“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:06.) These units of consciousness do not have human characteristics, of course. They do, however, possess their own “inclinations,” leanings, propensities — and perhaps “propensities” comes closest to the term I want. I do not want you to think of them as miniature people. Nevertheless, neither are they clumps of “idle” energy. They are vitalized, aware, charged, with all the qualifications of being.

All psychological structures then are composed of such organizations, however long-or short-lived in your terms. They are innately endowed with the desire or propensity for growth and creative organization. They are not found alone, then, in isolation. Since these units of consciousness exist at once, they are aware of all the organized self-structures of which they are a part. To this extent, all probable realities are connected in that basic manner. These units grow out of themselves. Since I have told you that in your terms your past, present, and future exist at once, these units are constantly emerging out of your now-point from both the future and the past.

All matter is based upon the units mentioned, with their unpredictability and their propensity for exploring all probabilities. Even your atomic structure, then, is poised between probabilities. If this is true, then obviously “you” are aware of only one small probable portion of yourself — and this portion you protect as your identity (underlined). If you think of it as simply a focus taken by “your” greater identity, then you will be able to follow what I am saying without feeling puny by contrast, or lost.⁶ The focus that you have is indeed inviolate.

(10:36.) Propensity is a selection of significance, an inclination toward the formation of selected experience. This applies on all levels — atomic and psychological — and to biological stimulus and mental intent.

[...] To understand that, you must realize that pure energy has such transforming pattern-forming propensities that it always appears as its manifestations. [...]

The smallest unit of pure energy, therefore, weighing nothing in your terms, containing within itself no mass, would hold within its own nature the propensity for the creation of matter in all of its forms, the impetus to create all possible universes. [...]

Pure energy, or any “portion” of it, contains within itself the creative propensity toward individuation, so that within any given portion all individually conscious life is implied, created, sustained. [...]

[...] And each species has its own overall characteristics and propensities that further help it define the sphere of influence in which it will exert its ability to make choices.

[...] They are born with the knowledge of how to think, with the propensity for language. [...]

[...] Value fulfillment is a psychological and physical propensity that exists in each unit of consciousness, propelling it toward its own greatest fulfillment in such a way that its individual fulfillment also adds to the best possible development on the part of each other such unit of consciousness. (Also see Session 863 at 9:21.) This propensity operates below and within the framework of matter. [...]

[...] You have the propensity to search for meaning, for love, for cooperative ventures. You have the propensity to form dazzling mental and psychological creations, such as your arts and sciences and religions and civilizations. [...]

[...] They are provided with a propensity to learn — and the rudiments of knowledge as you understand it exits within the brain (intently). [...]

Within these units there is, again, a propensity for growth and organization. Within a literally infinite field of activity, meaningful order arose out of the propensity for significance. [...] The units can and do intermix, yet because of the propensity for selectivity and significance, whole groups of them will “repel” other whole groups, thus providing a protective inner system of interaction.

Now, again, these ideas may seem impossibly rich for your mental blood because of your propensity toward serial thought and three-dimensional attitudes.

[...] There followed a very funny discussion—to me at least—of Jane’s propensity to talk at our gatherings of friends, even to the point of ignoring their creature comforts, such as drinks, snacks, etc. [...]

Now: your scientists, endlessly it seems, pursue particles, theorizing about them, so that you have particles with certain kinds of characteristics, propensities, and leanings. [...]

(To Gert.) I want you to work on your own because your favorite propensity is to rely upon authority and I am quite sure that you understand this. [...]

[...] At my level of operation, of course, I seem to be far more aware of your individual and joint creative propensities than you are, but I assure you that you have them and that they are ready for your use. [...]

In the same fashion man is born with an inbuilt propensity for language, and for the communication of symbols through pictures and writing. [...]

[...] You have a propensity for wanting to think in terms of hierarchies of consciousness, with humanity at the top of the list, in global terms. [...]

[...] Its propensity for event-forming is obvious even in young children. [...]

The individual is born equipped with his humanness, with certain propensities and leanings toward development. [...]

1. In the Glossary for Adventures, Jane defines prejudiced perception as “The propensity for organizing undifferentiated data into specific differentiated sense terms.” [...]

[...] On one level the body’s very survival is largely determined by the units’ propensities for selectivity and significance. [...]

[...] It had nothing to do with the propensity of certain kinds of cells to reproduce, but with an overall illumination that set the conditions in which life as you think of it was possible — and at that imaginary hypothetical point, all species became latent.

[...] You cannot content the aged entirely with hobbies any more than you can the young, but meaningful work means work that also has the exuberance of play, and it is that playful quality that contains within itself great propensities of a healing and creative nature.

(Long pause.) The entire picture of physical life as you understand it must be of course experienced from your own viewpoint, but its complexity, its order and magnificence of structure and design should be understood as composing but one example of the infinite number of realities, each constructed by the propensities and characteristics of its own nature and the nature of its own consciousness.