“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What is not understood is that the same sort of conditioning also operates, not only in the reaction to events but in the formation of events. You predispose yourselves toward the construction of events of a particular nature, to which of course you then react.

You also help maintain and form constructions or events of others that fit in with your own particular varieties of interests. Now again I am not speaking symbolically. Very definite portions of the nervous system that you do not understand are the receptors of impulses that go outward from you to form events.

There are of course mass constructions, psychic pools whose energy is derived from many individuals, all predisposed because of their own inclinations toward specific areas of activity. Various groups of individuals therefore, massed together, help form and maintain particular areas of your reality.

This sort of behavior continues of course whether you are waking or sleeping, and is highly involved in the construction of dream images and constructions. There are areas of activity to which you do not react simply because you have not activated sympathetic pathways within yourself. These require much more effort on your part, but even the physical brain has latent within it the possibilities for many kinds of activities that still remain generally unknown.

The inner self is acquainting itself with reality as it exists there. In many cases it is emerging into a new world. Since the learning process is involved, there are errors. Any faulty constructions however are used by the inner self in a feedback system and as a part of the learning process. Your system is not the most elementary, but it is one of the most elementary, and it is a way that the inner self acquaints itself with certain basic facts.

It knows full well its own indestructibility, and that of its fellows. What happens in the case of constructive psychic energy when it is purposely denied aggressive outlets? It finds out. What does it feel like to be the brunt of aggression? It forms another life situation and discovers the answer. How strong and potent is the energy that is at its command? How can it best be used? It is quite necessary that all of these questions be answered, for the inner self is composed of energy, and in other fields of activity thoughts and emotions are instantaneously translated, their results instantly seen. There is no saving time lag, as within your own system, and there is no physical body such as you know it.

There is form. The very mechanism of the body however is so constructed that it can bear the brunt of many errors, and free itself from them, though this may not seem to be the case at times. Nevertheless yours is a slow-motion world in many ways as far as your perceptions are concerned, while you are within it. Your body is much like a sculptor or a sculpt, never really completed, the inner self trying out various techniques of creativity on its first test piece. The results are not always of the best, but the sculptor is independent of his product and knows there will others.