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In conscious projections you are also learning to deal to some extent with multifield psychological realities. Much that I will tell you concerning my psychological structure will be initially based upon some information you have concerning the inner senses, for these are my conscious senses.

Consciously, you are able to focus within, understand, and gain development in, one field of reality at a time. [...]

[...] Consciously you work with what you call a one-reality field psychological structure. [...]

So while you operate in a one-reality field psychological structure, you do not on a conscious level even perceive its entire reality, nor your place in it. [...]

I simply meant that at times you still worried as to whether or not he was a subconscious fiction in the writing sessions; but you did not feel this as strongly in your psychological-time experiments, because of the mental activity of your own that they provided.

When you are working alone in psychological time experiments, you do not so fear emergence of the subconscious, and you trust your material more. [...]

Psychologically, when you are filled up, you have physical difficulty, and it is a psychological reaction that activates the physical structure. [...]

[...] The psychological insights are valid in that material although you do not always understand their true validity. [...]

I am speaking in your terms of time, now. Individuals born into your time do not feel, say, the same sense of familiarity with the religious belief systems of past lives. [...] In any case, the original innocent self is bonded to the parents, and to the parents’ beliefs for a time. [...]

[...] I’ve started a detailed account of its use, including times of application, body parts treated, etc. [...]

[...] At the same time, of course, the society wants to maintain its familiar stance. [...]

(Long pause.) The original ideas connected with the Sinful Self’s beliefs were at one time, for example, not as obviously unfortunate, since the system itself also provided for salvation, methods of appeasement and so forth—all of which were thoroughly accepted through many centuries. [...]

The ego structure had been in danger for some time previous. Psychologically there was some considerable distance between his identity and the physical universe as he knew it. [...]

[...] He could not have survived as a contributing psychological unit within your system otherwise. [...] At the time the course was set and the personality was developed, that had taken a wrong course, for it.

Someone who sees him, a male, is not doing him good at this time. [...] The usual ego would have been much more serviceable however, for a longer period of time, had he not taken the drugs. [...]

[...] Jane had needed a rest for some time, after the long grind of sessions from late 1963.

[...] The overall emotional coloration and vitality of all of the creatures, say, within any given arbitrary environment is highly complicated, so that there is of course a psychological climate to which you react, as there is a physical one. If it rains you can stay inside, run naked between the raindrops, wear galoshes and carry an umbrella, take a cab, or be so involved in your own activities that you are not even aware that it is raining at all, and the same applies to inclement psychological climates. [...]

[...] This is our first daylight session in some time.

[...] At the same time you were concerned for him, of course. [...]

Your body cells knew at the same time that your friend was in some difficulty, and wanted help. [...]

[...] You are at the very beginning of any idea of psychology. [...] At the rate you are going, it will take you some time! [...]

Now, when you properly understand how to use psychological time, then to some extent you can learn to alter the nature, the focus, of your consciousness. [...]

Now there are many words for psychological time. [...]

Now, if you want organization then you shall have it—at any time. You structure your own existence and you choose those realities that have exactly as much organization as you need at any given time. [...]

You are at the very beginning of any idea of psychology. [...] At the rate you are going, it will take you some time!

Now: When you properly understand how to use psychological time, then to some extent you can learn to alter the nature and focus of your consciousness. [...]

Now: There are many words for psychological time. [...]

Now: If you want organization then you shall have it — at any time. You structure your own existence, and you choose those realities that have exactly as much organization as you need at any given time.

[...] And so what you have, in effect, as I have said often before, is a one-dimensional psychology. You need a multi-dimensional psychology for identity operates in many dimensions beside a physical one. [...]

[...] Personality is that part of identity that manifests itself within physical reality and within your time. [...]

[...] But that it seems so could hardly be psychological crime. [...]

The facts are, dear psychology class and professor, that all of you are more than you know and that personality and identity are far different than you usually believe. [...]

There would be no psychological avenues to connect my world and yours. There would be no extensions of the self that would allow you to travel such a psychological distance to those thresholds of reality that form my mental environment. [...] There would have been no unofficial roads for Ruburt to follow, to lead him from the official beliefs of his time. [...]

[...] Finally, last night she made her intuitive connection: She had been working on the book the entire time. Heroics isn’t to be on how to reach some unattainable superself, but on the barriers that stand in the way of practical self-realization. [...]

For example: Many of you believe in the basis of Freudian psychology — that the son naturally wants to displace the father in his mother’s attentions, and that beneath the son’s love for his father, there rages the murderous intent to kill. [...]

You cannot begin to have a true psychology, again, unless you see the living self in a greater context, with greater motives, purposes and meanings than you now assign to it, or for that matter than you assign to nature and its creatures. [...]

The dimensions of action itself have nothing to do, basically, with your conception of time. Instead the dimensions of action have to do with intensities; not only the intensities of the electromagnetic components that compose them, but with intensities as they are translated into psychological terms. Therefore the psychological experience of a particular event or action has little to do with clock time.

[...] Seth volunteered to give information about Peg’s activities while she is in Washington, and Jane also plans to tune in on Peg via psychological-time experiments. [...]

(See the 149th-152nd sessions for the material on moment points and time. Once again, the material on time is woven through the sessions. Seth began discussing time in the 14th session. See the sessions 120-130 for material on the electrical field and time, in Volume 3.

[...] Only your perception of it adds the illusion of time to action. You think, for example, that any given action consumes or devours or takes up a certain amount of time. Therefore you think of time as something that contains action.

To a certain extent, I must travel from those realities into your comprehension, wrest myself free in order to form an ever-changing, ever-moving, ever-on-the-move entity that can speak here and be there at the same time. [...] That distance from you also represents the reaches, however, of the human psyche, and the vast corridors of psychological activity from which it is formed, and from which your world emerges.

[...] When you think in terms of earth’s destruction, or the ending of the world, you are thinking of course of a continuum of time, and of beginnings and endings. From your viewpoint in space and time, it seems that planets have come and gone, stars collapsed, and when you look outward into space, it appears (underlined) that you look backward into time. (Long pause.) There are great pulsations, however, in existence — pulsations that have nothing to do with time as you understand it, but with intensities.

[...] At the same time, it’s so simple… It was a different session in some way. [...] Not that I had any sense of time in the session. [...]

[...] As Seth told us in 1979, Jane had been a poet all of the time, in its most profound meaning. She’d been letting If We Live Again grow for some time as she selected poems for it from the many she had written, and kept writing.

[...] There is an old saying: Time is money—and in his own way Frank would like to make that kind of a statement, clear, direct, and unambiguous: Turning clocks or time directly into good hard cash, a magic of a sort. This is also meant to make up for any “wasting of time” that he might otherwise be engaged in. In a fashion it is an attempt to deal more directly with beliefs regarding time, money, and creativity. [...]

(Long pause at 9:23.) A belief in a “God who provides,” by whatever name, is indeed a psychological requirement for the good health of the body and mind. [...] (Long pause.) He felt that they opened the door to all of organized religion’s psychological quicksand of emotionalism. [...]

Ruburt is still dealing with spin-off material following or resulting from his Sinful-Self data, and this material generally follows the lines of development that are fairly obvious in the poems and notes that have followed since that time. [...]

[...] There are several lines of a poem and a few of the notes, untyped, that should be also typed at the same time—but he is pulling such issues together. [...]

(Jane has been practicing psychological time regularly, but reports that she has achieved little besides her usual excellent state. She has had no unusual or startling experiences since Seth cut her psy-time periods to 20 minutes, in the 151st session.

(Jane has had some striking clairvoyant and telepathic experiences outside of psy-time, however, and is keeping separate records of these. [...]

[...] Her voice was quiet and she used pauses for the first time in quite a few sessions.)

[...] It is now time for us to do so. [...]

[...] You are still to some extent forced to recognize conventional structures and organizations, including psychological ones. At the same time you search for greater evidence of a vastly different kind of reality. (Long pause.) The larger facts about psychological reality, for example, cannot be fitted to the world’s definitions. [...] Translations and dramatizations that serve to give you glimpses of psychological structures whose very natures do not fit the facts of the world (all intently. [...]

You have a true or false world in that regard, and a relatively very flat psychological view of identity. [...]

[...] In the first place, as you are learning, your world accepts as valid that portion of an event that can show itself within your recognized time and space coordinates. [...]

This applies not only to seemingly “pure” objective events, but to the more complicated event of an individual psychological being. [...]

[...] It is a portion of you, however, that deals with the formation of events, that glories in a rather rambunctious and creative activity that your specifications of time and place physically preclude. [...] There must be a psychological chamber between these two portions of the self, however — these seemingly undifferentiated areas, in which back-and-forth translations can occur. [...]

[...] It is the part of you that exists outside of time, yet simultaneously lives in time. [...]

[...] It represents the vaster psychological reality in which your own subjective life resides.

Once scientists theorized the ether as the medium in which the physical universe existed.¹ Framework 2 is the psychological medium in which the consciousness of the world exists. [...]

(Last Thursday, April 15, as we were driving about Elmira on errands, Jane mentioned to me that she missed trying psychological time. [...] Jane then received the information, she believes from Seth, to the effect that she might soon be allowed to resume psy-time, but only for fifteen-minute periods, and during the evening when I would be home with her.

Ruburt may indeed resume psychological time experiments, however, and he did understand me correctly. [...]

As the springtime progresses this will be an excellent time for Ruburt to cease his smoking, as his abilities renew themselves. Earlier in the year was a poor time.

(Seth has predicted sale of the ESP book, and of the material itself many times. [...]

Time therefore is formed out of and from nontime. (Long pause.) Non-time is psychological experience, psychological reality, and time is always at its service. (Long pause.) Entities then form the time in which they seem to dwell. [...]

[...] Form, like time, is an aid, an organization of experience. Form is used as time structures may be used, but multidimensional personalities know that they construct form as they may construct various time systems as an aid toward organizing perception.

Now, there are some systems that do deal with a serial time unit, but in these the personalities are well aware that the serial time is of their own construction. Certain types of personalities will construct or be attracted to certain time systems. [...]

[...] Any time structure is an aid, organizing experience along certain lines. [...] You are learning to handle perception and experience, and time gives it to you in slow and small doses.

[...] But they exist also amid your attitudes concerning the culture, your age, and the time that it seems must be involved with painting. [...] Your world view must include your beliefs about the body and the mind, about religion, history, and philosophy—and you stand as an entity, a psychological entity, in the center of this inner world.

[...] Your achievements lie in the fact that you have indeed managed to free yourselves of the dogmas of your times, and of times before you. [...]

[...] You interact with that invisible psychological climate, so that it becomes part of your mental environment. [...]

[...] Others either escape your notice, or do not seem vital enough at any given time to question. [...]

Give us a moment… The consciousness that you have, as generally described in psychology, is in a strange fashion like the bright shiny skin of a fruit — but with no fruit inside; a consciousness with a shiny surface that responds to sun or rain or temperature, and to its surroundings; but for all of that a psychological fruit that has no pulp or pits, but contains at its heart a vacancy. [...]

[...] That was some 18 months ago, but actually to one degree or another I’ve been involved with “Unknown” Reality for four years now; I think that temporarily I’ve simply grown tired and overly concerned about the whole project, even while I still have a considerable way to go to finish certain notes and appendixes for Volume 2. Not that I haven’t worked on a number of other things at the same time, of course — but my labors on those two books represent the prolonged, intense focus I always search for in my creative life, and without which I feel incomplete. [...]

[...] Many realities within Framework 2 cannot suitably be explained as facts to you in Framework 1, simply because they involve psychological thicknesses that cannot be translated into facts as you think of them. [...]

Jung’s collective unconscious was an attempt to give your world its psychological roots, but Jung¹ could not perceive the clarity, organization, and deeper context in which that collective unconscious has its own existence. [...]

[...] They emerged as you began to categorize experience more and more, to see yourselves as separate from the spring or fountainhead of your own psychological reality. [...] The condition gives the body its refreshment, yet it does not lie inert for such long periods of time.

The natural experiences of what you think of as time distortion, for example, occurring in childhood and old age alike, represent quite normal experiences of your basic “time environment” — much more so than the clock time with which you are so familiar.

Individual psychological mechanisms are activated, sometimes, in terms of neurosis or other mental problems; these bring out into the open inner challenges or dilemmas that otherwise would be worked out more easily through an open give-and-take of conscious and unconscious reality —

[...] Again we were interrupted — this time by the telephone. [...]