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(While trying psychological time I had the following experiences:

[...] [It will be remembered that Seth had instructed Jane and me to ask this of whomever we managed to contact during psychological time.]

[...] Each time he spoke to me, I saw him all alone, as on a large milky-white screen. [...] Each time he spoke, [...]

[...] I heard it distinctly and retained it for some time, yet by the time I began my notes for this experiment I had forgotten it.

[...] On those occasions when Ruburt has heard me more or less directly in his psychological time experiments, there has always been on his part a sound quite independent of himself, from outside of himself, of static. [...]

(This occasion was June 17,1964, was a psy-time experience of Jane’s, and also involved her receipt of information about John Bradley. [...] Jane says she has had this experience of static from which a voice emerged three times, all during psy-time.

[...] Her eyes opened narrowly at times during the session. [...]

[...] It is not likely that I will be heard by anyone for some time in the way that Philip heard me speak. [...]

[...] He may if he prefers do his psychological time in the afternoons, when you are here, Joseph. Indeed now regularity is good, particularly since I have limited his time.

[...] Within it fulfillment and development are not dependent upon permanence of physical matter, however, and are not at all dependent upon any concept like that of your physical time. There [are] therefore possible bursts of developments, that have matured within perspectives that are not bound up in time, and that would appear spontaneous to the waking self.

Now basically even the physical universe itself is so constructed, but for all practical purposes, as far as general perception and experience is concerned, time and the physical growth development apply, so that we find the ego portion, particularly of the human personality, is to a large extent dependent for its maturity and development upon the amount of time that the physical image has spent within the system.

[...] I have been mentioning the incidents to Jane just before session time, in case Seth cared to comment on them, but to date he hasn’t dealt with them. [...]

[...] She was not particularly trying psychological time, yet she felt that she was familiarizing herself for a new development. [...]

(It might be interesting to note that at the time Jane received this idea, I was working on an index for the 35th session, of March 16, 1964. [...] Jane did not know what session I was working on, and we were also separated by two rooms at the time.

[...] It is now quite a few days later as I type this material, and Jane and I have had time to think it over. [...] She did not want to dispense with the board for some time.

[...] Her second thought was one of panic, in that she wouldn’t know the passage of time as usual, etc.

[...] The use of psychological time, to some large degree, also performs this function. [...]

[...] By the time session time approached Jane said she was too hot and tired to feel nervous, or anything else. [...]

He is learning presently, and very well, to control this sometime condition; and it dwindles, to appear only occasionally in times of stress. Daily use of those particular back exercises, with their mental discipline, will further aid in his development, until he will find indeed that he can not only relax at will, but even when he does not have time to will relaxation, that is, relaxation will be the built-in conditioned reflex that panic used to be.

It is also true that during certain periods of the month his hormones are more active, since he inhabits, and is, a woman this time. [...]

[...] She has of course tried no psychological time experiments since then.

[...] More time passed, and my concern increased. [...]

[...] Your perception characteristics at this time dictate and limit the aspects of action that you can perceive. [...]

[...] At break, now, she checked to see if this was the effect she had sensed, but it did not seem to be, although traffic does pass our house rather heavily at times.

(The following data are from Jane’s psychological time notebook: January 5, Tuesday: No results in particular. [...]

[...] As session time approached she had no idea of what her procedure would be—whether she would sit, stand, pace, open or close her eyes, etc. She was still worried also about the time element when her eyes were closed, and we agreed that I would ask for breaks if it seemed the monologues might carry past the customary half-hour limit.

[...] She was not bothered by any conception of time while speaking; yet she still wanted to be sure she “came out” on time.

[...] At times she was again in the prone position, which she achieved by sliding down in the wicker chair, and elevating her feet upon the register. [...]

[...] Now, psychological time is your best method for perceiving these actualities. [...] A web works to help you manipulate in a world of space and time which is, indeed, as nebulous and as precarious, and as delicate, as any spider’s web, and hangs indeed in as precarious a balance. [...]

Your personality is truly multidimensional, and after you have been here for some time, you will realize what the words multi-dimensional really mean, for they mean that you are not imprisoned within time, as you know it, in any way. And your reincarnated selves, or personalities, are not imprisoned in their time, as you think of time. [...]

Now, each personality is free and you are never imprisoned within time. [...] Time has open ends in all directions or such a thing as probabilities would not exist. [...]

(Following a discussion of reincarnation, probable selves and time. [...]

[...] And incidentally, Ruburt’s experience in psychological time was quite legitimate.

(It was now time for Jane to attempt to tune in on Bill and Peggy Gallagher for the last time while they were on vacation. [...] Her pace once again became quite slow, with many pauses; although she would give a paragraph of material rather quickly at times between pauses. [...]

(Jane knew which psy-time experience Seth referred to. [...] From her psy-time notebook:

(In the 104th session, Seth said that Jane would sell some of the short stories from the group she was working on at the time of the session. [...] Enough time lapses between her short-story work so that it is easy to keep the groups separate. [...]

(Neither Jane or I have any psychological time data to report, not yet having resumed a schedule for its study.

(Over the weekend I had devoted some time to trying to sort out the contradictory Frank Watts material given by FW in the first two sessions. I had meant to try this for some time, knowing part of it was contradictory, before asking Seth to straighten it out. [...]

[...] She began dictating on time in a voice a bit stronger than usual, at a fairly fast rate. [...]

[...] I am a personality, not a deity, all understanding and all just, and I am at times irascible. [...]

(While trying psychological time on January 18, Monday, 11:30 AM, Jane achieved the following results: “Extreme feeling of weightlessness. [...]

[...] This electric charge can propel the thought, as an electrical action, through the apparent dimensions of your physical time in such a manner that it can exist simultaneously within your past and your present. [...] Rather the one electric action or thought is simultaneously projected, through a peculiarity of its axis, so that it appears within your field, not in two places at once, but in two times at once.

(We had discussed this at supper time. Jane had noticed a close similarity in some of the effects described by Oliver Fox, and those she had experienced on her own while doing psychological time, as long as two years ago.)

[...] If your levitation experience seems to carry you outside of your solar system, then you know that you are using the third form, and that your abilities for the time are almost limitless, comparatively speaking. [...]

[...] We had used the intervening time as a break, and Jane resumed in the same active manner at 10:05.)

Some of the effects however, of which he speaks, are the result of his own psychological makeup. [...]

(As Seth stated in the 201st session, Jane’s psychological time experience of October 22, involving the Gallaghers, did prove to be quite legitimate; along with some less striking psy-time events Jane experienced during the week Peg and Bill were in Puerto Rico.

[...] I have at times been more presentable than that. Someday we shall show that face, and this face (Jane pointed to herself) for I am a stubborn gentleman, and in my own time we shall indeed give quite adequate proofs of what I am.

[...] Before this however we had the time to go over the three sessions in which Seth dealt with the Gallaghers while they were on vacation in Puerto Rico; these are sessions 199, 200, and 201.

[...] Jane’s psy-time experiments will also be so treated so that we have a unified body of work covering this experiment. [...]

[...] Therefore, while this time one of continuous moments is no longer experienced after death, it is still a reality within basic time itself, a reality toward which the personality simply is no longer focused. Because the individual is focused within time one now, you still realize, or should, that the time one is only a small portion of time, and that other kinds of time exist of which you are not aware.

(Jane also tried psychological time experiments while the Gallaghers were in Puerto Rico. [...] Jane tried five times, from Monday, October 18, to Friday, October 22,1965.

(In the 201st session for October 25, Seth commented: “...and incidentally, Ruburt’s experience in psychological time was quite legitimate.” Jane’s account of Friday’s psy-time experience was included in the 201st session along with our drawing; it is repeated here, with the addition of the Gallagher’s comments and Peggy’s drawing.)

It is one thing to conceive of basic time as being outside of physical time, for the sake of making a point; but it must be realized that Priestley’s time one, while only real to the ego, is nevertheless a part or a materialization that exists within this basic time framework, and the life force is at the same time within as well as without.

(Jane said she believes Seth is using these experiences, within the experience of the session itself, as a compensation for the psychological time experiments he has requested her to abandon for a while. It will be remembered that in the 140th session Seth stated that at times Jane would advance “too fast, too soon”, with her own experiments. [...]

Because there is no time, as you think of time, we will not say that action retains a memory of all its previous actions or selves, for this would be misleading. [...]

[...] Jane said it was Father Trainor’s voice, at times, or a close approximation. [...]

[...] She barely had time to give me the above information, when she sat down again, resumed her trance state, and began dictating. [...]

[...] But she’s had experiences involving you in her psychological time experiments.”)

[...] They contradict our laws of physics, being many times too bright for their size and distance, and emitting much too much energy. See the article on them in Time magazine for March 11,1966.)

[...] Before that I worked full time there. [...] If I removed the ribbon on any other afternoon of the week, this would push the time back toward the 1963 given earlier in the material.)

[...] The object was a red satin bow that had been kicking around the studio for some months; at various times I had idly thought of using it for an experiment. [...]

(Jane has been improving in her psychological time experiments since Seth advised her that she was trying too hard in the 178th session. [...]

Your own abilities, Joseph, have been at a plateau level, from which they will begin to rise, at which time another plateau will be reached, and the process continued. Such plateau levels are beneficial to the whole personality, since they allow time for adoptions.

[...] This time the double envelopes contained a black and white photo I took of Jane at York Beach, ME, a little over a year ago this month. [...]

Within, I believe, three months after the book is accepted, another book will be assured; and then at that time, or very shortly after, it will be contracted for.

Psychological time is the apparent lapse between the conception of ideas.

[...] The shadow of time glimmers in his eyes as the still imperfected memory of past constructions lingers in his consciousness. [...] The amoeba must construct its small world without reflection and without time as we know it.

[...] She retired from her position as a high school drama teacher and spent more and more time in her little apartment.

[...] I stayed with her for a short time, trying to be as comforting as I could. [...]

Your clock time as you know is camouflage, and does not exist as far as the inner ego is concerned. This certainly should not be strange to you, since you know that even your present personalities can to some extent escape from clock time through the use of psychological time. I have said that there is no time without barriers. The inner ego is aware of fewer barriers and therefore is not bound by time to the degree that the outer ego is bound.

[...] I do not want to be blamed for any distortions that might arise, though at a later time Ruburt will be able to get this sort of material through without such distortion.

Nevertheless the fact remains that he boo-booed, that such errors, while unavoidable at times at this stage, are most regrettable and apt to cast a slur upon the material as a whole.

[...] However, and I have emphasized this at times, because of our materials and methods of communication such distortions will almost of necessity occur now and then. [...]

(Seth told Bill he didn’t seem to have enough time in the day because he had the common habit of chopping time up into segments of minutes. A conception of time close to psychological time would give Bill enough time to do all he wants to do.

(Jane, her ESP book finished and mailed, has some free time for a change. [...]

[...] They visited us at 8:30 PM Wednesday, and before Jane and I realized it session time had come. [...]

[...] She smoked as she talked with us, and at times got to her feet as Seth. [...]