“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This was later than the time when you belonged to it. [...] I believe at that time the members of the order also took names that were derivative of Mary. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been deeper this time, and she was slower coming out of it. She had spoken most of the time with her eyes closed. [...]

(Again Tam said Seth knew him well psychologically. Tan had questions concerning his father and his girl, Eve and told us he felt he’d had extended psychological connections with both. [...]

[...] At midnight, on September 5th, Jane gave a series of impressions for Tam, speaking as herself; Tam verified the psychological content of most of them. [...]

[...] During break she mentioned that she wanted to know if she could resume practicing psychological time for half an hour a day, instead of fifteen minutes. [...]

[...] Ruburt may try a half-hour psychological time experiment tomorrow and Wednesday, if he chooses, and then we will see. [...]

(Note: Jane tried psychological time for half an hour in both the above instances. [...]

(For December 1 and 2 I tried psychological time also, but have nothing to report beyond a few minor sensations in the hands.)

[...] Have been very relaxed; still lay down two or three times a day — do notes, read, rest … yesterday wrote letter to the editor about my mention in the ‘miracle’ article in [the well-known] psychology magazine.

[...] I’d thought I might totally alienate her this time if she fought too hard, but such was not the case. [...] I fed her a few times that afternoon, and succeeded in making friends okay. [...]

[...] She now can take, say, ten steps at a time, leaning on her typing table, instead of the one or two previously possible. [...]

New sentence: In your historical past, when man identified his identity with the soul, he actually gave himself greater leeway in terms of psychological mobility, but eventually the concept of the soul as held resulted in a distrust of the intellect. [...]

At one level your cells obey the rules of time, but on other levels they defy it. [...] They are the result of psychological activity.

[...] Your body’s relative permanence in time is dependent upon the electron’s magnificent behavior as it deals with probabilities. [...]

[...] “In the beginning” you were only aware of that psychological activity. [...]

[...] That only seems true because of your particular range of activity, and because you can only pinpoint events within a particular psychological spectrum.

I am going to suggest, first of all, that the material which we have mentioned be read, and then for a beginning that psychological time experiments be taken. [...]

I would suggest for the psychological time experiments, fifteen minutes to begin with, along the lines of the directions which Joseph has given. [...]

[...] Secondary personalities are caused by repressed emotions on a psychological basis that attempts to maintain an ascendancy. Your ulcer is indeed the same sort of growth, but on a physical and not on a psychological level.

[...] As I believe I suggested over a year ago, the present witnesses are most beneficial, and I would suggest on some evening when the time is available, that we take advantage of their help, and hold a session under circumstances that allow us both larger scope in terms of quality and in terms of time.

[...] Because she has to deliver it linearly in words, which take “time,” she cannot produce her material almost at once, as the mathematical prodigy can his or her answers, but in their own way her communications with Seth are as psychologically clear and direct as the calculator’s objective products are with numbers, or the musician’s are with notes. From the very beginning of the sessions, in late 1963, I appreciated the speed with which Jane delivered the Seth material, and began recording the times involved throughout each session. [...]

[...] In your dream, that reincarnational self may appear as a minor character, quite on the periphery of your attention, and if the dream were to include an idea, say, for a play or an invention, then that play or invention might appear as a physical event in both historic times, to whatever degree it would be possible for the two individuals living in time to interpret that information. [...]

[...] “In certain parts of the book, like in the beginning and tonight, I feel like I’ve gone at an accelerated rate, outside time somehow,” she said. “And at a few other times in between, too….”)

Now: The reasoning mind represents human mental activity in a space and time context, as mentioned earlier.

[...] You should also remember that each person is also immersed in Framework 2. The good intent and the creativity that individuals may at times be unable to express adequately, still exists and enriches the psychological atmosphere.

[...] At the same time, by session time she was quite upset and irritable—appalled, really—at the content of some of the letters she’d read—this, we agreed, because we usually would focus more on the one negative letter compared to the ten positive ones—and by far most of them were very positive, friendly, sometimes even adulatory. [...]

(Seth goes into a couple of other topics also, which I’ll do notes for at the time of mention.)

Now the species does have its life-tasters, rising always out of any given time to check on the overall quality of life, to see what new ingredients should be added—what new directions should be followed, what new ideas or inventions must be planted for future harvest.

(It will be remembered that Seth still limits Jane to fifteen minutes of psychological time experimentation daily. [...]

[...] The self may project itself into the dimensions of space and time, but the projection is a small part of its actuality. Even the uppermost or surface elements of the self with which you are familiar, the ego and the uppermost layers of the subconscious, even these cannot be said to be born at any given time, in time as you conceive it.

A psychological experience may take up no space as a rock takes up space, but when a psychological experience happens it may fill you up. Yet you do not deny the existence of a psychological experience, though you cannot rip it apart from yourself and examine it with the physical senses. [...]

[...] I tried three times specifically; and each time in a most dry and amused, even pleased way, the personality said firmly that Jane and I could not be told why at this time. [...]

[...] My God, it was short enough,” she exclaimed as she looked at the clock for the first time. Actually, the session had lasted 1 hour 12 minutes—slightly longer than her average time of 1 hour 7 minutes for the last five sessions. Jane’s sense of time had been elongated while she spoke for Seth: “I feel like I was really far … like you were getting more than you could translate, like you were right on the edge of something….”

(9:26.) When I speak of an inner psychological universe, it is very difficult to explain what I mean. (Pause.) In that reality, however, psychological activity is not limited by any of the physical laws that you know. [...]

[...] … (A one-minute pause.) These units of consciousness, however, add themselves up to form psychological beings far greater in number than, say, the number of stars in [your] galaxy (over 400 billion of them), and each of those psychological formations has its own identity—its own soul if you prefer—its own purpose in the entire fabric of being.

[...] I managed to carry off the painting this time—merely giving impressions of the colors and foregoing their fantastic intensities and patterns. [...] The practice on the dream painting helped: This time I was able to hint more easily at the great combined radiance of those lights. [...]

For a while I think I spent half the time trying to psychoanalyze Seth and the other half trying to analyze myself. [...] Even so, Seth said that my strong ego was an asset to our work when I didn’t overdo it, since it kept my whole personality on an even keel and allowed me the psychological strength to handle and develop my abilities.

[...] Our experiments in what Seth calls “Psychological Time” helped us develop our own psychic abilities. [...]

[...] There is no doubt that he is unaware at times of his surroundings during sessions. It is a phenomenon in which he gives consent, and he could, at any time, return his conscious attention to his physical environment.

I’ve devoted some time and space to the early Seth sessions so that the reader could become acquainted with part of the material as it was given to us. Some of it seems so rudimentary to us now that it’s difficult to recall the amazement we felt at the time. [...]

[...] Both of us have experienced it in varying degrees during psychological time, sometimes intensely. I have also experienced it outside of psy-time. [...]

(Jane has begun her psychological time experiments, though she is still not on a regular day-to-day basis. [...]

Ruburt experienced this in his psychological time experiment this afternoon, and it reminded me that more material definitely was needed here.

[...] Rather than give you fairly frequent short vacations, I may at times close a session early. We still come out ahead in terms of time. [...]

[...] It is very difficult to admit that you are in many ways more effective and creative in the sleep state than the waking state, and somewhat shattering to admit that the dream body can indeed fly, defying both time and space. It is much easier to pretend that all such experiences are symbolic and not literal, to evolve complicated psychological theories, for example, to explain flying dreams.

[...] You may speak with dead friends or relatives, revisit the past, greet old classmates, walk down streets that existed fifty years earlier in physical time, travel through space without taking any physical time to do so, be met by guides, be instructed, teach others, perform meaningful work, solve problems, hallucinate.

[...] Therefore, the best way to become acquainted with after-death reality ahead of time, so to speak, is to explore and understand the nature of your own dreaming self. Not very many people want to take the time or energy.

The dreaming self as you conceive of it, however, is but a shadow of its own reality, for the dreaming self is a psychological point of reference and, in your terms, [of] continuity, that brings together all portions of your identity. [...]

[...] They remove him psychologically, particularly with your help, as he discusses them. The Sinful Self material is “timed” in its own fashion so that although there is a good deal of material already written, its effects are periodic—that is, they are clued to spring into even greater insight which may not be apparent at any one given time. The material acts like a time pill, for example. [...]

There is no doubt, however, that at times Ruburt becomes quite frightened, and the fear of course represents the fear that still lingers concerning the nature of spontaneous action. [...] He is safe, supported and protected—that is, of course, the message that he is trying to get through his head at this time. [...]

[...] I want Ruburt to see, however, that healing is taking place, that he can trust his own mind and body, and that all portions of the self are being dealt with, whether or not such is obvious at any given time. [...]

[...] The small panics themselves, for example, are meant to lead to psychological questioning and so forth in a give-and-take mental and therapeutic exchange of activity—an activity bound to release and activate the creative abilities also. [...]

[...] Their sense of time is completely different. They do not experience centuries, you see, though they may remain attached to your system for centuries of earth time.

[...] The psychological reality, the psychic reality, always forms it own environment. [...]

[...] Here there is simply an arrangement and rearrangement of a time already dealt with.

[...] Jane’s delivery had been a little fast, though with pauses; animated and forceful, eyes open much of the time. [...]

(While trying psychological time on January 19 and January 20, Jane achieved excellent states of “ecstasy” both times.

[...] Habit, then, has not only a psychological, but an electrical and psychological nature and implication.

[...] If the thought or emotion is similar to those usually accepted, then this will take time, for new electrical patterns must be set up. [...]

Many psychological intangibles, including dreams, have such an electric reality, and do exist as electric actions. [...]

Time overlays are the time versions of certain events, then. These time overlays always exist. (Pause.) They may become activated, however, by certain associations made in your present, and therefore draw into your present time some glimpses either from the future or the past. So-called present time is thickened, then, by a psychological realization on deep levels of the psyche that all events are interrelated, and that the reincarnational experiences of any given individual provide a rich source of experience from which each person at least unconsciously draws.

As many have supposed, particularly in fiction, love relationships do indeed survive time, and they put you in a special correspondence. Even if you were aware of reincarnational existences, your present psychological behavior would not be threatened but retain its prominence—for only within certain space and time intersections can physical actions occur. [...]

Earlier I mentioned several times that we must reach a point at which you are able to see around the corner of seemingly contradictory material,²¹ and this is one of those occasions. (Long pause.) Time overlays present you with a picture in which you have free will—yet each event that you choose will have its own time version. Now those time versions may be entirely different one from the others, and while you certainly initiate your own time version, in terms of usual understanding there is no true place or time in which that version can be said to actually originate (again with emphasis).

Religion was hampered—and is—by its own interpretation of good and evil, but it did not deny the existence of other versions of consciousness, or differing kinds of psychological activity and life. (Long pause.) Reincarnation suggests, of course, the extension of personal existence beyond one time period, independently of one bodily form, the translation or transmission of intelligence through nonphysical frameworks, and implies psychological behavior, memory and desire as purposeful action without the substance of any physical mechanism—propositions that science at its present stage of development simply could not buy, and for which it could find no evidence, for its methods would automatically preclude the type of experience that such evidence would require.

[...] The soul’s perceptions are not dependent upon time, because time is a physical camouflage and does not apply to nonphysical reality.

[...] At times Jane’s delivery had approached the speed of the last session. [...]

(Pause at 10:20.) Now in terms of psychology as you understand it, the soul could be considered as a prime identity that is in itself a gestalt of many other individual consciousnesses — an unlimited self that is yet able to express itself in many ways and forms and yet maintain its own identity, its own “I am-ness,” even while it is aware that its I am-ness may be part of another I am-ness. [...]

No psychological system is closed, no consciousness is closed, regardless of any appearances to the contrary within your own system. [...]

(Long pause.) The you inside of time adopts a reasoning mind. It is a kind of creative (underlined) psychological face that you use for the purposes of your life’s drama. This psychological face of our analogy has certain formal, ceremonial features, so that you mentally and psychologically tend to perceive only those data that are available within the play’s formal structure. [...]

[...] “You” live or exist in a larger framework of activity even while you live your life, and there is a rambunctious interplay between the yous in time and the you outside of time.

[...] Because of her concentration on that hook she hasn’t done much on her book of poetry, If We Live Again, since late February; and as I mentioned in the Preface for Dreams, she laid aside her third Seven novel, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, in May 1979 when she began God of Jane. [...]

[...] She told me bits of the material at times, but I didn’t retain them. [...]

Ruburt may feel betwixt and between, as indeed at times he is, but only occasionally. [...] Also, if Ruburt is experimenting as he is with the trance state in psychological time experiments, it is a good idea that some of this experimentation be carried on by him under our excellent supervision; and after consideration I think that you will agree.

(The following data are from Jane’s psychological time notebook: December 31, Thursday, 11:35: A rather amazing experience of “ecstasy,” the strongest I’ve experienced so far. [...]

There are quite a number of your psychological time experiments that we will have to discuss. [...]

(Part of the time her eyes were fully closed as she paced about the room, Jane said, but she could not give me a percentage estimate. The rest of the time her eyes were “cracked open” just enough for her to see. [...]

As far as we can see, Seth’s reincarnational, counterpart, and probable selves, and his families of consciousness, suggest the varied, complicated structure of human personality — and hint of the invisible psychological thickness that fills out the physical event of the self in time.

[...] Who is to help initiate meaningful changes in our psychological and social orders? Surely Jane feels the necessity to turn aside from the selected dogmas of our time. [...]

[...] As I type its pages for the final time, I’m back at our old Water Street apartments, and in our new “hill house” at once; I’m referring to 1975 sessions and recording Seth’s dictation on his latest book as well. Sometimes I feel like saying: “One reality at a time, please.”

[...] So along with Seth’s work, we tried to share our reality with the reader, and to provide a platform in time for knowledge that must basically straddle our ideas of time and reality alike.