“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This afternoon Jane wrote a letter to a spiritual healer, Harry Edwards, in England, but has yet to mail it. She wondered what Seth would say about it. At about 8:30 this evening she got a flash from Seth, commenting on her asking for help in an amused but not sarcastic way.

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.

There are unities, barely contemplated, then, between language, exterior communication, the physical nervous system, and time, or your idea of it. These merge so beautifully that they all serve to form a seemingly perfect picture of physical reality. The camouflage would not be effective were it less perfect. (Pause.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

(“How about Gene Bernard’s letter? What did the people at Prentice-Hall think of that? I mean really?”

(“What kind of varnish?”)