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[...] It is not nearly as tied to psychological characteristics as you suppose. [...] Puberty arrives, so to speak, but the time of its arrival varies according to the needs of the species, its conditions and beliefs. [...] You operate as a reproducing individual, generally speaking, for only a portion of that time.

[...] It seemed to their minds that she was indeed “cursed” during that time (emphatically).

[...] That psychological orientation will lead the species to another, equally unique kind of consciousness.

[...] In “subduing” its own female elements, the species tried to gain some psychological distance from the great natural source from which it was, for its own reasons, trying to emerge.

[...] I will again suggest that for the present psychological time experiments be carried on once a day. There is no reason to give further time to it, in the evening, at this time. [...]

[...] The situation began as he completed his psychological time experiment this morning, and has continued. [...]

[...] But she felt “disconnected,” and recalled her psychological time experience of the morning, in which she felt “separated.” [...]

[...] And I would also suggest that he forget his psychological time experiments until next Monday.

[...] They can be in more than one place at one time. (See notes 5 and 6 for Session 702.) They can operate in a freewheeling fashion as identities in themselves, or as ‘psychological particles.’ They can also operate in a wavelike fashion, flowing through other such particles. They can form together into endless, infinite combinations, forming psychological gestalts. Certain portions of these gestalts can then operate as ‘psychological particles’ in time and space, while other portions operate in a wavelike manner outside of time and space. [...]

(Shortly after Jane finished Seven, the entire idea for what she calls “Aspect Psychology” came to her — an “intuitive construct” that she thought was large enough to contain her experience. At one sitting she wrote 20 or so pages of material in which she understood her relationship with Seth, Seth Two, the Sumari, the characters in Seven, and other psychic concepts — all as aspects of a larger self that was independent of space and time. [...] As Jane wrote, she realized that the questions she had been struggling with in Adventures had triggered a new psychology, a new way of approaching the creative portions of human personality.

[...] She called the chapter “Personal Evaluations — Who or What is Seth?” In it she made a number of excellent points concerning her relationship with Seth and Seth Two; for example: “If physical life evolves [in ordinary terms], why not consciousness itself?” The questions we had at the time can be found throughout the chapter. [...] Seth discussed the psychological bridge Jane and he have created between themselves for purposes of communication; yet most of his material came through in response to my question about his availability to us. [...]

[...] At times I am “here” more completely than in other sessions. These reasons often have to do with circumstances usually beyond normal control: electromagnetic conditions, psychological circumstances. [...]

[...] The more terrified you are personally, the less you dare let down your guard, and you build up psychological walls to protect you. [...] Now, using psychological time and learning to be spontaneous, you can free these abilities within yourself. [...]

[...] When you are doing psychological time, however, you cannot afford to be using energy to hide your own emotions from yourself. [...]

(Theodore had been discussing the trouble he was having in psy-time.)

Now, I know that you are all worn out after such deep psychological probing this evening, so I will say goodnight to you all. [...]

[...] Your soul was not born yesterday, in those terms, but before the annals of time as you think of time.

So psychological structures form to which various names are given. [...] Such psychological structures also retain their identity, their pattern of uniqueness, even while they change constantly, die and are reborn.

[...] Your psychologists are not able to think in terms of a soul, and your religious leaders are not able, or refuse, to comprehend it psychologically even to its simplest degree. Metaphysics and psychology have not met, in other words.

[...] He has at various times wondered about schizophrenia, for example. He does not realize that on this level, now, and regardless of my independence and other issues involved, that he creates the personalities free of time, organizes them under the leadership of the conscious mind, and assigns them tasks of great validity and importance, which are then carried out.

You have a mass psychological environment that forms your worldly culture, and corresponds to a worldly stage set in which experience then occurs. Certain psychological conventions act as props. There are, then, more or less formal psychological arrangements that are used as reference points, or settings. [...]

[...] She enjoyed the personal interactions most of the time, and often spent a half hour or so trying to help someone in that way. But finally she reached the point where there just wasn’t enough time for her to answer the telephone that often and get her own work done too.)

[...] As a result he does not understand the greater natural mobility he himself possesses, nor can he practically perceive the natural psychological gestalts of which he is a part, that form all of your natural — meaning physical — world.

[...] There are connections, then, between man and the animals and the so-called gods (in small letters), that hint at psychological and natural realities.

[...] You, Joseph, at the least several times a week, should make an effort to embark upon more psychological time exercises, for your own abilities have also grown; but you have not realized it.

Now these symbols are those that I believe you will find suitable for you, and some of the information should help you interpret information received in psychological time. [...] Otherwise the time element can become confused.

There is less differentiation, in your terms, in notime, but far more differentiation in terms of consciousness, and psychological experience. All probabilities have their reality in notime, and the creative accomplishments that take place within notime generate all the probable realities that will ever exist or have existed within the various time systems. [...]

[...] I hope you look forward to some psychological time experiments of your own. [...]

(Telling us about his recent dream and apparition experiences, Bill had mentioned that at times when his eyes were closed he was aware of the feeling of a white light, or glow, that varied in intensity at different times. Jane was interested in this description because it tallied with an effect she attains quite often in psychological time experiments—this feeling of a light within, even though the eyelids are squeezed tightly shut. At times Jane has seen images after the appearance of this inner light, but Bill has seen only the light. [...]

[...] He is now doing better with his psychological time experiments, and he must let this spontaneity expand into other aspects of his life. [...]

Ruburt’s psychological time experience recently was correct, in that he will soon hear about a sale. [...]

(See Jane’s psychological time experience of October 30, page 102.)

[...] The body ages its 20 minutes of time, and that is all. In dreams, experience is peripheral, in that it dips into your time and touches it, leaving ripples; but the dream events themselves exist largely out of time. [...]

[...] So you plot a straight course, it seems, through time, never realizing in our analogy that the wheel’s circular motion allows you to transverse this ongoing road. [...] Instead they refer to the circular motion of your own psyche as it seems to progress in time. [...]

(Pause at 9:40.) It is not quite that simple, however, for you live in the midst of multitudinous small deaths and births all of the time, that are registered by the body and the psyche. [...] Logical thought, using usual definitions, deals with cause and effect, and depends upon a straight sequence of time for its framework. [...]

Generally speaking, the psyche has the same kind of instant overall comprehension of psychological events and environments as your body has of physical ones. It is then aware of your overall psychological climate locally, as it involves you personally, and in world terms.

(It will be remembered that in the 140th session Seth suggested Jane avoid psychological time for a while, after she had unwittingly gone too far, too fast. A week later Jane resumed psy-time on a reduced time basis. [...] She has however had some rather startling clairvoyant experiences outside of psy-time.

(Jane has been practicing psychological time regularly. [...] The only suggestions she gives herself now are to the effect that she is completely relaxed, and free of space and time. [...]

[...] However in his psychological time experiments he is trying too hard. [...]

[...] In his psychological time experiments lately, he has concentrated with his will, though he did not realize he was doing so. [...]

[...] It did not appear constructed, that is in constructed form, for a long period of physical time however, and we have discussed psychological time as being part of what I will call for now an inner time sense.

This human self-consciousness existed in psychological time and in inner time long before you as a species constructed it in terms of your particular camouflage patterns. [...]

This was in Belgium—and I will not be tricked, my dear Joseph—it was in Belgium in 1632, and our Philip in a rather sensational case for the times actually brought this husband to a village trial, a particularly unusual occurrence at that time. [...]

[...] You do not insist upon seeing, feeling or touching a psychological experience, and yet you do not say that a psychological experience does not exist because you cannot hold it in both hands.

Again, the events that you perceive come packaged in time sequences, so that you are used to a certain kind of before-and-after order. [...] It may seem that psychological events have the same kind of structure, since after all you do perceive them in time.

The formation of events is initially an emotional, psychic, or psychological function. Events are physical interpretations, conventionalized versions of inner perceptive experiences that are then “coalesced” in space and time. [...]

[...] The formation of any psychological event therefore depends upon this interspecies relationship.

The psychological symbols with which you are familiar in natural terms rise up like smoke, inherent in cellular structure itself. [...]

[...] I have told you that as the dream is only connected by the smallest thread to your time, so also, although it is difficult, you could manage to pinpoint the apparent beginning of a dream in clock time. This time, you know intuitively, has no psychological inner relationship to the dream experience.

We have spoken concerning the relative impossibility of first origins as you consider them, occurring at a particular point in your time. Inward, individualized, aware energy existed before the conception of your time, your time obviously being an interpretation of the spacious present, from which all creation not only originally began but continues in terms of value fulfillment. Without such a development before the conception of your time, indeed, your universe would never have come into existence.

[...] Psychologically, dear friends, you do not. I will at one time discuss a fascinating facet, though important not shattering, concerning identical twins, in which slip-ups have occurred in this line.

[...] One note: Ruburt should remain for a short period only, still on the short schedule for psychological time. [...]

Imagine, now, as far as you are able, the existence of All That Is, a consciousness (pause) so magnificently complex that what we may call its own psychological compartments are, literally now, infinite. All appearances of time, and all experience of it, must be psychological. The “speed” of electrons, for example, would reflect their psychological motion.

[...] With many pauses:) All That Is, as the source of all realities and experience, is so psychologically complex, so multidimensionally creative, that it constantly surprises itself. It is, itself, the invisible universe that is everywhere implied within your world, but that becomes manifest to your perception only through historic time. All That Is disperses itself, therefore, so that it is on the one hand “a massive” subjective entity, a psychological structure—and on the other hand, it also disperses itself into the phenomenal world. [...]

[...] Then I’ll need another week to go over the manuscript, with colored pens marking instructions of each page as to what copy we want set in roman [upright] type, and in italics; while doing that I’ll also check spelling, punctuation, references, dates, times—all of those mundane details so necessary in helping our publisher produce a finished, good-looking book for the marketplace.¹

In spite of those thoughts, Jane was still rather upset and out of sorts a day later as session time approached. [...]

His own work will go well this week, and his energies be refreshed through his usual activities, and also through painting if he finds time. The fifteen-minute limit for psychological time experiments should be kept until our next session, at which time I will give other directions according to the situation.

(The following are from Jane’s psychological time notebook:

(The following are from my psychological time notebook:

[...] With your permission I will look in on you from time to time before our next scheduled session, simply because I enjoy your company.

[...] I even suggest that you dispense with your psychological time experiments during that time.

(Trying psychological time on Tues. [...]

[...] I also suggest that you dispense with psychological time for the remainder of this week. [...]

(Jane had no idea of the subject matter for the session as the time for it approached. [...]

Art of any kind is extremely important as a way of paying off debts, that is psychological debts. [...] Now like Joseph and Ruburt, you give away parts of yourself, fragments of yourself, made more or less into living psychological forms that according to your ability are free from not only time, but free from many of the defects of your own present personality.

(At 8:00 PM Jane and I both tried psychological time, before taking a brief nap. [...]

[...] I would suggest that Mark also exercise himself in the use of psychological time. [...]

[...] At the time, many years ago, we did not meet. [...] This time it was a syndicated comic strip. [...] Then for some time we did not see Ed; the last time was during an overnight stopover in New Paltz, when Jane and I were on our way to York Beach, Maine, on vacation. [...]

(Jane, while trying psychological time on Tuesday, 5/26 at 11:15 AM, tried to project herself to Bill Macdonnel’s hospital room. [...] Checking with Bill later at the hospital, we learned he was asleep at this time. [...]

(Tuesday, May 26, 9:00 PM: While trying psychological time I had a few instances of my thrilling sensation. [...]

I am giving you various material along certain lines in preparation for a discussion of some of your own experiments with psychological time. [...]

[...] Of course continue with your psychological time experiments.

[...] (With a small laugh:) You are not consciously capable of dealing with the psychological depths and riches that activity reveals. For one thing, your concepts of time, realistically or practically speaking, as utilized, would become more difficult to maintain in normal life. [...]

[...] Some psychological difficulties need clear conscious light and understanding. [...] As the body handles many physical manipulations without your own conscious knowledge of what is being done, or how, so the workings of your own psychological systems often automatically solve “their own problems” through dreams of which you are not aware.

Nor is such an inner decision forced upon the conscious personality, for in all such instances, the conscious personality has at various times come close to accepting the idea of death at the particular time in life.

I have referred to them at various times as animal medicine men, for man did learn from them. The impact of many of my statements of the past goes unrecognized, or perhaps the words sound pat, but there are other conditions of life that you do not perceive, sometimes because your time sequences are too different. [...]

(Jane has been using her twenty-minute psychological time period recently for health purposes, with excellent results. [...] She has also been attaining excellent “states” during her psy-time periods. [...]

[...] She spoke with her eyes closed for the entire session; at times her delivery was quite fast, other times it was broken by pauses. [...]

[...] There are many psychological reasons behind such a psychological truth.

[...] The whole personality at any given time, because of its own nature and characteristics, has only a given amount of energy available to it in practical terms, though ideally speaking its energy is not limited.