“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment … Physicists know that waves can appear as particles upon certain conditions, and that particles can behave like waves.³ So moments as you understand them are like waves experienced as “particles” — as small bubbles, for example, each one breaking and another forming. Subatomic particles also behave like waves sometimes; in fact, it is usually only when they act like particles that they are perceived at all.

Now: Many of these invisible particles (CU’s) can be in more than one place at a time — a fact that quite confounds the physically tuned brain perceiving a world in which objects stay where they are supposed to be.

Give us a moment … I am putting this as simply as possible; but when your “original self” enters [part of] itself into three-dimensional life from an inner reality, the energy waves carrying it break — not simply into one particle, following our analogy, but into a number of conscious particles. In certain terms these are built up using the medium at hand — the biological properties of the earth. They spread out from the “point of contact,” forming individual lives. In your conception of the centuries, then, there are other counterparts of yourself living at the same time and in different places — all creative versions of the original self. There is a great intimate cooperation that exists biologically and spiritually between all of the beings on your planet “at any given time.” You are all connected psychically in terms of inner and outer structures. A certain identity and cohesiveness is also maintained because of these inner connections.

(10:51.) There are psychic structures quite as effective as physical ones, and these underlie the reality of your objective world. They merge together beautifully to form an inner picture of the world at any given “time,” even while that picture is ever-changing. In greater terms, the picture of your world at any given time can be compared to the position, behavior, and characteristics of an invisible particle as it is “caught” intruding into your reality.

(11:00. Seth’s words just above, “… your own thoughts give birth …” reminded me of one of my favorite passages from Seth Speaks. While discussing probabilities in the 565th session for Chapter 16 of that book he said. “Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.”⁸ I also found an opportunity to insert the same lines in Chapter 10 of Personal Reality; see the 641st session.

Again, your idea of personhood limits you when you think of these concepts. You imagine personhood to be a kind of mental particle that must have definite boundaries, or it will lose its identity. The identity of even the smallest consciousness is always maintained — but not limited. If you can think of your present idea of identity as if it were but one shape or one motion of a moving particle, a shape or a motion that never loses its imprint or meaning, then you could also see how you could follow it forward or backward to the shape or motion taken “before or afterward.”

I bid you then a fond good evening. My heartiest wishes … Have him (Jane) read the latest material I gave for him (which we’d deleted from its spot at 11:44 in the last session) every day until our next one.

(11:43 P.M. An aside: Lately I’d delayed typing these sessions from my notes because I’ve been so busy doing the finished pen-and-ink drawings for Jane’s Dialogues. Currently I’m working on the 12th one out of the 40 planned. Jane hasn’t had a book session to read since the 718th, for November 6, was held almost four weeks ago. Now she reminded me that she misses keeping up with Seth’s dictation — that she has trouble deciphering my personal shorthand, and that not knowing what Seth has been saying makes her feel “uneasy.” This even though she and Seth have demonstrated often by now that as a team they’re most capable of producing a work “blind,” as it were, and on a continuing basis. But I’d become so involved with artwork that I hadn’t appreciated her own interests and concerns.

4. I doubt if by his statement Seth means that physicists are attempting to study his CU’s (see Note 2) — certainly not yet, although a few scientists who have written us thereby show that they’re familiar with Seth’s thinking here. Rather, some “modern” physicists are searching for nonmaterial “particles” that certain theories (one of them having to do with “quarks,” for example) say should exist if the theories are valid. Such pseudoparticles, then, are mathematical entities that can affect the actions of physical objects.

10. Material in many of the sessions in the first section of Volume 1 touches upon the contents of this paragraph. In the 687th session, Seth stated: “I am saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand … move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, as those ideas are currently understood.”