“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This is the first time Jane has had such an experience in the waking state, although she has seen many things in psychological time experiments. [...]

(I have long been aware that the yoga exercises have a powerful effect on me personally, and that I evidently end up in a dissociated state at times after doing them. [...] The last time I heard voices they chattered away at a great rate, like a tape played too fast.

[...] This passivity comes rather easily to you under such conditions, as those that existed at the time.

[...] She took time out to put out her cigarette and sip some wine, her eyes blinking.)

(While trying psychological time Jane and I had the following experiences.

[...] This time she was quite aware of Seth’s concern lest anyone, upon reading this section of the material, commit suicide in a misguided effort to prove that it is possible for the consciousness to get along without the physical body. Jane said that at times she is aware of as many as three separate, parallel streams of thought, at the same time as she is giving voice to one of them.)

(As break began, I realized that my hands felt fat or enlarged; at the same time Jane said hers did also, and that she had been aware of it earlier in the session but forgot to mention it. [...] At such times the skin acquires a taut, almost flushed look, and the fingers feel strained when they are doubled up. [...]

(Jane also announced that at various times during the past two or three weeks, she had had the feeling of her left foot or hand—never the right—being plunged in hot water. [...] It will happen at any time—at work, at home, etc. [...]

[...] You need also to expand in the direction in which you are going, in terms of these sessions and psychological time.

[...] I will never cease to be amused with Ruburt’s little tricks, such as watching the minutes, and I would not at all be surprised, Joseph, to find that he continues in the same hilarious fashion as times goes by. [...]

[...] He has used them well this time, to give himself added discipline, and this is all to the good. [...]

[...] Such a division occurs at various times in history, and is occurring now.

[...] Deeper stages of this are what Jane has called ecstasy in her psychological time experiments.

(This time it began in both my feet and moved up my legs to my hips, then manifested itself in the back of my head. [...] Seth went into the experience in detail in the 24th session, explaining how at times it represented my attempts to perceive him, and at other times my attempts to perceive other data outside the usual sense channels.)

(Seth told us at the time that the apparition was of him, and that Bill could see it but that Jane and I could not because we were too “fussy” about what we allowed ourselves to see. He said that in the future—time unspecified—we should be able to see his apparition at times, but by no means regularly.

[...] The first time I had asked Seth for data on a category not mentioned, namely color. The second time I asked him to start over the whole thing. This time I tried something else.

[...] Experiments and experiences using psychological time, and all projection events, deal rather directly with the use of these inner senses.

(Thus Seth returned three times in all. Jane had been well dissociated each time.)

[...] For one simple example, Ruburt experienced a valid projection begun from the dream state, some time ago.

Your consciousness is far divorced from the physical organism, and it would be dangerous to stay away for any extended period of physical time. [...]

(Jane has had other experiences, both in dreams and in psychological time, in which she heard Seth’s voice but did not recognize it. For an account of an instance occurring during psy-time, involving John Bradley, see the unscheduled 190th session. [...]

[...] At the same time I felt touches of my familiar thrilling sensation that I have often felt during psy-time, or when I see a vision; this gave me the feeling that I might be half right about what I had said; Seth however said nothing about it. [...]

[...] presently a small firm comparatively speaking, but it will expand drastically within a short time... [...]

[...] They plan to make their own notes at these same times for later comparison.

The practice of psychological time will allow you to reach these portions of the self. [...]

(This was the first time either of us had specifically noted that Dr. Lodico had his office in a certain building that both of us had driven past many times. [...]

[...] Again her pace had been fast, her voice strong; the exception now was that her eyes, very dark, began to open at times.

[...] Her voice was not as loud this time but her delivery had been fast, as though she wanted to give the data without thinking about it. [...]

[...] You can best achieve some approximation of an idea by using psychological time...”)

When you intend to leave in the middle of a session, there is hardly time for me to light into you adequately, or to answer the questions that I think we could answer. [...] Indeed, I have been harsh with no one, though I have been tempted at times. And I am always hampered both by time and because of mechanical difficulties, and because we must be so still and silent.

[...] If you have time we shall explain this evening. If not we shall explain another time.

[...] This places it in time a couple of weeks before we saw John last time, during the Binghamton meeting affair. [...]