“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment … True order and organization, even of biological structure, can be achieved only by granting a basic unpredictability. I am aware that this sounds startling. Basically, however, the motion of any wave or particle or entity is unpredictable — freewheeling and undetermined. Your life structure is a result of that unpredictability. Your psychological structure is also. However, because you are presented with a fairly cohesive picture, in which certain laws seem to apply, you think that the laws come first and physical reality follows. Instead, the cohesive picture is the result of the unpredictable nature that is and must be basic to all energy.

From the “chaotic” bed of your dreams springs your ordered daily organized action. In your reality, the behavior of your consciousness and of your molecules are highly connected. Your type of consciousness presupposes a molecular consciousness, and your kind of consciousness is inherent in molecular consciousness — inherent within your system, but not basically predictable. Predictability is simply another word for significance. Unpredictability, looking at itself in a variety of different fashions, finds certain portions of itself significant, and forms certain orders, or ordered sequences, about itself. In one of our very early sessions, I told you that you perceive from a vast field only certain data that you find meaningful. That data could only arise from the bed of unpredictability. Only unpredictability can provide the greatest source of probable orders.

(10:22.) You are examining probable atoms. You are composed of probable atoms. (A one-minute pause.) Give us a moment … (A one-minute pause.) Consciousness, to be fully free, had to be endowed with unpredictability. All That Is had to surprise himself, itself, herself, constantly, through freely granting itself its own freedom, or forever repeat itself. This basic unpredictability then follows through on all levels of consciousness and being. A certain cellular structure may seem inevitable within its own frame of reference only because opposing or contradictory probabilities do not appear therein.

The cells are also aware of probabilities in a more familiar fashion than you are, as they manipulate the past and future history of the body. Ruburt now, again, is experiencing massiveness, as in your idea of probabilities the cellular structure feels its vast endurance. Working with events not even real to you, it produces a physical structure that maintains identity and predictability out of a vastly creative network. That network is unpredictable, yet from it Ruburt can predictably put ashes into that shell. (Jane held up her favorite ashtray, the abalone shell we’d found in Baja California in 1958, and tapped some ashes into it from her cigarette.) The predictability of that gesture rests upon the basis of an unpredictability, in which multitudinous other actions could have occurred, and in other realities do occur.

This basic unit is endowed with unpredictability. That very unpredictability allows for infinite patterns and fulfillments. [...]

[...] Having an unpredictable field to draw from, they select activity according to those significances. [...] The harder you work to maintain the official accepted idea of the self in conventional terms, the more of course you block out any kind of unpredictability.

All matter is based upon the units mentioned, with their unpredictability and their propensity for exploring all probabilities. [...]

[...] In each now-moment, you draw from the vast bank of unpredictable actions certain ones that are “significant” to you; and your private idea of significance will result in what then seems to be predictable action.

Habitual patterns can be broken overnight with creative unpredictability, and creative unpredictability is of course one of life’s greatest characteristics. [...]

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[...] Forget what you have heard, again, about what the body can and cannot do, or what must happen before such and such a performance appears, for the body itself exults in creative unpredictability, and given the chance loves to perform.

[...] Correctly interpreted, they would lead as mentioned earlier to an unsuspected unpredictability of integers under certain conditions, and the unpredictability is the clue that would lead to the thus-far hidden values. [...]

[...] The unpredictability then enters in, flying the banners of a divided house. The atom lives in the unpredictable factor where the integers meet and fall apart. [...]

There is an instability and still unpredictable activity inherent in the integers (pause), but shows more strongly, or appears, after the 9th power.

[...] The unpredictability seems to result in the dissolution of quadrants under certain conditions. [...]

[...] not at all sure but the idea was that unpredictable unpleasant things could happen I suppose to “knock you off your ass.” [...] So all I have out of this I guess is released feelings that the world is at best unpredictable and can hurt you at any time. [...]

Unpredictability does not mean chaos. All order rises out of the creative elements of unpredictability. In fact, the behavior of any object in your universe is “predictable” only because you concentrate upon such a small portion of its reality.² Unpredictability assures uniqueness, and is the opposite of predetermined motion. The great saga of recognized physical activity arises from a vast unrecognized, unpredictable dimension in which probabilities are allowed full freedom.

[...] These, however, are quite unpredictable fulfillments that come about as you solve what appears to be one main problem. [...]

There are unpredictable levels of understanding that are the creative results of certain courses of action that you take. [...]

It is instead, of course, quite possible that your predictable world exists not in spite of but because of those surprising, unpredictable, unofficial occurrences. [...] There is a kind of larger spontaneous order of which the seemingly unpredictable elements of your world provide their own clues.

[...] By taking notice of seemingly unpredictable events, by changing your focus, you can indeed begin to sense the larger patterns of such a reality. [...]

[...] I am not the unpredictable and therefore unreliable prophetess or mistress. [...]

[...] You would have been afraid of the “unpredictable” in quotes feminine aspects.

[...] She was unpredictable, and so you felt you could not depend upon your art, nor count upon it as a man. [...]

The fallacy that neither of you recognized was that the creative, symbolically feminine portions of the self were not unpredictable, given to overemotionalism. [...]

The world in those terms (pause) is as much the result of unpredictable behavior, unforeseen events, unexpected benefits, unforeseeable conditions, as it is the result of predictable actions, usual cause-and-effect phenomena (pause), and a close inspection of public and private life would show quite clearly that both are magnificently touched by significant coincidences. Unexpected events, unpredictable actions of the most auspicious nature. [...]

[...] He enjoys the easy commerce of the marketplace, the unpredictability of being a contractor.

[...] To a lesser extent now, the same applies to Eve, for she likes her unpredictability coated just a bit with some security. [...]

He is beyond the point, however, of unpredictability, as when he could not tell when the right leg would hold or not in any position. [...]

Give us a moment … I said earlier in this book that the world you know arises from basic unpredictability, from which significances then emerge. [...]

4. Seth discussed the basic unpredictability from which significances arise in sessions 681–82, in Section 1. After break at 11:47 in the 681st session, he incorporated this line in his material: “From the ‘chaotic’ bed of your dreams springs your ordered daily organized action.”

Now: within a fairly regular (pause) framework of habits and range of activity, you have both actually chosen a course that is in many ways uncertain, irregular, unpredictable. [...]

[...] Now because of these uncertainties—financial, creative, and psychic—other certainties become highly important, as a framework for such seeming unpredictability. [...]

[...] These however are fulfillments quite unpredictable, that come about as you solve what appears to be one main problem. [...]

There are levels of understanding, again unpredictable, that are the creative results of certain courses you take. [...]

[...] Though it would seem then that you have made errors, the errors in themselves are creative, and have brought about unpredictable probabilities that now enrich and also change that original course.

[...] It believes in triumph, in pleasant, unpredictable surprises, in unexpected solutions, joyful occurrences. [...]

One note: Framework 2 shows itself in your frame of reference through play, unpredictability, surprises. [...]

(Nor is the biologist’s chaos the same thing as Seth’s “unpredictability.” [...]

[...] Would you thank me, or would you instead hate me for taking from you the glorious unpredictability of the life that you know? [...]

([Janice:] “We have to go along with the unpredictable.”)

And so I do, indeed, leave you with the question of the cat’s hair as a symbol of those aspects of physical reality that are unpredictable and also to make you consider the question that I just gave you. [...]

Physical time, or that is clock time, was invented by man’s ego to protect the ego itself, because of the mistaken conception of dual existence—that is, because man felt that a predictable conscious self did the thinking and the moving, and an unpredictable almost automatic self did the breathing and dreaming. He set up boundaries to protect the predictable self from what he considered the unpredictable self, and ended up by cutting the whole self in half.

[...] It is without doubt one of man’s tragedies, and it arose in large part out of this unpredictable dualism that befell him.

The point of all this is that these units are unpredictable, and fulfill all probabilities of consciousness. [...]

[...] All kinds of time — backward and forward — emerge from the basic unpredictable nature of consciousness, and are due to “series” of significances. [...]

[...] As I came out with that, I got something over here” — she gestured to her right, indicating one of the channels of information available from Seth — “about the unpredictability of consciousness, and precognition and heredity: the cell’s soul and the soul’s cell….”