Construction of Physical Matter

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 6, Session 266

Construction of Physical Matter

All physical matter exists first as an idea or mental image.  The idea of mental image has its own reality, and is charged with energy, and this energy can never be withdrawn.  You only accept data when it appears within the physical camouflage system.  As you know this severely limits your conception of the real.

We are making some simplified statements here to make the idea clear.  Data, valid data, which is not materialized as physical form, at any given time still exists as potential physical form.  Some such data will be materialized in your future, as for example plans existing only in the mind will later be carried out and utilized within physical form.

Some such data will never be utilized.  Some such data will be utilized time and time again.  Now you see the energy does not reside within any given physical object, but in the idea form that is within it.  Physical objects do not exist as such in a basic manner.  You can only perceive large areas of reality data however by transforming it into terms that can be picked up by the physical senses.

As you know, you create or construct all physical matter.  What you see are your own constructions.  This does not mean however that there is not something within or behind what you perceive.  All thoughts are composed of energy, and from our discussions you realize that there are electrical intensities within whose range all reality exists.

Every thought therefore has this kind of reality, which is the only reality, basically speaking.  Sense data itself has a reality independent of any given object.  This sense data has its own intensity.  If you can tune into that intensity, so to speak, you will automatically translate it into physical data, and you will perceive a physical object.

If you tune into that intensity imperfectly, you will have a pseudophysical object, that is in one or more respects different from a normal object.  It may be obvious for example to some of your senses, and not to others.  It may be only partially materialized.

In such cases however definite atoms and molecules are utilized.

There is no basic difference you see between a hallucinated object and a so-called physical object, except for the number of persons who perceive them.

Now.  In the experimental séance, due to the circumstances and lack of training on Ruburt’s part, we redistributed some energy.  Ruburt, during the séance, weighed somewhat less than his usual weight.  Very little actually.  With his help certain portions of energy were used to construct pseudoimages.

Again, these images are as real as any physical matter is.  Now once energy is formed into any kind of a pattern, the identity of the pattern is maintained.  If it will help you, think in terms of a memory image.  Except you see that in many cases the object may never have existed in physical reality.

What you perceive with your physical senses is of course real.  It is one of the forms that reality takes.  But if you insist upon believing that only physical data is real, then you see you will never learn what is within it.

Reality changes its form in order to become known to itself.  It constructs varieties of consciousness with varying kinds of sense apparatus, or perceiving apparatus.  Each consciousness then perceives reality in a different fashion.  Yet all fashions you see are legitimate, as far as physical sense apparatus is concerned.  But the mental or psychic energy behind all this is the one basic reality.

Now you can translate inner data into the terms of the outer senses, but always some distortion is absolutely necessary, for the very method of perception you see colors that which is perceived.

The objects that you will see and the places that you will visit, in dream or out-of-body experiences, are basically as real as any physical object or location, because neither are basically real.  Nor of course are they unreal.  As soon as you begin to translate an idea you are distorting it.  The inner senses you see do not distort the data, but when you attempt to make such data available to the ego, then distortion to some extent must enter in.

The images seen during the séance were quite as real as anything else in the room.  They could have been photographed, if any one of the three of you had held the camera.  

I spoke briefly of the form that appeared in the mirror.  Now that appearance was something else again, and was somewhat in the nature of the experience you had much later.  (See the 219^th session.)  You see you pick up the idea even with that form, then you attempt to translate that idea into physical terms.  The attempt is bound to bring distortions, but without the distortions you could not consciously perceive the data.  The distortions in all cases form your physical camouflage patterns.