Briefing: Seth on Mind Over Matter (Literally)
Alright, settle in for a wild ride. We're diving into Session 79 of The Early Sessions Book 2 of The Seth Material, recorded way back on August 12, 1964. This session starts as a brain-bending physics lecture and ends with a hilarious, and frankly chilling, breakdown of how two people psychically sabotaged their own real estate deal.
The Universe Doesn't Lose Energy, Your Scientists Are Just Looking in the Wrong Place
Seth kicks things off by gently roasting modern science. The main point? Energy is mental and psychological at its core. Ideas themselves are pure energy. Our physical laws, derived from what our five senses can perceive, are utterly useless for understanding the dimensions where reality is actually built.
He explains that the "psychological frameworks behind physical reality are also composed of energy." These frameworks are the true building blocks, and they expand and create based on "value fulfillment," not thermodynamics. There's a "minimum individual psychic component," a tiny unit of consciousness that acts as the first stepping stone for energy to become matter. These units pulse in and out of our reality so fast that our clumsy time-sense perceives solid, durable objects. The energy that scientists think is "lost" (entropy) is simply zipping through our physical plane unperceived or being used on other levels. It’s not gone, it's just not here.
How to Psychically Destroy a Country Road
This is where it gets personal and very funny. Seth turns his attention to Jane (Ruburt) and Rob's recent attempt to buy a house, which fell through. The official reason was a letter from the Veterans Administration calling the access road a "trail" and denying the loan.
Seth’s take? Nonsense. They caused it.
He states, with what the transcript calls a "humorous" tone, that they decided against the house long before the letter arrived. Their negative energy and low expectations literally did the deed: "Your energy focused on the property, constructed the property into the state where the road disintegrated into a trail."
Seth claims he tried to help by raising their expectations, but they couldn't believe they could get something so good for so cheap. So, they subconsciously "ripped down the construction to meet the price, and then refused it." The out-of-town property assessor, acting on his own free will, simply saw the rundown version of the property they had mentally created.
The real reasons they backed out were laughably petty. Rob’s decision came "the first time that you heard the traffic," and Jane’s came when some kids "took his precious berries." Their fear of the low price made them hunt for problems, and their expectations delivered them. Even the faulty heating system they later learned about would have worked better for them if they'd simply expected it to.
The session is a powerful, and slightly terrifying, illustration of how our deepest expectations don't just color our reality—they build it, for better or for worse.
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