“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The universe exists because it had the impulse to be. There was no exterior cosmic Pied Piper, singing magical notes or playing a magical tune, urging the universe into being. [...] If you do not trust the nature of your impulses, then you do not trust the nature of your life, the nature of the universe, or the nature of your own being.

[...] Instead of taking an aspirin for a headache, sit down, breathe quietly, and remind yourself that you are an integral part of the universe. [...]

[...] If you accept the rightness of your life in the universe, then your ideals will be those in keeping with your nature. [...]

You begin by accepting your own worth as a part of the universe, and by granting every other being that same recognition. [...]

(Pause at 9:31.) I said that in your terms (underlined) all universes were created (underlined) simultaneously—at the same time. [...] Also, I use time terms, since you are so used yourselves to that kind of categorizing, so here we will certainly run into our first seeming contradiction (see the last session) — when I say that in the higher order of events all universes, including your own, have their original creations occurring now, with all of their pasts and futures built in, and with all of their scales of time winding ever outward, and all of their appearances of space, galaxies and nebulae, and all of their seeming changes, being instantly and originally created in what you think of as this moment.

Now the origin of the universe that you know, as I have described it, was of course a master event. [...]

In your terms other universes, with all of their own space and time structures, were created simultaneously, and exist simultaneously. [...]

Your universe cannot be its own source. [...]

1. While discussing probabilities and his units of consciousness in the 682nd session, in Section 1, Seth told us: “The idea of one universe alone is basically nonsensical. [...] Otherwise you are always caught in questions like ‘How did the universe begin?’ or ‘When will it end?’ All systems are constantly being created.”

Your closest point to the withinness of which I speak is your own consciousness, though you use it as a tool to examine the exterior universe. [...]

[...] There is, therefore, a quite valid, vital, real and vastly creative inner reality, and an inward sequence of events from which your present universe and life emerges. [...]

2. Physicists assign a frequency, or vibration in periodic motion, to all objects in our universe — galaxies, stars, planets, subatomic wave/particles, and so forth. [...]

“The Crucifixion was one of the realities that enriched both the universe of dreams and the universe of matter, and it originated in the universe of dreams. It was a main contribution of that system to your own, and could be physically compared to the emergence of a new planet within the physical universe.”

[...] And if such a universe is valid, why doesn’t it intrude on our daily life even more? [...] How can there be any continuity to a dream universe? Within such a universe, how could anyone possibly agree with anyone else as to what was happening?

“First of all,” Seth said, “the physical universe itself is a conglomeration of diverse individualistic symbols, none of which means precisely the same thing to any two individuals, and in which even so-called basic qualities like color and placement in space cannot be relied upon. [...] Telepathy could be called the glue that holds the physical universe in precarious position, so that you can agree on the existence and properties of objects. [...]

[...] … Ruburt tried to separate from himself all those elements he considers negative, and fight them at once, almost as if in so doing he could remove evil from the universe.

[...] For one week stop asking questions of the universe and simply listen to what it has to say to you. [...]

Now the universe speaks in many voices, and it can indeed speak through a leaf if you have the wits to listen. [...]

[...] And you will not get such knowledge by asking goodies of the universe like, what was I before? [...]

[...] Your thoughts, all of your thoughts at this moment, to you seem to come and go without a trace and yet they leave traces that you do not see, nor perceive, nor even sense, and yet if you quietly examine your experience, if you listen to the universe, you can begin to perceive some of these realities and that is what I want you to do. [...]

Probable universes are by their very nature existing universes. [...]

[...] However, even I pale at the idea of a specified—and that would be predetermined—end to your universe as you know it.

[...] However, your universe has had, and will continue to have, such cycles, but there is no predetermined end in those terms.

[...] Certainly areas of the physical universe change form, are disassembled and reappear in other forms. [...]

The rules are that you create your universe—that you create within the system that you know the world that you know. [...] The rules are that this universe is created by the thoughts that exist within each of your minds... [...]

[...] but the inner truths that turn you on are not to be found in the exterior universe... [...]

[...] Include yourself in with the vitality of the universe, you cannot say no to it. [...]

Ruburt has told you what I will say: You must know that you can hold your own in the universe that you know at this time. [...]

The basic rules of the universe as I have said appear differently on different planes. [...] There are basis rules in the universe. [...]

[...] It is fuel to your physical body and the idea of it comes very close to this fuel of the inner senses, which is not a camouflage effect and which is our vitality unsolidified, or the little wires which make up our imaginary universe. [...]

Your scientists are correct in supposing that the universe is composed of the same elements that can be found on your plane. [...]

[...] Since very often the vitality or stuff of the universe seems as innocuous as air might seem to you, then look for what you do not see. [...]

I would like this evening to speak more concerning the interrelationship of various units; for when I speak of the interrelationship of universes, remember that these universes are also units, or if you prefer, systems.

It goes without saying however that the characteristics of any system or unit that I have given here must apply to the dream universe, and to your own universe. [...]

Dreams are such connectives, for you see that this preliminary material is very much to the point as far as our dream universe is concerned, and is itself a connective to that discussion. [...]

The dream universe and your own are both actualities, and both separate systems that are interconnected.

I wanted to give you this material because it is basic for any comprehension of mental acts as they occur in the dream universe and the universe of matter. [...]

[...] There is also however a deep dissatisfaction with the universe as it is interpreted, and a disinclination to add to it in its own terms. [...]

[...] In our basic universe the tree, while remaining stationary, would nevertheless fall crashing into the water.

[...] In much the same manner as these atoms behaved, so also do other units behave, including large ones such as various field universes. [...]

As cooperation exists to aid in the maintenance of your physical universe, so cooperation exists between the unseen universes and your own universe; and each universe continually aids the other in the maintenance of reality.

[...] This point of over lapse, or overlap, this point of overlap is extremely important, for there are points of overlapping in all universes; and this will also be a be a basic factor in travel, although not in any future in the physical universe in which you will be involved.

[...] Even the requirements and necessities and properties of a universe change. [...]

There is constant interaction between all planes and universes. [...]

[...] Had this been a valid contact within the interior universe or unconscious playacting? [...]

Your scientists are correct in supposing that the universe is composed of the same elements that can be found in your plane. [...]

Since very often the vitality or stuff of the universe seems as innocuous as air … then look for what you do not see. [...]

[...] Therefore, you will come up against the basic stuff of the universe and feel its effects, though your physical senses will not necessarily perceive it.

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[...] You can understand in fact the way in which sense images are organized much more clearly by studying instances where sense images exist without an actual object representing them in the physical universe. [...]

Now I have told you time and time again, my friends, that you construct your physical universe and your private environment in line with your inner expectations, for they mirror perfectly the deepest areas of your own inner reality.

Now, your physical universe is obviously composed of shared perceptions, and mass dreams would of course be of the same nature. [...]

(9:55.) Your imaginations help you bring elements of that inner implied universe into actuality. [...] Your imaginations have always helped you form your civilizations, your arts and your sciences, and when they are united with your reasoning processes they can bring you knowledge about the universe and your places in it that you can receive in no other fashion.

Remember, again, the manifest [universe] emerges from a subjective reality, one that is implied in the very nature of your world itself. [...]

[...] It is, itself, the invisible universe that is everywhere implied within your world, but that becomes manifest to your perception only through historic time. [...]

[...] Individually and en masse, and to the extent that our human systems of perception make it possible, our species has created a world and universe built upon a very limited, repetitious creation and interpretation of internal and external data. [...]

You will know God’s actions, however, through the manifestations of the universe. [...] The universe is supportive. [...] Despite all misinterpretations, therefore, the universe is caring, and so is nature.

He is quite correct: the universe is not neutral. [...]

You wondered, really, if such a reality were possible, and if some people were really so blind—but the inner self provides certain safeguards, and the universe is a caring one, so that even those people are given some inner version. [...]

[...] The subjective evidence of dreaming, for example, is far more “convincing” and irrefutable than is the evidence for an expanding universe, black holes, or even atoms and molecules themselves. [...]

[...] It is because you have used other methods that much evidence escapes you—evidence that would show that the physical universe exists in quite different terms than is supposed.

[...] They have been reported by peoples of all kinds and in all ages, and they represent a common-sense kind of knowledge that is frowned upon by the men of learned universities. [...]

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[...] You mark the universe. [...]

In larger terms, while you speak your own language, the universe also speaks “your” language as it constantly translates itself into your private perception. [...]

[...] Each person alive is a part of the living God, supported in life by the magnificent power of nature, which is God translated into the elements of the earth and the universe.

[...] Hidden within the sessions there is the splendid vitality of Father Trenton, his (Jane’s) mother, his neighbors and teachers — but beyond that the sessions connect and unite the annals of existence as he has experienced them, so that in speaking with my voice, and for me (quavering), he expresses the blessed vitality and acknowledgments of the universe, as even through the sessions the sweet universe acknowledges his own presence and being. [...]

(4:10.) To one extent or another, Ruburt then speaks in the sessions for all peoples, for the united psyches that overflow with thoughts and feelings that are registered by the wind, giving voice to the private, intimate, yet connected lives of men and women throughout the centuries — so that many people, listening to or reading the sessions, hear their own inner voices also, and feel the contours of their own natures, and universal nature as well.

New paragraph: The blueprints for reality will not be found in the exterior universe. [...]

[...] The entire physical universe emerges from an inside, however, and none of your manufacture would provide you with even one object, were it not for those that appeared as source materials long before. [...]

(10:35.) Give us a moment … The true scientist understands that he must probe the interior and not the exterior universe; he will comprehend that he cannot isolate himself from a reality of which he is necessarily a part, and that to do so presents at best a distorted picture. [...]

(10:39.) Simply as an analogy, look at it this way: Your present universe is a mass-shared dream, quite valid — a dream that presents reality in a certain light; a dream that is above all meaningful, creative, based not upon chaos (with a knowing look), but upon spontaneous order. [...]

During our next session I will give you further material on the inner laws of the universe, and show you again how the so-called laws of the universe, with which your scientists deal, are sadly inadequate and the result of the same kind of distortion as your cause and effect theory.

I have also mentioned that as your outer senses can perceive the camouflage universe, and as they act within its laws, so also the inner senses are equipped to perceive the inner basic universe, and they directly are familiar with its laws.

[...] Remember your expanding universe theory, but not in terms of space or indeed in terms of time, but in terms of fulfillment of abilities and values that may be constructed upon various levels and in various guises, your present plane of existence being one.

We will now go into one of our basic laws of the universe, and of the spacious present, which would seem to need little explanation: that of creation.