“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(From Thurs. 8/6 through Mon. 8/10, Jane and I rested from trying psychological time and have nothing to report.

(Jane was not nervous before the session. All was quiet. She began dictating on time, in a normal voice. Her speech was quite deliberate, and she took many pauses between phrases throughout the session. Her pacing was regular, her eyes dark as usual.)

I repeat that no system, either microscopic or cosmic in size, is ever a closed system. No closed system exists. I will not at this time discuss the deeper issue of one infinite and open system, although this is reality which has indeed theoretically no limitations. Energy completely and constantly does renew itself.

This may be a poor analogy. However, imagine a small room, a very small room, into which a light Ping-Pong ball has been flung with great force so that it bounces back and forth against the narrow walls. From within the room inhabitants watching would be able, through mathematical deductions, to deduce exactly how long the ball would keep its continuous bouncing activities, at what rate the motion of the ball would lessen, and at what future time the motion would cease entirely.

A closed system as a concept is also closely intertwined and dependent upon the distortive idea of time as continuity, and the resultant cause and effect premise, which we have already considered earlier. One distortion leads to another. You will learn much more as we continue.

You are doing so now. Ruburt is doing so now. Your lack of success lately with psychological time has been to a large measure caused by too great a conscious concentration upon the task. An emotional acceptance, distasteful as this may seem to Ruburt, is the answer here, and again a sensual immersion in the spacious present and in nature will refresh you here.

You have both experienced such states, both in your work and with your psychological time episodes. You do not know precisely in a conscious manner how to achieve this state when you are working. It seems to just seize you, and disappear. You cannot will it to occur.

By avoiding distractions you have often, in your work, given it duration. You do not fear such a seeming loss of identity when it involves an immersion of self in idea. You should not fear it either in psychological time experiments.

The spontaneity of psychic experience cannot be stressed too strongly, and you will find it again following these directions I have given you. They represent the second step, as the initial experiments in psychological time represented the first.