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[...] At times you fill the atmosphere, as you think of it, with questions and with noise and you demand answers. Yet all the time far more important messages are there for you if you would once forget your questions and simply listen. [...]

([Gert:] “If a bull says you may go into his pasture, you may go into his pasture, but when a person wishes to heal there are three things; the physical, emotional and psychological, is that correct?”)

[...] Do not take anything for granted this week, either that objects are stationery or that time goes from one moment to the next. [...]

(Jane and I were both tired by session time. [...]

Three: Permanence is not a matter of time. [...]

Five: Stability in time-sequence is not a prerequisite requirement for an object, except as a root assumption within the physical universe.

[...] You may conclude that a given experience is the result merely of subconscious fabrications, simply because the time elements are obviously intermixed, or physical coherence or sequence is not maintained.

(9:34.) Instead, your natural creativity and your natural energies would some time ago have led you naturally (underlined) to a more productive use of nuclear force, to ways of rendering such use harmless in the short and long run, so that it could take its place in a loving technology. You take the opposite for granted, of course, and you consider psychological energy in the very same terms.

[...] Jane had a “scary” dream episode last night, one that was quite unpleasant, she said, and involved her seeing herself in different time frames and three different programs or movies on TV at the same time. [...]

Ruburt’s symptoms are not his challenge this time, as you asked (in question 13), but the philosophical connotations behind his difficulties certainly do involve his challenges this time.

[...] It was 9:00 by the time I got settled—and she still didn’t “feel him around”—meaning Seth, of course. [...]

[...] At the same time EE (electromagnetic energy) units became manifest, impinging from the invisible universe into definition. Again, because of the psychological strength of preconceived notions, I have to work my way around many of your concepts. [...]

While you believe in and experience the passage of time, then such questions will naturally occur to you, and in that fashion. [...] When you begin to question the nature of time itself, then the “when” of the universe is beside the point.

[...] This happens all the time, and I mean all the time.

[...] It is a time and a probability in which every bit of help is needed, and your talents, abilities, and prejudices made you both uniquely fitted for such a drama. At the same time, do not dwell too much upon that world situation, for a concentration upon your own nature and upon the physical nature of your world — the seasons, and so forth — allows you to refresh your own energy, and frees you to take advantage of that clear vision that is so necessary.

[...] At times during it I’d felt somewhat overwhelmed, thinking of what we still had to learn and accomplish, as well as about what we hadn’t learned in the past: Why was it all taking so long? [...] But the session was very good, I saw, and at the same time I felt a renewed hope.)

(I felt a bit tired, but thought the malaise was more psychological than anything else. [...]

[...] In the past, however, those methods seemed to make sense: if you believe that the self is sinful or deceptive, then you must indeed set up barriers so that you allow expression while monitoring it very carefully at the same time. [...]

(Long pause.) I do not want to give you too much charged material in a concentrated period of time. [...]

The psychological composition of the perceiving participator is therefore entirely alien to your own. In such a system however, as in your own, the perceiver is also a participator and a creator, but he does not work with your conception of time, but with probabilities. In your terms then, he would seem to delve into each moment in all of its probabilities, so that in your time on the one hand many centuries would have passed, and on the other hand only an instant.

The whole psychological formation of the perceiver is entirely different, and there is no one event out of all probable events, but there is experience of all the mathematically probable events that could happen to any given individual, within any given amount of time as you know it.

(I was somewhat dubious about Jane’s hypnosis attempts since we haven’t had time to do much work in this direction lately. [...] Both Bill and Peggy said they thought they could have done better had Jane taken more time with her induction, yet Jane’s approach had been quite leisurely; thus time appeared to have been compressed for them.

When the inverted time system is understood for what it is, then the individual is in contact simultaneously with the experience gained in the so-called past, and is also able to take advantage of events which have not yet occurred within your present. This does not mean that he will be consciously aware of future events, for if you remember these events can be changed by him at any time. [...]

[...] You may find yourself experiencing a state of consciousness, for example, in which nothing seems to happen, and no psychological landscape or recognizable symbols occur. These exist not only psychologically or psychically, but as blank areas in terms of space. [...]

[...] Inertia results when aggressiveness and creativity are not in the proper proportions, when consciousness leans too severely in one direction or another, when the flow of symbols is either too quick or too slow for the particular psychological environment in which you dwell.

[...] To put it as simply as possible, there is an almost inconceivable moment in which a no-reality occurs, in which a symbol is caught between motion and no motion, a time of uncertainty. [...]

[...] “The flu season” is in a way an example of a psychologically-manufactured pattern that can at times bring about a manufactured epidemic.

At certain times, and most particularly at the birth of medical science in modern times, the belief in inoculation, if not by the populace then by the doctors, did possess the great strength of new suggestion and hope — but I am afraid that scientific medicine has caused as many new diseases as it has cured. [...]

[...] Seth-Jane was certainly busy on all of those Monday and Saturday nights, though, and came through with another separate series of sessions after I inserted the 806th session into Mass Events — 17 of them this time, as compared to the 10 sessions delivered before the 806th was held. [...]

[...] The problem — the challenge — would be to find the physical time to do the necessary editing and notes to put such a manuscript in shape for publication; this would be a job that could easily take a year. [...]

I tell you this now again, except that the improvement should be far more startling: the time and the season and Ruburt’s psychological state are right. This is why I have taken the time from my book for this session, and the other recent ones for him. [...]

Sitting down at the desk to write poetry, the act and intention automatically reminds Ruburt of all the times that he has written poetry before, and primes the pump, so to speak. [...]

[...] My word to him now then, for the 100th time—but now he will take it—is to allow himself spontaneity on a daily basis, the feeling of playfulness. [...]

Now the last time I told you that a period of excellent improvement could be expected in his condition, it followed. [...]

[...] You cannot yourselves keep track of it for five full moments of your time. The dimensions of it can only be sensed by those determined enough to take the time and effort required to journey through their own subjective realities. Yet intuitively each individual knows that a part of his experience escapes from him all the time. [...]

Somewhere during this time he will go into a deeply protected area of sleep, where he is at the threshold to other layers of reality and probabilities. At this point his experiences will be out of all context to time as you know it. [...]

[...] Jane was surprised, since she thought much more time had passed. [...]

[...] Suggestions given during this time are highly effective. [...]

The psychological-time experiments should also be suspended. [...]

[...] I had been using suggestion at various times through the day; trying Seth’s method, I noticed an amazing improvement at once. I slept well the night of the 6th, and sneezed but five times the whole following day. [...]

It makes no difference that physical time does not exist as you imagine, since you act as if it does. For this reason physical time is involved. [...]

[...] This time I cemented a collection of used U.S. postage stamps, still on original paper, to a folded piece of white paper. [...]

[...] I could list many more, but probably won’t. I still don’t think Seth would want to spend much time discussing that old material in any detail, since he’s said many times that focusing on what was wrong in the past is negative and self-defeating. [...]

(As I mentioned doing at the close of last Saturday night’s deleted session, today I paid our NY State and Federal income taxes a few days ahead of time, hoping the action would contribute to my sense of freedom, and perhaps Jane’s too. [...]

(Willy kept bugging me as I tried to make notes for this session—sitting as he does close to me on the couch, wanting to stare at me and be petted at the same time, while I try to accomplish something. [...]

[...] You were saddled with the usual beliefs of your times, and yet trying to understand new ones. [...]

You want to examine life, to experience it, and yet in some way find in time a safe dimension apart from time. [...] On the other hand, they rob you in time of that second life you want, in which to examine your experiences.

[...] Almost all of Ruburt’s difficulty with time, and your own, spring from this basic quandary. For most people do not try that hard to preserve the living moment, or to understand it, while they are still involved with time’s physical package. [...] A bold venture, and one that fits in quite will with your intents jointly to understand and preserve fleeting reality, and one that conflicts with your attempts to do this in the context of one physical time that passes.

Ruburt, therefore, became somewhat overly concerned with physical time. He must allow himself greater freedom creatively, in a playful manner, forgetting all thoughts “at the time” of time.

[...] Jane has been extremely sore in her arms, shoulders, rib cage, and so forth today, yet she was able to stand taller, by leaning against the bathroom door frame, than I’d seen her do in a very long time. It’s part of the rhythmic healing process going on in her body, as Seth described it recently, moving through different areas successively, followed each time by new releases. [...]

Some people, for example, definitely want to live, while they try to hide from life at the same time. [...]

[...] Instead they question it at every point — even holding their breath at times, waiting for something to go wrong.

[...] Instead, in the majority of cases they consist of quite conscious decisions, made at one time or another on quite surface levels.

All of this, of course, applies to Ruburt’s situation — for once, indeed, he willed himself into immobility, willing to sacrifice certain kinds of motion in order to safely use other kinds of psychological motion, because he was afraid of his spontaneous nature, or his spontaneous self.

(Shortly before session time Jane told me she had the thought that dreams and astral travel, or the astral body, were somehow connected. [...]

[...] He forms a certain psychic and psychological framework, within which we operate. [...]

[...] They are free of the necessity to follow physical rules of time and growth. [...]

[...] She was aware that the material was good, yet at the same time she felt annoyed and distracted. [...]

(This is the first time Seth has mentioned Dr. Instream to us, since we halted the tests with Dr. Instream. [...]

We were all complete strangers at the time.

Dr. Gene Bernard has received some excellent material from me, both in the realm of psychological interpretation, and clairvoyant impressions. [...]

[...] (Meaning Jane.) I do suggest, now, a meeting in Elmira, at which time any questions you have can be answered without the necessity for long and complicated letters.

You could not be consciously aware of those other realities all of the time, and deal with the world that you know. You have several time and space tracks in operation at once, then, but you acknowledge only certain neurological messages physically. Yet there is more to the body than you perceive of it, and this is difficult to explain to you … If you can think of a multidimensional body existing at one time in various realities, and appearing differently within each one while still being whole, then you can get some glimpse of what is involved.³

[...] What I’m getting is that the idea of just one life in any given time is bullshit — the psyche is so rich that it can have more than one life in one time period, like your Nebene and Roman soldier living together in the first century. [...]

[...] You can live more than one life at a time — in your terms now — but that is a loaded sentence. [...] That is, for a brief time, Joseph (Rob) was consciously able to perceive a portion of another existence.

[...] Just before Seth announced his presence to us in that same session, Frank Withers spelled out a remark through the board that meant little to Jane and me at the time: “One whole entity may need several manifestations, even at simultaneous so-called times.”

There are close psychological connections in all cases—psychological web-works, and psychic recognitions that bring together the slayer and his victim, and these are known to the inner self. [...]

(Note that here Seth implies that Senator Kennedy, who was alive at the time of this session, would die. [...]

Ruburt’s earlier thought was correct, granting probabilities at this time.

[...] Jane did not know this at the time of this session, for it had not been publicized.)

[...] I really think that this particular material can hold its own with the best metaphysical writings of our time. For this reason I am continuing this chapter with excerpts from sessions 426, 427, and 428, where Seth began with a fuller explanation of space, time, and probable realities and then led us, step by step, into a discussion of God.

[...] Growth and challenge are provided not in terms of achievement or development in time, but instead in terms of intensities. Such a personality is able not only to react to and appreciate Event A, say, in your present time, but to experience and understand Event A in all of its ramifications and probabilities.

[...] Unfortunately it is difficult to imagine that all the young men in all of the countries will refuse to go to war at the same time. [...] Within the next hundred years that time may come. [...]

“Your idea of space and time is determined by your neurological structure.

[...] I have spoken to our Lady of Florence over here many times and you could have explained to our new student what I mean. [...]

[...] And so if you change your physical form without knowing it as the years go by, why should it surprise you that at one time you leave the present form that you call your own for another. [...]

[...] Wake me up next time.”

[...] I’m trying to make one basic point and the point is that energy and being are not sober, that the personality continues to exist, that those characteristics of mine which I considered mine, in your terms, at one time still continue to exist, and that your personality will also continue to exist. [...]