“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: The planetary system of which we spoke in our last session was the first one within your universe, when you are speaking in terms of time. It is very difficult to explain to you that the universe that you see, the stars and planets that you view, are one-dimensional, comparatively speaking. You only perceive the portions of them that are apparent within your own system of reality.

The heavy hydrogen molecules had a large part to play in the birth of that (earlier) system. Consciousnes had first to create the void or the dimension in which the system could exist, and also to endow that void with all the probabilities for development that have come about in your time and are to come about. The void, in other terms, can therefore be compared to a mind, and who can predict what images or thoughts will be given birth there? There are, as I have told you, countless such systems, and yet within them all there is identity and direction.

Remember, when we speak of the beginnings of your system, we speak only in consideration of your ideas of time. All, obviously, then exists at once. To your way of thinking, some lives are lived in a twinkling (in various systems), and others last for centuries. The perception of consciousness is not limited, however. I have told you, for example, that trees have their own consciousness. The consciousness of a tree is not as specifically focused as your own, yet to all intents and purposes, the tree is conscious of fifty years before its existence, and fifty years hence.