“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

8. Strange — but recently I visually approached the idea of interrelated consciousnesses in two pen-and-ink drawings for Jane’s book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time: I incorporated humanoid features on large rocks. [...] But so are we — and might not both rock and human also respond to a uniting psychological weather?

[...] It is composed of rocks and trees, grass and hills, and in your terms of time you can look at it, see it as such, give it a name, and ignore its equally independent parts. [...] It is not invaded by the trees or rocks that compose it, and while trees grow and die the mountain itself, at least in your terms of time, exists despite the changes. [...]

“What selves do you encounter in time? And what makes you think that those selves exist in time as you understand it only? [...]

[...] In fact, we’ve had trouble keeping up with our experiences, and little time to study them. [...]

[...] At the time he seems to be 34 but he is older now. [...]

A mother who… Dropped dead at 35, or something happened drastically to change her, no, died at number 35, or had a psychological tragedy. [...]

[...] At the time he seems to be 34 but he is older now. [...]

[...] No, died at #35; or had a psychological tragedy, seems to be Rachel’s mother. [...]

[...] Instead you remove the impetus for improvement by minimizing the symptoms, which, ideally now, would activate psychological, spiritual, mental, and physical centers, bringing about necessary adjustments.

When the time is right, and it will be, you will have no need to worry about tapes, for example, and the process will be easy, natural, and right.

[...] Tribal leaders were usually chosen only after long “dream investigations,” in which the new leader’s name cropped up, say, time and time again in the people’s dreams. [...]

[...] This is a highly important point, for “the technological world out there” was at one time the world of dreams. The discoveries and inventions that made the industrial world possible were always latent in man’s mind, and represented an inner glittering landscape of probability that he brought into actualization through the use of dreams—the intuitive and the conscious manipulation of material that was at one time latent.

If small families kept track of their own family dreams, for example, they could discover unsuspected correlations and sense the interplay of subjective and objective drama with which they are always psychologically involved. [...]

[...] At the time he believed deceit was involved in the church hierarchy.

[...] He let you (smile) do the harm, but he would have let no one else do it at the time. [...]

[...] Le Cron (Leslie Le Cron, author of Self Hypnotism) was a help at a time when he needed to reexamine his past.

[...] Some of the time Jane had been flat on her back as she spoke to me. [...]

[...] The use of psychological time, to some large degree, also performs this function. [...]

[...] By the time session time approached Jane said she was too hot and tired to feel nervous, or anything else. [...]

He is learning presently, and very well, to control this sometime condition; and it dwindles, to appear only occasionally in times of stress. Daily use of those particular back exercises, with their mental discipline, will further aid in his development, until he will find indeed that he can not only relax at will, but even when he does not have time to will relaxation, that is, relaxation will be the built-in conditioned reflex that panic used to be.

It is also true that during certain periods of the month his hormones are more active, since he inhabits, and is, a woman this time. [...]

[...] It is, therefore, the focus of your attention that delineates your time period, and provides a psychological stance from which you will then view all other selves, or all other experiences of your entity. [...]

I realize that you have both been busy, and that these sessions themselves take time. Make an effort, however, at least a few times a week to try the library together. Only a few moments are necessary to find out whether the time is auspicious or not.

As a matter of fact, as mentioned many times, the past itself is not finished. [...]

[...] Some of the dreams did involve other probabilities, however, in which members of your family died at different times than in your world, as with the dream involving Loren (my younger brother).

(On Friday, February 21, Jane and I not only saw the hill house from the inside for the first time — but decided to buy it. [...] Of course we knew what Seth had suggested during last Wednesday’s session, and his advice was valuable; at the same time we’d been strongly inclined to make the purchase after looking at the house anew that Wednesday afternoon. [...]

[...] A period of gestation lasting well over two weeks had to follow, though, before we understood what we’d seen; during that time we investigated perhaps 35 other places.¹

[...] Many of the children are grown, and the adults have more time to think and ponder. [...]

[...] At some time I will give you information discussing the reasons why some people, after being flooded in one location, then move to another equally threatening environment.

[...] She has of course tried no psychological time experiments since then.

[...] More time passed, and my concern increased. [...]

[...] Your perception characteristics at this time dictate and limit the aspects of action that you can perceive. [...]

[...] At break, now, she checked to see if this was the effect she had sensed, but it did not seem to be, although traffic does pass our house rather heavily at times.

[...] Psychologically alone this is beneficial, for it acts against those feelings of despair that can creep up during the winter season. And by reminding men of a birth and a resurrection it hints at the innate abilities of the race to transcend physical time and space.

As you both suppose, enough constructive psychic energy is generated during the holiday season to recharge psychic batteries, so to speak, for quite some time. [...]

To some extent I have explored some of this, but it will do you well to join wholeheartedly into the very necessary spirit of the time, for it is constructive and most beneficial. [...]

[...] Much of the time her eyes had been wide open and very dark. [...]

[...] He found himself as a young adult, at the time of the President Kennedy assassination, in a world that seemed to have no meaning. At the same time, while conditioned by the beliefs of his generation — beliefs that still tinge your times — he held on to one supporting belief never completely lost from childhood.

Tonight, during a pleasant supper time, our friends Ruburt and Joseph watched a television production based upon the Cinderella fairy tale. [...]

They experiment very often, and quite secretly, since their elders are at the same time trying to make the children conform to a given concrete reality that is more or less already mass-produced for them.

[...] By the time you are adults, it certainly seems that you are a subjective being in an objective universe, at the mercy of others, and with only the most superficial control over the events of your lives.³

(Long pause at 11:54.) Yet with all of this there is always change, as with the experience of time in a linear fashion any event must “knock out” another one. In terms of your focus a given occurrence “takes time.” [...]

[...] Your nervous system would find great difficulty in a rhythm in which a day was stretched out to be three or four times as long, for instance.

[...] To make this easier to understand, however, I am talking in terms of your time.

[...] As far back as the 613th session in Chapter One, Seth was making statements like this: “Your feelings have electromagnetic realities that rise outward, affecting the atmosphere itself,” but at the time we paid little attention to the implications behind such ideas. [...]

I have given information on this before, but you settled upon the idea of work, as you think of it, because it was the only way at the time that you could justify art to yourself. [...]

[...] You can afford to do so more than Ruburt, since your natural working method falls more easily into that kind of context, where the effort shows in time. [...]

[...] He felt that inspiration was providing so much material that it could not be handled in time. [...]

Your time concepts are particularly limiting, because they lead you into a particular focus in which you concentrate upon impediments to your desire. [...]

(The following data are from Jane’s psychological time notebook: January 5, Tuesday: No results in particular. [...]

[...] As session time approached she had no idea of what her procedure would be—whether she would sit, stand, pace, open or close her eyes, etc. She was still worried also about the time element when her eyes were closed, and we agreed that I would ask for breaks if it seemed the monologues might carry past the customary half-hour limit.

[...] She was not bothered by any conception of time while speaking; yet she still wanted to be sure she “came out” on time.

[...] At times she was again in the prone position, which she achieved by sliding down in the wicker chair, and elevating her feet upon the register. [...]

(While she was waking up, Jane asked me several times if she had really been asleep. [...]

[...] At the same time he had the radio playing softly. [...]

[...] That is, a certain psychic framework is set up through which an individual decides “ahead of time” to experience an entire life situation. [...]

[...] Yet in all instances not only do children choose their parents ahead of time, but parents choose their children, of course.

[...] Reaching for him to make him move, I grabbed his tail and at the same time nearly lost my balance. [...] He came loose, but at the same time his claws came out in a reflex action. [...]

[...] Ruburt at this time would not dispense with the sessions, although it is true that he sometimes consciously resents the discipline involved in their regularity.

[...] She said the time had gone so fast it appeared that only two or three minutes had elapsed. [...]

[...] This does not mean however that at times a session cannot be missed, or that such a missed session should be considered a significant symptom. [...]

To refute your reality in time, therefore, results in your being stuck in time and obsessed by it. Accepting your integrity in time allows the body to function until its natural end, in good condition, free from those distorted, invisible concepts about age. [...]

[...] Yet you firmly ignore any changes in your appearance from the time you were, say, thirty — and in so doing lose sight of your validity as a creature in space and time.

[...] Some advance material was given to him for his own use ahead of time, so to speak.

As in the material that Ruburt received ahead of time for his own use, natural aggression is cleansing and highly creative — the thrust behind all emotions.

[...] This was the first time I had seen this take place, although it has happened a few times before, usually in ESP class. [...]

[...] It did not see that then previous questions that it had set, that it had asked, led inevitably to intuitive answers and to psychic experience, and for some time it refused to see this, in quotes “quite logical” consistency. [...]

[...] He could have read his old poetry over 50 times in the past two years, without realizing what he has finally realized now.

[...] Now his intellect is accepting the revelationary aspect of the material, and the word appeared in his own writings about it for the first time. [...]

[...] Now, psychological time is your best method for perceiving these actualities. [...] A web works to help you manipulate in a world of space and time which is, indeed, as nebulous and as precarious, and as delicate, as any spider’s web, and hangs indeed in as precarious a balance. [...]

Your personality is truly multidimensional, and after you have been here for some time, you will realize what the words multi-dimensional really mean, for they mean that you are not imprisoned within time, as you know it, in any way. And your reincarnated selves, or personalities, are not imprisoned in their time, as you think of time. [...]

Now, each personality is free and you are never imprisoned within time. [...] Time has open ends in all directions or such a thing as probabilities would not exist. [...]

(Following a discussion of reincarnation, probable selves and time. [...]