“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The time that any artistic creator is involved with follows earth’s own time, however. The creator’s time rises out of the seasons and the tides, even though in your society you make a great effort to fit the creator’s time into what I will call assembly-line time. [...]

Assembly-line time does not really value time — only as time can be used for definite prescribed purposes. In that framework, to enjoy time becomes a weakness or a vice, and both of you to some extent have so considered time. [...]

Important misunderstandings involving time have been in a large measure responsible for many of Ruburt’s difficulties, and also of your own, though they have been of a lesser nature. [...] There is certainly a kind of natural physical time in your experience, and in the experience of any creature. [...] In the light of that kind of physical time, which is involved within earthly biology, there is no (pause) basic cultural time. [...]

[...] When you were both working on those projects your cultural time was taken up in a way you found acceptable. Creative time and cultural time to some extent merged, in that you could see daily immediate evidence of creativity’s product, coming out of the typewriters, say, like any product off an assembly line. You were “using” time as your cultural training told you to do.

The action performed within the dream; the location; the lack of specific location; the time in which the dream appears to occur; the apparent movements through time within any given dream; the emotional content; the surface psychological content; the work done within the dream; the familiar persons spoken to; the unfamiliar persons spoken to; the relation of the dream to past events and to events immediately preceding sleep; the dream events in relation to future events; messages that are given or sent in sleep.

Your psychological-time experiments will serve you well in the future in relation with these endeavors. [...]

This business of primaries and secondaries will concern us for some time, and in more ways than you suppose. [...]

And now, if Ruburt worries that he does not carry his share of the work load, because you spend so much time typing our sessions, then the work of typing the dream experiences, both his and your own, shall be his. [...]

He has been going through such a time. [...] You went through your own journey and also emerged some time ago.

[...] You learned it some time ago, and he knew it intellectually. [...]

[...] The notes he wrote should be faithfully read, as he intends each morning, for some time.

[...] It is not necessarily because he is receiving some hidden psychological benefit, or because the illness fulfills some need. [...]

[...] On Monday, February 12, I had hypnotized her for the first time.)

[...] Jane took a very long time to open her eyes, and when she succeeded they were very heavy and bleary. [...]

(Her manner had been forceful, eyes open at times. [...]

[...] For some time he confused true spontaneity with acts caused by blind propulsion, so he could not trust his spontaneous nature. [...]

[...] In some psychological circles there are therapeutic groups that operate by setting up such dramas. [...]

Earlier I recommended a good hypnotist, hoping that the woman might find her way if positive suggestions were given; for even if the inner self had solved its problems, it would need help, psychological help, in reversing the physical trend. [...]

Give us further time with this.

[...] I have looked in on the situation several times. [...]

[...] There will be times when you are discouraged, each of you, but when one has confidence at any time, the other can use it. [...]

[...] To some extent or another each of you has played this role for the other at various times, in this life and in others. [...]

You are still both in the habit of minimizing improvements, and negatively projecting into the future, although at times you have spurts of confidence that are responsible for Ruburt’s quite definite physical improvement.

[...] And muscles can cause a sinking sensation that is quite natural, and a beneficial sign that should be psychologically interpreted as such.

[...] (Pause.) The further agility and freedom he is allowing himself psychologically and psychically is now leading him to the greater physical agility he desires. [...]

[...] (Harry) Edwards does help, for reasons I will give you—when we have the time—in the same way that Ruburt’s energy helps others, as at Woodstock. [...]

[...] He sensed these cousins of consciousness in one way or another—these environments that seemed real but not real, these further extensions of possible experience, and he decided that he must be very cautious: he must be prudent (long pause), he must take his time, he must range but carefully—and certainly to some extent such feelings cut down upon his spontaneity. [...]

[...] His psychological stance is honored wherever he goes. [...]

[...] It will serve a purpose and be a reality in your time. In a like manner can personality structures be of assistance and be realities to you within your time, although they have long since entered other dimensions.

Now because the spacious present exists, in other terms, these selves are actually in all places at one time. As you seem to approach different dimensions however, then you seem to approach a personality who exists at the time of your perception of him.

[...] In the case of these psychological structures however, because of the multidimensional aspects, there is understanding and purpose. [...]

[...] In quotes: “By the time” this realization comes, inner value fulfillment has already created new realities. [...]

Though both of you give much in time, energy and dedication and effort to our sessions, you will receive much more than you give. I tell you this now but you will know it without my telling you so, before too much of your time passes.

[...] In your own intimate psychological experience, in the intimate psychological experience of every individual within your race, you will find recognition of the thought.

Action does not involve time as you know it. [...]

[...] She said she no longer fears running past regular break time every half-hour, as she once did, especially when she began to deliver the material sitting down.

[...] As Seth comments in the 742nd session for April 16, 1975, in Section 6: “It is obvious that when you move from one place to another you make an alteration in space — but you alter time as well, and you set into motion a certain psychological impetus that reaches out to affect everyone you know … Such messages are often encountered in the dream state. [...]

[...] Seth finished his part of the second volume over a year ago, and since then I’ve carefully gone over my original notes for it; I’ve rewritten almost all of them (often many times) in an effort to get them just right, in my view. Those who are interested in the more detailed mechanics of Seth-Jane’s production of “Unknown” Reality, especially where qualities of time are involved, should review my Introductory Notes. [...]

In Section 4, then, Seth has more to say about CU and EE units, cellular consciousness, ancient man, evolution, space travel, and other seemingly disparate subjects as he continues to develop his thesis that “biologically the species is equipped to deal with different sequences of time while still manipulating within one particular time scheme.” [...]

[...] Jane initiates information on “world views,” with examples: Seth defines that concept as “the view of reality” held in the immortal mind of each of us, the “living picture” that exists outside of time or space, and that can be perceived by others. [...] He explains in some detail how we live more than one life at a time, how “the greater self ‘divides’ itself, materializing in flesh as several individuals, with entirely different backgrounds — yet each embarked upon the same kind of creative challenge.” [...]

This next may sound Pollyannaish to an extreme, but he should make it a point to help another human being in any small way, without expecting thanks, three times a week. I do not suggest, you see, that he do this on purpose daily, lest it develop psychologically into a self-sacrificial ritual. And I also most strongly suggest that three times a week in a very quiet, disciplined but positive manner, he makes it a point to express himself when any matters arise where he holds a diverse opinion from the one being presented.

(Jane and I have not yet resumed the study of psychological time, although frequently as we are drifting off to sleep we will have brief experiences. [...]

I am not suggesting for example that five sessions, or four, be held in a week at this time; only that sincere requests should not be automatically denied because they do not fall within the scheduled time. [...]

[...] She began dictation on time in a rather normal voice, and at an easy rate. [...]

There are times when windows “appear in the heavens,” when it is easy for you to get, say, to the moon in a spaceship—and so, again from your viewpoint, there are better times for psychological windows to open, and psychic pathways. [...]

I have heard each of you say, at one time or another, that you did not know if you would do it over again—if you knew that Ruburt would have developed his physical difficulties. [...]

There are certain “auspicious” times, in your terms, for such intersections.

Now he tried two or three times lately to get you out of your body, but you did not respond. [...]

[...] In one respect he was like a time projection, appearing out of place, a psychological warp brought into displacement by a phenomena that psychologically could be likened to a natural phenomena like a volcano.

[...] (Jane held up her cigarette lighter.) The events in the times of the Crusades, for example, were this high. (Jane raised an arm over her head, full length.) Following the analogy the times, the physical times in which they would ordinarily have occurred, would have ended, say, here—(Jane indicated a spot six inches above the lighter)—but the energy was so great that it catapulted some of these events, displacing what you think of as time, so that they appeared, as Hitler did, where theoretically, now, they should not have.

The two of you were exceedingly close in male comradeship—far more intense than any known now in your time. [...] It was no coincidence that Father Traynor used to read Don Juan of Austria (in the Catholic Church the young Jane attended), for they knew each other at that time.

The energy from that time, the disturbance between Christendom and the East, generated such energy—very simply put, now—that the physical times could not contain it and it erupted, in your terms, into the future.

[...] The time of choosing may happen almost immediately, in your terms, or it may be put off for a much longer period while training is carried on. The main impediments standing in the way of the time of choosing are, of course, the faulty ideas harbored by any given individual.

Then they are ready for the time of choosing. Others may insist that because of their transgressions they will be cast into hell, and because of the force of such belief, they may for some time actually encounter such conditions. [...]

At the time of choosing, therefore, the personality is already preparing itself to leave for another existence. In your terms of time this in-between period can last for centuries. [...]

[...] Of the four regular sessions held in the remaining time, large portions dealt with matters growing out of the September 4th publication of Jane’s own book, The Seth Material, and a projected radio and television tour.

Ruburt’s experience in psychological time today represented a legitimate attempt to dissociate his awareness from physical matter, and was a sign that he is embarking upon another fruitful period of activity.

(Jane said there is little to say about her psychological time experiences, other than that she felt she was making a guarded attempt to lift out of her physical body.

[...] Finally when Jane went to the post office just before closing time today to claim the package, it proved to be lost again, this time on the premises. [...]

By the time we are finished, we will have some excellent evidential material. By the time critics’ voices become noisy we will be ready to show what we can do. [...]

[...] They do not have any other kind of time to contend with in the same way that you do.

[...] In your historical times, no civilization has been based upon the precepts I have given you. [...]

[...] For example, it is a statement of fact, my dear Joseph, that when you leave your work on “Unknown” you must then spend much time reacquainting yourself with the material, struggling to assimilate material, regaining continuity, and so forth. [...]

I want Ruburt in particular to take one day at a time. [...]

This value, or this particular extension of self to include other self experience, is one of the attributes that can be expected through the use of psychological time. It is an attribute that is independent of and free from your physical as well as clock time. You should remember the difference between physical time and clock time—I have given them to you.

(She said she also had the feeling the quality of this material had something to do with psychological time, yet in a way that had nothing to do with gaining time. [...]

It should be obvious that although an idea is born in time, after its conception it is free from time in a way that a spider’s web can never be free from time. [...]

All things in good time, and believe you me, we shall have some good times. [...]

[...] Last week he began and finished an excellent short story, and finished an outline, as well as holding our sessions, and beginning once more his psychological time experiments.

(These notes are taken verbatim from Jane’s notebook, listing her recent experiments with psychological time:

(She began dictation on time, again without her glasses. [...] At the same time Jane’s pacing also picked up speed.)

I would not take up session time for this material except that my suggestions, if followed, will be most helpful. Also to him a note: even his adolescent, seemingly-undisciplined times were disciplined, giving notice of continuing ego strength, balanced and sometimes over-balanced by intuitional development, in that he never ceased writing from the day that he began.

Since our last session, you both made considerable efforts, so that you momentarily managed to suspend self-disapproval for some periods of time. [...] It was obvious to both of you, I believe, that at times Ruburt would stand a good deal taller. [...]

[...] Ruburt was given what he wanted—the psychological stimulation of a friend, who was all ready to visit you because Ruburt’s message had gotten through. The psychological activity would have allowed the body to continue its process. [...]

Last night’s events cannot be discussed without a brief preview of the time since our last session. [...]

On many of those occasions Ruburt’s back would bend over in the usual fashion as the knees continued their activity, because that was necessary as the adjustments at that time were made. [...]