The Universe And All That Is

Introduction to Seth’s Lecture on “The Universe” and “All That Is”

For as long as humanity has pondered existence, we have sought answers about the origins of the universe, the nature of time, and the role of consciousness in shaping reality. Science offers theories like the Big Bang, while religion speaks of a divine creator. Yet, both perspectives assume an external beginning—a singular moment when existence was set into motion. But what if that assumption is flawed? What if creation is not something that happened in the distant past, but something that is happening right now?

In this lecture, Seth invites us to rethink our understanding of time. He suggests that time isn’t a fixed reality but a concept of our consciousness, like space and physical matter. He encourages us to break free from conventional thinking and see that consciousness isn’t just a product of the universe—it’s its source.

This idea might be hard to wrap your head around at first because it means changing how you see reality. We’re used to thinking in a linear way, where the past leads to the present and eventually to the future. But Seth wants us to see time as fluid, like something we create in each moment rather than something we just pass through. In this view, the universe didn’t just start—it’s constantly emerging from an infinite field of possibilities, shaped by our consciousness.

So, approach this lecture with an open mind. You might not agree with everything Seth says right away, but try to consider the idea that reality is much more dynamic, connected, and alive than we’ve been taught. If you can do that for even a moment, you might catch a glimpse of the vast creative process that Seth calls All That Is—a process in which you, as a conscious being, play a crucial and ongoing role.

Prague, January 2025

Seth’s Lecture on “The Universe” and “All That Is”

Quotes composed by John Blair

“Now. (Long pause, one of many.) The universe will begin yesterday. The universe began tomorrow. Both of these statements are quite meaningless. The tenses are wrong, and perhaps your time sense is completely outraged. Yet the statement: “The universe began in some distant past,” is, in basic terms, just as meaningless.”

“In fact, the first two statements, while making no logical sense, do indeed hint of (pause) phenomena that show time itself to be no more than a creative construct. Time and space are in a fashion part of the furniture of your universe.”

“The very experience of passing moments belongs to your psychological rooms in the same way that clocks are attached to your walls. Whenever science or religion seeks the origin of the universe, they search for it in the past. The universe is being created now (underlined). Creation occurs in each moment, in your terms. The illusion of time itself is being created now. It is therefore somewhat futile to look for the origins of the universe by using a time scheme that is in itself, at the very least, highly relative.”

“Your now (underlined), or present moment, is a psychological platform. It seems that the universe began with an initial burst of energy of some kind (the “big bang”). Evolutionists cannot account for its cause. Many religious people believe that a god exists in a larger dimension of reality, and that he created the universe while being himself outside of it. He set it into motion.

Many individuals, following either persuasion, believe that regardless of its source, the [universe]1 must run out of energy. Established science is quite certain that no energy can now be created or destroyed, but only transformed (as stated in the first law of thermodynamics). Science sees energy and matter as being basically the same thing, appearing differently under varying circumstances.”

“(9:31.) In certain terms, science and religion are both dealing with the idea of an objectively created universe. Either God “made it,” or physical matter, in some unexplained manner, was formed after an initial explosion of energy, and consciousness emerged from that initially dead matter in a way yet to be explained.”

“Instead, consciousness formed matter. As I have said before, each atom and molecule has its own consciousness. Consciousness and matter and energy are one, but consciousness initiates the transformation of energy into matter. In those terms, the “beginning” of your universe was a triumph in the expansion of consciousness, as it learned to translate itself into physical form. The universe emerged into actuality in the same way (underlined), but to a different degree, that any idea emerges from what you think of as subjectivity into physical expression.”

“The consciousness of each reader of this book existed before the universe was formed—in parentheses: (in your terms)—but that consciousness was unmanifest. Your closest approximation—and it is an approximation only—of the state of being that existed before the universe was formed is the dream state. (Long pause.) In that state before the beginning, your consciousness existed free of space and time, aware of immense probabilities. This is extremely difficult to verbalize, yet it is very important that such an attempt be made. (Long pause.) Your consciousness is a part of an infinitely original creative process.”

“I will purposely avoid using the word “God” because of the connotations placed upon it by conventional religion. I will make an attempt to explain the characteristics of this divine process throughout this book. I call the process “All That Is.” All That Is is so much a part of its creations that it is almost impossible to separate the “creator from the creations,” for each creation also carries indelibly within it the characteristics of its source.”

“Dreams, “Evolution”, and Value Fulfillment: Volume One”, Chapter 1, Session 882, September 26, 1979, by Jane Roberts, ©2012 Laurel Davies-Butts.

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