“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] No — no form of matter, however potent, will be self-evolved into consciousness, no matter what other bits of matter are added to it. Without the consciousness, the matter would not be there in the universe, floating around, waiting for another component to give it reality, consciousness, existence, or song.”

[...] I thank you for bringing up the matter. [Smile.] There are many ways of bringing up matter.”)

[...] Consciousness did not arrive because inert matter suddenly soared into activity and song. [...]

(A class member: “Every bit of matter already has consciousness?”

[...] The volatile awareness-consciousnesses that exist independently of matter, form matter according to their ability and degree. [...] The consciousness of matter is present in any matter — a fetus, a rock, a blade of grass, a nail.

[...] The control over matter is vigorous, and they usually stay within the body, dying either in accidents where death is immediate or in sleep or with a disease that strikes quickly. They are manipulators of matter as a rule.

[...] They are not interested so much in manipulating matter as they are curious as to the ways in which ideas appear within matter.

[...] The particular form of a chapter could be affected to some degree by just when the sessions for it were held, as well as by its intrinsic subject matter. [...]

[...] For as you think of the matter of your cells as only matter, then it is hard to follow our analogy. [...]

[...] What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. [...]

[...] This session, for that matter, will have to develop into others, for I have concentrated some material about which you will have many questions when you read it.

Nontime and entities—now that is another matter. [...]

[...] These, then, form physical objects, physical matter. Matter, in other words, is the shape that basic experience takes when it intrudes into three-dimensional systems. Matter is the shape of your dreams. Your dreams, thoughts, and emotions are literally transformed into physical matter purposefully by this inner self.

[...] It is the inner self, here termed the inner ego, that organizes, initiates, projects, and controls the EE (electromagnetic energy) units of which we have been speaking, transforming energy into objects, into matter.

[...] Therefore, physical matter can be legitimately described as an extension of the self, as much as the physical body is a projection of the inner self.

[...] All kinds of choices are available, and the diversity of physical matter is a reflection of this deep source of variety.

As inner energy forms more complicated gestalts through the processes that I have earlier explained, then inner energy continues its communication with the physical matter that it creates about it. When inner energy desires to construct a more complicated gestalt, then it must telepathically communicate this intent and purpose through the matter which it collects about itself, forming a more complicated inner telepathic pattern first, that can then be filled in with physical matter. [...]

[...] Again, the validity of an actuality is not to be determined by its appearance within matter alone. The ingredients of matter are first of all intangible ingredients, and the study of the mind and a study of the processes by which the mind creates its dream images could lead to a basic understanding of the manner in which man subconsciously produces the physical images of his own material universe.

[...] This sort of elementary telepathy has existed as a necessity since the first formation of inner energy into matter. Some of our past sessions, particularly those explaining the initial appearance of matter, will set you clear, and you will see that the explanations I gave you then would have to involve such elementary telepathic communication between cells.

[...] To study psychology exclusively in terms of the brain’s effect upon the physical body is likewise hampering and limiting, for the brain is merely that portion of, that very small portion, of the mind which is apparent within matter. [...]

I want to mention that while form is not a characteristic of matter, it is one of the characteristics of consciousness. The form which consciousness takes is usually composed of matter on your plane.

The form perceived by your outer senses is always composed of matter, of course. There are also however forms or structures that are what you may call psychological forms or structures, even within your own field, which you do not perceive with your outer senses, but which are nevertheless frameworks that underlie form as it appears in matter.

Therefore you have a certain similarity in the forms in which matter appears. Matter could therefore, even in your field, appear in many forms which are presently unknown to you. [...]

[...] She had no idea of the subject matter for it. [...]

A true understanding of the way in which an idea becomes physical matter would result in a complete revamping of your so-called modern technology, and in buildings, roads, and other structures that would far outlast those you now have. While the psychic reality behind physical matter is ignored, then you cannot use those methods effectively that do exist, nor can you take advantage of them. [...]

The coordinate points magnify or intensify the behavior, the latent spontaneity inherent within the properties of physical matter. [...]

[...] I want it known, however, that thoughts and emotions are formed into physical matter by very definite methods and through laws quite valid, though they may be presently unknown.

[...] This includes cellular consciousness as well, so that an invisible network of electromagnetic units pervades your entire atmosphere; and upon this webwork and from it, the particles of physical matter are then formed.

[...] Neither is it aware of the manner in which the inner self creates physical matter. Neither, therefore, is it aware of those distortions that cause it to construct faults within physical matter, for in all cases the physical matter of the human body will be subconsciously created in line with inner conditions.

You create, as you know, physical matter on a subconscious basis, without knowing egotistically that you do so. You create physical matter as effortlessly and as smoothly and as automatically, and as unknowingly as you create your own dreams.

[...] However, you are exactly what you think you are, and every thought is mirrored in the physical matter of the human organism. [...] Since each individual creates subconsciously the physical matter of his own image, then it follows that the condition of this image is his own responsibility.

I have endeavored to study rather thoroughly the condition of the other male present in the room, yourself excluded, Joseph, because we find here an almost classic example of the manner in which the individual subconsciously creates physical matter, and the manner in which the psychological and psychic problems of the individual conspire so that the organic perfection becomes disturbed.

Ruburt did anticipate with some correctness part of this evening’s subject matter, having to do with apparent deterioration of the quality of matter itself, that composes the physical body. Since you know now that all physical matter is constantly coming into formation, that it is formed by atoms and molecules so instantaneously, and that these atoms and molecules that give form to matter continually appear and disappear, so swiftly that the physical form that they compose appears permanent, then you must realize that there is no reason why physical forms should deteriorate as far as the atoms and molecules that compose them are concerned.

You are, however, left with the fact that physical matter, while appearing permanent for practicality’s sake, nevertheless does exhibit disintegration in varying degrees. Since the cause lies not within that which composes matter in physical terms, then wherein does the cause originate?

[...] There is nothing inherent within the composition of matter as you conceive of matter to bring about a natural downfall, or natural inevitable disintegration.

We will begin by examining the cause behind the breaking up of necessary physical patterns so that survival within the world of matter is no longer possible. [...]

(With emphasis:) In a matter of speaking (underlined), the birds and the insects are indeed living portions of the earth flying, even as, again in a matter of speaking (in parentheses) (with a smile and again with an emphasis upon the word “matter”), bears and wolves and cows and cats represent the earth turning itself into creatures that live upon its own surface. And in a matter of speaking, again, man becomes the earth thinking, and thinking his own thoughts, man in his way specializes in the conscious work of the world—a work that is dependent upon the indispensable “unconscious” work of the rest of nature, a nature that sustains him (all very intently). And when he thinks, man thinks for the microbes, for the atoms and the molecules, for the smallest particles within his being, for the insects and for the rocks, for the creatures of the sky and the air and the oceans.

There are laws on your plane that govern the construction of matter, but these laws are psychic laws having to do with the ability of the individual in projection of idea into matter, the ability to receive and transmit energy, and with abilities having to do with the actual construction itself.

[...] It is important that you consider the nature and construction of matter in terms of this inner, individual psychological purpose, for this is after all the heart of the matter.

I am also aware that your real-estate man was here, and I am also aware that we are still involved in our discussion on matter. [...]

When we get to that discussion it will be a major one, like the material on material, and some of the discussion about matter will be used as background. [...]

[...] The front or foremost line of the cube, like a gate, can open or close; and it points toward the outer world of physical matter. [...] Mental enzymes help transform the energy into incipient patterns, from which matter, physical matter, can result.

[...] But these front gates represent our subconscious and the signal to open, the permission for the construction of matter and its form, are dependent upon these subconscious gates. Even as incipient matter flows through, the final form is given by the way it brushes through these subconscious gates. [...]

[...] This holding back, this gathering and collection without instant outlet, is one of the natural and constant processes involved not only in the construction of energy into matter, but in the construction of energy into any other form, and it is closely allied to the pause and pulsation that I have mentioned, as atoms and molecules appear and disappear imperceptibly, even while they seem to give continuity to any particular object.

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. [...]

[...] But the growth, so-called, is not of itself a property of matter, in that the same matter does not grow, but energy completely forms the pattern ever anew, as far as the particular strength of the energy itself can carry it, and knowing the limitations and capacities of the pattern which it has formed. [...]

[...] I will not dwell upon this matter any longer. [...]

The limits of identity are arbitrary on your part, developed throughout the stages of your evolutionary process, not for any reason inherent in identity itself, but merely for purely practical reasons on your physical field, having to do with the amount of matter that various kinds of identities could effectively manipulate and control.

What your senses show to be empty, you term space, and you think of matter rather paradoxically as filling up space, and yet as being where space is not, so-called space and so-called material are energy, and the true properties of energy are very difficult to explain to you, because all your concepts are so limited.

The nature of matter itself is not understood. [...] Using your terms now and speaking as simply as possible, there are other forms of matter beyond those you see. [...]

[...] So are there spectrums of matter. [...] The dimensions that you give to physical matter barely begin to hint at the varieties of dimensions possible.

[...] Probable actions emerge, then, into matter-systems quite as valid as your own, and quite as consistent. [...]

(With pauses): Your scientists are finally learning what philosophers have known for centuries — that mind can influence matter. They still have to discover the fact that mind creates and forms matter.

[...] The physical matter that composed your body a moment ago is different in important ways from the matter that forms your body in this instant.

[...] You do not realize that you create your larger environment and the physical world as you know it by propelling your thoughts and emotions into matter — a breakthrough into three-dimensional life. [...]

[...] You are in the middle of a “matter-concentrated system,” surrounded, so to speak, by weaker areas in which what you would call “pseudomatter” persists. [...]

[...] Difficult to explain, yet at levels “beneath” matter, incipient matter was being manipulated. [...] At certain levels the “matter” of the body is “plastic.” [...]

The “inner” matter then was being released, remolded into better form. [...]

These then form physical objects, physical matter. Matter is the shape that basic experience takes when it intrudes into three dimensional systems. Matter is the shape of your dreams. Your dreams, emotions, feelings, thoughts, are (underlined) transformed into physical matter purposefully by this inner self. [...]

[...] It is the inner self, termed here the inner ego, that organizes, initiates, projects, controls the EE units of which we have been speaking lately, transforming energy into objects, into matter.

[...] Therefore physical matter can be legitimately described as an extension of the self, as much as the physical body is a projection of the inner self. [...]

[...] (Pause.) All kinds of choices are available, and the diversity of physical matter is a reflection of this deep source of variety.

[...] A case of tumultuous activity that automatically clogged our communication, on quite key matters.

[...] There was, in the family history, always a struggle to work for oneself, this being a matter of class pride and independence.

[...] His money potential will be strengthened if these matters are highly considered. [...]

He is for that matter still frightened, and will need your support. [...]

All physical matter is idea construction. [...] Our skin connects us to other physical constructions, and through it we are involved in the complicated fabric of continuous matter. [...] The slight motion of one grain of sand causes a corresponding alteration in the distribution of the stars and in all matter’s fabric, from an atom in a man’s skull down to the slightest variation in a microbe’s action.

All matter is idea construction, woven together; each construction is individual and yet cohesive to the whole. The smallest particle is necessary to the whole, forming part of matter’s design.

The physical body is the material construction of the entity’s idea of itself under the properties of matter.

Aging is the effect upon an idea construction of the properties of matter of which the construction is composed.

If you could go further however you would come, in one dimension, to matter again. This would be what you call negative matter. Then going further you would travel away from matter again, until there was no more. And then there would be positive matter again, and so on.

When you begin to look further and further into the nature of physical matter, of course you get further and further away from it until at the heart of the matter there is no matter at all, and this is as far as you can go with your instruments; the heart of the atom as you know it.

I am speaking of one dimension only, for in other dimensions, and traveling through the same atom, you would come to kinds of matter with which you are not at all familiar, even in theory. For the atom is a structure that deals with the formation of energy into matter, and it runs through, so to speak, all systems that have their basis within any matter system at all.

He has constructed matter as an outward manifestation of inner reality. He can to some extent destroy matter, but he cannot destroy the inner reality.