“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are as many intervals when your material world does not exist as there are intervals in which it does exist. For our present purposes we will call these intervals negative intervals. This particular idea is one that I have been most concerned with getting over, and I hope that I have laid the ground properly for it.

If you will now remember that there are negative intervals, or intervals between the pulsations of energy into matter, if you will remember that your physical universe then is nonexistent for the same number of intervals that it is existent, then you will see that this gives us our antimatter.

Therefore, there is what I will call the negative interval, when one pulsation has vanished from your plane and another is about to take its place. Alone, each negative interval may be negligible, but taken en masse this adds up until there is as much negative matter as there is positive matter.

We will take a good amount of time to cover this and allied subjects, as we must also deal with the pattern and its source. Since matter is constantly re-created, and instantaneous, many of your ideas of time are of course distorted, since you have taken it for granted that matter changes with, or in, time. You have judged a time interval by the seeming changes in a given material object.

Between the notes sounded there would be intervals, and those unsounded intervals would also be part of a massive unstated rhythm upon which the development of the entire sounded production was dependent. The unsounded intervals would also be events, of course, cues for action, triggers for response.

[...] (Long pause.) You exist in a kind of original interval—though, if you can, think of the word “interval” without the connotations of continuing time. [...]

Your stated universe emerged out of that kind of interval, emerging from a master event whose true nature remains uncaptured by your definitions—so there will be places in our book where I may say that an event known to you is true and untrue at the same time, or that it is both myth and fact. [...]

There are many other universes besides your own, each following its own intervals, its own harmony. [...]

Now the length of this interval would seem unbelievably brief from some perspectives or systems, and centuries long, you see, if viewed from different systems. [...] Consciously you do not perceive the intervals (smile, eyes wide open) during which you yourselves simply do not exist as material organisms.

[...] The consciousness as it reasserts itself within physical reality has no memory of the interval in which it did not physically exist. [...] For various reasons the intervals here, you see, are to some extent recalled.

This does not mean that you do not exist however in the apparent interval. [...]

[...] There is an interval in which the chair simply does not exist, but you do not perceive it. [...]

There are, then, different worlds operating with different frequencies at different intervals. They are conscious in other times, though you are neurologically equipped to perceive your own interval structures. [...]

[...] I have my own consciousness at other intervals—intervals that in your terms encompass your own.

There are what I will call “intervals of perception.” [...]

[...] There are many experiences open to you now—if you can be free enough to allow them—that will give you glimpses of those other intervals in which you have a reality.

(Yesterday we received from Hal Williams of Lancaster, PA, three medications he had promised to send: a baby cream, a calindula flower extract for use on Jane’s decubiti, and a powder—also I believe based on the calindula—for her to take at 12 hour intervals for blue fingers, if any. Dissolve the powder in one-fourth of a glass of water and take a teaspoonful at 12-hour intervals. [...]

In other words once more, even by your own farfetched time scheme, there is an interval of physical nonexistence for each interval of physical existence.

Therefore, this is an interval between each pulsation of energy, when one pulsation enters and forms a physical object and almost instantly leaves, and an interval before the next particle arrives.

[...] There is however, what we will call an interval between the entrance of each energy pulsation into the physical field, and its replacement by another.

[...] We have called the interval of physical nonexistence antimatter, or negative matter. [...]

In surface terms the sense of “I” that you possess is the result of constantly emerging probable identities, given continuity in time through the physical apparatus of the body with its built-in intervals of nerve reaction. [...]

(Pause.) In certain terms time intervals are jumped, as when a “past” smell or sight is suddenly perceived with present vividness, though you would say it has already occurred in the past. [...]

This could not happen if your physical structure did not have built-in mechanisms allowing it to, and if under certain conditions the normal intervals between the synapses of the nerve cells could not be leaped in a different fashion. [...]

(The house was noisy temporarily: A carpenter in a downstairs apartment was using an electric saw at frequent intervals as he repaired some of the damage caused by last June’s massive flood. [...]

Using intervals and nonintervals. Now, our friend over here (Natalie) was using intervals and nonintervals beautifully earlier this evening, and to some extent, you use them in psy-time. [...]

([Joel:] “Would a noninterval be a positive interval to another aspect of our existence?”)

[...] She began to stop at intervals, exclaiming over all of those surroundings that were, of course, very familiar to us: the swooping automobiles, the street lights and neon signs, the buildings themselves, the Chemung River rolling quietly behind its dike in back of the emporium we’d just left.

[...] The intervals are the positive pulses and the nonintervals are the negative pulses.”)

(Jim H.: “Would a noninterval be a positive interval to another aspect of our existence?”)

[...] Since many of them are unaware of your idea of time, they would find it difficult to understand that you perceive events with intervals between, and would not perceive the inner organization that you thrust upon your normal environment. [...]

[...] The interval during which Ruburt could not scream represented the frozen interval of indecision, in which he could not act.

[...] I sneezed many times, and Jane paused at intervals to let me catch up on the copy.)

[...] Perhaps playing about his apartment while instructing his subconscious to work for him in the interval, and completely divorcing his conscious mind from his writing for that period of time. [...]

[...] The placement of emphasis, the vowels and consonants, the length of time to utter them, all of these issues are intimately connected with your own nervous systems, and with the intervals inherent within your time system, between thought and action.

[...] Thoughtwords are used by many for some interval. [...]

[...] [See the extensive notes for the 653rd session in Chapter Thirteen, describing her various states of altered perception last April 2. In one of those intervals she’d sensed giants standing about the rim of our world.] Now, Jane said, from their massive viewpoint these observers could see “everything happening at once in our world, from California to Russia — like astronauts looking back at us….”

[...] Time intervals between an episode and your knowledge of it are shortened, though the event may occur on the other side of the world.

(At intervals all afternoon we could hear, even with the door to 330 shut, a woman called Louise call out endlessly, “Help me, help me, help me, help me, help me....” [...]

[...] After an average-length break an unrecorded interval of material followed, with Seth mainly answering questions for Carl. [...]

[...] He does not realize you do not perceive yourself as one in these separate time intervals. [...]

(Jane had heard the fireworks next door, which had only sounded for two brief intervals. [...]