“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Yet the physical matter of the born infant contains none of the same physical matter which was received initially from the parents. The original matter has completely disappeared, to be replaced by other matter as the consciousness of the infant slowly constructs about itself its growing awareness of itself into physical matter.

You say that the matter that composes it steadily changes, but this is not the case. The apparent continuity is a result of your inability to perceive the actual atoms that compose matter as they appear and disappear. Because grass appears where seeds have been sown, you have leaped to the conclusion that the matter of the seeds grows from the matter of which they are composed, and that grass grows from the actual matter of the seeds.

Call the particular matter given by the parents x and y. When the child is born, it does not contain anywhere within it these particular portions of matter called x and y. It would appear that the matter had changed. Instead, the matter has vanished, in ways that I have explained earlier. Do you recall?

The form that consciousness takes in the field of matter is determined by its own strength and capacity. Consciousness forces its way into matter. You should see, then, that though you call a particular portion of grass one blade of grass, the matter that composes it is not static or permanent, and it is not a particular physical object growing, since the matter that composes it is neither static or permanent.

[...] This physical matter on your plane we will call positive matter. To the field of negative matter, your positive matter would be termed negative. [...] The point is that perception is the criteria for what you call matter. [...] You do not perceive continuous creation of matter.

[...] Since matter is constantly re-created, and instantaneous, many of your ideas of time are of course distorted, since you have taken it for granted that matter changes with, or in, time. [...]

[...] Time does not cause change in matter, appearances to the contrary. I am going to skip a giant step, and say that man himself and all conscious beings produce matter subconsciously.

[...] Alone, each negative interval may be negligible, but taken en masse this adds up until there is as much negative matter as there is positive matter.

Matter is continually created, but no particular physical object is in itself continuous. [...] There is an infinite number or series of creations of matter. The ability of the individual creator of any particular physical form to use psychic energy to control and manipulate causes the outer appearance of deterioration and aging of matter.

[...] As the energy approaches it creates matter, first of all in a rather inadequate, almost plastic fashion. It continually recreates matter as it comes fully within what you call the physical plane, then energy’s construction into matter simply becomes more proficient and focused. [...]

And speaking of matter, I am aware that Ruburt picked up a book on the nature of matter, which is to the good. [...]

Matter is in some ways the basis of your universe, and yet matter itself is merely energy changed into aspects with certain properties that can, under certain conditions, be perceived by your senses, and that can therefore be manipulated.

[...] Matter is, as you know, formed. Matter is the result of molecular composition. An object is composed of matter, this is true. Your outer senses then perceive the matter as particular, differentiated, separate objects.

It can be shown, and we will go into this, that form is not a characteristic of matter. [...] Your cause and effect theory, again, is responsible here for many distortions, such as the idea that the matter of say, a flower, grows from matter of a seed directly. [...]

Form is not a characteristic of matter, despite appearances. Matter in itself does not possess durability. [...]

[...] We will still be involved for a while in the discussion of matter, and the discussions will be very important from many viewpoints.

The units so charged with intensive emotional energy formed patterns for matter that retained their strength. Now these units, while appearing within your system, may also have a reality outside it, propelling the emotional energy units through the world of matter entirely. [...] They can, however, lose or gain power, fall back into intensities beneath matter, or go through matter, appearing as matter as they do so and projecting through your system.

[...] Since they are the intuitive force just beyond the range of matter, upon which matter is formed, they will not follow the laws of matter, although at times they may mimic the laws of matter.

[...] But the rhythms have to do with the nature of emotional energy itself, and not with the laws of matter.

[...] It becomes the entryway into physical matter.

The atoms and molecules, energy in matter, appear and disappear instantaneously. Energy constantly is constructed into the guise of matter, but matter is the simultaneous expression of energy under certain conditions.

As I have told you, form is not a characteristic of matter. [...] You observe that grass often appears where seed has been sown, and you conclude erroneously that the seed grows from matter within it, and that grass grows from the seed.

[...] Now the chair represents a subdivision in matter, being what you term dead matter, though we know that consciousness is everywhere.

[...] He has been in past existences concerned with matters that lie beneath matter, if you will excuse a pun; and for this reason the interest has grown. [...]

[...] Since they are the intuitive force just beyond the reach of matter, upon which matter is formed, they will not follow the laws of matter, although at times they will mimic the laws of matter. [...]

[...] They can however lose or gain power, fall back into intensities beneath matter, or go through matter, appearing as matter as they do so, and projecting through your system. [...]

The units so charged with intensive emotional energy, formed patterns for matter that retained their strength. Now these units, while appearing within your system, may also have another reality outside of it, propelling the emotional energy units through the world of matter entirely.

[...] But the rhythms have to do with the nature of emotional energy itself, and not with the laws of physical matter.

As you know, the mind forms matter. The physical brain only perceives the appearance of matter in one of its many manifestations. There are many gradations of matter, therefore, as I have told you.

The subject of matter then becomes one of correlating inner data with outward experience and appearance. The inner core of the self has no difficulty in uniting and correlating the outward experience of its many personalities, but the subject of reincarnation cannot be understood without a knowledge of the nature of matter.

[...] She has no idea of subject matter, title, etc., for any projected book by Seth. [...]

[...] Now in the meantime there are a few points I would like to make that have not been given in this particular manner; connections that are important, between the nature of matter, your perception of it, and reincarnational existence. [...]

[...] And the electrical and even chemical systems play a much larger part within the physical system than matter plays within their systems. They could both exist without the world of physical matter, but the world of physical matter could not exist without them.

[...] Only infrequently does the electric field protrude visibly in your field, yet in its own field it is indeed tangible, but not in terms of matter. [...] Electric impulses within atoms and molecules are part of the structure of your physical universe, while matter is not perceived directly in the electric field itself.

Where matter would exist there, a concentration of energy forms what you could think of as a body form, body meaning mass, yet it would not be matter in your terms. [...]

Matter has little effect within the electrical system, but the effects of the electrical system upon physical matter are great. [...]

[...] There was also therefore from the beginning here a negative field, and as they weaved matter in and out of this psychic beginning meshwork, they formed both the world of matter and of negative matter.

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.

(I am not sure that Seth’s statement on page 150 constitutes a distortion, when he mentions that a communication between our universe and the universe of negative matter is possible. [...] In the 63rd session Seth states that our universe and the two universes comprising the universe of negative matter can never meet. [...]

[...] Matter is as you know camouflage, the outwardness of energy. [...]

I would like to speak concerning the parallel development of the universe of matter as you know it, the universe of negative matter, and what is truly the universe of dreams.

Earlier I mentioned fire, which was intellectually grasped by man and therefore materialized in the world of matter. Previously the dream world symbolically used fire only in terms of its power to transform matter. [...]

The energy is then transformed in the dream universe, and again regenerated and used in the formation of the universe of negative matter, into which it seeps from the dream universe. Our discussions will have to thoroughly discuss the nature of the dream universe before we can hope to consider the universe of negative matter, but it will not hurt if you keep the above mentioned facts in mind.

[...] I mentioned sessions ago the connection between negative matter and positive matter, concerning the pulsations of energy into atoms in your universe. [...]

[...] These exist “beneath” the range of physical matter. They are, if you prefer, incipient particles that have not yet emerged into matter.

(11:21.) Again, highly simplified here, under certain conditions these coagulate into matter. [...] They are, therefore, accelerated and propelled into matter far more quickly, in your terms, than units of lesser intensity. [...]

Each thought or emotion therefore exists as an electromagnetic energy unit or as a combination of these under certain conditions, and often with the help of coordinate points, they emerge into the building blocks of physical matter. This emergence into matter occurs as a neutral “result” regardless of the nature of any given thought or emotion. [...]

Your space is filled with these subordinate points, and as you will see later, these are important in allowing you to transform thoughts and emotions into physical matter. [...]

[...] An action may occur therefore in the world of matter, and be perceived in both the universe of negative matter and the dream world, but in such a case each universe interprets the action according to, and within, its own framework of reference.

[...] Beside the interpretation of dreams specifically, in which I realize you are most interested, beside the explanation of dreams as they apply to your manipulation in the world of matter, we will discuss dream symbols as they apply not to the world of matter but to the dream universe itself.

[...] It will be simplest to discuss at first such correlations occurring within the dream universe, and the universe of matter, since the dream universe is closest to you in both psychic and electromagnetic terms.

[...] And because I am presently uninvolved within your system, it is possible for me to give instances as they occur of such mental actions, as they are perceived in both the universe of matter and the dream universe.

In a very real manner events or objects are actually focal points where highly charged psychic impulses are transformed into something that can be physically perceived, a breakthrough into matter. When such highly charged impulses intersect or coincide matter is formed. The reality behind such an explosion into matter is not dependent upon the matter. [...]

[...] You do not understand as yet the prime part played by the nervous system in the transformation of psychic material into physical matter.

[...] The hints I have given him should clear him up within a matter of several days. [...]

“In a very real manner, events or objects are actually focal points where highly charged psychic impulses are transformed into something that can be physically perceived: a breakthrough into matter. When such highly charged impulses intersect or coincide, matter is formed. The reality behind such an explosion into matter is independent of the matter itself. [...]

I’m dealing with this subject, the nature of physical matter, first, because it is basic to any understanding of Seth’s theories. [...] Instead we form matter in order to operate in three-dimensional reality, develop our abilities and help others. Physical matter is like plastic that we use and mold to our own desire, not like concrete into which our consciousness has been poured. [...]

Throughout the centuries many people have recognized that mind and matter were related, but the Seth Material specifically gives the ways and means by which mind is translated into the reality that we know. Exactly what force is beneath the smallest units of matter, for example? How does the breakthrough into matter occur? [...]

“Matter is a medium for the manipulation and transformation of psychic energy into aspects that can then be used as building blocks. … Matter is only cohesive enough to give the appearance or relative permanence to the senses that perceive it.

[...] As I told you, matter is created constantly. No object is composed of the same matter from one day to the next. Matter is caused by pulsations of energy, taking a formal pattern that is already formed by means of the consciousness inherent in the energy itself.

Now, may I please return to our discussion of matter, since the matter matters so strongly. [...]

The discussion of matter certainly matters.

[...] Philip may not be able to follow me too well, since he has not heard, nor read, any previous discussions on matter. But this again will not matter.

I have had several matters to discuss with you; our sessions in general, the matter of spontaneity and discipline, your own fears, rather natural enough, concerning any subconscious effect I might have on Ruburt.

[...] I would not like the matter of the sessions in general, and the subconscious influence question, to go by the board, and in one way or another we must find time for those matters.

I am aware of several matters that you would like me to discuss, and we shall cover them. [...]

[...] However his ego is very well in control, so well in control that on occasion when I would have spoken on these very matters, I have not been allowed to do so. [...]

[...] The gradations in physical matter forms alone escape your scientists. That matter exists in other forms is scarcely understood. There are gradations in matter as there are gradations in your color, realities that blend one into the other, and probable systems in which various representations, reflections, shadows and echoes, all probable creations of any given self, mature.

They are all interwoven and yet separate, and if you look closely at your own physical universe you will see that here also matter is interbound with matter. You see but one form of matter. [...]

[...] The very matter of your physical brain has its greater reality in the mind, and behind that mind is another mind, and behind that another, and yet all of this is your mind. [...]

[...] Whether or not this occurs in your terms, they will exist as small matter particles — as, say, latent matter or pseudomatter.

Now the duration and relative stability of such “matter” within other systems varies considerably, with intensity determining the strength of all such manifestations. The invisible EE units form your physical matter and represent the essential and basic units from which any physical particle appears.

I told you some time ago that there were many gradations of matter, or form, that you did not perceive. [...]

[...] The same of course applies to a study of the structure of matter or form.

[...] Seth hasn’t gone into the ideas as related to insects, say, or birds or the animals—or viruses or bacteria, for that matter—at all, and I’m sure there is a wealth of fascinating information there. [...]

[...] You are familiar then with the idea that matter is composed of a conglomeration of particles that reach seemingly infinitely “beneath” the physical stuff of the world. [...]

If physical form is made up of such multitudinous, invisible particles, how much more highly organized must be the inner components of consciousness, without whose perceptions matter itself would be meaningless. [...]

[...] The problem is, again, that while you are focused in the world of matter, you are allied with only one aspect of your entire consciousness. [...]