“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Apropos of Peggy’s Washington trip, Seth gave predictions when asked to during Friday’s unscheduled session. He also asked the Gallaghers not to say any more about the trip to him, once the subject had been brought up. I took no notes Friday evening, but Peggy did. They accompanied her to Washington, and at Seth’s request she will also make notes while there. There follows a copy of Seth’s material on the trip, as noted down by Peggy:

(“You will meet a woman dressed in green... A clock that doesn’t keep proper time... There are three men in particular with whom you will be associated... You will meet a man you do not like... You will have a grand view of an occasion... A turnoff that does not bring you where you want to go... An unscheduled social engagement, not in a private home but a public place... The number 5 and the number 321... Another room besides the one that has been planned.”)

The dimensions of action itself have nothing to do, basically, with your conception of time. Instead the dimensions of action have to do with intensities; not only the intensities of the electromagnetic components that compose them, but with intensities as they are translated into psychological terms. Therefore the psychological experience of a particular event or action has little to do with clock time.

Your concept of time does not of course change time itself, but it does force you to perceive actions in a certain manner. Much of this is the result of the limitations of the physical organism, but much more is the effect of the development of the ego, which attempts to set itself up and apart from action.

Your institutions, both cultural and educational, may be dependent upon time as a series of moments, but physical reality itself is not.

(Jane has been reading J.B. Priestley’s book, Time and Man, recently. She is well aware that Seth often discusses her reading matter. She remarked that tonight Seth had elaborated on a few statements Mr. Priestley had made; that is, Seth was not paraphrasing, but carrying ideas further.

(Break at 10:17. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said she didn’t particularly remember what she had said on the three tests, but could to some degree if she stopped to think.

(Jane felt that “white, snow white,” was valid data, even though she was thinking of a certain photo of my parent’s house, taken when there was deep snow. She saw this white as very bright. See my notes on page 109. When the ultraviolet lights were turned on in the discotheque, some colors were activated more than others. The light was actually quite dim, but the ultraviolet made anything white appear to be blinding white-paper, socks, white shirts, etc. The effect was very striking. The napkin was of white paper.

(Jane said that as she began giving the data, the association she made with Seth’s data, “white, snow white,” led her to consider the particular photo of my parents’ house taken after a deep snowfall. She said that at this stage of her development it is very difficult for her to tell when such personal associations enter in, unless Seth himself notes it by saying “Ruburt here thinks of a photograph,” etc. Jane said she saw the photo in her mind’s eye, but that as she continued to speak, she eventually received a hazy picture, a “nebulous impression,” of a bar. She did not mention the bar in the test data, and indeed had forgotten it until our discussion of the test brought it back to her mind.

(There may be an outside chance that we can confirm this data. A friend of ours who lives in our apartment house knows the two dancers, who live together in the neighborhood. But we do not know them, and this was the first time Jane and I had been in the discotheque in over a year.)

The snow white referred to the colors, or to the color, rather, of the napkin in the light. The snow I used merely because the white was so blinding, and this led Ruburt to his own associations, concerning your parents’ house, and a particular photograph which was taken in the wintertime. But we managed to continue on after this, to deliver some fairly decent impressions. He is still learning, and it is quite all right.

Ruburt has a very good beginning, and the book should be very successful; later books on the subject will be more advanced, with experiments to back up theory, but this book will be a very good start. A slight change of title will be beneficial. If you have no more questions, then I shall bid you a fond good evening.