“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I spoke in a recent session concerning the connection between distance and emotions. The true reality of distance as you know it is dependent upon the intensity of emotion, and has nothing to do with your idea of space. The emotion which is intense is felt at its peak as present in time, and immediately here in terms of distance.

[...] The two of you maintain a psychic distance from others, even your closest friends. In a way the symptoms are a statement of the distance Ruburt wanted to maintain from public life, because he felt equally that he should go out into the world in a public manner, and “tackle it.”

Both varieties of books allow the reader a built-in distance that provides a cushion against cultural shock: the story is, after all, secondhand. Castaneda told his own story, but it was still secondhand, because his own opaqueness added the necessary distance that protected the reader.

Fiction, again, puts a lovely distance between the reader and experience. [...]

[...] Move now, further on this time, to another path or road that you will call A-IV, and that is still further in distance from your normal consciousness. [...]

[...] We’ve driven the much longer road distance comfortably enough in one day. [...]

[...] Distances in the Middle East are comparatively short.

(Jane literally has no sense of geography or of distance, facts that have unwittingly worked to her advantage in sessions. [...]

[...] I sat there, in the darkened room, hearing the voice as if it came from a great distance, feeling a mild astonishment.

A tree knows a human being also … by the weight of a boy upon its branches … by the vibrations in the air as adults pass, which hit the tree’s trunk at varying distances, and even by voices. [...]

The idea of dissociation could be likened to the slight distance between the bark and the inside of the tree. [...]

I will try to clear this later, but the air is the result of these units’ existence, formed by the interrelationship of the units in their positions and relative distance one from the other, and by what you could call the relative velocity of their motion. [...]

It often seemed safer, even, to keep a certain distance from the material, lest you accept it too uncritically, and Ruburt’s critical stance was usually simply an unneeded defense, so that he could keep footing in both worlds at once. [...]

[...] Not only for example by the weight of a boy upon its branches, but by the vibrations in the air as adults pass, which hit the tree’s trunk at varying distances, and even by such things as voices. [...]

The idea of dissociation could be likened to the slight distance between the bark and the inside of the tree. [...]

[...] Jane would have gone with her father, since I think this particular bar was only a short distance away.

[...] They dreamed of more fertile lands, perhaps hundreds or even thousands of miles in the distance. [...]

[...] She’d had no sense of time passing, whereas at other times she might have quite a definite sense of “the psychological distance,” or time that had passed.

A few day’s later, I received a long distance call at home from a woman who told me that Seth’s appearance on the “Today’s Woman Show” convinced her of life after death, though she had never believed in it before. [...]

[...] I seem to fade into a distance that has nothing to do with space but more to do with psychological focus. [...]

[...] When the body lies in bed, it is separated by a vast distance from the dream location in which the dreaming self may dwell. [...]

[...] The car represents the idea of distance also, since the checks do not originate in this city. [...]

[...] This would be a distance of about six feet from the rocker she always uses for sessions.

(Then there came a stronger wind, and thunder in the distance, and the start of a meager rain. [...]

[...] You see the physical stars, and your instruments probe the distances of space — but the inner processes that make the universe possible are those same processes that propel your own thinking. [...]

(Student Bill Herriman is a professional pilot who flies a considerable distance to Elmira for class; his counterpart in class, Carl Jones, lives in Elmira each summer while giving instructions in sailplane flying, the third member of the counterpart trio, Bill Granger, is not a member of class, lives in Elmira, has always had a deep interest in aircraft, and is now learning to pilot sailplanes. [...]

[...] He likes the distance between himself and the public that books provide (emphatically). [...]

[...] The inner psychological distance must become surfacely portrayed, instantly translated to the audience, so that for him there is the same kind of reaction that he might have in talking to others overly much about a book of his own in progress—as if he might talk out the book, and therefore not need to write it, while at the same time losing much of the inner development that might otherwise give the book its own deeper meanings. [...]

[...] There is something in the water in the distance, which catches his eye, and upon which he may be concentrating. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Shapes as of hills in the distance; having to do with two people and many designs. [...]

We will deal also, as I mentioned previously, with the nature of space, time and distance as they appear in the dream environment. [...]