“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In this case the body would appear visible on the bed while another, identical body would appear in the new location to which the personality-essence had traveled. In this case a potential observer would see what would appear to be an ordinary physical being.

Failure can lie in any of these lines. A sort of suspension of what you might call logic is necessary before such feats can be performed well enough for there to be a scientific proof, definite enough to be accepted. You must make an emotional and psychic leap, and then you can look backward and see your connective bridges.

If you hear people talking, remember to listen to what they are discussing, and the language in which they speak. Now, I am talking of probability rather than immediate possibility. It is not impossible, however, at all to travel seemingly through time as well as space. I say seemingly because this traveling really has little to do with transportation as such.

Since both space and time are camouflages, to speak of traveling through them is basically meaningless. What is involved here is a transformation of energy, and on your plane an extension of personality essence that permits an extension of perception. I will make this clearer at a later date.

Psychological time, as I have said often, comes extremely close to the climate in which I have my existence, and which you exist in, but unconsciously. Experience with psychological time, and a continuous familiarity with it, will tell you more than words can about the basic realities of all existence.

The use of psychological time will make the experience of death much less frightening. You will already have learned to recognize the spacious present for what it is, and the conscious ego will not be so bewildered and confused by the sudden perception that is involved.

Just before the experience of death, timelessness, or the spacious present, begins to be perceived. It is because the ego is tied to its past that it sees the past seemingly rise up. It has the ability to see what is coming, so to speak, but while the frightened ego is still in control it chooses to see only a portion of what is possible, and before the point of death it usually chooses to hide in the past.

(Beyond my figure I saw the typical blue-green opaque water of the tiled swimming pool, and some shining pipe work, evidently a fence or ladder. Over my head I sensed the reaching-out arc of a pavilion roof, curving gracefully. I walked on what I believe to be sparkling green and white tile.

(The second experience came shortly after the above. This time I was myself. I was dressed in colorful summer sportclothes and wearing a cap. Again it was a bright summer day. In my right hand I held either a sheaf of papers or a road map; I did not look at what I held. I was leaning against the endpipe, or post, of a modern, steel meshwork type of fence that reached rather high above me—several feet in fact. Before me was a very large parking lot, full of cars. I saw nobody else.