The Nature of Reality: A Seth Podcast
Aug 13, 2026 · 9 min · 10 segments
In this episode, Dave explores Seth’s teaching that physical objects are energy shaped into recognizable forms, using everyday objects as “training models” to practice consciously directing energy…
David SelakHost
In the early sessions, Seth explained that form is not a characteristic of matter itself.
Using energy, we manipulate existing atoms and molecules into a certain pattern which we and others then recognize as one particular object.
The object exists because of our intimate construction of it into that pattern and because of the recognition we give it.
Objects in this sense are arbitrary designations we place on certain divisions of the endless sea of molecular constructions.
We take the raw, undifferentiated field and, through focused attention and expectation, shape it into the solid, familiar forms of our daily world.
Most of the time, we have no sense that we are doing this, and that is perfectly natural.
The construction happens largely outside the portion of the self that walks around making grocery lists.
"Your world of physical objects is quite important in that because it allows you to deal with differentiations, to pinpoint energy where you want it, while giving you an observable physical effect so that this training can carry over in other realities in which the same kind of physical feedback is not available, is subsidiary, or is otherwise not as much a part of the camouflage structure.
Using real objects now, you learn to manipulate energy with the models before you, so to speak, gaining confidence so that later you can trust yourselves in the use of energy without needing the physical appearance of, say, an object before you." Physical objects are training models.
They let us practice placing energy with precision while still having the comfort of tangible results.
The skill we develop here is meant to travel with us into realities where the same solid feedback is no longer present.
The invitation is simply to begin doing it more consciously to perfect the craft.
In the early sessions, Seth explained that form is not a characteristic of matter itself.
Using energy, we manipulate existing atoms and molecules into a certain pattern which we and others then recognize as one particular object.
The object exists because of our intimate construction of it into that pattern and because of the recognition we give it.
Objects in this sense are arbitrary designations we place on certain divisions of the endless sea of molecular constructions.
We take the raw, undifferentiated field and, through focused attention and expectation, shape it into the solid, familiar forms of our daily world.
Most of the time, we have no sense that we are doing this, and that is perfectly natural.
The construction happens largely outside the portion of the self that walks around making grocery lists.
"Your world of physical objects is quite important in that because it allows you to deal with differentiations, to pinpoint energy where you want it, while giving you an observable physical effect so that this training can carry over in other realities in which the same kind of physical feedback is not available, is subsidiary, or is otherwise not as much a part of the camouflage structure.
Using real objects now, you learn to manipulate energy with the models before you, so to speak, gaining confidence so that later you can trust yourselves in the use of energy without needing the physical appearance of, say, an object before you." Physical objects are training models.
They let us practice placing energy with precision while still having the comfort of tangible results.
The skill we develop here is meant to travel with us into realities where the same solid feedback is no longer present.
The invitation is simply to begin doing it more consciously to perfect the craft.
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