“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

After your long vacation, you should be quite ready to plunge into our activities anew. You should be. I do not see any signs however of any great enthusiasm as we resume.

Perhaps your holidays take more out of you than I do.

Two of these statements may appear at first glance to contradict themselves, but you shall shortly see that they do not, and you are left for now with a pretty question: for does the self, or identity, then form the perceptive dimension in which it exists, or is it created by the dimension?

We start once more with our moment point. For now this moment point which appears within your physical universe is but a small materialization of larger portions of the spacious present. In the dreaming state, when the ego is released from its idea of time as a series of moments, then other portions of the self can travel through these moment points, and you have here a journey through depths that have nothing to do with your (underline your) concept of time or space.

To this degree Dunne was correct. But the important point, if you will forgive a pun, is that these moment points are all intensities, electrical realities, and traveling through such dimensions involves a transformation of energy from one intensity to another. The whole self, or the entity of which I speak, is composed of all of these selves, but it must be realized that all divisions between these selves are illusions, basically speaking. For the sake of discussion we separate them, but in doing so we almost manage to change the very nature of that which we attempt to study.

I am going to give you a break, and we shall begin then with our material for Dr. Instream, and see what we can do with our time systems.

Now do you have a test for me, Joseph?

A disturbance again, and a storm; whether or not this storm is physical I do not know.

(It seems reasonable to describe a stay in the hospital as “a turbulent event, or unpleasantness,” and as “A disturbance again, and a storm; whether or not this storm is physical I do not know.” We of course realize there might be other connections in the private life of the patient, Miss Margaret M. Bunn. Lorraine does not know Miss Bunn. It is possible the hospital records contain more on Miss Bunn that would be revealing here, but I did not ask Lorraine to try to check.

This has to do with two separate principles. First of all there was a retention of image. Second of all, there was quite separately an association because of the size of the card given as test object. In the second case the association was Ruburt’s, for on his own he picked up a file-card image, but he translated this into the image of a box in which such file cards are often kept.

I will discuss this more thoroughly, perhaps at our next session so as not to keep you this evening, for I do not believe that I have quite made myself clear.

Now. I am in fine form. Ruburt is doing well. I realize that the hour has grown late in your time one, so I shall leave it to you as to whether or not I continue a most interesting discussion this evening. You may do as you think best.