“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

To whatever extent, each of you in your way grew up in the belief system of your times. [...] These said that you ate at certain times, slept at certain times, followed certain patterns because these were important. [...]

[...] You also turned them off to some extent because you did not want to take the time to write them down. This was because you worried about “Unknown” Reality, and time required.

The book will stand along with Ruburt’s own Aspect Psychology, serving to give demonstrations in the operation of the psyche itself as different parts of it view the reality that you know, and an inner reality that is sometimes so much more difficult for you to perceive.

[...] We are introducing a different kind of consciousness as normal, as natural, and as good, broadening the frontiers of psychology, religion and science as well—again, to whatever degree.

(1. Was there any connection between Jane’s Cézanne, and the New York City Cézanne show appearing at practically the same time? [...] Both projects had been underway for a long time before surfacing to the public. [...]

The timing of such events is outside of your time, but the results appear within it. [...]

(2. Did Cézanne “himself” have any sense of awareness, or of completion, connected with Jane’s book and the New York City show happening at the same time? [...]

[...] Frank Longwell cited a case whereby his brother Waldo obtained encouraging answers to a set of business problems that had been bugging the Longwells for some time. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s consciousness merged, while still retaining its own individuality, with the consciousness of the leaves outside his window, and with the nail in the windowsill, and traveled outward and inward at the same time, so that like a mental wind his consciousness traveled through other psychological neighborhoods.

[...] And I’ve got that feeling again, that more time should have passed while I was under: I think it should be a lot later now than it is. It’s as though when the material’s good I expect that it should take more time to get, or something like that…. [...]

[...] In the same fashion, jointly all of the people alive at any given time “direct” the events of the universe to behave in a certain fashion, even though the processes must happen by themselves, or automatically. [...]

All of those characteristics have their sources in Framework 2, for the psychological medium in Framework 2 is automatically conducive to creativity. [...]

[...] Pauses, eyes open at times.)

[...] My personality is such that it is not intimate or understandable to you, now, simply because it is a personality based upon different root assumptions than your own, and has its prime existence in dimensions that are composed of personality structures and gestalts based on alien psychological activities.

[...] (Eyes open.) The woman’s death was foremost as far as probabilities were concerned, and yet at many points at the time of our session she could have altered those probabilities.

[...] However, the woman chose the time of her death, with the subconscious knowledge of the whole family.

(Before the session this evening I spent some time blowing off steam about a variety of large issues that we see reflected in our daily news media—such things as corruption, pollution, inflation, the destiny of the race if it persists in its present ways, etc. [...]

Within your system, for the “first time”, in quotes, individualized consciousness is strongly-enough organized to do, in quotes, “good or evil.” [...]

[...] There are guardians, so to speak, within your system, reincarnated for the last time to help keep it in some kind of order while the others mature. [...]

[...] Regardless of what you may think of their present performance at any given “time” in quotes, it is from this system that the greatest potentials emerge; for having dealt with it, consciousness undergoes one of the severest tests in learning to handle its own energy.

(This is the first time in many sessions that Willy has paid any attention to Jane during a session. [...] At times he would attempt to entangle himself in Jane’s legs as she paced about the room while speaking for Seth. At other times he seemed to exhibit plain panic, running to hide just before session time. [...]

The imagination can vaguely perceive, of course, some probabilities, but the physical organism can directly experience but one of these within physical time, and in terms of continuity. [...] As a sideline here, there are some interesting episodes, not at all understood, when a severe psychological shock, or even a deep sense of unendurable futility, will cause a short circuit, so to speak, so that one portion of the self becomes aware, and begins to experience reality as it exists for another portion of the self.

Since your physical time operates as it does, the physical organism does not have time within its own framework to experience any more than one probable event. [...]

The ego must choose one of all these because of its physical time limitations. [...] It can pursue and experience all of these alternate events, and it can do so in the same amount of physical time that it takes for the ego to experience event X alone.

[...] (Pause.) Such a statement can be accepted by all portions of the self, but it must be emphasized time and time again. [...]

[...] The same applies in any personality who attempts to separate the intellect and the emotions from their necessary unity within psychological structure. [...]

[...] This is often accomplished quite automatically as other portions of the self form themselves into negotiative postures, inserting various thoughts and ideas and feelings to the opposing psychological camp. [...]

(9:37.) Over a period of time you ended up with two exaggerated postures —artificial ones—with the spontaneous elements of the personality straining for the full use of their abilities (in parentheses: value fulfillment), and the reasoning one determined to pursue such endeavors—but with caution. [...]

[...] They are exploring the land of time. [...] In the land of time, time also grows more of itself. As you can climb trees, both up and down the branches, so you can climb times in the same way. [...] The family tree exists at once — but that tree is only one tree that appears in the land of time. [...]

[...] As time goes by, however, the children lose their memories of their home tongue. Mama and Papa know that times are like places or countries, but their children begin to forget this, too, and so they grow to believe that they are far more separate from each other than they actually are. [...] The children forgot that they can move through time as easily as through space.

[...] For this, try to imagine time as being something like space. [...]

Now: Think of your ancestors, yourself, and your children as members of one tribe, each journeying into different countries instead of times. [...]

[...] We have time to read each one. [...]

[...] Science, including psychology, by what it has said, and by what it has neglected to say, has come close to a declaration that life itself is meaningless. [...]

(Pause, then forcefully:) I am trying to temper my statements here, but your psychology of the past 50 years has helped create insanities by trying to reduce the great individual thrust of life that lies within each person, to a generalized mass of chaotic impulses and chemicals — a mixture, again, of Freudian and Darwinian thought, misapplied.

To some extent, this also applies to religion in the same time period. [...]

[...] In periods of stress or challenge the recognized self may sense these other strains of consciousness, and realize that a fuller experience is possible, a greater psychological thickness. [...] Double or triple dreams may represent such encounters at times. [...]

[...] Dreams can provide you with experience that in a manner of speaking, at least, is not encountered in time. The dream itself is recorded by the brain’s time sequences, but in the dream itself there is a duration of time “that is timeless.”

[...] Obviously I am simplifying, since you can eat an orange, watch television, scratch your foot, and yell at the dog — all more or less at the same time. You cannot, however, be in Boston and San Francisco at the same time, or be 21 years of age and 11 at the same time.

The body obviously must react in your official present; hence the brain neatly keeps its physical time sequences with spaced neural responses. The entire package of physical reality is dependent upon the senses’ data being timed — synchronized — giving the body an opportunity for precise action. [...]

[...] In one manner of speaking you do this now, you see, translating your psychological experience — your thoughts and emotions — quite literally but unconsciously into physical objects. [...] For a certain period of time, therefore, you can manipulate this form so that it takes any appearance that it had when it was connected with your physical form in the immediately previous physical life. [...]

[...] And in such episodes, therefore, the true nature of time and space becomes more apparent. After death it does not take time to go through space, for example. [...]

In some cases, the idea of illness is so strong that they have built their earthly years about this psychological center. [...]

[...] There is no time lag, as there must be in the three-dimensional system, between the initiation of such thoughts and their materialization.

[...] When you feel at the same time that you must and should plow the driveway out yourself, to prove that you are the same as your neighbor, or to prove that you are physically agile, and on the other hand if you feel that you do not want to plow out the driveway at all, then you are in a quandary—and when you shovel, you tell your body to shovel and not to shovel at the same time, setting your muscles against each other.

[...] At the same time, both of you to some extent feared what you thought of as the power of sex. [...]

[...] They fit in with nature’s plans, and with the psychological plans of the personalities involved. [...]

[...] The sexual aspects of men and women do not exist apart from their individual psychological make-ups, but connected with all of the other unique individual characteristics.

You must not be concerned with time, yet you must have the faith that in your terms of time Ruburt’s normal walking will come in an immediate rather than distant future.

[...] For the time of his walk that space is empty. [...]

[...] In very ancient times, medicine men had to perform such acts as part of their initiation ceremonies. [...]

[...] In Framework 2, therefore, the nature of each individual actively seeks out its own greatest potential, in the world of Framework 1, practically speaking, in the world where time and space are realities.

[...] His purpose and his psychological progress have led him to further activations, and as I have said several times, this means that sometimes he will feel like walking, and will do so with a relative amount of balance, and on other occasions, perhaps 20 minutes earlier or later, his walking might be uncomfortable and “worse” in performance.

[...] You do not appreciate your own dream, or your appreciation of it is too remote—and yes, it does contain some reincarnational data, for it shows you a moment in a life when a decision was made, even though the emotional disgust that you felt at the time was separated from you—for the mouse at the time stood not only for itself but also for the victims of war, burned bodies you had seen while soldiers went about the remains to see what loot might be left.

[...] When man learns to approach a well-intentioned psychological environment, he will then be following the inherent nature of all realities.

[...] Now he tries to walk when you are in the kitchen so as not to bother you, but there will be times when he will want to, and can simply call.

[...] Only your rigid ideas of time and consciousness make these statements seem strange to you; for in a larger context, again, I can remember Seth Two. [...] All psychological events affect all others.

[...] In that session, for May 4, 1971, Seth said in part: “So what you understand of reincarnation, and of the time terms involved, is a very simplified tale indeed…. [...] It seems very difficult for you to understand that you live in many realities — and many centuries — at one time….” [...]

[...] It does mean that each of you choose those life conditions that you have for your own purpose, knowing ahead of time where your weaknesses and strengths lie. [...]

[...] In the terms of which I am speaking for your benefit, their present might, for example, include the life and death of your planet in a moment of their “time.” [...]

[...] When you do psychological time exercises, for in say, five moments, you can have experiences that completely escape your time-space continuum. [...]

You create times and places. [...] You all dwell in dimensions that know no place and no time, and so Ruburt is correct for when you ask me of places and times I answer you in terms of places and times, and when you know enough to ask me questions that do not have to do with places and times then you will understand more of your own identity, the nature of your existence and the abilities that are inherent within you. [...]

[...] Physically you believe that you are here and so you are here but other portions of your identity are in other places and other times, and I use those terms very loosely. They are only to make you happy because the words, times and places, have a meaning to you but in your basic reality you do not know times nor places. [...]

Now in dreams you open [sic], though not always, also escape and time is meaningless to you. [...] Now your astronauts cannot do this as yet in your time schedule and yet you can do it and when you return, no time has passed in physical terms. [...]

[...] This is the first time we’ve seen the design, and we like it very much: The long title, along with Jane’s name and Introduction by Seth, are well arranged in subtle pastel colors against a deep blue background. [...]

On these other levels the child knows, for example, of its contemporaries born at about the same time. [...]

Your mental life deals with psychological events, obviously, but beneath so-called normal awareness the child grows toward the mental body of events that will compose his or her life. [...]

Each child’s birth changes the world, obviously, for it sets up an instant psychological momentum that begins to affect action in Framework 1 and Framework 2 alike.

[...] The inner psychological state is projected outward, gaining physical reality. This holds true regardless of the nature of that inner psychological state. [...]

[...] If you read our early material, you will see that your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own expectations. [...]

[...] According then to the specific conditions existing at the time, such an individual will to some extent or another act according the mass suggestions he has received.

[...] Jane’s eyes were open at times, her pace good.

[...] Often during that time, and for some time afterward, the records are rather unreliable. [...]

There was at the time a secret group called “Followers of the Motherhood of God.” They were considered heretics, and several times petitions were given to me against them. [...]

(At the supper table this evening we had been speculating about the times Seth had given in connection with his life as a pope, both in the ESP class session for May 25, 1971, and the 588th session in this chapter. [...]

Now give us time. [...]

During this period I was trying the psychological time exercises suggested by Seth, and often, just when I got started, Miss Cunningham would interrupt me. One day I went into the bedroom where it was quiet, closed my eyes, lay down and began clearing my mind of thoughts for my psy-time exercise. Several times Miss Cunningham came to mind: I wanted to ask her doctor about her condition but hesitated because I wasn’t a member of her family.

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

[...] The psychological time exercises suddenly took on greater significance. [...]

Miss Cunningham stayed in the nursing home for a short time when the family was notified again that she was unmanagable, and that other arrangements would have to be made. [...] Not wanting to commit her, the relatives returned her to the apartment, in care of a part-time housekeeper.