“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Their time scheme is far vaster than the one you recognize. The kind of reality that you understand forms the least active portion of their actuality, and would represent, for example only, a relatively defective or “inferior” state of consciousness and comprehension, a state like (underlined), perhaps, senility. In the time in which we are speaking, the duration of those lives straddles your centuries. The individuals concerned, by their standards, are not unusually long-lived, however. They would feel no older after 5,600 years than one of you at 80. In ways almost impossible to describe, your realities mix and merge at certain points.

You become aware of their existence, but in the meantime often your generations change, while theirs has not, and so they appear eternal in conventional terms. They are human. They are, however, heroically human, in that the characteristics of that species are carried as far as possible to fulfillment. On the other hand they followed a different kind of development, primarily a mental and psychic one that carried them into another kind of experience so different as to be alien in quality and degree.

In one way or another, the more powerful truths or facts of this “higher” dimension were interpreted and set down. Christ said that with faith you could move a mountain. He meant that quite literally. The world psyche is in transition. (Long pause.) Michelangelo lived, literally again, in the heroic dimension. Only his physical condition connected his reality with the known one. You can therefore inhabit the heroic dimensions in the most vital of ways while you still live on one level your recognized existence. Your beliefs form your reality. You are born on faith, in those terms. You believe you can write books and paint pictures, and you do.

(Just before the session, and after we’d sat for our own experiments at 9:00 PM, Jane reported several obvious improvements—one notably in the suddenly increased flexibility of her right thumb....)