“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As soon as I fully, consciously, realized what was taking place, I reacted violently in the manner described below by Seth. Within a very brief period after this unfortunate reaction, I began to regret it, for I knew I had terminated something much too soon. I thought my reaction was a normal one, yet was angry at myself for reacting so strongly. My outcry, my thrashing about in bed and waving my arms, of course startled Jane; I believe she had not yet fallen asleep. I blamed myself for not knowing enough to suspend any conscious judgment; I felt I had enough background knowledge to go along with this vision, to see what developed, yet I had reacted in what I thought a foolish way.

(Strange to say, I did not come fully awake as one does when arising in the morning for example. I achieved a state close to waking only, in spite of my momentary panic. Jane began to question me; she told me the next morning that I described the vision to her while speaking in a sleepy monotone. I was conscious of doing this, and that it took some little time, yet felt no urge to prod myself wide awake. I recall that I felt it urgent that I tell her what had taken place as soon as possible. I thought of getting up to make a drawing of what I had seen, but decided I would not forget. This is certainly true; this vision is as vivid and clear in memory today as it was a second after it ended. I do intend making a drawing, in color, for those who may be interested.

(Seth referred to this bewildering multiplicity very early in the sessions, and dealt with it rather extensively in the 12th session of January 2,1964, in his first explanation of what he calls the fifth dimension. He has told us we could never cover even a portion of the numberless fields bordering even our own; some will be explained as they impinge upon our own in various ways; Seth also has mentioned his own ability to travel through a few other fields. See Volume 1.)

(“What was his reaction to me?”

First you displayed, if I may say so, a rather unfortunate reaction. You were quite ready to strike out physically at what you could not understand. And this reaction broke the contact.

You did not break it purposely, but the other individual concerned was bewildered, and to some extent frightened, and he withdrew. You were indeed quite willing to strike out physically. It was this emotional reaction that was felt by the other individual, and the other individual had no idea what this emotion was.

Now. The portion of the image that came closest to any semblance of reality was the region about the eyes, and the eyes themselves. There is much to be said here. For this was not imaginary, in that it did have a certain physical reality that existed within your field of reference.

You must understand however that momentarily you had a reality in the reference field of that other individual. The contact was mutual. Now we know what the conditions were at your end. We know that you made no attempt to aim your attention in the particular direction that would allow you to perceive that definite system.

Because his range was so large, your dissociated conditions simply met more easily than otherwise. However, once his attention was centered here, he turned his conscious attention to full focus upon what he perceived. Nor did he perceive your physical form as you know it. But he picked up fully your emotional recognition and fear, and these were translated or perceived by him in his own fashion, so that to him you appeared as a mass of varying colors, and as movement of severe intensity.

The pulsations were caused by the action of your emotional state. And you, my dear Joseph, literally frightened him away. You on your part translated what was inner data into a form that you could, or hoped to, understand. The eyes were the first images that you saw.

The individual was also bewildered however because he was able to perceive you in what you would call both your future and your past, as well as your present.

Such encounters do occur with what would appear to be startling frequency, when those in your system are sleeping; but they are very seldom remembered. What was however extremely unusual was that this contact was recognized as such by two inhabitants of completely different systems.

Such encounters also occur during waking hours, but the ego is not aware of them. I will have some comments later in the session that may enable you to become more aware of other realities beside your own, and also some advice that will enable you to operate within your own system more effectively.

It will be most difficult to convince others of the reality of other systems beside their own, yet none of this must be taken upon my say-so alone. For once the knowledge is available, others will become aware of their own experiences, and you see here how the conscious self becomes educated and enriched; for the knowledge becomes part of consciousness. In the past the same experience would have remained only in the subconscious, and you have had other such experiences.

You are not alone in this however. You have had no other experiences where contact was recognized both by you and the other individual from the other system, however; and he takes what he learned as part of himself now.

It exists within your physical universe but it is not of your physical universe, and it does not deal with physical matter at all. It is an old system, using your viewpoint. It has what I will call an inverted time system, which I will gladly discuss for you whenever you prefer.

(This sounds very much like the use of what Seth calls the third, fourth and fifth inner senses: Perception of past, present, and future; the conceptual sense; cognitionof knowledgeable tissue. Material on these senses was presented in the 35-38th sessions.)

Now. Give us a moment and we shall see what we can do.

What Ruburt sensed however was somewhat legitimate. When you allow disturbances to upset you, then you become concentrated so deeply within ego time that you close off those very abilities that you need to help you.

What you need however is additional energy and resources to deal with such problems, and instead often you effectively cut yourself off from the resources within you.

Again, we come to what is truly practical, as opposed to what the ego may think is practical at any given time.

I have given you both sermon enough for this evening but I cannot emphasize too strongly the importance of what I have said. If you direct your inner self with confidence to steer you through your physical existence, it will do so. If you concentrate upon difficulties you will not allow it to do so. This method of giving yourself room will also help you to achieve a greater freedom in psychic matters. For any negative focus (and underline negative) within egotistical reality will automatically block you.