“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you attempt to understand your psyche, and define it in terms of time, then it seems that the idea of reincarnation makes sense. [...] And so you try to define the psyche in terms of time, and in so doing you limit your understanding and even your experience of it.

Largely, the writing of this book occurs in a “no-time, or out-of-time context.” [...]

(9:15.) When in colonial times men and women traveled westward across the continent of North America, many of them took it on faith that the land did indeed continue beyond — for example — towering mountains. [...]

[...] On the other hand, you create physical time for your psyche, for without you there would be no experience of the seasons, their coming and their passing.

[...] This means that even biologically the species is equipped to deal with different sequences of time, while still manipulating within one particular time scheme. This also implies a far greater psychological richness — quite possible, again, within corporal reality — in which many levels of relationships can be handled. [...]

[...] The body that you have now is not the one that you had 10 years ago; its physical composition has died completely many times since your birth, but, again, your consciousness bridges those gaps (with gestures). They could be accepted instead, in which case it would seem to you that you were, say, a reincarnated self at age 7 (intently), or 14 or 21. [...] The stuff of your body literally falls into the earth many times, as you think it does only at the “end of your life.”

[...] Attempt to follow the sequence of your activities from the time you awakened until you went to sleep. [...] Try to recall your feelings at all of those times. [...]

[...] The break in book dictation gave me time to begin attending class regularly, and I plan to continue doing so. [...]

[...] Your psychologies stress men as victims of their backgrounds. [...]

[...] You cannot expect a blissful time innocent of problems. [...]

[...] Many millions of dollars, and much time and effort, have been and are being given to such research programs. [...]

[...] At the same time, they are subjected to even more X-ray examinations on a regular basis. [...]

[...] The Wollheim letter was entirely unexpected, no correspondence having passed between Jane and Mr. Wollheim, or business, for a long time.

[...] On Ruburt’s part this time it was additional knowledge. [...]

In the main physical existence means a translation of inner mood and psychological climate into physical terms, and no consciousness is constantly in a state of bliss. [...]

[...] You ended your illness however not twice as quickly, but three times as quickly, as it would have been otherwise.

[...] As I have stated [several times], if you feel unworthy, or powerless to act, and if you are idealistic, you may begin to feel that the ideal exists so far in the future that it is necessary to take steps you might not otherwise take to achieve it. [...]

[...] Value fulfillment is a psychological and physical propensity that exists in each unit of consciousness, propelling it toward its own greatest fulfillment in such a way that its individual fulfillment also adds to the best possible development on the part of each other such unit of consciousness. [...]

As I have said before, Ruburt considers summer a time of vacations and beautiful distractions. [...]

“Time has no meaning without barriers. To put it another way, time has no meaning without the necessity to counteract against other actions. [...] It all takes time! [...] I mean it kindly, for you have no idea of the difficulties involved in explaining time to someone who must take time to understand the explanation.

Rob had little time to make extra notes, though, as the passage continued without pause. “The motion of the apparently solidified vitality gives the illusion of time. [...] … The action and counteraction is the time trigger. On some other planes motion is simultaneous and time unknown. To me your time can be manipulated; it is one of the several vehicles by which I can enter your awareness. [...]

All during this time I was working at the local art gallery in the afternoons. [...] Now I wonder why we were so secretive, but at the time it seemed much better to keep the world with all of its questions out. [...]

[...] We definitely decided not to tell any of our friends or relatives, at least for the time being. The spiritualist groups would have been out in any case, because of my views at the time on religion in general. [...]

1. The basic simultaneity of time is the most fascinating of all of Seth’s ideas, I think. [...] I wrote about reconstructing the past, simultaneous time, and dreams early in Note 2 for Session 801. Also see the material on Seth and his simultaneous time in the opening notes for the 806th session.

[...] Another long period — 10 weeks this time — has passed following Seth’s last session for Mass Events. [...] When the sessions don’t work out that way I can feel somewhat uneasy, while realizing at the same time that a number of compensating factors may be at work. [...]

[...] Second, if one keeps in mind Seth’s ideas about simultaneous time, that basically all happens at once [even considering Seth’s own acknowledgment that time “…is therefore still a reality of some kind to me”], then it hardly matters how long a break transpires between particular sessions; there is no real separation; dictation on any subject or project can be resumed whenever all involved — Jane, Seth, and myself — choose, and it will be as though the break never existed. [...]

(So we’ve decided to simply go along with however Mass Events works out in terms of length, whether that length involves time or the number of sessions. [...]

[...] And incidentally, Ruburt’s experience in psychological time was quite legitimate.

(It was now time for Jane to attempt to tune in on Bill and Peggy Gallagher for the last time while they were on vacation. [...] Her pace once again became quite slow, with many pauses; although she would give a paragraph of material rather quickly at times between pauses. [...]

(Jane knew which psy-time experience Seth referred to. [...] From her psy-time notebook:

(In the 104th session, Seth said that Jane would sell some of the short stories from the group she was working on at the time of the session. [...] Enough time lapses between her short-story work so that it is easy to keep the groups separate. [...]

I finished typing Monday evening’s session from my notes just in time to get ready for this one. [...] To her surprise he sounded weaker than he had the last time she’d spoken to him, and at his request my planned visit tomorrow was put off until Friday afternoon.

(Jane has been taking time off from God of Jane and If We Live Again to work on the Introduction for Sue Watkins’s Conversation With Seth. [...]

Your beliefs close you off from much otherwise quite-available knowledge concerning man’s psychology—knowledge that would serve to answer many questions usually asked about the reasons for suffering. [...]

[...] In times past in particular, though the custom is not dead, men purged themselves, wore ashes and beat themselves with chains, or went hungry or otherwise deprived themselves. [...]

[...] There comes a time when the experiences of the person in the world click together and form a new clearer focus, provide a new psychological framework from which his or her greatest capacities can emerge to form a new synthesis. [...]

Second: “The Bible is a conglomeration of parables and stories, intermixed with some unclear memories of much earlier times. [...] Such Bibles existed, not written down but carried orally, as mentioned some time ago, by the Speakers. [...]

[...] In man’s very early history, however, and in your terms for centuries after the “awakening,” as described in our book, people lived in good health for much longer periods of time—and in certain cases they lived for several centuries.¹ No one had yet told them that this was impossible, for one thing. [...]

In those times great age was a position of honor that brought along with it new responsibility and activity. [...]

(I suppose I could run on and on about why Jane herself doesn’t leap upon something that appears to help with so little time and effort involved. [...] Many deaths must be directly attributable to these kinds of mechanisms operating, and I would imagine that psychologically it’s an old story.)

(At the same time, I’d been a little concerned to learn of the affair lasting for three years, because that gave something plenty of time to become well entrenched. [...]

(In our first talk I’d suggested to David that he write us a letter describing his attraction to this woman, and he called today to say that he was mailing such a missive, after rewriting it a couple of times. [...]

[...] She reread the letter several times, as did I. We must wait for John Nelson’s return from Europe at the end of the month for some details to be resolved, however. [...]

Now: In all cases the decisions have been made ahead of time, as I told you. [...] And while it may or may not choose to enter at that point, it is drawn irresistibly to that time and point in space and flesh.

(2. What procedures are available to the nonphysical personality when it decides to incarnate physically for the first time? [...]

(Since I’ve been curious about these questions for some time, I thought the readers of Seth’s book might be also. [...]

[...] As I mentioned, Seth suggested Jane lay the book aside on October 19, before she had time to finish it. [...]

Some very old religions understood the hallucinatory nature of the devil concept, but even in Egyptian times, the simpler and more distorted ideas became prevalent, particularly with the masses of people. In some ways, men in those times could not understand the concept of a god without the concept of a devil.

(Jane felt very relaxed and sleepy by session time, yet she didn’t want to miss a session. [...]

(Pause at 9:26.) The inner reality of the message was told in terms that man at the time could understand, in line with his root assumptions. [...]

[...] The Crucifixion and attendant drama made sense within your reality at the time. [...]

There are several kinds of time that will appear within your dreams, and you must sort these out carefully. While sleeping in your present time, you may have a dream that concerns your past, with events that you know to have occurred years ago. [...]

As mentioned previously, we will also deal with the nature of space, time and distance, as they appear in the dream environment. [...] Here the ego cannot go, but it can benefit from the information, and perhaps in time, even a shadow of the ego may pass through that strange land and feel in some small way at home.

[...] At the same time, Seth began to send me on out-of-body journeys during some sessions and to offer, on his own, other instances of “paranormal” activity.

Third, we were involved in vigorous subjective activity as we began to experiment with Seth’s psy-time regularly and to follow his suggestions concerning dream investigation, recall and utilization. [...]

[...] Within each dream, one hundred earthly years may pass, but to you, the dreamer, no time has passed, for you are free of the dimension in which time exists. The time you seem to spend within the dream—or within each life—is only an illusion, and to the inner self no time has passed because there is no time.”

“Your idea of time is false. Time as you experience it is an illusion caused by your own physical senses. [...] The physical senses can only perceive reality a little bit at a time, and so it seems to you that one moment exists and is gone forever, and the next moment comes and like the one before also disappears.

As far as we know, this reconciliation of reincarnation and simultaneous time is original with Seth. Most other theories of reincarnation take the time sequence for granted. [...] Seth’s attitude toward cause and effect will become clear enough in his later explanations of the true nature of “time,” but when Rob first asked the question, Seth answered:

[...] Time as you think of it has little meaning for her. You could compare the two different time experiences in this way:

[...] She felt light at times during the session. At times she was not conscious of being in her body; yet neither was she conscious of being anyplace else.

[...] Page 102 is a psy-time experiment of Jane’s; the rest are statements made during sessions. [...]

(Jane has been studying psy-time regularly, and reports that almost as a matter of routine now she attains what she calls an “excellent state”, involving a feeling of much lightness and separation from her physical self. [...]

(This appreciation of concepts is, according to Seth, the using of some of the inner senses, and he has mentioned this many times. [...]

(Neither Jane or I have any psychological time data to report, not yet having resumed a schedule for its study.

(Over the weekend I had devoted some time to trying to sort out the contradictory Frank Watts material given by FW in the first two sessions. I had meant to try this for some time, knowing part of it was contradictory, before asking Seth to straighten it out. [...]

[...] She began dictating on time in a voice a bit stronger than usual, at a fairly fast rate. [...]

[...] I am a personality, not a deity, all understanding and all just, and I am at times irascible. [...]

Those feelings about time, and the way you handled them, seemed to make your own time shrink. [...]

At the same time, you could not enjoy such enforced idleness—far be it from that—so the period was highly unpleasant. This was to help you save face: you didn’t take time out because you wanted to, but because you were so miserable that you could not work—and then yelled out in outrage that the body so betrayed you. [...]

[...] It’s one of the very few times the pendulum didn’t help. Even at the time I felt I wasn’t asking the right questions; sometimes the answers received were contradictory. [...]

In the world as you know it, it is quite natural to feel sad, or even despondent at times. [...] It is natural, then, to feel depressed at times. [...]

(While trying psychological time on January 18, Monday, 11:30 AM, Jane achieved the following results: “Extreme feeling of weightlessness. [...]

[...] This electric charge can propel the thought, as an electrical action, through the apparent dimensions of your physical time in such a manner that it can exist simultaneously within your past and your present. [...] Rather the one electric action or thought is simultaneously projected, through a peculiarity of its axis, so that it appears within your field, not in two places at once, but in two times at once.

Do the exercises in my book, The Nature of Personal Reality, to discover what conditions of a mental nature, or of psychological origin, are causing you distress. [...] Such an exercise can often relieve a headache in no time. [...]

[...] “It really bothers me when I don’t start a session within a reasonable time: I wonder what kind of a block is there, you know….” [...]

[...] Even if they appear contradictory at any given time, overall they will be seen to form constructive patterns toward action that point more clearly towards your own clear path for fulfillment and development.

[...] Every time you affirm the rightness of your own existence, you help others. [...]