“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For the first time Seth really “came through” as a definite other personality, laughing and joking. [...] We had no idea that it was actually a highly simplified explanation, cleverly geared to our own level of understanding at the time. [...]

[...] At the same time, the shape of the skull changed, the hair grew shorter and fit about it much more closely. [...]

[...] At the same time I had the feeling that the face hung forward from the body. [...]

[...] Rob had even touched the hand at one time, and Seth had given us many occasions to check effects as they occurred. [...]

Try to arrange your time. You can take two or three nights without sessions to read the material, or find other time during the day or whatever, making your own decisions, and a fond good evening. [...]

[...] I also wanted time to reread the most recent sessions particularly, for I think they contain the best material for us at this time. [...]

[...] “By the time it reaches the foot, it almost feels good,” she said. [...]

[...] If memory serves, Seth said a long time ago that Jane did not have arthritis, but for her own reasons was mimicking her mother’s disease. [...]

(On Monday, November 4, I mailed to Jane’s publisher all of the art due for her Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology: the 16 diagrams I’d just finished, plus two older pieces of work. [...] I thought it interesting that as I was completing work for Jane’s first book on aspect psychology, she was starting Psychic Politics, the second one in the series. But now I can return to my longer project — the 40 line drawings for Jane’s book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time. [...]

(Which pointed up our dilemma, I thought at the time. [...] Not that mediums, or others, couldn’t communicate with the “dead” — but to us, anyhow, exhibitions involving well-known personages usually seem … psychologically tainted. [...]

[...] I not only record the current session in the latest one, of course, but have in there a page or two of comments and questions so that from time to time I can ask Seth to clear them up. [...]

Do probable selves actually communicate with each other through their world-view frameworks, then, or can such an interchange of idea or emotion take place more “directly” at times — simply between the probable personalities involved? Either situation can apply, it seems to me, or the two methods may merge at any given “time.” [...]

I think it quite humorous (and ironic) that whether or not they realize it, those who engage in past-life regressions play with the notion of future selves all of the time—for from the standpoint of any “past” lives they reach their present lives obviously represent future existences. In a way, and in those terms, this also applies in Jane’s case when she contacts Seth, even on the “psychological bridge” those two have constructed between them: When Seth tells us that his last physical life was in Denmark in the 1600s, then Jane and I represent future physical selves of his. [...] (This time, see Appendix 18 for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.) Yet we are all of us different now: “Ruburt (Jane) is not myself now, in his present life. He is nevertheless an extension and materialization of the Seth that I was at one time.”

My main point is that I also feel, without having asked Seth, that the farther one travels ahead in time the greater the play of probable realities and probable lives he or she encounters. [...] But that must happen all of the time!) The uncertainty perceived here by the conscious self, however, can act as a great restraint toward knowing a future life or lives—just as much as might the fear of tuning into one’s physical death ahead of time in this life. [...] Everything considered, we may just not want to know about future lives most of the time.

[...] Even if you think the body does have something wrong with it, then the necessary adjustments would be made in another kind of time [in Framework 2] that in Framework 1 would take no time at all—or, the amount of time you thought required.” For emphasis I myself underlined that last phrase, because it’s easy to miss how very important it really is: Our individual concept of the amount of time necessary to accomplish an action like a healing will govern its progress. [...]

At such times I’m apt to think about ideas of reincarnation and counterparts. [...] But without dwelling upon them too heavily, I may consider the notion of my larger, nonphysical “whole self” or “entity” being made up of a number of other psychically related physical selves projected into time. For Seth, basically there is no time, only a great “spacious present” that’s a manifestation of a sublime, indescribable All That Is. [...]

[...] Psychological time, if you contemplate it, will set you free, so that you feel value fulfillment and durability within the time that you know. [...]

[...] You regret past time, and that your abilities, you feel, have not come to fruition. This serves to tighten you up and overwhelm you with a sense of desperation at times, and is highly restricted.

One, you are limiting the time in which you can be creative or get ideas. [...] Instead tell yourself that creative ideas for your paintings can come to you at any hour of the night or day, and that creativity knows no time barrier.

In this way creative ideas can even come to you at your job, or on other occasions, and be used at a more convenient time. The negative thought that you have only afternoons (underline only), also tends to limit the value of the time that you do have, and restrict it.

[...] (Pause.) And for our romantic Boston friend (smile), the following: at this time you are (smile) not wasting your time with your fine gentleman friend. [...]

[...] At one time many probabilities pointed in that direction. At this time less than half of those chances remain, and even in your terms the odds are very much against it. [...]

[...] There are times when all probabilities point in one direction, and I believe there is a mathematical theorem, a theoretical one, that defines such occurrences. [...]

[...] To my knowledge, this is the first time in all the sessions that Seth has given such an answer. [...]

Your psychological life is dependent upon your ability to perceive and react to such action-events. [...]

Your physical image and your environment are exterior materializations that represent your interior action-events at any given time. [...]

[...] The rubbing expressed this feeling from you, and then acted directly on a sense-data level which both of you needed at the time to confirm what was an inner experience.

When Ruburt is involved in activity and his mind directed elsewhere, away from his symptoms, then his symptoms are greatly minimized, and at times disappear. [...]

Several important projects are clicking together in Framework 2, and Ruburt feels as if some dimensions in space-time are warped. The effect of events in Framework 2 is constant, but there are moments in your terms of particular acceleration, where “work” done there seems to quiver the edges of your reality in Framework 1. This is such a time.

[...] They are composed of a psychological thickness.

[...] My last session was in a way—in a way—the result of Ruburt’s begrudging decision to “take time out to read the book.” [...]

Action is not affected by time as you know it. [...] You may, however, only perceive parts of action in your time breakdown. Ideally, psychological time experiences will allow you to perceive action more clearly and directly. [...]

[...] The chair created then by any given individual, and perceived by him, is an identity in that it exists at any given time, without any exact duplication. [...]

The continued existence of your physical body is determined by action, although consciously you are not aware of this most of the time. [...]

We shall have to consider, later, color as it appears in dreams, but this is not the time for such a discussion. [...]

[...] They die because of emotion and belief, and because there is a subjective rather than an objective time for dying. You live then in a personal universe, in which each being of whatever degree comes personally in contact with space and time, alive with meaning, alive as a portion of reality that no other being could or can replace.

[...] Jane had no questions for Seth other than her usual desire that he continue his material on Frameworks 1 and 2. I didn’t either, not having taken the time to focus on any.

[...] This organization is personally, intimately tuned, in that it gives evidence of a spectacular psychology on another scale that organizes events in a manner that is for each individual personally significant.

It hints at the most precise and powerful focus, so that amid an infinity of data, events can be arranged at times so that two particular people, for example, separated in childhood, could, 30 years later, find themselves living next door to each other. [...]

[...] The phrase “once upon a time” is strongly evocative and moving, even to adults, because children play with time in a way that adults have forgotten. [...]

Put another time on. [...] Done playfully, such exercises will allow you a good subjective feel for your own inner existence as it is apart from the time context.

For another exercise, imagine that you are in another part of the world entirely, but in present time, and ask yourself the same questions. [...] Place yourself a week ahead in time. [...]

Focusing the senses in time and space is to some extent an acquired art, then — one that is of course necessary for precise physical manipulation. [...]

[...] It is a work life for you and it is a time for you to produce and develop, and to use your abilities on your own behalf and for others. [...] It should be a time of high adventure, but not a time of laziness—and not a time of skimming through. [...]

Then how much more triumphant you will feel, when you realize you have lived and died many times and managed to survive, as indeed I have managed to survive. [...]

[...] Not that you have not been there in your dreams, and there will be other times in classes when we will be there, and you will decide to leave the group and take the journey that will take you there. [...]

Now (to Theodore), you will have a session when the time is ripe. [...]

[...] In times of psychological stress or crisis, quite unwittingly you withhold this strong reinforcement.

There is great traffic flow in a city: A body knows how to leap out of the way in a moment’s time from an approaching car. [...] There are decisions made in periods of time so brief you cannot imagine them—reactions that are almost over before they begin, reactions so fast you cannot perceive them as the body responds to its inner reality, and to all the stimuli from the exterior environment. [...]

[...] Literally, we cannot remember the last time either one of us had a cold.

(Still quietly, but at a good pace:) When a skunk is frightened, it throws off a foul odor indeed, and when people are frightened they react in somewhat the same fashion at times, biologically reacting to stimuli in the environment that they consider alarming. [...]

[...] Psychological time is your best method for perceiving these actualities.

You and your reincarnated selves, or personalities, are not imprisoned in time. [...] Time has open ends in all directions or such a thing as probabilities would not exist. [...]

[...] This webwork helps you manipulate in a world of space and time, and is as nebulous, precarious and delicate as any spider’s web — and in as precarious a balance. [...]

[...] I was a spice merchant at one time. [...]

[...] By session time the fall looked like it might be the heaviest of the year. [...]

Music is an exterior representation, and an excellent one, of the life-giving inner sounds that act therapeutically within your body all the time. [...]

[...] You are told, for instance, that certain objects or images in your dreams have a definite meaning — not necessarily your own, but following whatever psychological, mystical or religious school of thought in which you happen to be interested.

Such dreams will be greatly effective, but only for a short period of time unless the conscious mind faces the beliefs that have been causing the imbalance. [...]

[...] Nor am I discussing living in an “ideal” environment all the time.

This flexibility allows the species great variation overall in its psychological and cultural and political and religious activities. [...]

(8:54.) The intellect, then, helps your species translate its own natural purposes and intents — the purposes and intents of the natural person — into their “proper” cultural context, so that those abilities the natural person possesses can benefit the civilization of its time. [...]

[...] At one time you both had difficulty with understanding some of these ideas. [...]

[...] The religious area in general, from time immemorial, has dealt intensely and sometimes one-mindedly with “the good ideal.” [...]

[...] In such concepts any natural goodness, or natural intent in man becomes not only invisible psychologically to the fanatic, but man’s natural nature appears as a direct threat to the ideal projected by dogma of any kind.

[...] While you are ahead of your times, therefore, it is very important that you realize that the world is not against you. [...]

Concentration upon natural data, as mentioned often of late, offers a healthy return to the body’s biological reality, and to its stance in space and time.

[...] The nature of mental activities will follow different lines, and “continuity” in terms of time will not exist. Perceptual organization will exist by the use of different psychological groupings. [...]

[...] At other times the capacities might be timidly used. [...]

[...] In all periods of your time they went about their duties both in the waking and sleep state. [...]

[...] They have at times worked within organizations as in Egypt, where they worked through the temples and became involved with the power structures. [...]

[...] You follow your own time sequences, however. [...] You have a greater experience, then, of your recognized time and existence frameworks.

[...] The psyche’s experiences straddle your ideas of time, however. [...]

[...] In greater terms, you are alive and dead at the same time, even as I am. [...]

[...] Many people say: “I want to know myself,” or “I want to find myself,” when the truth is that few really want to take the time or effort. [...]

[...] That reality contributes to the experience of others, but each of you possesses a unique, original stance in space and time that is yours alone in quite practical terms, regardless of time’s relative existence.

[...] Several times Jane remarked: “The delay seems real odd….” [...]

No one from any psychological threshold, however vast, can write a book that defines the psyche, but only present hints and clues, words and symbols. [...]

[...] You can only experience its strength and vitality by exploring the subjective reality that is your own, for it will lead you unerringly to that greater source of being that transcends both space and time.