“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Jane had been quite blue after sleeping for a couple of hours late this afternoon—and after she’d already slept for two hours this morning. [...]

[...] She even said she was going to the john after ten-and-a-half hours: “I could hold it another hour, though,” she said. [...]

(Our talk lasted almost an hour in spite of myself, for I didn’t want her to get upset before a session. [...]

11:30–12:45: (11/2) 1 hour, 45 minutes.

[...] (1 hour, 20 minutes)

[...] He went for his tools and supplies, returned in an hour, and the two of us spent much of the afternoon making such a vehicle. [...]

[...] I let Jane sleep Sunday morning while I spent a couple of hours fastening the cushion in place and covering it with linoleum tablecloth material so that she could slide more easily on it. [...]

[...] I slept for a couple of hours in the afternoon. [...]

[...] Recently, talking it over with Jane, I decided against expanding my working hours at the plant. I also decided it to the extent that if management insisted I increase my hours, I would leave the plant and try developing some other recent ideas I have acquired on making a living, one of them being teaching art by, perhaps, starting my own school on a small scale at first.

[...] I did not base my decision concerning working hours on the Seth material, although the information Jane and I have received on expectations played a part; it has done much to increase our confidence in various fields of endeavor other than our arts.

[...] The 3-hour-a-day recommendations were given under different circumstances.

[...] It is important however to realize that to some extent he feels that long hours of writing are now wrong, because of the physical condition in which he finds himself. [...]

[...] Part of the conflict has arisen however also because he feels that what he often wants to do—write many hours—is physically wrong.

[...] You have been told that sitting down for hours is unhealthy, that stiffness results, and so forth. [...]

[...] Recommendations: one half-hour a day, at any time, should be allowed specifically for clear physical activity, where that impulse is encouraged, and where there is no conflict. [...] Give himself, for now, three hours a day for writing, or for thinking about writing—daydreaming, but no brooding.

[...] Her stress relieved itself to some degree today as the hours passed, although she was still quite uncomfortable, still unable to walk as much as she had been doing recently. [...]

[...] I tried writing it down so that I could read it to Jane: “Why did the personality adopt a course of action—being out of condition, say—that eventually came to assume such proportions in life that the focus upon it equaled, or even surpassed, the hours spent in the creative actions of writing that the personality said it wanted to do each day above everything else?”

[...] It takes your time, and his now, to encourage his walking, and if this is in “working hours,” both of your old beliefs are directly challenged.

through the sunny hours,

[...] The symbolism in dreams would appear with greater clarity, not, for example, be lost through the many hours you now give to sleep.

[...] In certain afternoon hours consciousness is lowered, and needs refreshment that is instead denied.

(On Friday, January 21, she wrote 10 poems for Peggy’s birthday in the space of 2 1/2-3 hours. [...]

(On Monday, January 24, Jane wrote 20 poems in the space of 6 or 7 hours.

(On Tuesday, January 25, she wrote 15 poems in 5 or 6 hours.

(On Wednesday, January 26, she wrote 7 poems in 2 1/2 hours. [...]

[...] (Lunch, call Peg for story on Unknown—call Tam— we talk 3/4 of an hour.

[...] The break after 1st half hour served to encourage me, personally, that data was okay—before I continued. [...]

4. For three hours to write whatever he wants, freeing mind from symptoms and responsibilities. [...]

[...] Then 3 weeks of no meditation; a month of half-hour meditation, followed by a week of no meditation; and for a year a daily schedule of no more than a half-hour meditation period, these periods to be regular however.

He should take a half-hour’s brisk walk. [...]

The suggestions given herein, that the mentioned personality live alone, work apart from the family, walk briskly a half-hour a day, strike a balance between altruistically helping others and quietly opposing their ideas through expression when he does not agree, are very important.

(No session was held last night: Jane wanted to rest and also watch a 3 hour synopsis of the TV show Dynasty while she caught up on the mail. [...]

(Long pause.) Your mother believed that a man should work so many hours a day in conventional ways, whether he owned his own business or worked for others—and also of course that he should have a family. [...]

Making a portion of the nighttime hours available in one way or another at least occasionally is also another way of breaking up habitual reactions, and of assuring a certain kind of privacy, using a completely different method entirely. [...]

[...] We talked to him for an hour (while, alas, dinner got cold), but he was one of those people pleasantly gifted in a variety of fields who hadn’t yet settled down to concentrate on the development of any one or two abilities in particular. [...]

[...] We only spoke to him for an hour, and he said he had wondered earlier what he’d do with the whole evening … so what exactly happened at the magical level of activity?

[...] A “trip” can last for five to eight hours, or even longer. [...]

(By “the other day,” Jane actually referred to the half hour just before the 686th session last Wednesday night, when she produced the dictation given in Appendix 5 [but also see Appendix 4, for the 685th session].

[...] This part of the article is approximately in line with the material Jane came through with some hours later. [...]

[...] 3 hours good James. [...]