“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What you have instead is constant, new creation of material, as energy fills the patterns. The sharpness or rigidity or quality of the perceived material depends on the energy which forms it, and the characteristics of matter therefore depend upon the position of the energy that fills the pattern; but by position, I think in terms of the arrival and departure of this energy as it passes through your field.

There is what you could call a maximum point of energy focus, and after this is reached the departure of the energy begins. If it will help you, think of the energy as a wind, a cosmic wind that fills up from the inside, certain patterns. The filled-up patterns appear fairly rigid and permanent enough to be counted upon as such. Nevertheless the wind that composes them is never the same. It comes and goes, filling the patterns according to its own intensity.

I wanted to make this point, since matter is created by the subconscious, and since it exists simultaneously and instantaneously, and since its creation or arrival, and its departure or replacement, are instantaneous. Once this is understood it becomes at least theoretically possible to re-create the material of the past, in so far as the patterns for the material have been retained.

You were more affected by your friend’s (Curtis Kent) departure than you realize, wondering if you yourself should find a better-paying commercial job, and yet angry that you even had such thoughts when what you really wanted was to stay home and paint.

[...] The departure of your friend serves to bring this up to your mind.

(Toward the end of the session as Seth, Jane and I sat talking alone, after the departure of the Gallaghers, Seth volunteered the information that Scotty was a greedy child. [...]

[...] The “absent” portion of the self cannot be traced through brain patterns, though the point of its departure and the point of its return may show a particular pattern. The “time out” itself, however, will not be detected in any way, the tracings showing only whatever characteristic pattern was being given immediately before departure.

[...] They have actually very little to do with what you consider male and female, and for now we can mention them briefly in terms of arrival and departure.

[...] The departure is as necessary as the arrival, for without it new arrivals of any kind would not be possible.

When it is followed without the addition of unrestrained and purposely cruel purposes having nothing to do with the basic necessity, arrival and departure then can be seen as the two faces of male and female, each serving the basic purpose of value fulfillment and creation.

[...] This new departure was not particularly easy for Jane, and none of us wanted her to overdo it, but it was quite successful. [...]

[...] The emotional, responses then are used as departure points for other experiences. [...]

[...] This also has something to do with the hour of his birth and death, for he had a sense of neatness, and it pleased him to time his arrival and departure.

If you take a radio job now, and if probabilities continue in the same direction as they are now, then I see another radio job after that one, and then a departure and emergence into another field.

[...] After their departure and when Seth resumed, they began to open occasionally. [...]

[...] The totem poles date back to the time when men and animals understood each other, before that point of departure. [...]

[...] The Gallaghers visited us Saturday evening, December 2. I did not see them arrive, but witnessed their departure. [...]

[...] She had been preparing herself since she learned of the operations’ necessity for her own departure. [...]

From your viewpoint such a disintegration is, of course, not pleasant, but as the personality loses its focus on your plane it gathers itself together on another plane, and such a gradual gathering together is much more favorable than the surprise of a complete and sudden departure. [...]

[...] The technique that is yours and is excellent should be the point of departure that sends the spontaneous action into new reality, and not a rigid mold to contain it.

The apparent lapse between the entry and departure points of this motion appears then as a convenient measurement within the system, that is referred to within your system as time.

[...] (A one-minute pause.) Like you, she is presented with a life that seems to begin at her birth, and that is suspended from that point of emergence until the moment of death’s departure. [...]

(However, a little thought shows that Fred’s departure may actually work to our advantage—slowing down any precipitous decision on the part of the Chemung County Infirmary to want to possibly move Jane over there; if he isn’t present to give advise, officials may not be able to reach a decision, except to leave her alone—which is what we want. [...]

[...] It is something of a new departure for me, and embodies a lot of the things I’ve learned doing my portraits for the past year or so. [...]

[...] You have a psychic arrival and departure. [...]

[...] Since this was a departure from her usual procedure I watched her closely. [...]

As many quite real phenomena cannot be seen by your eyes, so with your outer senses you cannot perceive these constant departures of quality-energy from the self into what seems to be notself. [...]