“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(While at work last Thursday, September 9, at 11 AM, I had a vision of the type described on page 223. This time, while bending over my desk, I saw with inner vision a rusty opened sardine can lying on a worn wooden shelf. The colors were very vivid, the detail needle sharp. I saw clearly if briefly the flecks of rust on the can and the grain of the wood. The scene was lit by strong sunlight from my left, so that long shadows were cast to the right by the humble can.

Emotions take up a certain amount of what we call psychic space within the personality’s awareness. As the intensity of the emotion fades, so it seems to you that it recedes in time. But this is an illusion caused by the limitations of your outer senses. Now. In the dream state the outer senses are to a large degree restrained in their activity. Therefore the dream state more clearly represents the actual nature of time. Intense emotions within the dream state are experienced as present time, and the personality moves easily through these emotional intensities without experiencing the sense of passing time, although any given dream may contain within it its own time element.

The sleeping personality is as close to the inner self as you will come in this existence, for here the personality is soon free of the camouflage concerns with which it must be involved in the waking condition.

(This little exchange was interesting to Jane and me. It will be remembered that Jane’s entity name is Ruburt, and that Seth refers to Ruburt as “he”; our interpretation of this being that Jane’s entity is male-oriented in the overall sense. Many sessions ago however Seth explained that this male or female orientation had little if anything to do with sex as we conceive it.