“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane of course saw this particular print, along with perhaps twenty others I made at the same time. There is nothing about this one to distinguish it from many of the others. Following the instructions in the book, I traced the outline of my hand in pencil while pressing the inked surface against the white paper. The print was sealed in the usual double envelope between the usual two pieces of Bristol.

(Prior to the session Jane and I had a discussion as to the exact profession of the person who had written the many notes on the manuscript of her ESP book. See pages 319-20 for notes on this, in the 236th session, and Seth’s comments. Neither of us thought the person in question a psychologist. I favored a parapsychologist, Jane a psychiatrist. In his comments he referred rather often to his own theory of spherical time. Neither of us have heard of this, nor can we find a reference to it in our books.

(The session was held in our front room. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed, and once again her pace was slow; at times during this first delivery it was as slow as I can remember during any session. Jane was not smoking. She sat for some time with her head down, her hands raised to her temples. Begin at 9:02.)

He takes prissy tiptoeing steps, always looking backward with worried caution. He does not carry his precious spherical time idea far enough to begin with. His spherical time is like the surface of a sphere only.

The spacious present and the inverted time system deal with the insides of the sphere.

(Jane’s pace was now very slow, as slow as it has ever been, I believe. Some of her pauses lasted well over a minute. Yet at times her eyes opened briefly.)

When the inverted time system is understood clearly, then the inadequacy of the cause and effect theory will be clear. If your psychologists and scientists would begin a study of their own dreams, they would learn much through personal experience.

But the dreaming state presents any experimenter with original and varied material, and the opportunities involved are tremendous. The inverted time system will appear plainly, if any examination is made as to the relationship between time and the dream state.

This may not be the time to make this remark, but quite literally, tomorrow’s dream can change yesterday. All of the experiments that you are conducting are in themselves beneficial simply because of the training involved, and the expansion of consciousness.

Clues as to the existence of inverted time appear also in the waking condition however, and soon I shall have much to say on this matter. It is the existence of inverted time that is mainly responsible for clairvoyance.

(Jane paused at 9:56. Seth dispensed with the usual break before our experimental material. When break finally did arrive Jane said Seth was going to give a break at this time but decided to go ahead because she was in a good state. Usually, Jane said, she reaches a better state as time passes.

(“and a connection with a man who wears glasses. Not you, Joseph.” Don Wilbur wears glasses. I do also. So does Bill Gallagher. Peggy Gallagher was visiting Jane on the evening I made the print used as the envelope object, on Sunday, February 27. After I was through with my efforts Bill arrived. As we recall he was not wearing his glasses on that particular evening. Don Wilbur wears his all the time, as I do.

(When she began speaking Jane used short pauses often. Her eyes remained closed. Much of the time she cradled her cheek on her crossed arms, supported by the table. She was not smoking. Resume at 10:32.)

I was being cagey. I merely said their attendance was possible. My time elements were simply off here, unfortunately.