“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Because of your psychological and psychic structure, there is within the rich makeup of your being a literally endless variety of what you may call probable selves. [...] In your present existence however you will utilize only those psychological characteristics that you believe you possess. [...]

[...] This is often a time of deep unconscious activity, when new latent probable characteristics are biding their time, so to speak, waiting for emergence.

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. [...] (With gestures, and forcefully.) This is the result of the focusing and yet limiting behavior of the physical brain, for effective survival behavior in your reality depends upon time reactions. [...]

[...] You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. [...]

[...] At the same time, I do not want to play down the unfortunate aspects of the beliefs connected with the Sinful Self. Those aspects are at the psychological core of your civilization, and at the very heart of your organizations, whatever they are. [...]

[...] Last night she’d slept fairly well, although at one time she sat up and wrote some notes on the Speakers’ manuscripts. [...] I should add that she stayed up all day yesterday, for the first time in many days. She did take a nap late in the afternoon at the same time I lay down. [...]

[...] This is a time of clearing the board. You live physically in present time, so it is the body that takes the brunt of such difficulty. [...]

(Jane didn’t feel particularly like having a session last night, and the time just passed without our holding one.

[...] I cannot help speaking humorously, but you must die many times before you enter this particular plane of existence. [...] And I, who have died more times than I care to tell, write this book to tell you so.)

Now, we can also take several forms at one time, so to speak, but you can also do this although you do not generally realize it. [...] So consciousness is not limited as to the forms it can create at any given time.

[...] You think that objects exist independently of you, not realizing that they are instead the manifestations of your own psychological and psychic selves. [...]

[...] Your feelings can best be described as the three-dimensional materializations of far greater psychological events and experiences that are related to the “inner senses.”

The individual may act purposefully, with power, energy, and strength, for varying lengths of time. [...]

Her trend of memory will go back to the last time that she was in charge of consciousness, and she will have — or may not have — any idea of the existence of Norma A at all. [...]

[...] Norma A may actually grow into a more and more assertive or belligerent personality, even displaying violent tendencies at times, while on the other hand Norma B might become even more timid, depressed, and solitary.

[...] He may carry on a fruitful accomplished existence for varying lengths of time.

[...] Head and back more flexible; eyes not quite so red—“in and out” of focus in a period of minutes, yet Jane could see to work part of the time today, as Seth suggested.)

The practical experience of reality is formed through the suggestive psychological idea-shapes that appear in the guise of theories, dogmas, and assumptions. [...]

[...] As per James, it was no coincidence that the beliefs of Freud and Darwin merged so well to form western society’s idea of the self, physically and psychologically. [...]

Now when either of you, or both of you, feel that there might be something wrong in spending your time thinking, writing, painting, or worse, daydreaming, you feel that way because your way of life meets some conflict from old Darwinian and Freudian beliefs: you should be out there in the world—active, competing, or even just riding bicycles. [...]

In psychological time therefore it is at least possible that you can have some experience with other methods when you close off habitual methods of perception. [...]

The intellect forces you to interpret data in a highly specialized way for the use of the physical organism; and while adopted particularly because of the time structure, your kind of intellect only has value within your particular kind of time structure, and its type of logical thought is much slower and limiting. It moves at a snail’s pace along the line of consecutive time.

The emotional intellect for example is not time-oriented, and this alone makes no sense to the physical brain. It finds it highly difficult to assimilate any information not time-oriented, therefore it labels it as meaningless. [...]

[...] I suggest therefore that you hold six weeks of sessions as always at your regular time, then feel free to miss a week with my blessing and your own, and then begin another six-week schedule.

Now give us a moment… As creatures dwelling in time and space, your senses provide you with highly specific data, and with a cohesive-enough physical reality. [...] This allows for the necessary freedom of action for psychological and physical mobility. [...]

The paranoid organizes the psychological world about his obsession, for such it is, and he cuts everything out that does not apply, until all conforms to his beliefs. An examination of unprejudiced sense data at any point would at any time bring him relief.

All of these issues prepared you psychically and psychologically to make this kind of contact. [...] This has its psychological connotations within your system.

[...] The bathmat should be put away for some time. [...]

[...] These have built up for some time; will now be released beneficially, for all concerned, in springs of enthusiasm and energy directed outward through the teaching encounter.

For the first time, you will soon be in a position where Ruburt’s energy will be correctly utilized for your psychic, spiritual and financial benefit. [...]

[...] This after the pendulum had insisted many times over the past few weeks that the teeth were perfectly all right. At the same time, they’ve bothered me fairly often. [...]

[...] She’s kept up her walking daily—six times each day—and also exercises twice a day on the bed. [...]

[...] It does take some time to understand why the pendulum answers as it does, but it will be responding not only to your question but to the greater framework and the emotional circumstances connected with it. [...]

[...] Psychology did not challenge him. [...]

(Long pause.) Since these offshoots or life-tracings each come from your entity, they are connected psychologically and in terms of electromagnetic energy patterns. Consider this analogy: Taking it for granted that you are indeed multidimensional, you can perceive only so much of your own experience at a time because of the characteristics of physical creaturehood; the three-dimensional system automatically specializes in before-and-after effects.

The energy of your being exists outside of your system, however, and impinges upon it in your terms, becoming “alive” physically at certain points of time and space. Your own greater energy dips in and out of the space-time continuum as you understand it. [...]

[...] Your physical brain automatically converts such data into temporal terms so that many of your significant, remembered dream experiences are already translations by the time you recall them. [...]

[...] There are as yet undiscovered, bizarre changes in the brain during certain dream states, an acceleration that quite literally propels the consciousness out of its usual space-time continuum into those other realities from which it comes.

[...] It should be obvious that the psychological framework must be different when the time system of experience is different. You can see easily for yourself the individual psychological variations that exist simply between the ego and the subconscious, but these portions of the self are very close. Other portions of the self, that deal in what you would call probable realities, are very different in their psychological makeup.

Now when I first spoke of the inverted time system, I spoke of it as if it were apart from your own time system, to enable you to see it with some objectivity. [...] It simply is not the time system recognized by the ego.

Now, the time in which the inner ego exists is, as you know, the spacious present. The spacious present is the basic time in which the whole self has its existence, but the various portions of that self have their experience in their own time systems, which are the results of their characteristic methods of perception.

We will imagine then these various one and two, Mono One and Mono Two, multiplied, literally, an endless amount of times. [...] I am taking my time here so that we get this clearly, for I do not often come through with the pure clarity of stereophonic.

[...] You make your own reality in “a thousand times.” You put together psychological events in various ways. [...]

[...] She even used it to go to the john an extra time this afternoon—a heartening sign. [...]

[...] Jane was to call KR at a conference in Wappinger’s Falls, NY; she tried a number of times, always to be put off by a rather unpleasant and officious woman who was always saying that KR was “in conference” and couldn’t be disturbed. [...]

The spirit guides are perceptions of other kinds of psychological and psychic activity. [...]

(10:42.) At one time man did not know about the existence of any country outside of his own. [...] There are other psychological mediums, however, other lands of the mind that will open up experience far more than seems possible.

[...] In certain areas, however, invisible beliefs may operate for some time because they are accepted as reality within the framework. [...]

[...] The species can decide to change its course, and set certain actions into history that will change the future, seemingly against all probabilities apparent at the time. [...]

When the race began physical focus it learned to behave in a more or less permanent-appearing environment, and so it developed a suitable self that also appeared to be permanent enough for a time within that world.

[...] However, I then remembered something that had happened sometime last week when I had also been trying psychological time, that I had forgotten. That time I had also turned the radio off, but then I kept on hearing music from it, in varying volume. [...]

(Tuesday, 6/16, and Wednesday, 6/17, I missed trying psychological time.

(Copy of Jane’s statement involving psychological time, of Thursday, June 18, 1964, from 10:00 to 10:30 AM.

(While trying psychological time I had the following experiences:

[...] These significances, then, involve from your end certain biological cues that regulate the intersection of psychological events with physical activity in time and space. [...]

(9:49.) At the same time Aunt Sarah, unbeknown to you, might pick up a blue vase, one that you had just seen in your mind as belonging on a shelf in her living room. [...] Because of the time element, it seems to you that the first episode caused the others, and that your first association concerning your aunt brought about the “following” events.

The inner significances, however, the associations, existed all at once, to be tuned in to at any point of time. They had their reality basically apart from time, even though they appeared within it.

(At the same time, Seth marched right along on this book, Psyche. [...]

[...] [Jane is not in favor of public accessibility at this time.] LD explained a few things, suggesting among them a committee, perhaps, to screen qualified applicants to the material. [...] “I can’t believe it,” Jane said a number of times as we talked. [...]

[...] It was allowed to leap beyond the boundaries of painting or writing, to escape even the temporal frames of your present personalities, and to form an original psychic or psychological structure—a new psychological art, if you prefer—that could be contained in none of the arts as they are known. [...]

[...] You will find yourself at times wanting physical activity more than usual, and at other times wanting only to relax.

[...] My stomach still bothers, but on a much-reduced level; the groin/left testicle seems all but clear at times; occasionally the discomfort returns on a reduced basis also.

But in this next session, I spoke for Seth for a longer time than I had before. [...] The material contained some excellent psychological insights; using them, we found ourselves getting along much better with our relatives. [...] “The psychological insights are great,” I said to Rob at break. [...]

[...] It was the first time I’d spoken for so long at a time, for one thing. [...]

[...] For a short time you wondered, and then the incident was forgotten. As a matter of fact, at the same time your brother, Loren, was looking out the window of your father’s shop [across the way] and saw nothing.”

“The man and woman in the York Beach dancing establishment … were fragments of your selves, thrown-off materializations of your own negative and aggressive feelings … the images were formed by the culminating energy of your destructive energies at the time. [...]

[...] All time is simultaneous. Only the illusion of time on each of your parts keeps you from greeting each other. [...]

[...] Controlled Environments, and Positive and Negative Mass Behavior.’” I told her I thought Seth would not only have plenty of time to cover our respective questions, but would come through with some book work too, and this was the case.

[...] You move in and out of probable selfhoods, while at the same time — usually with the greatest of ease — you maintain an identity of yourself. [...]

It is as if you shared, say, a psychological planet, populated by people who had the same roots, the same ground of being — as if you shared the same continents, mountains, and oceans. [...]

(Putting off the publication of Dreams, then, is only a ploy to gain some time to defuse the present situation, while Jane’s body struggles to right itself as much as possible. We do believe Seth’s assessment, to the effect that her body is righting itself in numerous areas after years of disuse, of being held down, but at the same time it’s very difficult not to have qualms and doubts about what’s happening at the same time. [...] I knew she’s not in favor of it, but as I said at the time, this seemed to mean that she was indulging the idea of spending the balance of her life sitting down —quite immobile for all practical purposes. I’d told her at the time that I had no great hope that medicine could help much, but still I wondered often enough if the medical profession might be able to offer some sort of help. [...] At times I feared something like this would happen if she wasn’t able to “pull out” of her symptoms on her own—that is, with her own, Seth’s, and my help.

[...] This is one of those bits of data that I return to much later and begin to question, after having let it pass at the time. [...] At times I for one can agree with Seth, but at other times I have strong doubts. [...]

(I’ve taken the time to write the above notes as much as for a reminder to myself as for anything else, and to start off this session as something special. [...] I must admit that at this time I’m pretty well puzzled as how to best help her. [...] Yet last night it had been her arms and elbows—I’d say that during the night she’d wake me up over a dozen times crying in her sleep at the discomfort in her arms. [...]

(That topic ties in with my idea that I mentioned to her this afternoon, about it hardly being a coincidence that many events in our lives are coming to a head at the same time: Our deep upset about Jane’s condition; the trouble with the disclaimer idea for Mass Events; Prentice-Hall’s reorganization into the General Publishing Division, in which all of their narrative books will be phased out, thus eliminating any real need for Tam and his job; indeed, Tam is looking at other job offers even now. [It’s been my position for some time now that Tam will end up leaving Prentice-Hall, or will be let go.] If and when he does go, we will be without our friend there, and will have to make decisions based on that departure. [...]

[...] You react to others, not only because of their position and relationship to you in this place and in this time, but because of memories from the past and, in your terms, because of memories from the future. [...] And the words that you spoke now affect the past as you think of it, for time has open ends. Now if you think of time as a line, I do not only mean that time is open-ended at either side, you see, for time cannot be considered as a single line. [...]

You are forming the psychological bridge. [...] Give it time, let it grow. [...]

[...] It is past the time for you to be entranced by other personalities including my own. It is time for you to become entranced with your own personality. It is time for you to feel independent enough to launch yourselves from your own subjective reality into others; to emerge, to drop the paraphernalia of all dogma. [...]

You do not understand the nature of creativity and, therefore, you cannot understand the nature of time. So when I tell you that time has open ends I will presently be satisfied if you understand that you can affect both the past and the future from your present viewpoint, and that is extremely simple. [...]