“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You recall I have told you that the intensity of an experience, rather than its duration in time, determines its effect. The intensity is emotional. With the inner perceptions there will be a traveling through of intensities. The experience is perceived simultaneously by the inner senses, but it will be translated in terms of physical time.

I believe it will be found that differences will occur in the plus and minus charges in the body during such episodes. (One minute pause, eyes closed.) The girl’s emotional condition the other evening acted indeed like a psychological bridge, over which Ruburt could pass. Inner perceptions are never basically physical, you see. Basically, no perceptions are physical for that matter. Emotional patterns are quite wordless. (Long pause.) In other words, if you will forgive a pun, you can never be consciously aware of the basic inner perception, but you can follow backward to that point. You can discover how you use the data, and how you finally recognize it.

(Break at 9:28. Jane had been dissociated as usual. Her pace had been on the slow side, but she expressed surprise when I told her this. She had no idea, she said, of whether she spoke slowly, rapidly, etc., during delivery as a rule.

You have yet to experience a complete projection, but this will come. Your fear, Joseph, in the window dream projection, shows that you are proceeding with great caution here.

Ruburt is far more cautious than either of you suppose. When you become overcautious, this can at times, momentarily at least, hold you both back; because you do not count upon this less apparent but quite definite cautious part of Ruburt. All in all balance is maintained.

The initial experience however almost had to be spontaneous at this time, or it would not have occurred. Your dream activities should accelerate with the change of seasons. I speak of you both here. A feeling of expansiveness and discipline should be maintained, but in that order.

When I come through in an emotional manner at all, this is often transformed into the loud voice, an overvolume, a static. Ruburt has not learned as yet to transform these elements throughout the whole physical system, you see—(gesturing in a humorous way, Jane rubbed her outstretched arms alternately; eyes wide, smiling)—but focuses them at the vocal cords, which causes difficulty that I understand.

In some ways this is unfortunate. Much of my emotional energy is used to give you this material, you see. It is behind the material. It forms intensities upon which I can build. Without this reaching out to you the material could not be delivered. When you are more proficient, we may be able to meet in some of your projections, but not for some time.

(See my dream of September 17 in my dream notebook. Jane and I had discussed this before the session. The setting of the dream was the same—my studio—as the dream of August 20, mentioned on page 69. In the first dream I had found myself outside the studio windows, but not falling. In the second dream I had refused to leave the safety of the studio, which is on the second floor, for fear of falling. It seemed to me to be a clear refusal to project.)

Even in the dream state, do not try to force yourself to project. You distrust the spontaneous nature, you see, that is at the base of all existence, but you only mistrust it at one level, which is fortunate. It is a learned reaction.