“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, as Ruburt mentioned earlier, we have some strong elements present. You can, indeed, be involved in some group out-of-body endeavors. Now all of you can be involved to some degree or another but you must want to be involved. You must desire the experience or you will not have it. It does no good to tell yourselves that you will leave your body fifty times before you sleep, if in the back of your skull you are thinking, I am terrified. The inner self will put up a caution light. You are not ready.

([Rachel:] “What can I do to counteract myself in this? Get up immediately?”)

Immediately get up and rid yourself of the suggestion that you cannot remember. Begin giving yourself the suggestion that you can remember. Now do not hit yourself over the head with the suggestion, simply tell yourself that you are now free to remember your projections. Do you follow me?

Now this is a sort of psychological understanding and intuitional insight that is beyond words. You cannot explain verbally what you feel. Now I have written the material, using rather crafty methods, in that there are keys within the material, within the words, that I have chosen that open up intuitions if you allow them to. Certain words that I have used, in other words, are like gateways, and if you are receptive as you read the words you will enter the gateways, and the gateways will lead you to your own intuitional understanding.

Now, I will let you all take a break. I do not want to crack up your realities, they are too dear to you. You are like children before a Christmas party. There are many packages, and delightful ones for you still to open. Take your time with each one.

Now in dreams you open [sic], though not always, also escape and time is meaningless to you. In a dream you may experience say, an episode in which you are involved with adventures that last for years, and when you wake up you have not aged for (4?) years. During the dream state you can travel to the ends of the universe as you know it. Now your astronauts cannot do this as yet in your time schedule and yet you can do it and when you return, no time has passed in physical terms.

The inner self does not know the meaning of time. It is manufactured in the same way that you manufacture plastics. It is the furniture of your universe. You have manufactured it yourself to make living more comfortable. You become lost in the cushions, the cushions of the minutes and the hours. The physical reign and the intellect are focused toward physical reality. They will always think to interpret experience in terms of place, space and time. The inner self knows far better, and the inner self goes its way acting as if time did not exist because it does not exist. These are simply rules that you have adapted, the rules of the game that you have set up in this planet. They only have application in those limited terms.

(To Theodore.) And I expect over here, for our Dean, a return to the Great Hall and there you should receive your own answer to the question that you asked earlier, but if for any reason you do not, then I will answer it for you. I am interested in helping you develop your own abilities—therefore, I answer those questions that I think you will not be able to answer for yourselves for a while and those answers that you will receive yourselves I leave open. I like to make you work, it is good for you.