“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. Time is the pattern of perception. It is highly personal, and has no meaning without personal experience. To you, then, time is the result of your perceiving mechanisms. You know the senses force you to perceive experience in certain pattern. Because I have also followed this particular reality, it is meaningful, for me, and I can understand it.

Now words belong to your particular time system. Without it, they are not needed. Therefore communication is dependent upon your time system. The inner self however is not so limited, as you know, and inner communications continue always beneath words. Word structures and language itself bears a unique mathematical precision. The placement of emphasis, the vowels and consonants, the length of time to utter them, all of these issues are intimately connected with your own nervous systems, and with the intervals inherent within your time system, between thought and action.

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.

You have no fear of them. All of this is a progression, I will say for simplicity’s sake. Now in such an environment, time as you know it does not exist. This is one of the reasons why some projections are so confusing, particularly when the ego is taken along for the ride. (Humorously.) It is used to past, present and future, kept nicely apart.

Now then. Part two, and the saga of Ruburt’s health.

Now. Nothing is ever really done alone (smile), and nothing is ever done unless it is done alone. I should end the session here, and leave you with that one, but I will explain what I mean.

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.

The freedom will also show in our sessions, and rather obviously, within a very brief time. It is already apparent. To become aware of other individuals who are not within your system will be good for him. It will also help him to understand and appreciate my own unique reality, and this now-growing belief should result in a greater familiarity. He should be able to perceive me to some degree before too long.

Spontaneity will rise up during the hours given to work, and outside those hours, but he must continue those habits upon which his well-being depends. The energy that will be released will show itself most beneficially, being directed into your other affairs. Our sessions will now be held with normal regularity, and very shortly I will begin my own book. I have been working on it, you see. (Amused and confidential.)

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.

Now I await your pleasure as always.

(Earlier this evening Jane emphatically told me there was a difference in her attitudes now. She was concentrating on recovery instead of on the symptoms.)

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.

Some further here with sepia—to achieve something different now, a sunny clear effect, a newness, a way of applying sepia with white; thin-layered, with a particular kind of varnish... (Pause.

Now we are onto it. Can you name those?

We are still having difficulties with the name. He is indeed aware of new techniques, for he looks in on you now and then. (Pause.) If you have further questions ask them, or end the session as you prefer.