“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In surface terms the sense of “I” that you possess is the result of constantly emerging probable identities, given continuity in time through the physical apparatus of the body with its built-in intervals of nerve reaction. You only remember the portion of your identity that is physically realized — those portions that are drawn into corporeal pattern. (With gestures, and forcefully.) This is the result of the focusing and yet limiting behavior of the physical brain, for effective survival behavior in your reality depends upon time reactions. The nerve patterns’ activity therefore causes the illusion of a present, in which your consciousness appears focused and alert.

In your terms probable events are brought into actuality by utilizing the body’s nerve structure through certain intensities of will or conscious belief.

In certain terms “future” events exist now, but they are too fast. They jump over the nerve endings too quickly, and physically you cannot perceive or experience them as yet.

(The junction between two nerve cells, or neurons, is called the synapse. [See the 637th session in Chapter Nine.] Jane is receiving more letters from scientists these days, many of whom ask intriguing questions about the type of material covered in this session. Resume in a faster manner at 11:45.)

Now: (Pause.) The nerves are also composed of the same kind of interior structures as mentioned earlier (in this chapter): around, or rather from which, the physical nerves form. [...]

[...] There are definite sounds produced when messages leap from your nerve ends.² It is very difficult to explain some of this, but there is “invisible” light, then, and inaudible sound, that affects your body and helps form the pattern about which it constantly emerges.

[...] The perceived lapse noted by scientists is of course the physical one (leaning forward, hand to closed eyes), caused by the “time” it takes the message to leap the nerve endings.³  The interior translation however is simultaneous.

[...] The physical data is carried through the nerves with the necessary time lapses that must occur. [...]

[...] The nerves in those areas were not as responsive, then.

[...] The activation awakens the nerves, so that they are more stimulated than before. [...]

[...] The release so far of those neck ligaments has allowed for the awakening of nerves in the knees, and the beginning release of the ligament group here—highly important (underneath the knees).

The tendons, muscles and nerves in the entire pelvis area, for example, have been refreshingly soft, more and more flexible. [...]

[...] Because our mental habits automatically block out such material, we only recognize one series of neurological happenings — it takes time for the message to leap the nerve endings [the synapses]. [...]

“I almost feel that if you asked me at any time of the day, ‘Jane, what are you getting now?’ that I could tune into any of these areas of information, and tell you … As the messages leap the nerve ends they form certain pulses; we recognize these as messages and ignore all the others. [...]

In the most simple of living structures telepathy is a necessity for communication, particularly before the inside energy is concentrated sufficiently to form any sort of more complicated pattern or nerve structure. Even when such nerve structures and physical complications are evolved telepathy operates, still a necessity as a communications system within the physical structure, and still handling data which cannot be carried through any physical medium, simply because it is untranslatable by its nature into physical materialization.

No physical communication systems, such as nerves and so forth, are accomplished before these invisible inner energy telepathic structures are first set forth, for these impress within the unformed physical structures the habits and ways which the physical structures will then follow; and these inside telepathic lines continue to exist within the physical structures after they are completed, and for a while after the physical structures have been broken down.

[...] Nerve patterns are being reactivated, circulation patterns reinforced, muscles contracting and expanding in their own exercises, right now, in a concentrated, rather intensified bodily commotion. [...]

[...] The drive, when it shows itself as last evening, is often irritating because the muscles and nerves connected have been so held back, instead of a clear flow of sexual energy then.

Ruburt experienced a jerky irritation of muscles and a jangling of nerves. [...]

Nerves are stimulated so that the areas of the body become more alive and responsive to energies that can be overlooked in the face of cultural or secondary events. [...]

[...] The quickening sensations Ruburt has felt have to do with the quicker passage of neuronal messages as the nerves are stimulated. [...]

[...] I realize its performance will call for my summoning a kind of nerve and disregard and daring that ordinarily I’d just as soon ignore in daily life....)

there is no angle or curve of a nerve or a

[...] For example, it would have to keep conscious track of all the muscles, nerves, organs, cells, molecules and atoms, while manipulating the body in space and time.

3. Here Seth refers to the way the nervous impulse passes from one neuron, or nerve cell, to the next as it traverses the body’s nervous system. [...]

[...] He said the sensations were a positive, therapeutic sign of “nerve activity.” [...]

He is dealing with what is a kind of nervous generation—regeneration —reawakening the activity and function of the nerves involved in normal walking —a reeducation process in which nervous sensations are reintroduced. [...]

[...] The healing intelligence of her subconscious mind which created her body is now transforming every cell, nerve, tissue, muscle, and bone of her being according to the perfect pattern of all organs lodged in her subconscious mind.

In physical life there is a lapse while messages leap the nerve ends. [...]

(9:39.) In this regard now, and for the sake of our analogy only, think of the life of the self as one message leaping across the nerve cells of a multidimensional structure — again, as real as your body — and consider it also as a greater “moment of reflection” on the part of such a many-sided personality.

[...] It is not necessary to trace nerve pathways, and yet the stretching of both legs and muscles reawakens and quickens nerve impulses. [...]

[...] Say for example that a deeply repressed fear brought about the squeezing of nerves in the area of the lower spinal cord. Without the knowledge that you have, then any sensations in the area of those nerves could then through association activate the original fear, which would in turn aggravate the condition.

Nerve impulses travel outward from the body, invisibly along these pathways in much the same manner as they travel within the body. [...]

[...] They are created on a physical level through certain activations of the nerves in which the normal patterns are jumped, so to speak, and images are formed. The nerves and the cellular structures at their tips take pictures. [...]

The tooth and nerves and roots are now at rest. [...]

[...] You hypnotize your very nerves, and the cells within your body, for they will react as you expect them to react, and the beliefs of your conscious mind are followed in degree by all portions of the self down to the smallest atom and molecule. [...]