“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Instead I would like to give you some more material dealing with mental enclosures. These are in some respects a different sort of camouflage, a self-formed, artificial and only partial enclosure, a beneficial psychic device within which the inner self momentarily and temporarily gathers and holds and collects as much psychic energy about it as it is capable of receiving, utilizing, and also withstanding. The mental enclosure in most cases is self-limiting then, since it represents a setting up of barriers on all sides but one. But it is limiting only for the ultimate purpose of intense concentration of energy, resulting in a burst or expansion of this energy that has been transformed and pressurized, so to speak, into new patterns.

It is the ability of such a unit of consciousness to utilize or create other forms and dimensions of itself that regulates the dimensions of the mental enclosure and of the effective self. You understand that about this mental or psychic enclosure the other elements of self are constructed, the physical image and its extensions into physical environment. This process, in various fields, continually goes on.

You may consider a mental enclosure in its simplest terms to be somewhat like a cube. The dimensions may vary within, but the furthest side will be represented as open or transparent, the line itself being drawn only for convenience’s sake.

The properties of matter have been given it, that is been given the energy, within the mental enclosure, as indeed the physical properties have been given. And a child is formed in the womb, but may be damaged in the act of passing out.

I have spoken of mental enclosures. [...] It is not closed entirely but nevertheless it could be said to approximate in psychic terms the enclosure within which your so-called mediums work; that is, with a minimum of camouflage communication at hand.

A mental enclosure cannot be seen or touched, yet no man is ever within a mental enclosure but that he is alone. [...]

(Seth began referring to mental enclosures, mental enzymes, etc., many many sessions ago, at the same time he began to give the information on the inner senses. [...]

The system or the mental enclosure, again, is only closed comparatively speaking. [...]

Actually a counteraction within a mental enclosure (pause) occurs in some manner. A mental enclosure divides itself in two, splits up, divides, multiplies, acts upon its own various parts, and this produces a material manifestation. [...]

The mental enzymes within the enclosure are the elements that set off the action and—listen closely—are also the action itself. [...]

Initially these mental enclosures formed as much matter about themselves as they could manage, capturing other such enclosures through attraction when possible, in which case the two groups thusly joined both benefited by the additional matter that they could form. For there is this excess of inner energy, and when two such enclosures joined they could between them form more matter through interrelationships, than either could alone.

[...] In the beginnings within your universe psychic characteristics grouped into units of attraction, so that mental enclosures were formed that could be compared to the smallest physical particle.

Actually, a counteraction within a mental enclosure occurs. A mental enclosure divides itself in two, splits up, multiplies, acts upon its own various parts, and this produces a material manifestation. [...] The mental enzymes within the enclosure are the elements that set off the action, and — listen to this — they are also the action itself.

[...] The outward layer of skin, while serving as a physical enclosure, serves as a physical enclosure only for the sake of convenience, as far as distinctions are concerned.

The point that I wanted to make is that in all instances energy, individualized energy, materializes itself on any, or within any, field through mental enclosures; which are of themselves not formed of any camouflage, but represent entry points formed of pure energy for its entrance and eventual manipulation within a given field.

It is the initial three-sided enclosure from which all matter must spring. [...]

It is the initial three-sided enclosure, from which all matter must spring. [...]

Now that you know something about the nature of matter, you will see that all matter is objectified mental action, and that basically such action happens simultaneously in the spacious present, formed by individualized energy through the formation of mental enclosures.

[...] They are important however; and from what you now know you realize that these energy forms represent mental enclosure units, operating in the same manner as our earlier ones of which we spoke when discussing the early development of energy within the physical field.

(See sessions 86 and 87 for material on mental enclosures, and Session 87 also for material on capsule comprehension.

[...] Any appearance of enclosure is the result of camouflage distortions, quite necessary within a given system so that the organisms within it can focus their main attentions to the problems within a particular system.

[...] An enclosure. [...]

(“An enclosure.” [...]

[...] Mental enclosures are energy units possessing all the characteristics of such units as I have previously given you. [...]

The subconscious is a radiation outward from the mental enclosure that can be considered as a nucleus. [...]

The skin of the apple must also give the feeling that it is more than an enclosure, for through it energy from the sun also comes. [...]

[...] He thinks of an umbrella, and is now in a very small room or enclosure. [...]

[...] The counteraction involved in this case is counteraction within the core of vitality itself, in much the same manner that we spoke of a closed mental enclosure earlier. [...]

[...] But you will not want to stay, nor crawl through the small enclosures, nor have we any intentions of doing so.