“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Psychological time operates during sleep and quiet hours of consciousness. Now, in dreams you may have the feeling of experiencing many hours or even days. These days or hours of psychological experience are not recorded by the physical body and are outside of the physical time camouflage. [...]

[...] As you can experience days or hours within its framework in the dream state and not age for the comparable amount of physical time, so as you develop, you will be able to rest and be refreshed within psychological time even when you are awake. [...] Within any given five minutes of clock time, for example, you may find an hour of resting which is independent of clock time.

By now, the sessions were running from seventeen to twenty typed, double-spaced pages and they lasted anywhere from two and a half to three hours. [...]

[...] In the 170th she also spoke for several hours and had time to build up to it; I would estimate she spoke for less than half an hour before break this evening, and but a very few minutes after resuming.

[...] The other three witnesses are young people and had no idea that such physical performances were possible over a period of hours. [...]

[...] The gist of tonight’s material on this subject was that Bill allowed his intuitions enough freedom so that he was able to see the apparition for over an hour and to make several drawings of it; by the same token Jane and I were unable to see the apparition because we tried to intellectualize it. [...]

[...] The four hours of writing and a half-hour devoted either to psy-time or out-of- body work. [...]

[...] This feeling of ease persisted to a marked degree for a couple of hours. [...]

(There followed a very confusing [and to me upsetting] several hours during which Jane and our neighbor, Leonard Yaudes, tried contacting Miss Callahan’s doctor, her relatives, her friends, our landlady, and a hospital. [...]

(As the hour for the session came and went, Jane began to get “nibbles” from Seth. [...]

It might be interesting to note that with the rather generous average of 3 hours per session, for 43 sessions, the material in this book was collected in about 129 hours. (This includes a few sessions other than the Seth material.) There are 168 hours in a week.

[...] Only occasional difficulty reading and hardly any copying James; so that I worked up to an hour and a half probably. [...]

[...] It took me several hours unfortunately. [...]

[...] With all of this activity, I’ve managed to get in just one-and-one-half hours of work on the preface for Dreams, during the last three days. [...]

[...] I got so tired wondering about it all that I napped for 20 minutes before supper—all I could salvage out of the usual hour’s naptime.

[...] She’s been more and more relaxed lately, and for hours at a time. [...]

[...] this all continues; I feel a twinge of guilt—Rob’s typing reminds me that I was to do my three hours—but this IS writing; cataloging body-mood changes; I want to sketch the men working—eyes, sinuses, ears and neck strongly “working.” [...]

[...] (No 3 hours.)

If either of you “lose” an hour, often you project that one lost hour into fifty future ones, but you are learning. [...]

(And trusting her impulses, Jane slept for a couple of hours this afternoon—yet wasn’t happy with herself for doing so when she awoke. [...]

[...] I thought back to all of those unremembered trance hours, looking at them from a different standpoint — and almost startled by a simple thought that just hadn’t occurred to me in quite that way before: Those trance hours were productive. [...] I’m sure there is a kind of trance memory, but my ordinary memory records very little of those trance hours.

[...] The triumphs and defeats of any given day have more or less vanished, but those nightly hours are somehow contained in these pages, and to that extent they endure.

Piles of trance hours! [...]

[...] She bore up as well as when she was conducting three-hour Seth sessions, although today’s experiment lasted something like five or six hours. [...]

One half-hour a day is more than sufficient, considering these sessions. [...]

I do not mean daily social hours. [...]

[...] She has increased her writing day an hour recently, and is still not used to the change.

For a daily schedule however, six hours of writing should be sufficient. [...]

(While lying down for half an hour this evening, I saw the street outside our house clearly. [...]

[...] I obtained figures of 1:39 and 2:02 hours respectively. [...] For she completed the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality in a total trance time of 90:35 hours, or a total trance-plus-break time of 131:30 hours (sums which translate roughly into times of 45 hours and 65 hours per book). [...] So either hourly total is most remarkable for the involved creative accomplishment of “Unknown” Reality, regardless of the larger context in which those hours were really expended. For comparison, think of one week as consisting of 168 hours.

Do I think that Jane, in trance, could actually deliver a complete, book-length manuscript in just 45 hours? [...] Even now, while speaking for Seth she can easily outtalk my writing capacity by many hours. [...]

[...] This elapsed time includes more than a few weeks during which she gave no book dictation at all, of course, but I was curious to get an approximate idea of the number of hours she actually spent in producing the entire work.

[...] Nor do I think that we should engage in any undue voice effects for my friend again will be upset due to the hour. [...]

[...] We will have some talks together when the hour is earlier and my keeper here is not watching after me so carefully. [...]

When he gains confidence this will not be necessary and the hours should be used as a framework. He should discuss his feelings clearly with you about those hours, and if he finds himself scrambling to meet them and so forth.

[...] I am offering suggestions here, but overall I recommend that Ruburt maintain so many hours, and feel free after that to indulge in those impulses that he will now be more and more aware of.

Four hours should be a minimum; work this out with him. [...]

[...] It was carried to such an extreme finally that often, at least, his best creativity came after hours. [...] If he chooses to work hourly again, it will be a new fresh conscious decision. [...]

[...] It had to be scheduled, and even the time within the writing hours was watched so that it was productive. [...]

[...] I personally suggest, although he can do as he wishes, that he see himself rising at a decent hour to enjoy his day, and that he try two out-of-bodies a week during the day, as he used to. [...]

Healthy bodies do not need 8 hours sleep, and after 6-and-a-half hours many become quite restless. [...]

When you sleep longer than 7 hours in particular, his muscles protest, and this causes much of the morning difficulty. He ignores the message, and sleeps, muttering in protest at the discomfort, and then it takes him another hour or so after breakfast, simply because he did not move the body when it was ready to move.

It is as if, now, the mental atmosphere was clearer—and you would find ideas flowing into your mind in those hours also, particularly with that playfully, now, in mind. I am not saying that you should make the nighttime hours your own official ones, but they do provide creativity with an additional ease, along with the changes in official patterns. [...]

I meant to remark that the very late evening or predawn hours are indeed excellent times for creativity. [...]

[...] What I am trying to tell you is that a thought or a feeling, with all its varieties of intensities, is more like time, like the true nature of time, than all of your minutes or hours.

[...] The subjective experience of these personalities, the psychological existence of these personalities (long pause), is composed of (pause, frown) dimensions of value fulfillment, as considering your time, hours are composed of moments.

In this case however, the hours as well as the moments would be themselves conscious and alive. [...]

[...] I’m quite aware of the contradictions in our own behavior, too, as I told Jane after the half-hour conversation was over: We put our work out into the arena where it’s available to anyone, and hope they’ll pay attention to it. [...]

[...] She seems to have no heart trouble, but must wear a harness at home for 24 hours, to detect any heart abnormalities — a monitoring device that, I believe, somehow records electrical heart activity.

(Then I called Sue in Dundee to thank her for forwarding the check, and we talked for at least half an hour. [...]