“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The 46th envelope experiment was held during the session. See the tracing above. The object was a red satin bow that had been kicking around the studio for some months; at various times I had idly thought of using it for an experiment. I did not think Jane had noticed it particularly, and she confirmed this after the session.

When actions from other systems are projected into your own, your own perceptions distort the true nature of the event. To begin with then, you attempt to understand an action that is poorly perceived. You project upon it your own concepts of space and time, and try to interpret the action in their light.

(Seth began talking about quasars and related background material in the last session. That material in turn resulted from a question I asked, or a comment I made, in the 246th session. Once again, quasars are quasi-stellar radio sources, presumably at the farthest reaches of our observable universe according to our instruments. They contradict our laws of physics, being many times too bright for their size and distance, and emitting much too much energy. See the article on them in Time magazine for March 11,1966.)

That is the simple reason. The profound reason is as simple to say, but more difficult to understand. Using your terms again, and your scientific framework, when you look outward away from your planet, and when you assume that you are looking backward in time, you are simply looking into, or toward, what may be described for analogy’s sake, the center, or core, of an infinite sphere; which exists, you see, in your terms as far on the other side of the inner core, and in all directions. You cannot look away from it, for you are not on any outward edge or skin of it, from which to get such a viewpoint.

And time does not exist as a past, present and future in your terms. We will here get rather complicated, I’m afraid.

(Jane was now speaking rapidly and using many gestures. Her eyes were open much of the time and were very dark.)

Even in our discussions we use the terms past, present and future, but I have told you that your future can influence your past, and that the spacious present is the only time reality.

(Break at 9:27. Jane said she was really “out”, or that Seth was really “in.” She was aware of nothing but the material while speaking, and felt the ideas were good. Her pace had been fast toward the end of the delivery; her eyes had been open much of the time and very dark, and she had spoken with emphasis and many gestures. She now felt much better. She said she wouldn’t have been surprised had Seth called off the session in the beginning.

(It was now time for the 54th Dr. Instream experiment. Jane’s pace slowed again, and she sat with a hand raised to her closed eyes. Resume at 10:10.)

Three one five connected here. Perhaps the passage was on the page number three one five. Perhaps this is the time of the disagreement, or an address number, I do not know.

(We could make other connections but they would require checking out, and extra time. While giving the data Jane had the idea of my mother as being connected with the color red, but did not give voice to this because she believed it was incorrect. We agree.

(“The number one. A spring.” Jane said the flower data earlier in the material could have given rise to this personal association: She thought of times in her childhood when her grandmother took her on a walk to the park in Saratoga Springs, NY. In the park they often visited a particular sulphur water spring designated as Number One Spring.

(This process goes on all the time at Artistic, as it does at most such greeting card firms.)

(I work all day Friday at Artistic, the rest of the week mornings only. This has been the routine for the last year and three-quarters or so. Before that I worked full time there. Seth did not specify a Friday afternoon above however, even while stressing an afternoon. If I removed the ribbon on any other afternoon of the week, this would push the time back toward the 1963 given earlier in the material.)

(“The other day Jane said she’s never dreamed of you yourself, although she’s dreamed about the sessions. But she’s had experiences involving you in her psychological time experiments.”)