“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She has felt psychologically trapped for some time, this bringing about the physical trap into which she has fallen.

[...] At the heart of the condition, there is a series of psychological shocks that occurred.

Now give us some time here. [...]

Some difficulty lies in the inner psychological relationship between the husband and the wife—an inner issue she does not face, and reacts to the issue in physical terms. [...]

As I mentioned, your psychological time experiences will also help you to investigate the nature of time and space to some degree.

[...] In our discussion of dependency and aggression I was speaking of potentially dangerous situations, in which an individual shows signs of being unable to cope with these psychological actions through ordinary methods of adaption. No one can deny that a war fought by dreaming men, at specified times, would be less harmful than a physical war, to return to my flight of fancy.

[...] For investigation into the nature of space and time as they are experienced within the dream framework, will tell you more about the real nature of space and time then you can ever learn through studying their distorted appearances within physical reality. [...]

You can also tell yourselves when you wish that you will give special attention to the nature of time and space, as these appear within your dreams. You will discover then upon awakening that many perceptions concerning time and space within the dream state will remain with you.

There are purposes not nearly as easy to describe, however, intents of a psychological nature, yearnings toward satisfactions not so easily categorized. Man experiences ambitions, desires, likes and dislikes of a highly emotional nature — and at the same time he has intellectual beliefs about himself, his feelings, and the world. [...]

[...] When we are speaking of the psychological role of destinations, however, there is more to consider.

[...] Your psychological intents instantly mobilize your energies on a psychic level. [...]

[...] When you want to find a mate you take it for granted that a potential mate exists, though where in space and time you do not know. [...]

Dawn is breaking.
Why should I lie in bed
worrying about my body or the world?
Before time was recorded
dawn has followed dusk
and all the creatures of the earth
have been couched
in the loving context
of their times.

(Jane experienced many painful physical and psychological delays while producing Dreams. [...]

Dictation then: Probabilities are an ever-present portion of your invisible psychological environment. [...]

[...] They are profound psychological interconnections that bind you each to each, particularly in a telepathic framework, though this may be beneath normal consciousness. [...]

As you sit reading this book in your present moment of time, you are positioned in the center of a cosmic web of probabilities that is affected by your slightest mental or emotional act.

[...] Because you are involved in an intricate psychological gestalt such as this, and because the connections mentioned earlier do exist, you can avail yourself to some extent of abilities and knowledge possessed by these other probable portions of your personality.

My own belief, which I’ve held for some 15 years, is that in Jane’s case at least the young girl’s psychological conditioning was far more important—far more damaging, in those terms—than any physical tendency to inherit. I think that Marie’s domineering rage at the world (chosen by her, never forget) deeply penetrated Jane’s developing psyche, and—again in those terms—caused her to set up repressive, protective inner barriers that could be activated and transformed into physical signs at any time, under certain circumstances. [...]

(I believe that current medical thinking about the immune system and arthritis will be much enlarged upon by the time this book is published, though I haven’t given that much thought to just what new information may be acquired. However, I do think I’m accurate concerning the connections between Jane’s early psychological conditioning and her present challenges.)

[...] Not only would the two women be emotionally tested and enriched across physical and psychological time, but so would their entities or whole selves.

In these last few pages (since I began discussing my beliefs about Jane’s early psychological conditioning), I’ve indicated the only kind of thinking by which I can personally make sense out of our world these days. Particularly when I consider the “news” on the typical front page of the typical daily newspaper: All too accurately the “stories” of war, pollution, corruption, and poverty and crime show just how little we human beings know or understand ourselves at this time—and how far we have to go, individually and en masse. As the years have passed, I’ve come to trust more and more my own insights into our behavior as a species within the framework of a nature that I believe our kind has co-created with every other species on the planet (to confine my theme to just our immediate environment for the moment). [...]

[...] He was saved, so it seemed, from endless explanations; so with a kind of psychological economy that worked far too well for a time the symptoms served to keep him writing at his desk, to regulate the flow of psychic activity, making sure of its direction, and to provide a suitable social reason to refrain from activities that might distract him—from tours or shows, and also even from any onslaught of psychic activity that might follow any unseeming (underlined) spontaneous behavior. [...]

[...] The inner psychological distance must become surfacely portrayed, instantly translated to the audience, so that for him there is the same kind of reaction that he might have in talking to others overly much about a book of his own in progress—as if he might talk out the book, and therefore not need to write it, while at the same time losing much of the inner development that might otherwise give the book its own deeper meanings. [...]

(My “discovery” cheered Jane considerably, and she mentioned it several times today. [...] Seth has mentioned her fears at times recently; so have we; still, I asked that if she had a session tonight Seth might give some information on the fears. [...]

(Jane had spent a lot of time today either on the couch or the bed [in the latter case making notes], and seemed to be better, generally speaking. [...]

(The following data are from Jane’s psychological time notebook:

(From my psychological time notebook:

It is necessary, even regardless of your physical health which is in good condition, and your mental health which is fine, it is still necessary that I give you a period of relaxation from time to time. [...]

[...] She was as surprised as I was at the short session and the extra time off. [...] It hadn’t occurred to us to ask for any time off.)

[...] At those times the individual consciousness became so entranced with its own experiences, however, that the clear-cut, steady, and conscious communication with the mass consciousness went underground, so to speak. It became available to those who looked for it, but the same kinds of psychological organization did not result on those occasions.²

(With emphasis:) Reincarnation simply represents probabilities in a time context (underlined) — portions of the self that are materialized in historical contexts. [...] All kinds of time — backward and forward — emerge from the basic unpredictable nature of consciousness, and are due to “series” of significances. Each self born in time will then pursue its own probable realities from that standpoint. [...]

[...] The flower knows it is alive in the bulb, but it takes “time” for the bulb to let the stem and leaves and flower emerge. [...] Only in your system is that time period meaningful.

[...] It uses a time context instead, with each self given a body and a time; but a knowledge of the ideas of multipersonhood could help you realize that you have available many abilities not being used, latent to you but still important in your entire identity, and significant enough to you personally to be developed.

[...] In times of psychological stress — or in periods of crises — quite unwittingly you often withhold this strong reinforcement. [...]

[...] “I worry that it’s just a psychological trick,” I said. “I mean, suppose that’s really what I think, subconsciously — the idea that your ego is too rigid at times and closes you off. [...]

At times, the ego can hold you in a tight vice, which the dissociation breaks. [...] This is why I suggested the exercises at this time.

[...] This time, we decided not to have any “format” or particular plans but to leave ourselves open to whatever might happen. [...]

Some of your psychological growth is obvious through the books, of course—obvious to others if often not to yourselves. The books make a psychological impact difficult to describe—one of course that overall presents a kind of multidimensional portrait, highly difficult to assess. [...]

[...] She’d also slept several hours today, though as usual after laying down for a short time her arms and legs became very sore. [...]

[...] At times you expect from yourself a kind of accomplishment that the first kind of artist might produce, without any due regard for the fact that you are your own person, that you possessed a love of words as well, that you had excellent critical capacities. [...]

(Pause at 9:35.) Such ideas, then, prevent you from enjoying your own accomplishments, as you should more properly do, and from enjoying their growth through time, from the background that was your own. [...]

[...] The natural person is of course the natural dreamer, and it is for that reason all the more unfortunate that psychology managed to divorce the world of dreaming from natural healthy psychology. [...]

[...] Nor have I added to that list for a long time now. [...]

Now: we have been having a rather concentrated group of sessions, and it is quite natural that Ruburt should want to take some time out as he has, so that he can assimilate the material. [...]

[...] The exterior interest, the physical manipulations, also stand for, and reflect, inner manipulations with psychic growth, and serve as symbols of a united psychological approach. [...]

[...] But somehow in my mind at least, not recording that session added to it’s magical quality … the spontaneous psychological or psychic transformation came and went … We were sitting at the living-room table with the lamplight clear on my face; Gramacy could follow Seth’s psychological passage; see my features change, taking on ever so subtly those other contours. [...]

[...] He bowed his dark head for just a moment then lifted it, those soft eyes now … softer and harder at the same time; his hands moved in rhythm with the music; his whole body was a marvel of motion; shoulders, head, arms, chest — his whole trunk, responding to the music. [...]

[...] Or haven’t you ever known that the doorbell would ring just before it did, or that you’d meet someone you hadn’t seen in a long time just before you actually do meet?”

[...] “Like the New York Times ad test with Seth you two did and wrote up in The Seth Material. [...]

I am suggesting that psychological time experiments be again adopted for you both. [...]

When hypnosis is more clearly understood and used, and when certain other psychological devices are discovered, it will then be possible to change focus in such a manner, and through psychological testing discover the personality types, the individual types who dwell in various stages of the subconscious.

[...] And as your physical eras of time may be deduced through studying the physical fossilized layers of rock, so can the time and place of past lives be deduced through studying the layers of the subconscious.

[...] Jane began dictation on time; her delivery was slow at first, then speeded up; her pacing was slow also, her eyes dark as usual.)

In a manner of speaking, humanity deals with different predominant themes at different times. [...]

In usual historic terms, humanity has been experimenting with its own unique kind of consciousness, and as I have mentioned many times, this necessitated an arbitrary division between the subject and the perceiver — nature and man — and brought about a situation in which the species came to consider itself apart from the rest of existence.

[...] To whatever degree, more than their contemporaries, they do not allow sexual roles to blind them psychologically. [...]

[...] This rebellion was psychological — that is, he maintained an acceptable male orientation in terms of sexual activity, but he would not restrain his mind and soul with such nonsense. [...]

I suggest again that you reread some of our earlier material when you find time, and that you resume your psychological time experiments in some kind of schedule.

(While trying psychological time for Wed. [...]

Psychological time is indeed the only medium, or framework, within which exploration of the inner self can be carried on. [...]

You will find new abundances of energy, as I told you, and you can use this to better your physical constructions, and to enrich psychological time experiments.

[...] The psychological changes, you see, are far more reaching than the short duration in time would seem to imply.

The inner psychological realization is the important event here, rather than, for example, the letter (from Prentice-Hall) itself. The true event is the psychological one. [...]

Now as far as our own material is concerned, it has taken short shrift for some time. [...] You have still been given but a sketchy outline, in truth, but we have time to fill it in. [...]

A large segment will also be concerned with that portion of reality that has time connotations for you. For you must deal with your idea of time, and manipulate within it while you hold it valid. [...]

[...] To some extent, then, I enter your reality through a psychological warp in your space and time. [...] Such psychological and psychic warps between dimensions of existence are not infrequent. [...]

[...] Language, as you know it, is partially and grammatically the end product of your physical time sequences. You can only focus upon so many things at one time, and your language structure is not given to the communication of intricate, simultaneous experience.

Let us get back to time. [...] The idea is current in academic psychologicalcircles that the child exists psychologically intact in the man, that the man contains within him the psychological replica of the child that was.

[...] The idea of inverted time states that time flows in all directions, and that as each action affects every other action, so time constantly affects itself and continually reacts within itself. [...]

[...] But do not regard this hopping from moment to moment, as from stone to stone, as the approximation of time as it actually exists. The nature of perceptions determines the experience of time.

[...] As Jane did last time she visited Dr. Colucci in May 1965, I put myself in a trance state as an experiment, and was very comfortable. [...]

Until this is realized your psychology will raise more questions than it answers. [...] The self organizes data basically in a manner that psychology has not found. [...]

(This connection is not as remote as it might seem: Jane spent some time in Baltimore before we were married 12 years ago. [...] Both of us have been to Los Angeles, CA, several times, but Jane has not been to San Francisco.

[...] A fully developed psychology will not exist until reincarnation is accepted as a fact.

[...] Any psychology worthy of the name must take this inner motivation into consideration.