“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The spacious present does not contradict the existence of durability, but durability does not imply the existence of a future as you conceive it. Now this may appear contradictory, but later I hope that you will understand this more clearly. The spacious present, while existing spontaneously, while happening simultaneously, still contains within it qualities of duration.

Energy transformation and value fulfillment, all existing within the spacious present, add up to a durability that is at the same time spontaneous. Energy transformation and value fulfillment add up to a durability that is simultaneous.

Durability is our fourth law. Durability within the framework of the spacious present would not exist were it not for the laws of value fulfillment and energy transformation. These make duration within the spacious present not only possible but necessary.

You may see what we are getting into here. Our third law is spontaneity, and despite all appearances of beginning and end, despite all appearances of death and decay, all consciousness exists in the spacious present, in a spontaneous manner, in simultaneous harmony, and yet within the spacious present there is also durability.

Philip should read the sessions dealing particularly with the laws of the universe, that is with the inner laws of the universe, appreciating then the facts that this universe within all universes is spontaneous while having durability. It would be backtracking to repeat that long discussion, but as the inner universe has as its attributes spontaneity and durability, and as the spacious present is simultaneous while containing within it all pasts and all presents and all futures, and as Philip understands the meaning of expansion in terms not of time or of space but of value fulfillment, so will he intuitively then grasp that no contradiction occurs with actual reality when I say that there is no beginning and no end.

I do not believe that Philip has read the material dealing with the perspective universe, in which the dream is projected into a changing but durable and quite real existence, independent of the dreamer.

[...] I have said that any of you and all of you create a dream universe of validity, actuality, durability, and for Philip's benefit, self-determination, in the same manner that the entity projects the reality of its various personalities. [...]

As an idea changes, so do entities change while still retaining individuality and durability. [...]

I have told you that all consciousnesses exist in the spacious present, which is spontaneous while also durable. [...]

[...] Because of the endless possibilities within this now, durability is maintained in terms of value fulfillment, the fulfillment of literally endless values. [...]

There is much yet to be covered dealing with a spontaneity that is nevertheless durable. [...]

You know that you cannot perceive with the outer senses the pulsations of energy as they form this chair; because you cannot perceive these pulsations, the chair appears durable, a part of your time and space, and continuous in time and space.

The chair is neither durable nor continuous, and its reality is limited to the recognition which you give it as an object.

[...] It was followed by a mild yet durable feeling of enlargement in both my wrists and hands, and feet.

You do transform ideas into image patterns, but they do not have durability or continuity on your plane. They do however, possess durability and continuity on another plane with which you are subconsciously familiar. [...]

[...] What we are concerned with is this reconstruction, but this reconstruction in durable enough terms so that communication can take place.

[...] You are free of space, and to a large degree of time, in the sleeping state, because you are not using your energies to transform ideas into durable physical camouflage patterns.

[...] He looked supercool in his cut-off denim shorts; his long hair curled into natural corkscrews, his light durable frame seeming to luxuriate in the heat while my light durable frame turned into a sponge that added ten pounds of fatigue.

[...] Matter in itself does not possess durability. [...]

[...] You will have to look elsewhere for durability and form. [...]

[...] You pride yourselves on your technology, and the production of durable goods, buildings and roads, yet many of these are insignificant when compared to other structures within the “past.”

They appear to lack the apparent physical durability of, say, a table or a chair, the table and chair being examples of physical realities. And yet their effect is much more durable, and they impress and to some extent manipulate physical realities, in their strong and sometimes explosive emergence into your universe. [...]

[...] Basically, the spacious present as you know does have durability, because of the existence of value fulfillment.

[...] The spacious present contains instead spontaneity, and within it all happenings are simultaneous, and yet there is durability.

The durability is achieved because of constant expansion in terms of value fulfillment. [...]

[...] As time passes you will be able to maintain durability, as far as such journeys are concerned. [...]

In cases such as these, when durability can be maintained, by all means attempt to speak to any persons that you meet, as in this case you saw the girl at the window; and also ask them to write you at your home address.

Dictation: Luckily the human mind and body are far more flexible, durable and creative than ever given credit for. [...]

(Then, in the 44th session for April 15, 1964, Seth explained that in the inner universe, “Energy transformation and value fulfillment, both existing within the spacious present [or at once], add up to a durability that is at the same time spontaneous … and simultaneous.” The durability being achieved through constant expansion in terms of value fulfillment.⁸)

Because you do not accept them all as physical events, you do not perceive their strength or durability. [...]

[...] As a result, your evidence shows the much later reemergence of writing on more durable objects.

[...] The durability of the thought as an electrical act is determined by its initial electric charge. [...]

[...] You will be dealing with realities in which the durability of images is far different. [...]

Growth is an erroneous conception that begins with the distortive idea of continuous physical matter, durable in time. [...] Matter has little, really no, durability in itself, and is merely the instantaneous form taken by consciousness as it projects itself in the physical field.

[...] At its best (underlined) impressionism achieved a certain focus unknown to Western art up to that time, in your terms, offering a breakthrough from cohesive objective form into the moving vitality that gives objects, say, their durability and shapes their images.

Obviously there are objects of all sizes, durability, and weight. [...]