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Illnesses must be treated primarily however by changing the basic mental habits, for unless this is done the trouble will erupt time and time again in different guises. [...]

[...] This is the first time such a situation has developed in some time. [...]

[...] We have taken his ego into consideration at all times, so that he can consciously assimilate what he has learned, as is preferable. At times this may mean that we progress slowly, but the progression is steady and firm.

(“And a look out” is interesting to us, because I spent some time for a couple of days looking out our back motel room window, studying this particular view before finally taking a picture of it. This involved checking the appearance of the marsh grass at various times of the day to see when the light would be best, then waiting for a sunny day to increase contrast, etc.

[...] At times her delivery was slow. [...]

[...] All psychological realities and experiences which are not materialized within the physical universe have their actual reality and existence within the electrical universe.

I told you at one time that my form was somehow a man’s form. [...]

[...] You did so, however, in the light of that psychological climate, so that while you went your own ways you also reacted to the social environment: you tried to show other people that you were indeed responsible—more, that you worked (underlined) not only as hard as others, but often harder (underlined). [...]

[...] At the same time of course he naturally resented such dictates. [...]

(9:46.) At the same time, he recognized the excellence of our joint creativity. [...]

[...] Whatever—both cases would involve time and interruptions, a threat to what I see as my main course in life these days, painting. [...]

(Saturday, June 13, Jane and I attended a cocktail party in honor of Dee Masters, who was leaving as director of the art gallery where Jane is employed part time. [...]

By this time you should know that our material on material is excellent. [...]

Incidentally, in the same manner that psychological experience exists, and does not take up space, in this same manner do psychic gestalts of intelligence exist, more or less within your plane and yet not visible to your senses. [...]

[...] I have been ending the sessions earlier for a time merely to protect my interests. [...]

[...] She’d had trouble doing that at various times in the past year. Such a book would involve the publication of much Seth material that could either lie in our files for a long time, or never be published. [...]

Then just before session time, I mentioned my question about her sinful self’s reactions to our efforts to help her in recent weeks. [...] I explained that I think Seth’s and our own endeavors on her behalf had been negated each time because we’d alerted her sinful self’s fears—making it try harder to protect her according to its own very restrictive orientation.

Group dreaming was at one time taken for granted as a natural human characteristic—in a tribe, for example, when new locations were being sought, perhaps in time of drought. [...]

[...] I reminded Jane that some time ago Seth had remarked that as physical creatures we human beings cannot bear to directly confront the basic, vast, unimaginably awesome and creative consciousness of All That Is. Since we cannot bear to face the great raw power of nuclear energy either, I’ve often wondered whether this situation can be an earthly, imperfect and time-ridden analog to what must be the reality of All That Is.

[...] Jane and I knew they were interested in psychology and ESP in general and had encouraged their reading on the subjects. [...]

[...] Seth stated then, as he did last Friday, that he was at times able to produce such effects when Jane, or Ruburt, was not alert and consequently on guard.

[...] Obviously because of your schedule you cannot at this time embark upon any rigorous experimentations in this respect, for your sleep would sadly suffer.

[...] If a dream seems to occur in no specific location and in no particular time, then these facts should also be noted.

The psychological experience varies considerably from that you know, and yet there are hints of it within your own psyche. Here the personality must learn to group events in an entirely different way, and completely without any reliance upon the time structure as you know it.

In this time of rest and choosing, all counsel is given. [...] There is no time schedule, and yet it is very unusual for an individual to wait for anything over three centuries between lives, for this makes the orientation very difficult, and the emotional ties with earth have become weak.

[...] This is a time, then, of many projections. [...] There are others who like to return when their contemporaries from some particular past historical time return again, and therefore there are group patterns that involve reincarnational cycles in which many, but not all, are involved.

[...] Jane and I were both ready for the session ahead of time, for a change.)

History is written according to the present beliefs of a historian in his time. As you know, your western world followed its own mixture of Christianity, Darwinism, and Freudian psychology. [...]

You can if you prefer forget terms like hypnosis, but between tonight’s and next Saturday night’s session, I strongly advise that you take a half-hour: it can be nap time. Or any time. [...]

[...] I’m still surprised, I guess, that even after all his efforts, Seth can creatively come up with fresh approaches to try to help us—this time through our examining our worlds through our personal experiences. This may not be the first time he’s ever mentioned this approach, but still it’s presented tonight with a new twist. [...]

[...] Yet at the same time in a way I feel sorry for Seth, for his unceasing efforts to help seem to usually fall on infertile ground. [...] Although I liked the ideas in the session, then, in another way I found it discouraging, for it’s also saying that after all this time we’re still left to struggle with the old challenges; it hardly seems that we’ve moved very far off dead center, I guess. [...]

(At about the same time Emir was mailed, Jane sent Richard Bach “a crazy poem” that she’d written a couple of days earlier. [...]

[...] He is no longer on dead center, wondering what kind of treatment he might receive at another house—and so he is moving at important psychological levels. [...]

[...] The conservative behavior that, for example, kept him a virgin into his mid-twenties, was never understood by others—no one, for example, would have thought him at that time a virgin.

[...] The upper portion of the body and its posture is extremely important in his walking, and again in general—in general—the upper or the lower portion of the body has the greater activity in healing at a given time, while the other portion is relatively, now, at rest.

(As Seth stated in the 201st session, Jane’s psychological time experience of October 22, involving the Gallaghers, did prove to be quite legitimate; along with some less striking psy-time events Jane experienced during the week Peg and Bill were in Puerto Rico.

[...] I have at times been more presentable than that. Someday we shall show that face, and this face (Jane pointed to herself) for I am a stubborn gentleman, and in my own time we shall indeed give quite adequate proofs of what I am.

[...] Before this however we had the time to go over the three sessions in which Seth dealt with the Gallaghers while they were on vacation in Puerto Rico; these are sessions 199, 200, and 201.

[...] Jane’s psy-time experiments will also be so treated so that we have a unified body of work covering this experiment. [...]

(Ann Kraky visited us at supper time last night. [...]

[...] By session time they were somewhat diminished, but were very inhibiting during the day, making me hesitate to do the things I’d ordinarily do without a second thought, such as drive to the post office to mail Jane’s intro for Sue’s book Conversations With Seth. [...]

(Jane was so relaxed by session time, so “out of it,” that she didn’t think she could manage a session. [...]

[...] I must perhaps here clear up a point: I am taking it for granted that you understand that I am referring to the “mental attitude” of animals and of the body consciousness, for they both do possess their own mental attitudes—psychological colorations—and above all, emotional states. [...]

[...] Otherwise you confuse your psychological and corporal stance, for the body cannot be in a situation of safety and danger at the same time. [...]

Now: Physically your body has a stance in space and time. [...] Let us call primary experience that which exists immediately in sense terms in your moment of time — the contact of body with environment. [...]

At the levels with which we are concerned, the body must primarily react to present, immediate, primary existence in space and time. [...] But the body depends on the conscious mind to give it a clear assessment of precise conditions of the space and time it occupies. [...]

[...] That primary sense data, while pinpointed in the present, providing you with the necessary stance in time, still can open up to you the timelessness from which all time emerges, can bring you intuitive intimations, hinting at the true nature of the ever-present coming-to-be of the universe.

[...] Pause.) The nature of your personal beliefs in a large measure directs the kinds of emotions you will have at any given time. [...]

Psychology, religion, science — in one way or another, all of these have added to the confusion by stripping the conscious mind of its directing qualities, and viewing it as a stepchild of the self. [...]

[...] As you become more aware of your beliefs over a period of time, you will see how they bring forth certain feelings automatically. [...]

[...] Nor had I. Yet I remembered how we’d believed in it so implicitly at the time of purchase….

[...] Therefore, while this time one of continuous moments is no longer experienced after death, it is still a reality within basic time itself, a reality toward which the personality simply is no longer focused. Because the individual is focused within time one now, you still realize, or should, that the time one is only a small portion of time, and that other kinds of time exist of which you are not aware.

(Jane also tried psychological time experiments while the Gallaghers were in Puerto Rico. [...] Jane tried five times, from Monday, October 18, to Friday, October 22,1965.

(In the 201st session for October 25, Seth commented: “...and incidentally, Ruburt’s experience in psychological time was quite legitimate.” Jane’s account of Friday’s psy-time experience was included in the 201st session along with our drawing; it is repeated here, with the addition of the Gallagher’s comments and Peggy’s drawing.)

It is one thing to conceive of basic time as being outside of physical time, for the sake of making a point; but it must be realized that Priestley’s time one, while only real to the ego, is nevertheless a part or a materialization that exists within this basic time framework, and the life force is at the same time within as well as without.

[...] It tries to fly ahead with avant garde ideas, while at the same time protecting its flank of college textbooks. [...] It knows that I appear in sessions, for example, but it does not know whether or not my ideas correspond with a greater reality, or whether they are the result of an extraordinary psychological creativity.

[...] My reactions during the experience were quite objective this time. [...] I had none of the thrilling sensations, for example, that can sweep over me at such times.

[...] Jane has been doing well, though, and yesterday walked three times — the most in one day that I can remember offhand. [...]

[...] The publishing house — that publishing house — represents in capsule form the extremes of thought of your time, from the most conventional to the most bizarre. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking a little ahead of time, while sitting on the couch once more. [...]

Now, my best to you in a difficult time.

[...] In facing these problems, he is releasing himself through highly traumatic inner psychological dramas. [...]

[...] This time her vitality, chosen by her, forces her to do so. [...]

[...] Other times, they are the results of your own ignorance at any given point and basically unnecessary. [...] But many people do not learn for some time, in your terms, and continue in such periods when they are not necessary. [...]

([Kyle:} “Then the learning experience is no more valid for having spent more time in a depression. There is not more gained because more time has been spent.”)

[...] All the time thinking that it’s open-minded. [...] Also, then, you were one who took care of a church calendar where each given saint had his day and for you, at that time, each day then took on the character of its saint for you believed in this implicitly. [...]

[...] I see you as a Brian Donlevy, in a town 30 or 35 miles from Dublin in 1831 at the time of a hidden rebellion, as a runner. As a runner between the Catholic Irish and Englishmen and in a time of terror. [...]

He had been working with the drugs in a therapeutic framework for some time. [...]

He himself took drugs under controlled conditions several times, first small doses and then larger ones. [...]

Naturally, left alone, you will at various times spontaneously experience such states of grace or illumination, though you may not use those terms. [...]

Now: Such self-changes happen naturally as life progresses, and when the self modulates at any given time, it is different from what it was. [...]

(Jane said she believes Seth is using these experiences, within the experience of the session itself, as a compensation for the psychological time experiments he has requested her to abandon for a while. It will be remembered that in the 140th session Seth stated that at times Jane would advance “too fast, too soon”, with her own experiments. [...]

Because there is no time, as you think of time, we will not say that action retains a memory of all its previous actions or selves, for this would be misleading. [...]

[...] Jane said it was Father Trainor’s voice, at times, or a close approximation. [...]

[...] She barely had time to give me the above information, when she sat down again, resumed her trance state, and began dictating. [...]

He has paid time and time again for this. [...] This time the self-adopted defect is less, a mere annoyance.

[...] By enduring the literally endless small cruelties he does needless penance, but at the same time he strikes back by causing the father hours of remorse. In all relationships these intertwining effects exert, many times, most unpleasant effects.

[...] Bill called out the time to me. [...]

The impediment, beginning in this life, 1507, represented a time when he did not speak out, and he should have, for a man’s life was at stake. [...]