“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Time is an apple. Time is no apple. Time (smile) is a worm in an apple. Time is a worm not in an apple; and yet such definitions will be absolutely meaningless to most people, for they can only think of time in terms of days or hours, and they do not think of time as experience itself, or quite simply, being.

And yet such definitions are far more near the truth than those that have to do with measurements. There are no measurements of any kind. Reality, of itself, forms an apple. Your perception of the apple enables you to see it piecemeal.

The apple is time. It is an event. It is the so-many-odd days or months that have gone into its production in your terms, or years that have gone into production of the tree. It is as much an event of time as it is an event of space.

Here I am merely using your terms to make the point. There are such natural things as apples, you see. There are no natural things such as minutes or hours. These are concepts imposed upon reality, but this does not make them real in themselves.

An apple can do more in a painting than stand before the spirit of all apples, though that is an accomplishment. An apple can imply, through use of the exercise I have given you, the whole unseen universe, though not another object is shown in the painting itself.

The skin of the apple must also give the feeling that it is more than an enclosure, for through it energy from the sun also comes. [...] An apple in a room goes out into that room. [...]

An apple is not stuck within a tight hole of space, you see, isolated there. It makes itself out of space, transforms space, into an apple, and this you must suggest.

(Humorously:) Ruburt does not want me to hurt your feelings with apples—

(Long pause.) You can look at an apple and hold it in your hands, so it is obvious that its shape does not contradict its color. You see that an apple can be red or green or both. If I said: “Apples sit quietly on a table,” you would have to agree that such is sometimes the case. If I said: “Apples roll down grassy inclines,” you would also have to agree. If I said: “Apples fall down through space,” you would again be forced to concede the point. It would be clear to you that none of these statements contradicted each other, for in different circumstances apples behave differently.

An apple can be red, round, weigh so much, be good to eat, sit in a basket, but be natural on a tree. [...] None of these things are contradictory to the nature of an apple. You do not ask: “How can an apple have color and be round at the same time?”

[...] When I speak of the behavior of your psyche, then, you may wonder: “How can my psyche exist in more than one time at once?” It can do this just as an apple can be found on a table or on the ground or on the tree.

(Then:) Change that last sentence to read: “just as apples …” (My emphasis.

When he attempts to restrain himself too vigorously, he automatically upsets the apple cart, so to speak, and it is on his head that the apples and cart fall.

They are to a large degree, but not entirely, self-perpetuating, as if the seeds of an apple, instead of falling down to the ground, fell backward into some mysterious dimension within the core of the apple itself. [...]

[...] (Jane drew in the air, eyes open.) Imagine a superstructure of a circle, put together like a pie, except that each segment is also in itself a globe, and that this structure is in itself an exterior one, the multidimensional equivalent of the pie’s crust or the apple’s skin.

[...] Because of culture and religion, an apple may remind many people of the Garden of Eden, or sin. The apple can be used as a general symbol in that way. In deeper terms, however, an apple might be associated with a cellar, a kitchen, a still life, a death, a birth, or with a million other items or events, according to a given individual’s own chain of associations.

[...] Does an onion fear its skin or an apple become afraid of its core? [...]

He can’t crack a smile without fearing that this will be taken as a sign of apple polishing, because apple polishing of course implies a feeling of inferiority on the part of the apple polisher. [...]

[...] It was as real in Framework 2 as a dish or an apple. An apple rolls if it is on sloping ground, and you can watch its progress. [...]

As there are insides to apples, so think of the ordinary moment as an apple. In usual experience, you hold that apple in your hand, or eat it. Using this analogy, however, the apple itself (as the moment) would contain infinite variations of itself within itself. [...]

(“Apples.” [...] A large, old and beautiful apple tree sits in the backyard. [...]

(In reference to the Apples data above, I should add that an apple tree in the backyard of our place here in Elmira can also furnish connections. [...]

Apples. [...]

[...] Cells, as entities, do not drop off like apples; I was using, I suppose, a kind of shorthand I believed was clear in the context given.

No apple tree tries to grow violets. [...] Much more of your knowledge can be conscious, therefore; but a false belief, a limiting one, is as ambiguous to your nature as any apple tree’s idea that it was a violet plant.

It could not produce violets, nor could it be a good apple tree while it tried to. [...]

the apples grow in the trees

You like to deal with classifications, so that you equate one apple with one other apple, one cat with another cat, one person with another person. [...]

It is now important that he relearn the objective nature of your reality, the simple sanity of an apple as an apple. [...]

[...] You may dream for example of holding an apple, then wake up and the apple is gone. This does not mean that the apple did not exist. [...]

(October 28, Wednesday, 5:30 PM: Today I had been working on a painting of apples. Trying psy-time, I saw apples twice. [...] The second time, I again saw the apples in sections, but this time in full color. [...]

The values are undermined (head down now), when the zero is sphered...sphered, you see (gesture), when the zero is like an apple with a stem. [...]

(She now drew for Carl and me the illustration at the left.“This is the apple with a stem,” she said, “that the personality was trying to get across.” [...]

[...] This is like saying that because an apple has a top, it must have a bottom — but without any understanding of the fact that both are a portion of the apple. [...]