“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is not a matter necessarily of how much time you spend, for admittedly your hours are well consumed. It is a matter of your active, active (underlined)interest, and the enthusiastic focus of energy, whether or not you are directly involved in a given experiment.

I will go into the matter of the tables to some degree. [...]

[...] In some cases survival personalities, with experience, will directly affect matter, both assisting the sensitive and operating independently once the force field has been constructed.

[...] Dream images are nevertheless almost fibrous projections, almost a thinned-out composition, more plastic basically than physical matter, but composed of a number of the same properties. For again there must be this connection between the nature of dreams and the matter of physical reality.

Dream images are indeed, in density, between the tangible nature of physical objects and the intangible reality that is entirely independent of physical matter. [...]

[...] It is as if the personality in sleep projected out of himself bits of himself, of his own physical matter, thinned out, stretched into an amazing plasticity; plastic properties that can change instantly from one form to another. [...]

[...] From his vantage point it is a matter of when contact can best be made. [...]

[...] The forms you make out of matter are only generally similar. [...]

[...] The true stuff or material of his body of course will not be here, since its kind of matter cannot exist within your own, that is within your own system.

[...] I do not know precisely how to explain this: the atoms of their matter weigh more than yours do.

The discussion on matter will still involve us in many more sessions. Such an apparition however is composed of legitimate matter, and involves value fulfillment on the part of the atoms and molecules that compose it.

[...] I told you I would use Mark for a demonstration concerning the nature of matter, and so I did.

[...] Now, I have told you that there are many factors involved in the construction of matter, and I have explained that telepathy and many other factors which I have listed are important.

It was composed of actual matter. [...]

[...] The physical matter of those sense organs changes constantly, however, with you none the wiser. [...] It does not bother you one whit that the physical substance of your body is made up of completely different atoms and molecules than it was composed of seven years ago, [say], or that your familiar hands are actually innocent of any smallest smidgen of matter that composed them [even in recent times past].

[...] These patterns are “plastic,” in that while they exist, their final form is a matter of probabilities directed by consciousness. [...]

[...] The physical matter of the planet is also composed of literally infinite hordes of consciousnesses — each experiencing its own reality while adding to the overall cooperative venture.

The scientist probing the brain of an idiot or a genius will find only the physical matter of the brain itself.

[...] Your feelings have as much natural validity as the tides, and they have their own kind of attraction — mind does move matter. A ring manipulated at a seance under controlled conditions is but the most simple kind of demonstration of the great ability of mind to interact with matter. [...]

(As a matter of fact, Jane received the first copy of the Seth Speaks paperback in the mail today.)

Simply as a matter of temperament, this time of year has always made him impatient. [...]

[...] That resulting matter eventually returns to the earth, where it helps form all other living things. The “dead” matter — the residue of a bird, the sloughed-off cells — these things are not then used by other birds (though they may be occasionally), but by men and women. [...] Yet in your terms any identity, no matter how “minute,” retains itself and its identity through many forms and alliances of organizations.

[...] Atoms and molecules build blocks of matter, in your terms, even while the atoms and molecules remain separate. [...] For that matter (amused), if you will forgive me for that old pun, the atoms and molecules that form the table today did not have anything to do with the table five years ago — though the table appeared the same then as now.

Physically speaking, and generally, your body is composed of grasses and ants and rocks and beasts and birds, for in one way or another all biological matter is related.⁹ In certain terms, through your experience, birds and rocks speak alphabets — and certain portions of your own being fly or creep as birds or insects,¹⁰ forming the great gestalt of physical experience. [...] But in deeper terms, physically and biologically, the animals are born from the body of the earth, which is composed of the corpses of men and women as much as it is of other matter. [...]

[...] That [kind of] consciousness unites all physical matter.

The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.

[...] The mechanisms by which psychic energy or consciousness forms matter should also be included, and naturally the concept that matter does not have duration.

[...] That is why I would like the matters mentioned above to be definitely included in the first book, as other books will be based upon them.

I speak not because I think that either of you will allow yourselves to follow my suggestions in this particular matter, but merely to tell you what could be done to, or for, all of our benefits.

No matter how depressed you may feel, you do still want to live, or you would be dead by now — so there is a part of you that seeks life and vitality, and that portion also deserves expression. [...]

[...] They are also painting a highly prejudiced view of reality, leaving out all matters concerning man’s heroism, love of his fellow creatures, his wonder, sympathy, and the great redeeming qualities of the natural world itself. [...]

[...] Even those with very serious diseases can always hope for improvement, so even if an individual is considering suicide because of a severe health dilemma, the matter should be carefully weighed.

[...] We will go into this particular matter in a portion of the book dealing with religion and the god concept.

There are many matters here very difficult to express in words, for you are so afraid for your sense of identity that you resist the idea that the soul, for example, is an open spiritual system, a powerhouse of creativity that shoots out in all directions — and yet this is indeed the case.

[...] You see it is not a simple matter of giving you a definition of a soul or entity, for even to have a glimpse in logical terms you would have to understand it in spiritual, psychic, and electromagnetic terms, and understand the basic nature of consciousness and action as well. [...]

[...] No matter what you have been taught, you must understand, for example, that basically speaking, perceptions are not physical in the way the term is usually used. [...]

Now, with my eyes closed, the physical matter of Robert Butts vanishes, and the Robert Butts is seen as one unit in all these other forms. The physical matter of course continues in a different fashion.

(“Well, I see you’re still being allowed to discuss these matters.”)

[...] I will go more deeply into the whole affair—perhaps our next session can include, as this one has, a section on Ruburt’s condition first, and then a discussion of other matters.

[...] One of the big differences between the two is that in the big-bang theory all of the matter in the universe was already present, though existing in an extremely dense state which then began to expand; the inflationary model suggests that the universe was created out of nothing, or out of just about nothing—meaning that through unforeseeable rhythms subatomic particles spontaneously came into being, with sufficient energy behind them to enable them to persist as matter. [...] Yet this creation of matter out of nothing, so to speak, violates at least some of the laws of conservation—laws that are indeed among the most basic and cherished tenets of physics.

[...] (Protons are subatomic components of the nuclei of atoms.) Matter is a form of energy. Even so, I have trouble conceptualizing the idea that all matter in our universe, out to the farthest-away galaxy of billions of stars, grew from this unimaginably small and dense, unimaginably hot “original” state or area of being. [...]

Before the beginning there existed an interior universe that had no beginning or ending, for I am using the term “before the beginning” to make matters easier for you to assimilate. [...]

[...] The atoms and molecules were alive, aware—they were no longer simply a part of a divine syntax, but they spoke themselves through the very nature of their being (gesturing). They became the living, aware vowels and syllables through which consciousness could form matter.

Each minute variation of physical matter that you perceive is caused by inner minute variations that you do not perceive. [...]

Thoughts and emotions directly activate the mechanics of physical matter, alter and transform it, maintain it, and also destroy it.

[...] Nor between inner reality, which forms physical matter, and physical objects themselves, for the atoms which are manipulated to form objects are themselves a portion of consciousness, and alive in those terms. [...]

There is not any great matter of danger, only that you could fall into blunders. [...]

Because of some matters we have not yet discussed, at any rate deeply, it is possible to meet your own projection. [...]

(Long pause.) You understand how physical matter is formed. [...]

It is very simply the energy that composes your universe, only you are usually familiar with it when it is formed into matter exclusively. [...]

As mentioned earlier, all through your lifetime, portions of that body die, and the body that you have now does not contain one particle of physical matter that “it” had, say ten years ago. [...] Yet obviously you do not feel that you are dead, and you are quite able to read this book with the eyes that are composed of completely new matter. [...]

[...] You are alive, therefore, in the midst of small deaths; portions of your own image crumble away moment by moment and are replaced, and you scarcely give the matter a thought. [...]

Consciousness — human consciousness — is not dependent upon the tissues, and yet there is no physical matter that is not brought into being by some portion of consciousness. [...]

[...] This is a personal matter, as always. [...]

“According to what you have been taught, you are composed of physical matter and cannot escape it, and this is not so. The physical matter will disintegrate, but you will not. [...]

[...] I borrow Ruburt’s [Seth’s name for me; in addition, Seth always speaks of me as male] with his consent, but what I am is not dependent upon atoms and molecules and what you are is not dependent upon physical matter. [...]

[...] We form physical matter as effortlessly and unselfconsciously as we breathe. [...]

[...] Neither Rob nor I had any knowledge of such matters. [...]

I run ahead of the other girl, and around her, really hunting her down, yelling again dramatically and accusingly: “I ask myself, where are all my friends who were going to write no matter what, to work no matter what happened. [...]

[...] In view of the subject matter that did develop, rather to our surprise, let me note that since late last week President Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Israel’s Prime Minister Begin have been meeting at Camp David in pursuit of peace for the Middle East. [...] The scanty news from their meeting seems to be that matters are moving in “the right direction.”

[...] Indeed, their holy sense of righteousness rises in proportion to the harm they have perpetrated against God’s enemy, no matter who or what this might be.

[...] The whole matter, if you will forgive my pun (smile) on matter is highly intriguing, and we shall have several sessions at least, dealing with the reality of sense data, and the unreality, comparatively speaking, of matter itself.

In order to understand my answer it is necessary that our material on the construction of physical matter be understood. [...]

[...] All physical matter exists first as an idea or mental image. [...]

As you know, you create or construct all physical matter. [...]