behind the one that you see. (Jane leaned forward, gesturing:) The one that you see is the self that you see or recognize within your system. The 1’s behind are not serial, nor identical, nor duplicates.

They are all however variations, but neither one is patterned upon any other. Each number in our original quote “row” that you see has therefore within it these other individual units.

Behind 1 then imagine the infinite other 1’s, literally for the analogy’s sake one behind the other. Now this long line of 1’s may seem to stretch out indefinitely (Jane spread her arms wide), or may seem (Jane clapped her hands together) to snap together into one. There is expansion and contraction within this simple number 1 then, within any number or unit.

In the same manner any of the unit intensities behind each number may change position while still remaining itself, and retaining its individuality as a unit. If you use x and y rather than 1 and 2, basically the same is true. Now this analogy applies to identity. You are in a world where you see one particular intensity unit—belonging say to number 1.

(Jane had felt the ideas were coming to her so rapidly she couldn’t speak fast enough to keep up, whereas actually the delivery had been a slow one for the most part. She was surprised to learn this.

One of us will give you directions shortly, and they should be followed when you are ready, without any changes made on your part. You will to some small extent at least experience for yourself what it is like to be a personality outside the context of time as you know it.