“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You see physical bodies and suppose that any personality must appear in physical terms. None of you are physical; that which is enduring is not physical. In that respect at least you are no different than I. Consciousness is the force behind matter, and it forms many other realities beside the physical one. It is only because your own viewpoint is presently so limited that it seems to you that physical reality is the rule and the mode and the purpose of existence.

The source and the power of your present consciousness is not and has never been physical, and where I am many are not even aware that such a physical system exists. You have chosen your own illusion, and so you must accept it, and from its viewpoint must you try to understand the realities that exist beyond it.

There are many illusions, but the illusions are also real since they are created and since they exist. Yours is simply not one that I have pursued, and one of the purposes of my appearance at these sessions is to acquaint the one you call Ruburt with inner travel, for he must leave the system as you know it, and in doing so set up habits and paths that can be used to advantage.

You have been so immersed in physical reality through reincarnations, that even your dreams involve you with objects; and even in your dreams you hardly escape the physical units that you have constructed.

It is highly difficult for you to perceive any knowledge or reality unless it is interpreted in physical terms, even though such interpretation highly distorts the information itself. When you allow yourselves freedom in the dream state, when you allow yourself direct experience of reality, when you do not remember it.

In dreams you continue to create pseudo-objects; even in your travels into experiences in other fields of reality, you continue to insist upon the paraphernalia of objectivity until it imprisons you, and you cannot see beyond it.

The inner portions of your own identity and reality are not known to you, for you cannot objectify them and therefore you do not perceive them. So much of your energy is used in these productions that you cannot afford to perceive any reality except your own. Like children playing with blocks your focus of attention is upon physical blocks.

Other shapes and forms that you could perceive, you do not; even in explaining other realities to you I must use the words shapes and forms, or you would not understand what I mean.

You have your mathematics from us. You have a shadow of mathematics, for here again you have insisted upon hemming in realities, of applying larger elements of thought to your blocks. Your idea of progress is building bigger blocks, like children sitting upon the floor. Yet none of us would think of kicking aside your block constructions in ire, or telling you to put aside children’s toys, though one day you shall do so.

The blocks of physical reality appear very real to you when you dwell within their perspective.