“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I think that it operates as a psychological and psychic framework that frees me from normal verbal reference, letting me express and communicate inner feelings and data that lie just beneath formalized word patterns.

As Seth continued dictating The Nature of Personal Reality, I wrote a complete poetry manuscript, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, in which I worked out many of my own beliefs as per suggestions Seth was giving in his book. [...]

Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, The Speakers, and some Sumari poetry are being combined into a book that will be published soon by Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] As a result I’m working on a book called Aspect Psychology, which I hope will present a theory of personality large enough to contain man’s psychic nature and activities. [...]

(Jane has not been experimenting with psychological time since Seth suggested she stop at the time of her prolonged trance state of March 15.

I am going to suggest also that Ruburt continue with the procedure as far as psychological time is concerned, that is, that he lets it go until I tell him otherwise. [...]

Your reactions at such times are not good for yourself, and your reactions are not good at such times for the conditions which bring them about. [...]

[...] At no time however did I blame a virus, feeling that the real cause was psychic, thus permitting the virus to come to the fore. [...] As time passed, and while I pored over several daily New York City newspapers plus Elmira’s daily paper, I came to realize to a small extent that poor expectations on my part had much to do with my falling ill.

[...] It would be advantageous for him, just when he begins the practice of psychological time, to suggest to himself that the work of the day is of primary importance. [...]

Ruburt almost saw your sick friend’s clasped hands, during psychological time just before falling asleep the other evening. [...]

(Talking about distortions during last break, I had been reminded that many sessions ago Jane-Seth had stated first that [my brother] Loren had been three times a woman, then three times a man in a following session. [...]

[...] Jane had visited her a couple of times through the week, and Miss Callahan now recognized her when she saw her. [...]

I must remind you once more that all time happens simultaneously, so the confused belief about punishment now, in retaliation for past action would actually be meaningless, since in simultaneous time all actions would be occurring at once.

[...] Dr. Menahem very favorably compares the Seth material with a number of psychological disciplines, and I told Jane I hoped his feature would show her that the general validity of her work would continue to grow. [...]

(As I was doing mail today she said she’d put off having sessions lately because she’d picked up from me that I wanted the time off to catch up on other things. [...]

[...] You leave from any moment of your time and you are gone sometimes for centuries of physical time. [...]

(We each described our reactions to Seth II and what we saw at the time.)

[...] You are afraid of going off into your own realities afar from your fellows ...and yet to a large degree you do so all of the time in the daily life that you know. [...]

[...] I am speaking in terms of personality gestalts that simply do not operate through matter at all, in your terms, and whose components are of a psychological variety unknown to you. [...]

This is done many times without the main personality realizing what is really going on. [...] Both are methods to uncover invisible conscious beliefs — that are accepted by you consciously at any given time, say, and deliberately ignored at another given time.

(As usually happens at this time of year, we’ve begun to miss some regularly scheduled sessions. Jane and I figure that from now on they’ll probably be held irregularly into January, 1973; partly because of our holiday activities, which we enjoy, but also because this seems to be a natural time of rest for us — although Jane plans to keep her ESP and writing classes going as usual.

[...] If the analyst, over a period of time, should convince Augustus that his condition in the present resulted from some specific inhibited event in the past, and if the analyst was an intuitive and understanding man, then Augustus might change his beliefs enough so that some kind of “cure” was worked. [...]

[...] But at the same time the dangers and difficulties would make such a cure relatively impossible.

[...] Nor did we want to wait for science or psychology to explain dreams, since here we were having them all of the time. [...]

[...] As she sat at the sink she began to get more dream material, this time from Seth. [...]

[...] Her dictation was a little fast, so that I scribbled notes at times. [...]

Then earlier I got (Jane said), that when we’re interpreting dreams, we should also look over groups of them, over a period of time, to see if you see yourself as a hero, a victim, a victor, bravely grappling with problems or whatever.

(At times Jane gets “feelings” about the physical condition of an individual, whether it is a friend or someone she passes on the street. [...] She has felt other psychological states also, and now notes them down when they occur. [...]

[...] Helen told us she has dreamed of her husband many times, but felt this particular experience was something other than a dream; she stressed its clarity, its reassurance and simplicity.

She is balanced on a thin line of normalcy at this time. [...]

[...] These operate quite as effectively through distance; and for that matter, though less often, through time.

[...] (In a recent issue of Time magazine.) Such unfoldings always occur from within, responding to signals not from the exterior but from the interior environment.

[...] There is no saving time lag, as within your own system, and there is no physical body such as you know it.

[...] The very mechanism of the body however is so constructed that it can bear the brunt of many errors, and free itself from them, though this may not seem to be the case at times. [...]

[...] Now the sculptor does at times identify with his sculpt, but never entirely, and it will help him if he remembers that he did the damage, and therefore can undo it.

[...] Sometimes I thought that if Rob said it was a terrific day just one more time, I’d scream.

[...] On August 7th at supper time a young fan appeared unexpectedly at the door. [...]

[...] No wonder — he’d met her at a bar the first time he was in town. [...]

[...] They represent a kind of mobility … a psychological motion, at another level than the usually conscious one.

[...] It was the type of dream where one returns to it several times. [...]

Many times people at the point of desperation seize upon such ideas, and often they are valuable because they relieve people of hidden guilts; they are not “to blame” for their difficulties—but certain elements outside of their own selves are the culprits. [...]

Ruburt felt some dismay when you told him of the letter about the diet because he felt momentarily threatened—attracted to the diet, and suspicious of it at the same time. [...]

Man cannot assign his own psychology to the food that he partakes. [...]

[...] They represented a kind of psychological handicap. [...] When you gave up your job you did not have to explain why you did not have to find another as “any normal red-blooded male should do,” but stayed at home devoted to a time of painting and philosophy. [...]

[...] I’d had that extra time to work some things out. [...] It seems that in recent years one of my main goals in life has been to pare down—or eliminate outright—a number of ideas and obligations and hassles that I’d finally realized weren’t worth the time to retain. Each time I manage to dispense of something that way, I regard it as an achievement. Now, I told her, I want to spend my time on the few things I consider important in life.)

[...] It seemed like a strange idea to me, but I didn’t have time to think about it at the moment. I didn’t have time to really think about what I’d been saying myself, but I hoped there was something to it, and that discussing it would offer her some help in the form of improved health. For some time now I’d thought, often, that it could be that she wanted to be sick —that that was the role she’d chosen for this life, that in many ways all of our efforts to get out from under the symptoms were really beside the point. [...]

(Obviously, many facets of these ideas have been discussed many times. [...] Dealing with our personal situations was taking up more and more of our time. [...]

[...] We’ve realized for some time that Jane is sensitive to those subjects, particularly religion; she had strict training in that field as a youngster. [...] She is well aware that such an early environment leaves its marks, even though she had left her church by the time she was nineteen….

They will be formed to impress world conditions at any given time, and therefore couched in symbols and events that will most impress the populace. This is craftily done, for the inner self knows exactly what will impress the ego, and what kinds of personalities will be best able to personify the message at any given time. [...]

Now: The questions on religion and reincarnation will be answered in due time, as mentioned. [...]

[...] The drama itself is a psychological phenomenon in a way, for each physically oriented self feels thrust alone into a strange environment, without knowing its origins or destination or even the reason for its own existence.

(We have been resting from trying psychological time since August 12th. [...] It might be noted that although Jane’s hand rested in mine at the time, she was not aware of any change in feeling or sensation on my part.)

(What did develop was that my boss at work, at 11:50 AM, called me on the phone–he happened to be at the company’s other plant on Elmira’s southside at the time–and asked me to put in more time on the job as a regular routine. [...]

(I like the part-time arrangement I now have at Artistic very much. It gives me time for myself in the afternoons to paint—an arrangement that I have learned is very necessary, even vital, to my well-being both physically and mentally. [...]

(Both of us were busy as session time approached. During the day–Jane’s vacation has another week to run, while mine ended today–Jane had remarked several times that she doubted there would be a session tonight. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, beyond the 13th date, and for psychological reasons, the house will not be available to you. You had to see in concrete terms exactly what your expectations were, and the house represented at that time the height of your expectations, if not the height of your desire.

I will explain in due time the circumstances surrounding your house, or if you prefer I will go into them this evening.

[...] But, all of these inner psychological realities color your expectations, just as Ruburt is entirely convinced that a writer of real merit cannot bear children.

This expectation of yours, this fear of making money, is a strong element in your psychological makeup, and beside the reasons already given, there is a subconscious need to punish your mother. [...]

(Jane is trying to get back on a regular basis of psy-time experiments. [...]

[...] The difficulty, however, was caused by a psychological tension, and an inability to utilize added energies.

The inner ego, however, through the subconscious, may at times encourage the development of abilities that will better allow the whole self to achieve balance and fulfillment.

[...] Your time system is indeed the result of tension as it is distorted within your own system, yet the distortion itself, as you see, creates a new reality. [...]

[...] In a fashion it psychologically multiplies itself as it goes. [...]

To some extent, particularly at certain levels, that participation brings about a far greater sense of sympathy and power than adults ever realize, particularly in your cultural times. [...]

[...] At the same time it knows that the parents are equally independent, and that its own identity is a part of extensions that are the parents’. [...]

[...] Certainly I have nothing against your taking some time off occasionally. [...]

[...] I am glad that he put his dream book aside for a while, merely because he will have much more data for it within a short time. [...]

[...] It depends upon some sort of inner psychological decision as to what will be considered self, and therefore accepted by consciousness, and that which will be considered notself, and not accepted by consciousness.

[...] These two self-conscious portions of the self simply happen to coincide or to coexist with some proximity, psychologically speaking.

[...] As I have said, so-called space travel will be mainly divorced from vehicles, and the use of psychological time is the very first step in this direction.

(At 8:30 PM Jane and I tried psychological time, before the session which was due at 9 PM. [...]

[...] Because I was using the word light for the first time in these experiments, [with a rather ill-defined idea of levitation in mind, after Jane’s attempts], I also told myself I was not afraid. I repeated these few words a few times, but do not believe I put myself in any kind of a trance, although at the time I took the precaution of reminding myself I could snap out of it any time I wanted to.

(At the time I noticed my hand phenomena, our cat Willy began to [...] At the same time, Jane said that she thought she felt Seth stirring about, since all of us had talked about him constantly for some time now. [...]

[...] This mild sensation has been a rather standard one for me during psychological time, when presumably I was in a light state of dissociation. [...]

[...] Her manner was quite active and much of the time she leaned forward, elbows on her knees. [...]

[...] You will find, incidentally, that within a fairly short time that the stock of which we have spoken will take a quite severe drop, after which it will slowly rise.

[...] It is developing even better than I had hoped, and our own material will now begin to really develop, for we have enough background to enable us to cover subject matter that would have been impossible at an earlier time. [...]