“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The father is mainly finished with the physical field. He is on what you may call a midplane of existence. Personalities in such transition are thereby allowed to acclimate themselves in a period of neutrality and relative passivity.

You will need perhaps to reread your material on the spacious present, since our explanation here will be necessarily in terms of sequence of events, when as you know in the spacious present events are actually simultaneous. When the personality withdraws itself from the physical image therefore, in a sort of slow motion of actual simultaneous happenings, this is what occurs.

The physical image does not immediately disappear, for a number of reasons. The personality, through the inner self, has indeed created or constructed the physical form, but the very material from which it was constructed also contains its peculiar consciousness, as you know.

There is much involved here that a reading of past sessions on matter will make plain. You realize of course that the atoms and molecules within the physical image continually change during existence on the physical field. Openings, so to speak, for the influx of new material into the physical form, are made possible by the inner self. When it abdicates it closes up the possibility of this repairing type of molecular action.

Remembering again your material of the spacious present, a portion of personality retention however still surrounds those physical reference points with which the personality was familiar.

In actuality this retention is mental, a mental attraction to other mental actions or personalities; but this attraction, while mental, still projects in certain fashions into the physical field. The attractions weaken, but during their duration, when certain conditions are met, communication can take place.

There is usually strain involved here, since points of reference must be changed. The personality is already immersed in a dimensional transformation; when the emotional need of those within the physical plane call out for communication, they add to the pull or force of the attraction still present, binding portions of the personality to the physical field, and can add to the resistance encountered by personalities in transformation.

Ruburt, incidentally, is to be congratulated, as he is just beginning to read books on physics, in order to intellectually keep up with the material as I give it. Never having read such books before, he was astounded to discover that I knew what he did not. He should be used to this by now.

(Jane delivered the above paragraph with a smile. It is true that she, and I to a lesser extent, have begun to read up on our physics. Both of us have largely neglected the subject since school days, although of course we came across references to it in other reading, since the subject plays such an important part in everyday life now. Jane has been quite surprised to find many references in these books that tally with what Seth has said. Many other points in the books have served as jumping-off points for Seth’s material, also.)

In his reading he came across a statement to the effect that imaginary two-dimensional people could not comprehend a three-dimensional system. You are obviously in the physical system, and according to your terms fourth dimensional. Your dream world, of which I have spoken, could be compared to a third-dimensional universe. However, the dimensions of which physics speaks are, again, the result of your own point of reference, and of the system in which you are enclosed.

This will be the direction toward which physics must travel in the future.

I have told you also, long ago, that what appears as weight or mass on one plane may appear as something else entirely upon another. And this long before Ruburt picked up his book on physics.

The imaginary framework that I set up for you is an excellent one, a particularly good model for the actuality. And even such a model as I carefully described could not be constructed physically within your particular system, since it contains degrees of mobility that your system has no room for.

When I say there can be no communication, I speak of course from my own points of reference. There are even other physical dimensions which do not appear physical to you, your antimatter being one. But there are many others. Some dimensions, or planes or fields, contain others, and some are sufficient unto themselves, with others dependent upon it, as for example your fifth dimension as I have explained it.

The psychic organism is much better equipped to handle such transformations and translations than is the physical organism, and there are also influences, quite natural, from surrounding psychic environments within your system that can act as resistances.