“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] After a short time an earthquake occurred (in Romania), and the child was afraid that she had caused it. [...]

[...] That child’s life already carries the marks of her beliefs about religion, God, power, and mainly in the belief that nature is a tool in the God’s hands—to be used against man at any time.

[...] It is almost impossible in your time to describe man’s reality when he was consciously aware that he would die and yet not die, and when he was everywhere surrounded by those inner data of his psyche.

[...] You cannot of course limit your world to the world of facts at any given time, though you may try to do so. [...]

Many physicists now think it untenable to consider that each condition or event in the universe embodies the same kind of time. Physicists and parapsychologists have suggested various sorts of minute and undiscovered entities (mindons, psychons, psitrons, and so forth) that can move backward in time relative to our conscious conception of what time is, or that are at least free of our idea of a time that flows inevitably forward. Or consider the positron, which is a positively charged electron, a bit of antimatter that’s said to be temporarily moving backward in time. [...]

[...] In your terms these units can move forward or backward in time, but they can also move into thresholds of time with which you are not familiar.⁴

Now: Because your greater identity is aware of its probable existences, you are in matter and out of it at the same time — in time and out of it.

[...] “I feel him — Seth — around now,” she said, “but it’s like last time: I’m getting stuff, but I’m waiting until it’s clear … I don’t really feel looped, but the center of focus I always use in the sessions seems strange. [...]

[...] It seems to Ruburt that his thoughts are negative a good deal of the time—naturally—and that he must take effort to change them. Of course, instead it is the other way around: his thoughts are creative and exuberant—naturally—when he leaves himself alone, and the troublesome thoughts that seem so natural now are the results of acquired mental patterns as he began to distrust his own nature, as given many times.

[...] He still refuses to consider that his problem is a psychological one, instead of disembodied, outside evil voices picking on him. [...]

At that time you acquire the language of your people, and you learn to use mental concepts in a rather specialized way, and to further designate objects more specifically. [...]

(10:05.) Those processes, however, contain the basic mental structures from which ideas and concepts as you understand them come, and they are also responsible for the inner mental and psychological processes, individually and worldwide, that form private and mass physical reality.

[...] Psychological time for both of you should be maintained, for psychic education and for the physical benefits achieved through momentary release from physical time. For Ruburt, salt is beneficial during some periods of the month, and not beneficial at other times.

During that period you refer to as old age, once again emotionally and psychologically the individual is less bound by physical time. [...]

The permanent setup, whenever and if ever arranged, will here be most beneficial, and in ways that I will not now, because of the time, discuss. There is a connection with mental enclosures though it is a subconscious and psychological one.

(The following psychological time notes and related material are taken from Jane’s notebook:

[...] I can at times impress your physical reality, but the focus of my existence no longer involves a three-dimensional psychological structure. [...]

[...] The population seems to have been no more than 13,000 at the time, at a peak period, and yet for a long time the population was but 3,000. [...]

[...] Ruburt and I engage in a cooperative venture, truly a psychological gestalt, in which our personalities meet, rather in a dimension that is neither here nor there. Together we form a sort of psychological bridge between dimensions, for I cannot completely exist within your three-dimensional system now, and he cannot completely enter the dimension in which I do have my primary existence.

[...] Ruburt, and Joseph also, have known me in past lives, and our overall psychological structures have very significant similarities that make our communications possible.

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

(From my psychological time notebook:

[...] This interrelationship is independent of time, as you conceive time to be. [...]

[...] In actuality, her delivery had been so slow that at times she paced from one end of our living room to the other before giving voice to the next word. Thus it is seen that we had much different appreciations of the same amount of camouflage time. [...]

[...] He should follow the rhythms of his own creativity without being overly concerned with the time. [...] You can see how your own creativity is emerging in the notes for Mass Events. Granted, you need time to write physically, but the basic creativity has its own ‘time.’

It may be said by some that any book at all is an ambitious endeavor, when it originates from a psychological source (underlined) so far divorced from your ordinary ideas of creativity. It is one thing, for example, for a physical writer to produce a manuscript—and even that kind of creativity involves vast and hidden psychological maneuvers that never appear in the manuscript itself.

Today my wife was once again very much at ease for most of a day—so much so, in fact, that she slept several times. [...]

[...] He promised something Jane and I could really focus upon … an exciting yet thoughtful time of “work” and new information. [...]

Man grants rich psychological activity to his own species but denies it in others. There are as many luxuriant and diverse kinds of psychological movement as there are species, however. [...]

Instinct is fairly accurate, for example, guiding the beasts to those territories in which proper conditions can be found; and even for them the well-being of the body represents physical evidence of their “being in the proper place at the proper time.” [...]

(This was one of those times when she was consciously aware that several channels of information were available from Seth. [...]

[...] [Man’s psychological reality is so sweepingly different from that of the animals, Jane added now, that he would inevitably show a wide variety of reactions.]

I am aware of your resumed psychological time experiments.

[...] In this one Seth for the first time mentioned that Jane should work full time at her writing. [...] By the end of September she had left the gallery where she had worked part time four years. [...] This improvement has seemed to blossom like magic, and we feel that the time when Jane begins to sell her work regularly will soon arrive.)

(The following is from Jane’s psychological time notebook. [...]

(It is of considerable interest to me that since I have resumed the regular study of psychological time from October 27, practically all of my visions have involved people. [...]

“You can best achieve some approximation of an idea by using Psychological Time [as a preliminary]. [...]

“Concepts such as I am referring to reach beyond your ideas of time and space. [...]

[...] While she ate I told her several times that I had a feeling of anticipation, as though I had something I wanted to tell her, but couldn’t recall it. [...] At times the feeling was rather strong.

(We watched In Search Of from 2:30 to 3:00, and the program reminded me of a number of questions I’d thought of at various times. [...]

[...] I said I’d felt it to be true for some time, meaning years.

Many people believe that birth, to the contrary, is a time of trauma, or even of rage, as the infant leaves its mother’s womb. [...]

[...] Their experience of time was entirely different, and in the beginning the entire earth operated in a kind of dream time. In your terms, this meant that time could be quickened, or lengthened. It was a kind of psychological time.

[...] (Pause.) In your terms of time, however, the dream bodies took on physical forms. [...]

[...] Now Seth came through with a rather long dissertation concerning the psychological manipulations Jane and I make between Frameworks 1 and 2, and how we can help each other during those transitions. [...]

[...] The task will take lots of time—perhaps several years—and I may have to hire help; it will cost us something to copy the many thousands of papers for the library. [...]

[...] She said the passage of time seemed like ten minutes at the most. Her eyes had been open much of the time.

[...] They conceive of the psychological structure as a gestalt, dominated by the ego, formed by various needs and potentialities. [...]

[...] But this is all highly simplified, for the ego structure is not one thing, but a changing, never constant, actually quite informal grouping of psychological patterns. [...]

[...] In some cases this may cause inconvenience and considerable psychological difficulties, but when such an instance occurs it is because the ego structure that is being deposed was not carrying out the main aims or goals of the identity which originally gave it that envied position of dominance.

[...] His name is P I E T R A. (Spelled out.) In psychological time or simply when you are still, close your eyes and imagine your physical universe as one room in our analogy, and his as another with a passageway between. [...]

I repeat: some of this can be conscious, if you use a psychological-time framework. [...]

[...] This includes our use of suggestion and psy-time each day since Monday. The initial 7-hour period mentioned by Seth would have placed Dr. Pietra within our environment early on the morning of June 10, perhaps an hour before our usual rising time. Jane and I gave ourselves suggestions that we would perceive Dr. P at that time, but nothing developed.

He is a man of some psychological insights also, and he is like you enough so that he can understand many of your attitudes easily, and unlike you enough so that he can see you much more clearly. [...]

Study and practice with psychological time will show you the validity and strength of that inner self, so that you will clearly see that it is not completely bound to the so-called objective universe by any means. [...]

Recognition of many of the facts that we are discussing this evening will be of benefit in your psychological time experiences.

(Trying psychological time, I had the following experiences:

(By the time the Pipers had asked their third question of the board, concerning the name of the communicant they had raised, Fred Lake, Jane had received this name mentally. She did not tell the Pipers, but she had the whole name in mind by the time the pointer had moved to the letter F. She was quite surprised, and has never had the experience before, although it has been some months since either of us watched others working the board—indeed, since the Seth material began to flow. [...]

So, using the psychological bridge at such times, Ruburt can have a session. [...] It is a matter of tuning into the kind of energy that he does in our sessions, and simply because of present circumstances and development, three times a week is sufficient.

The idea of the back room will also serve as a psychological set for withdrawal from ordinary physical concerns and relationships with others. I am not saying that you should not allow certain specific individuals at times to attend private sessions. [...]

[...] But the time has come for mankind to take several steps further, to expand the nature of his own consciousness by trying to comprehend a more profound version of reality. You have outgrown the time of children’s tales. [...]

I will in due time identify the figure of the third Christ personality. [...]

[...] Even your small studies with psychological time should give you some valuable insight into this matter, however, and the use of psychological time is very important because of the avenues which it will open for you.

[...] In this way also you create your so-called real camouflage world, the only difference being that the dream world images do not have duration in physical time although they have duration in psychological time. [...]

If you use psychological time as I have told you, you will get immediate firsthand experience of many facets of reality which take me pages to explain with the indirect use of words. [...]

[...] This time we seemed to acquire a normal amount of material between breaks. [...] She said that somehow the idea that all entities were in existence at the time of the creation of the earth shocked her.

(Jane has not yet resumed her study of psychological time, even though Seth said it was all right for her to begin again on a daily fifteen-minute basis. [...]

[...] We have much time available to us, and need not worry over an occasional missed or short session, as long as our overall pattern is maintained.

(Before the session Jane had been reading a book on abnormal psychology. [...]

This is the year 1979, and the idea of time and of dates seems to be indelibly mixed into [everyone’s] psychology. [...]

[...] I hope that in other portions of this book certain mental exercises will allow you to leap over the tradition of time’s framework and sense with the united intellect and intuitions your own individual part in a spacious present that is large enough to contain all of time’s segments.

(The weather has been exceptionally warm this fall—warm and often rainy or misty, but most welcome for this time of year. [...]

Yesterday morning I heard geese flying south for the first time this season, but they were invisible above a heavy overcast. [...]

(Jane now misses trying psychological time quite a bit. [...] Jane believes the above experience stems from her psy-time experiments, for during some of them she had achieved a similar effect.

[...] Ego most of all resents and fights against time as you know it, yet ego is to a large extent responsible for your conception of time. [...]

[...] We have spoken at various times about specific portions of action’s manifestations. [...]

In his art we have the nostalgia of the ego for past time, and for lost control of a self that has already vanished, and changed into something new. [...]