“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As soon as you realize however that the picture is not complete, then you must begin to ask new questions, and the old idea of the perfect organization is gone. Now as you know, you do not perceive the atoms and molecules that swim about the room nor the atoms and molecules that fill this space between our friends, nor the forces—the field forces—that exist. The couch serves to unite them since they sit upon it. And what do they sit upon? Do you all know—emptiness that you perceive as solidity. Now, without your particular physical perfection you would not perceive the couch as solid. And consciousness that has different perceptive mechanisms than your own is unaware of our now famous blue couch. You make the organization your thoughts perceive as organization. You enforce the organization and indeed create it.

Now, you use atoms and molecules in a strange way. You transpose your ideas upon them. You perceive them in a certain fashion. Now, I am not blaming you. I have done it too in my time, and there is a good reason for it. But the fact is that physical matter is not solid except when you believe that it is. And that organization is transposed from within upon the without. It is not transposed from the without upon you. You form the reality that you know, and even though the table holds up your arms and you may lean upon it and write, I still tell you that the table is not solid. This makes little difference as long as you can write upon it. It makes little difference as long as you can sit upon your couch. But when you leave your physical system, and when physical perception is no longer the rule—then you must learn new root assumptions. Root assumptions are those meaning laws upon which you agree in any system of reality.

There are other root assumptions that you take as a basis of reality. And in other levels of reality there are other root assumptions. These are the seeming laws by which you govern your experiences. Our note-takers (Sally and Florence) are doing very well considering that the paper is not solid and neither is the pen. It is amazing what you can do with nothing!! Now I will let you take a break.

[...] But the fact is that physical matter is not solid except when you believe that it is, and that organization is transposed from within upon the without. [...] You form the reality that you know, and even though the table holds up your arms and you may lean upon it and write, I still tell you that the table is not solid.

[...] Emptiness that you perceive as solidity.

Now without your particular physical senses you would not perceive the couch as solid. [...]

[...] At your level of experience many effects are accepted and used quite practically, as are your solid tables. You do not perceive the atoms or molecules that compose them; so in the same way, but in a different manner of speaking, events seem “solid” as tables do.

While your present conscious beliefs dictate your current experience, and while your physical body wears its solidity only in present time to your senses, beneath this both the ever-changing elements of your body and your consciousness are relatively free in time. [...]

Yet at other levels this seeming solidity of events also breaks down. [...]

The physical reality into which you are born is not nearly as solid or predetermined or definite as it appears to be. [...] Your consciousness must be focused at one particular range of frequencies before it can even perceive matter, much less solidity. [...]

[...] Seth states therein: “But the fact is that physical matter is not solid except when you believe that it is….”)

The reason I am using solidity here is that we are dealing with the world of camouflage, and sound waves and light waves are definite on your plane and can be measured. They are not solid as your tree is solid, but they are solid in degree. [...]

If you will imagine the rather odd picture of a solid beam extending from the body of the man on the corner to the tree, then this may help you to think of sight as a path. [...] Consider this as another solid beam or path.

[...] We know that our so-called tables are not solid. Even your science knows this now, and yet your eyes see the table as solid. [...] The table is a conglomeration of quickly-moving atoms and molecules but you see it as a table, and you see it as solid. [...]

[...] Again I suggest a break, and I hope I haven’t broken you up, though I seriously doubt it; particularly in your case, Joseph, since your protective mechanism is as solid as a brick wall.

[...] Your outside senses are perceptors of camouflage, and your table which you rest your arms upon is not solid. [...]

Your particular camouflage pattern is given to solids, among other things, and the idea of solids gives its alternative of something not solid or unfilled, which you call space. [...]

[...] Your solid earth is not a solid to inhabitants of other planes that would seem to take up the same space as your earth. [...]

I have spoken in the past of depths that have nothing to do with space as you conceive space to be; and I will now add to this the idea of psychological solidities, that have nothing to do with space as you conceive it.

Each consciousness, besides the material structure or material form, also possesses a psychological structure that exists in a depth and solidity in another perspective which the outer senses do no perceive. [...]

[...] They become physically apparent to some degree in the emotions, which do have definite form, certain mass, depth, and solidity in the realm of psychological perspective which you do not physically perceive.

[...] You know the difference between shadows, for example, and solid objects. [...] You might utilize them in the background, but as a photographer you would not confuse the shadows with, say, the solid objects. [...]

Now: The physical shadow of a tree bears witness to the existence of a tree, even if you see only the shadow; so your hallucinations appearing in dreams also bear witness to their origin, and give testimony to a valid “objective” dream object that is as “solid” (slowly) in that reality as the tree is in your world.

[...] A form that may be perceived by you as solid may be seen merely as an electrical unit on another plane, or as color on a third. [...]

“In some cases the distortion could be likened to the reflection of a solid tree in water. [...]

(This particular branch appears to be a solid one in the tree, but it grows out at a peculiar angle so that it looks weak and somehow out of place amid the rhythmic patterns of the other limbs and branches. [...]

[...] In the first place, your most pragmatic scientist is even now forced to admit, as even Ruburt knows, that solid objects are not solid; and the interesting sidelight of this fact must be that your faithful, tried and true, so-called dependable outer senses are in reality lovely liars, since the eyes see a chair as solid while the chair is not solid at all.

[...] Your psychological experience is valid, whether chairs are solid or not. [...]

—in a dimension where neither solidity nor objects exist. You perceive certain patterns of energy as solid objects, and that energy which you do not perceive as solid, you call space.

[...] As any physicist will tell you, you perceive objects, and you perceive solid objects—

[...] While your body appears quite dependable, solid, [and] steady, you are not aware of the constant interchanges that occur between it and the physical environment. [...]

You perceive your body as solid. [...]

[...] The atoms and molecules, like the children, enjoy their motion — solidly sketched in space from your perspective, however, with no “idea” that you consider that motion a chair, or so use it.

[...] Only by turning your head aside momentarily can you see what is beneath the seemingly solid pattern. [...]

[...] An example being the spider’s web, and the table of a past discussion which is actually a conglomeration of atoms and molecules, loosely held together but experienced by your outer senses as a solid camouflage structure which can be used and manipulated in your camouflage existence.

There are however many other camouflage patterns which do not exist as solid structures, but exist as ideas.

[...] But as mankind grows even more ambitious then the idea will cease to work for him, and it will be actually discarded on theoretical terms while it is still utilized in its limited fashion in practical mundane terms, as you still find the table useful in practical terms; although theoretically you realize that it is not a solid you still manufacture tables, and you will still use watches long after your scientists discover that the theory of successive passage of moments is antiquated and itself passé.

[...] He is building a solid framework for flexibility, however.

(She ate a much better lunch than usual, including a little solid food. [...]

[...] Chairs and tables, the ceilings and the floors, may seem very real and solid — quite permanent — while you by contrast may feel yourself to be highly vulnerable, caught in a moment between birth and extinction. [...]

[...] You must momentarily realize that doors are not solid. [...] Doors are solid: This is not a basic truth, you see, but a convenient root assumption.