“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(By now Jane’s accent, which might be termed a brogue of sorts, had become quite noticeable.)

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.

(Jane now paused and smiled. Her eyes opened. She looked at Bill Gallagher.)

(Jane was now speaking to Peggy.)

(Our cat, Willy, had been sitting at the foot of Jane’s chair. As if by signal Willy now got up and walked toward Peggy, who sat but a few feet away. He brushed against her leg and she involuntarily jumped. The timing was perfect. We all laughed.)

(It was 10:23. The material had been so interesting that I had forgotten the time. I had planned to hand Jane the test envelope at about 10:00. Her eyes had been open up to this point, but she now closed them and sat waiting quietly while I handed the envelope to Bill; he passed it to Jane. She held it lightly in both hands, her eyes still closed.)

We will now take a break or end the session.

(As usual, some of the test material obviously applied, and other statements seemingly did not. By now however we have learned that material in the latter category is not necessarily distorted; it could merely be another example of the sometimes far-reaching impressions that attach themselves to test objects. Seth has said very little about the reasons for this. So we were now curious to learn what application, if any, such statements as four, a masterpiece, a voice, etc., had to the test object. Again see my sketch of the photographic negative on page 255.

(I did not realize at the time that Seth did not explain the masterpiece statement; I could have asked otherwise. Jane’s manner now turned more humorous. Her eyes opened again. She smiled, and looked back and forth among the three of us as she spoke with quite a bit of animation.)

(Jane’s eyes had closed briefly. Now she looked at Peggy and smiled.)

(Jane now pointed at Bill.)