“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Those portions of my entity that have not had physical experience, however, do not operate within that time system, at any time(smile), if you will excuse the pun. It is not beyond them. They simply have not chosen the particular experience, nor delved into that moment point.

You are beginning to perceive the holes in the camouflage, for I have pointed them out to you. They are doorways into inner realities, and other realities, as are these sessions. Those who have survived physical death in your terms, must use words in their communications, for you do not understand wordless communications. They themselves are far freer, however.

We should perhaps differentiate between thoughtwords and speech, or spoken words. Thoughtwords are used by many for some interval. I am speaking of those who have survived death in your terms. They do not need the spoken word. Even thought communication however need not necessarily follow the form of words. There can be thought without words (smile),in other words.

For simplicity’s sake, let us say that there is a process of change. Those alive in your terms rely at least outwardly on the spoken word. Those who have left and survive, use thoughtwords but do not need to speak, though they may (underlined). As proficiency grows and as the inner senses are more fully used, the necessity for even thoughtwords vanishes.

Several other methods of communication occur. They do not spring from nowhere. You use them beneath conscious level to some degree now. They grow into prominence. Images are widely used, but these images would be fourth-dimensional to your way of thinking. They are far from flat. They have a reality, and these are, what you have read, referred to as thoughtforms.

Feelings become far more vivid, pulsating and alive, also. You experience these more directly, and yet conversely enough you do not identify with them falsely, as is often the case in your present situation. You can experience feelings more vividly and powerfully because you realize that they are not you, and your identity cannot be swept aside by them.

(Smile.) I am giving you this as preliminary material, for you have asked how my big brother experiences time. (See page 5.) Do you want to take a break?

When you say “I will do this myself,” you are speaking with a limited idea of identity. You are more than you know. The you that paints your paintings is far more than the Bob Butts you call yourself, though you are that Bob Butts. There is a matter of terms. Now Ruburt, you may say, has done all the hard work leading to a recovery alone; but he has had help. The recovery itself was utterly dependent upon his belief in it, however. (Pause.) This was his primary battle, for he understood finally what the illness represented. Every personality is different. The prerequisites for recovery are therefore different in each case.

(Jane did do very well on our hiking trips. One mountain we climbed from the stream bed to its summit was several hundred feet high, and steep, etc.)

For all of these reasons I suggest the letter be mailed. The fact of the letter shows that he had reached a certain level of acceptance and understanding. These people can and will help him, and add their mental and psychic energy to his own in a strongly supportive manner. They will be able to activate other layers of his consciousness, and they are indeed professionally suited to do so, as I am to teach.

Now I am through with what I intended to say. You may end the session or ask any questions that you have. First give me one moment here. (Pause.) This is for you. (To me.) We will try to get it clear. Do not use sepia with too heavy a hand.

(“About Jane’s flash from you before the 423rd session. Does that have to do with her dream about you while we were on vacation? The flash told her something beneficial of an inner nature would happen to her while we were away.”)

This had to do with our chat, that he recalls as a dream. It resulted in your mountain-tumbling, which was very important to him. Some rather important changes crystallized, which seems something of a contradiction, as far as his own thoughts were concerned. He hinted at this when he told you that he was concentrating upon recovery.

Now, he was able to soak up energy in your natural surroundings, and to use it. Of course, he was ready to do so. The physical activity diverted his conscious mind so that the inner self could progress, without being watched at every moment.

(Pause.) I do not have our friend directly. This is something like a mental message meant for me. (Pause.) There is some reaction with sepia, that can lead to an unpleasantly or undesired purpling effect.

(The oil head in question sits in my studio, still unfinished and has been seen by Jane often. One note of interest; technically speaking the oil colors I use contain no color named sepia, specifically, though, of course, a range of earth reds and browns are included. Sepia is a brown. The specific word sepia is more often attached to watercolors, as far as I know, than to oils. Jane also has used both watercolor and oil, as I have; and my watercolors do contain sepia.

(“Do you mean damar varnish?”