I do not believe that there are any more dangers facing us in the interior universe than there are in the physical one. [...] The interior universe is the source of the exterior one, however, and traveling through it we will encounter our own hopes, fears and beliefs in their ever-changing form.

(Pause.) To me, it is almost inconceivable that, from your position, any of you seriously consider that the existence of your exquisite consciousness can possibly be the result of a conglomeration of chemicals and elements thrown together by a universe accidentally formed, and soon to vanish. [...]

[...] Then loudly:) If the universe existed as you have been told it does, then I would not be writing this book.

[...] If the universe were structured as you have been told, the probability of my existence would be zero as far as you are concerned. [...]

[...] In those terms, we each have our personal ‘God,’ and I am convinced that the universe knows us no matter who or where — or what — we are. I think there is a God of Mitzi, and a God of Billy, for each of our cats, and that each consciousness, regardless of its status, possesses this intimate connection with the universe….”

[...] It’s our direct connection with the universe … from which we emerge in each moment of our lives.

WHEN YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE.
THE WORLDS OF IMAGINATION AND REASON, AND THE IMPLIED UNIVERSE

[...] The Worlds of Imagination and Reason, and the Implied Universe.”

Between each ticking of the clock
Long centuries pass
In universes hidden from our own.

In the very next session for Volume 1, which Jane gave two days later, Seth stated: “There are systems in which a moment, from your standpoint, is made to endure for the life of a universe. [...]

[...] Without going into a lot of speculative detail, such an event would imply the obliteration of our probable physical universe as we know it. [...] (I could also see correlations here between Seth’s ideas about the primary nature of All That Is and the inflationary model of the universe. [...]

[...] Like an adolescent leaving home for the first time, individualized consciousness was also somewhat homesick, and returned often to the family homestead—but gradually gained confidence and left finally to form a [universe].

[...] In deeper terms, however, that purpose is also known now, and to one extent or another the entire universe dreams of it, as once cellular consciousness dreamed of the organs that it might “form.”

“As their instruments reach farther into the universe they will ‘see’—and I suggest that you put the word ‘see’ into quotes—they will ‘see’ farther and farther, but they will automatically transform what they apparently ‘see’ into the camouflage patterns with which they are familiar. [...]

[...] Our joy forms universes. [...] Our joy forms the universes that you know and dances through your molecules. [...]

[...] He entered your universe in a reality I find difficult to remember. [...]

[...] We form the realities, we give birth to universes but within you now I can tell you is the breath of creativity—the source of All That Is of which you are a part.. [...]

[...] I can assure you that I have gone my own way as he has gone his own way—and the universes that I have had a hand in, have a far more emotional basis and I personally prefer them. [...]

[...] Quasars are distributed, so to speak, throughout all realities—throughout all universes, in other words. [...] They are not suns, planets, galaxies or universes in those terms.

It is their energy that gives energy to your own, and all other universes, and it is their energy that forms the matter of your own physical universe. [...]

[...] Once again, quasars are quasi-stellar radio sources, presumably at the farthest reaches of our observable universe according to our instruments. [...]

Their influence is felt in every universe. [...]

When this natural give-and-take continues, the individual is happy, healthy, And feels at one with the universe itself. [...] People are, therefore, taught to give up their own private view of the universe, and to substitute for it a prepackaged, rather bland picture so that everyone more or less agrees with this standard version. [...]

Each person has a unique, natural, native way of dealing with the universe, and of relating to inner and outer reality. [...]

[...] Obviously, in larger terms Jane and I believe that the earth—indeed, the universe itself—is alive.

I do feel that part of that enrichment involves a worldwide (and possibly universal) healing action, contributed to by each living form—that here on earth, at least, this vital force of our own creation sustains us in an unending grand synthesis of regeneration. [...]

Antimatter exists in your own universe. [...] Antimatter, using your terms, exists simultaneously with your universe, having what I will call antigravity, and in what I will call anti-space.

If you will now remember that there are negative intervals, or intervals between the pulsations of energy into matter, if you will remember that your physical universe then is nonexistent for the same number of intervals that it is existent, then you will see that this gives us our antimatter.

[...] The security, the integrity, and the brilliance of each individuality rises in these terms from that universal genetic language, and also from the inner subjective universal language of dreams. [...]

Dictation: The genetic system is an inner, biological, “universal” language.

[...] Now dreams also provide you with another universal kind of language, one that unites all peoples to one extent or another, regardless of their physical circumstances or nationalities or alliances.

[...] Science of course looks at it the other way around, as if your physical acts are the result of a robot’s mechanical, formalized behavior—a robot miraculously programmed by the blind elements of an accidental universe formed by chance. [...]

(Before the session Jane said she thought Seth might discuss some of the ideas in a book by Fred Hoyle, the English astronomer that she’s reading, on the ten different universes of man. [...]

[...] Energy is constantly sent into the physical universe through such means.

[...] There is an intimate relationship between you and that portion of the universe that spawned you—that divine particle of consciousness (softly, amused) that constantly grows into your being that grows into what you are.

[...] Each child born alters the entire universe,⁷ and changes the world of its time and birth by bringing into it action not there earlier, in your terms, and by impressing the universe with the stamp — the indelible stamp — of its reality. [...]

Dictation: You view the heavens and the universe, the planets and the stars, from your own focus — a highly limited one in certain terms.

In the first place you are looking at one version of the universe, as it seems to exist at the moment of your perception. [...]

(Pause.) Now: The universe exists, but it takes the shape and form that you recognize only in your own perceptions. [...]

There was a direct and instantaneous reaction between consciousness and matter, an outburst of electromagnetic power strong enough to seed a universe. Your universe is but one of many, and you perceive but a small portion of it. [...]

[...] These were in your corner of the universe, but in your terms they would have seemed to have drifted off so far that none of your instruments could ever find them.

[...] Your astronomers may perceive a ghost image of it at the edges of your universe, but only a reflection from a reality that you cannot perceive. [...]

[...] Psychologically there was some considerable distance between his identity and the physical universe as he knew it. [...]

He has been plunged back into a physical universe that he would not accept even as a valid mirage. [...]

[...] After this then perhaps he can begin to wonder at the reality behind the objective universe. [...]

[...] For now it is sufficient that he take comfort in the familiar physical universe.

“As I came out of the experience a few moments later I resolved to paint a small oil of it, as I’ve done following my three previous perceptions of the light of the universe this year — on February 9 and 10, and on June 16. And it’s obvious that in tonight’s little adventure I had once again cleverly protected myself from confronting the full creative blast of the light of the universe by allowing myself just a peek at it, and a careful one at that, at the top of a door. [...]

[...] Then I became aware that once again I was perceiving “the light of the universe,” as Seth calls it. [...]

It was impossible for me to even approach with mundane physical paint the pulsating brilliance of that tiny bit of the “light of the universe” that I allowed myself to experience at the top of the nearly-closed door.

Change alone allows for the possibility of identity within any universe, for without change there can be no value fulfillment, no experience, and no identity. Portions of the electrical universe are projected into many fields. [...]

The components of the electrical universe are drawn from all energy, in a manner that could be described as a cosmic juggling act. [...]

(Slowly:) The simple picture of the universe that you see on our screen, therefore, represents a view from your own now perspective — but each star, planet, galaxy or whatever is made up of other reference points in which, to put it simply, the same patterns have different kinds of reality. True space travel would of course be time-space travel,⁵ in which you learned how to use points in your own universe as “dimensional clues” that would serve as entry points into other worlds. [...]

[...] The universe that you know is full of microscopic black holes and white holes,⁷ for example. Since your scientists have themselves given these labels, then using those terms I will say (with much gentle humor) that there are red, green, orange and purple holes — that is, the so-called black holes and white holes only represent what physicists have so far deduced about the deeper properties of your universe, and the way that certain coordinate points in one world operate, as providing feed-through into another.

Now imagine that the picture on the television screen shows your own universe. [...]

The universe is with you and not against you. [...]

My life is its own definition.
So is yours.
Let us leave the priests
to their hells and heavens,
and confine
the scientists
to their dying universe,
with its
accidentally created stars.
Let us each dare
to open our dream’s door,
and explore
the unofficial thresholds,
where we begin.

(Seth:) Since there are no physical universities, and since I threw out those statements with my own purposes in mind, then it follows that those who are interested must find their own way; and that their imagination and will must drive them to find their own methods. But then people who spook out the universe usually find secret and hidden corners where they can play and work to their heart’s content.

[...] (To Rob:) Now if there is anything in the universe called good intent, then you have it here.

[...] All you have to do is to realize that each breath you take ultimately reaches to the ends of the universe and helps withhold your world. [...]

[...] You would really know that you are an intimate part of the fabric of the universe; you would trust your abilities and bet upon yourselves. [...]