“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Rachel had been discussing a story on astral projection which told of a man seeing a black shape trying to sever the silver cord so he could not return to his body.)

This was a warning given by the personality himself. He frightened himself into returning to his body for he had been away from it too long. He was dilly-dallying where he did not belong, and he was getting into realities that did not concern him. He was like a truant so he caused the hallucination so that he would return to his body. Now the nature of the hallucination was his own doing. He used his own fears to cause the hallucination. He was not discriminate. He was not using his common sense. He knew it was time to return to the body, and he decided to stay out of it despite the nature of inclination to return, and so he made a nightmare for himself to frighten himself home like the errant boy that he was. And in almost all cases this is what occurs.

Now in dreams you open [sic], though not always, also escape and time is meaningless to you. In a dream you may experience say, an episode in which you are involved with adventures that last for years, and when you wake up you have not aged for (4?) years. During the dream state you can travel to the ends of the universe as you know it. Now your astronauts cannot do this as yet in your time schedule and yet you can do it and when you return, no time has passed in physical terms.

Now we will return you to your breaks. You are pussyfooted over the minutes and the hours. You use the minutes and the hours like a floor. You think they give you support, but the floor can become transparent if you simply look and keep your wits about you. There is no such thing as a minute or an hour.

(To Theodore.) And I expect over here, for our Dean, a return to the Great Hall and there you should receive your own answer to the question that you asked earlier, but if for any reason you do not, then I will answer it for you. I am interested in helping you develop your own abilities—therefore, I answer those questions that I think you will not be able to answer for yourselves for a while and those answers that you will receive yourselves I leave open. I like to make you work, it is good for you.