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[...] She had achieved this ecstatic state, as she described it, several times by that date. [...] Seth stated that he did not realize Jane would achieve this focusing of inner energy so early in her studies with psychological time, and furthermore said that it could have unpleasant effects if it was unwittingly directed toward someone else. [...]

(I have yet to resume a planned study of psychological time, but as noted previously I continue to have small experiences almost daily. [...]

I am of the opinion that your psychological time experiences will shortly become more vivid, Joseph; and also Ruburt’s. The inner spontaneity is coming back to Ruburt, after he tried too hard during the last of the summer.

[...] The change in the direction of the bed will also aid in psychological time experiments, when tried there.

[...] You pretend to agree that it does; we meet in no place of space or time. [...] You know that you hallucinate the room, that you are as much in trance here as you ever are when you are in psychological time. [...]

[...] You are not the same being physically, psychologically, spiritually, or psychically, and ten minutes later you will be different again. To deny this is to try to force consciousness into some rigid form from which it cannot ever be freed, to apply rules to it that make a very neat psychological landscape.

As you know yourselves, you only accept those suggestions, ideas and hang-ups that suit your purposes at this time. [...]

[...] You did not set them like millstones about your neck, hoping ahead of time that you would drown.

[...] While trying psychological time, Jane again experienced the feeling she has likened to ecstasy, and described so thoroughly on page 66. [...] We thought that a small step at a time was sufficient.)

(After the very short 53rd session tonight I tried psychological time. [...]

(While trying psychological time I had the following experiences:

[...] As usual this vision was over before I realized I had seen it, yet during the sighting I was for the first time unaware of my body lying on the bed.

(Both of us have kept strict records of our psychological time studies, for example, with the hope that Seth will eventually discuss them. The records have now piled up to such an extent, however, that we do not really understand how Seth can ever cover them, as he has promised to at various times, in very much detail. [...] Actually the time set aside for gathering material is quite limited, yet it keeps us busy.

(November 23, Monday, 8:15 PM: This was my most active experience since resuming psychological time study. [...] Most of the sightings and sounds are now hard to recall, frustratingly enough, but they were very vivid at the time, and I did achieve partial duration in memory.

(Trying psychological time for fifteen minutes on Tuesday, November 17, and Wednesday, November 18, Jane achieved an excellent state on each day.

Nor have I forgotten any of the psychological time incidences. [...]

[...] And at the present time you are not willing to give that much attention to these other portions of your personality that you recognize do exist. And you have recognized your own gifts for some time. [...] You are afraid for example that in psychological time—granted you find the physical time for it—you will take needed energy away from your physical pursuits. [...]

The remarks are these—We will and we have, to a very small extent here, begun a study of multidimensional psychology...and it will be the psychology of the future for it will regard personality in its true and entire light. [...] But this will take some time. [...]

Once psychology realizes that the personality is also alert and conscious in the dream state, then indeed its precepts and its bases must change. [...] Now your sleeping self is awake all of the time—you dream all of the time. [...]

Try your psychological time experiments. [...]

Now, we will see to it that you live very adventurous nights, and those of you who do psychological time and take the physical time necessary to do the experiments, will find the mobility of consciousness—I am using that term because Ruburt likes it so well—that is necessary. [...]

[...] Now when you are quieted and when you are in the dream state or when you are doing psychological time then you free yourself from the three-dimensional system and allow your consciousness to recognize other portions of its own reality. [...]

Tell our friend, Ruburt, that Nassair should not set up what he is thinking of setting up, his offshore fund; and tell Ruburt that that is the only message I have for Mr. Nassair at this time. [...] Tell him also that Mr. Nassair’s friend, who was here at class, subconsciously knows that Mr. Nassair should not set up the fund at this time, but did not want to take the responsibility for saying so. [...]

(To Giselle.) Now, I am aware of the problems of which Ruburt knows, and we will discuss them at a later time whenever you can get up here and discuss it. [...]

Now basically, consciousness itself is a type of barrier, and anything that has consciousness experiences time to some degree. [...] Self-consciousness presents a larger barrier, therefore the sense of time is greater. Psychological time is the lowest common denominator, so to speak, from your viewpoint. [...] Psychological time represents on your plane the closest you can come to the experience of timelessness as far as your physical laws are concerned.

You do experience time, but not time as it is bound by your camouflage patterns. As I have mentioned you can in a dream or daydream or through conscious use of psychological time experience many hours in a few clock minutes. [...]

[...] Had you had the opportunity to do more work with psychological time you would have been able to attain greater perception than you did. [...]

[...] Try and use psychological time as I have told you. [...]

[...] During break she mentioned that she wanted to know if she could resume practicing psychological time for half an hour a day, instead of fifteen minutes. [...]

[...] Ruburt may try a half-hour psychological time experiment tomorrow and Wednesday, if he chooses, and then we will see. [...]

(Note: Jane tried psychological time for half an hour in both the above instances. [...]

(For December 1 and 2 I tried psychological time also, but have nothing to report beyond a few minor sensations in the hands.)

I am going to suggest, first of all, that the material which we have mentioned be read, and then for a beginning that psychological time experiments be taken. [...]

I would suggest for the psychological time experiments, fifteen minutes to begin with, along the lines of the directions which Joseph has given. [...]

[...] Secondary personalities are caused by repressed emotions on a psychological basis that attempts to maintain an ascendancy. Your ulcer is indeed the same sort of growth, but on a physical and not on a psychological level.

[...] As I believe I suggested over a year ago, the present witnesses are most beneficial, and I would suggest on some evening when the time is available, that we take advantage of their help, and hold a session under circumstances that allow us both larger scope in terms of quality and in terms of time.

(It will be remembered that Seth still limits Jane to fifteen minutes of psychological time experimentation daily. [...]

[...] The self may project itself into the dimensions of space and time, but the projection is a small part of its actuality. Even the uppermost or surface elements of the self with which you are familiar, the ego and the uppermost layers of the subconscious, even these cannot be said to be born at any given time, in time as you conceive it.

A psychological experience may take up no space as a rock takes up space, but when a psychological experience happens it may fill you up. Yet you do not deny the existence of a psychological experience, though you cannot rip it apart from yourself and examine it with the physical senses. [...]

[...] I tried three times specifically; and each time in a most dry and amused, even pleased way, the personality said firmly that Jane and I could not be told why at this time. [...]

For a while I think I spent half the time trying to psychoanalyze Seth and the other half trying to analyze myself. [...] Even so, Seth said that my strong ego was an asset to our work when I didn’t overdo it, since it kept my whole personality on an even keel and allowed me the psychological strength to handle and develop my abilities.

[...] Our experiments in what Seth calls “Psychological Time” helped us develop our own psychic abilities. [...]

[...] There is no doubt that he is unaware at times of his surroundings during sessions. It is a phenomenon in which he gives consent, and he could, at any time, return his conscious attention to his physical environment.

I’ve devoted some time and space to the early Seth sessions so that the reader could become acquainted with part of the material as it was given to us. Some of it seems so rudimentary to us now that it’s difficult to recall the amazement we felt at the time. [...]

[...] Both of us have experienced it in varying degrees during psychological time, sometimes intensely. I have also experienced it outside of psy-time. [...]

(Jane has begun her psychological time experiments, though she is still not on a regular day-to-day basis. [...]

Ruburt experienced this in his psychological time experiment this afternoon, and it reminded me that more material definitely was needed here.

[...] Rather than give you fairly frequent short vacations, I may at times close a session early. We still come out ahead in terms of time. [...]

(While trying psychological time on January 19 and January 20, Jane achieved excellent states of “ecstasy” both times.

[...] Habit, then, has not only a psychological, but an electrical and psychological nature and implication.

[...] If the thought or emotion is similar to those usually accepted, then this will take time, for new electrical patterns must be set up. [...]

Many psychological intangibles, including dreams, have such an electric reality, and do exist as electric actions. [...]

Ruburt may feel betwixt and between, as indeed at times he is, but only occasionally. [...] Also, if Ruburt is experimenting as he is with the trance state in psychological time experiments, it is a good idea that some of this experimentation be carried on by him under our excellent supervision; and after consideration I think that you will agree.

(The following data are from Jane’s psychological time notebook: December 31, Thursday, 11:35: A rather amazing experience of “ecstasy,” the strongest I’ve experienced so far. [...]

There are quite a number of your psychological time experiments that we will have to discuss. [...]

(Part of the time her eyes were fully closed as she paced about the room, Jane said, but she could not give me a percentage estimate. The rest of the time her eyes were “cracked open” just enough for her to see. [...]

I simply meant that at times you still worried as to whether or not he was a subconscious fiction in the writing sessions; but you did not feel this as strongly in your psychological-time experiments, because of the mental activity of your own that they provided.

When you are working alone in psychological time experiments, you do not so fear emergence of the subconscious, and you trust your material more. [...]

Psychologically, when you are filled up, you have physical difficulty, and it is a psychological reaction that activates the physical structure. [...]

[...] The psychological insights are valid in that material although you do not always understand their true validity. [...]

[...] You are at the very beginning of any idea of psychology. [...] At the rate you are going, it will take you some time! [...]

Now, when you properly understand how to use psychological time, then to some extent you can learn to alter the nature, the focus, of your consciousness. [...]

Now there are many words for psychological time. [...]

Now, if you want organization then you shall have it—at any time. You structure your own existence and you choose those realities that have exactly as much organization as you need at any given time. [...]

You are at the very beginning of any idea of psychology. [...] At the rate you are going, it will take you some time!

Now: When you properly understand how to use psychological time, then to some extent you can learn to alter the nature and focus of your consciousness. [...]

Now: There are many words for psychological time. [...]

Now: If you want organization then you shall have it — at any time. You structure your own existence, and you choose those realities that have exactly as much organization as you need at any given time.

The dimensions of action itself have nothing to do, basically, with your conception of time. Instead the dimensions of action have to do with intensities; not only the intensities of the electromagnetic components that compose them, but with intensities as they are translated into psychological terms. Therefore the psychological experience of a particular event or action has little to do with clock time.

[...] Seth volunteered to give information about Peg’s activities while she is in Washington, and Jane also plans to tune in on Peg via psychological-time experiments. [...]

(See the 149th-152nd sessions for the material on moment points and time. Once again, the material on time is woven through the sessions. Seth began discussing time in the 14th session. See the sessions 120-130 for material on the electrical field and time, in Volume 3.

[...] Only your perception of it adds the illusion of time to action. You think, for example, that any given action consumes or devours or takes up a certain amount of time. Therefore you think of time as something that contains action.

(Jane has been practicing psychological time regularly, but reports that she has achieved little besides her usual excellent state. She has had no unusual or startling experiences since Seth cut her psy-time periods to 20 minutes, in the 151st session.

(Jane has had some striking clairvoyant and telepathic experiences outside of psy-time, however, and is keeping separate records of these. [...]

[...] Her voice was quiet and she used pauses for the first time in quite a few sessions.)

[...] It is now time for us to do so. [...]

(Last Thursday, April 15, as we were driving about Elmira on errands, Jane mentioned to me that she missed trying psychological time. [...] Jane then received the information, she believes from Seth, to the effect that she might soon be allowed to resume psy-time, but only for fifteen-minute periods, and during the evening when I would be home with her.

Ruburt may indeed resume psychological time experiments, however, and he did understand me correctly. [...]

As the springtime progresses this will be an excellent time for Ruburt to cease his smoking, as his abilities renew themselves. Earlier in the year was a poor time.

(Seth has predicted sale of the ESP book, and of the material itself many times. [...]