“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You could compare these units, simply for an analogy, to the invisible breath of consciousness. This analogy will not carry us far, but it will be enough initially to get the idea across. Breath is of course also a pulsation, and these units operate in a pulsating manner. They are emitted by the cells, for example, in plants, animals, rocks, and so forth.

I am beginning this material. Later you will see I am making it simple for you, but you will not understand it unless we begin in this manner. I do intend to explain their structure to you; now give us a moment.

Being just beyond the range of matter, having a structure, but a nonphysical structure, and being of a pulsating nature, they can expand or contract. They can completely envelop, for example, a small cell, or retreat to the nucleus within. They combine qualities of a unit and a field, in other words.

Intensity not only governs their activity and size, but the relative strength of their magnetic nature. They will draw other such units to them, for example, according to the intensity of the emotional tone of the particular consciousness at any given, quote, “point.”

I will try to clear this later, but the air is the result of these units’ existence, formed by the interrelationship of the units in their positions and relative distance one from the other, and in what you could call the relative velocity of their motion. Air is what happens when these units are in motion (pause), and it is in terms of weather that their electromagnetic effects appear most clearly to scientists, for example.

These units are sent out indiscriminately by the various atoms and molecules, but portions of them are also directed by the overall rock consciousness. The units are sent out then from the rock, informing the rock as to the nature of its changing environment, the angle of the sun, and temperature changes for example as night falls; and even in the case of a rock, they change as the rock’s loosely called emotional tone changes. As the units change they alter the air about them, which is the result of their own activity.

I would appreciate it, dear friend, if you let me continue for now, though I understand why you want to know. This is not a rebuke. (Smiling.) I simply did not want to be interrupted. Give us a moment. (Pause.) I do not know the specific painting, although a round object was involved. It was I believe one of the pieces of fruit. The idea flitted through your mind and you did not grab hold of it, but it worried you.

(Note that the dream came after I had resolved some of the above-mentioned problems. I was still somewhat uneasy about the decisions I had reached by October 9, but decided to go ahead anyhow, that I was belaboring what were probably rather innocuous points by that time.)

The doctor, the figure, represented your artistic intuitional creative self, your potential self in those terms, to whom you looked for advice and help. You had to climb up, symbolically, but the ladder you see was one-directional rather than crooked, and this shows that the road is clear.

Had it been an elevator, this would have signaled quicker success, but there were no obstacles in the way either, and the rungs, regularly placed, showed a steady progression. You did not backtrack or make false starts.

I do not mean a big issue, but a very unique contribution. If a particular person’s face was a landscape, what kind of a landscape would it be, for example? Even the planes of the face themselves can suggest mountains or valleys. But beyond this in deeper terms, how would that face be translated if it were not a face but a landscape? What time of day would it suggest? What kind (underlined) of landscape, desert or mountainous, and so forth?

(This above data is excellent on Seth’s part, full of evocative ideas and intuitive good sense. I have at various times entertained related ideas, but never put them in as concrete form. Because of this I know I haven’t discussed them with Jane, as such. The idea of thinking of a person’s face as a landscape is very good. I am already thinking of ways to put the suggestions to work on a conscious basis.)