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[...] Presumably he referred to the time of Michelangelo. However, my reading indicates that Seth was probably right about prints being unavailable to the “poor peasants” of those times.

[...] Jane met Mrs. Steffans just once, in 1973, when she came through with a spontaneous “reading” for the lady at an informal party David Yoder gave in the apartment he was renting at the time. [...]

I was curious as to how often such a “negative psychology” operated—when, simply because of his or her own hang-ups, an individual [or more than one person] is attracted to a site where strongly negative events had taken place. [...]

Jane was very relaxed by session time. [...]

[...] Whatever the case may be, it apparently makes no difference in the results as far as time goes, or previous visual contact. [...] For some time now we have kept a weather record, taken just before session time, and there are probably correlations here. This record includes time, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall to date, wind velocity and wind direction. [...]

[...] At this time I had no idea of using it for the experiment; the idea occurred later, some time after Jane had left the studio. [...]

[...] I will end our session, so that you have some time for social discourse, and I myself thank our cat lover for the time and energy expended.

[...] As you should know by now, physical objects are only the results of your own perception, and this perception is based upon your psychological makeup, your physical structure, certain combinations of nerves and chemical reactions. [...]

[...] But she’s had experiences involving you in her psychological time experiments.”)

[...] They contradict our laws of physics, being many times too bright for their size and distance, and emitting much too much energy. See the article on them in Time magazine for March 11,1966.)

[...] Before that I worked full time there. [...] If I removed the ribbon on any other afternoon of the week, this would push the time back toward the 1963 given earlier in the material.)

[...] The object was a red satin bow that had been kicking around the studio for some months; at various times I had idly thought of using it for an experiment. [...]

[...] At one time Jane thought she was on the commode in the bedroom, and began to pull up her blouse. Another time she thought she was in her writing room while I did the dishes. [...]

(Our time was running out. [...] It can be seen that I was having a hard time to keep from falling into the deep pessimism I’d experienced not long ago, and seemingly had rebounded from. [...]

[...] He does seem to have it well within his head, however, that the time to change is now, and he is determined to do so. Some of the old panic is also threatened, of course, and hence shows itself in altered form at different times. [...]

[...] But it seemed that now she would try to shut off the crying, or sidetrack it, at this time. [...] Ordinarily the crying would hurt me, but now, this time, I really wanted her to let it come through. [...]

(Jane has been improving in her psychological time experiments since Seth advised her that she was trying too hard in the 178th session. [...]

Your own abilities, Joseph, have been at a plateau level, from which they will begin to rise, at which time another plateau will be reached, and the process continued. Such plateau levels are beneficial to the whole personality, since they allow time for adoptions.

[...] This time the double envelopes contained a black and white photo I took of Jane at York Beach, ME, a little over a year ago this month. [...]

Within, I believe, three months after the book is accepted, another book will be assured; and then at that time, or very shortly after, it will be contracted for.

[...] Psychologically his interpretations and comments add another dimension that he scarcely realizes at present.

(Seth slipped up in the first sentence of this paragraph; being busy writing, I did not catch it at the time. [...]

[...] This was a reference to the fact that Jane got “mad” at Seth—one of the few times this has occurred—at an ESP-class session last night, for some remarks Seth made concerning Jane’s tendency to intellectually categorize people. [...]

There was literally a psychological sense of shock.

[...] Hence the Pollyanna attitude at times, a desperate attempt to cover up thoughts that are spontaneous, but that are considered evil by the conscientious self.

[...] Her eyes were closed much of the time, her voice slow and quiet, her manner rather tired.)

[...] At the same time he is not that, of course, since he cannot completely carry out the woman’s role of housekeeping, and so forth—so in that (underlined) way, he also shows that he is a writer. [...]

[...] When you came here (to Pinnacle Road), to a more lucrative kind of middle-class America, Elmira-style, you wondered what people thought, that you were home all the time. [...]

[...] Your abilities led both of you far beyond, and it is time that you updated your ideas. [...]

(Pause.) You do not understand the nature of your own psychological extensions, or how your written words influence others. [...]

(9:39.) There will be words for example for feelings that you will be asked to imaginatively change into objects and back again, to project into time as you think of it, and sense the differences in the feeling’s relationship to yourself. This can be compared in quite other terms to taking an object from one table and placing it in another room, and trying it out in various locations; but we will be working instead with feelings instead of vases, and psychological locations.

[...] At its best (underlined) impressionism achieved a certain focus unknown to Western art up to that time, in your terms, offering a breakthrough from cohesive objective form into the moving vitality that gives objects, say, their durability and shapes their images.

[...] At the same time a few lines were used to hint at a variety of unseen, apparently unstructured objects, so that in that regard the line became in the hands of a master a strong symbol, hinting at other realities that lay within the seemingly distorted portrayal of objects.

(Pause.) At such times there can also be strong emotional content, as of finally triumphing over psychological chaos, or even of rising from the dead. [...]

Dictation: As you examine the contents of your conscious mind, it may seem to you that you hold so many different beliefs at different times that you cannot correlate them. [...]

(9:50.) This subject leads to what I will call bridge beliefs, and again Ruburt received some information on this topic ahead of time for his own benefit. [...]

(Long pause.) The emotions connected with these bridge beliefs may indeed surprise you, but standing upon such unifying structures you are also free to let the emotional flow sweep past, feeling it, but aware for the first time, perhaps, of the origin of those feelings in your beliefs, and no longer afraid of being swept away by them.

You might recall that I have been giving you the same sort of material for some time now.

[...] Imagine what you will do as you sell so many paintings that you need more time to produce them, and how you will then leave your job in order to paint, and the sort of place you will live, and the feeling of contentment and creative challenge that will fill you.

[...] Two of you working together can do seven times more than one operating alone. [...]

It has taken you some time to understand this in practical terms. [...]

[...] Not only because of the lost time and probably vain effort involved, but because as she talked, she knew she was saying things that applied to her as well. [...] After Stuart finally left, to stay at the YMCA, she walked in the kitchen, better than I’d seen her do in some time. [...]

Your young man gave you an excellent instance—a “case” that the most noteworthy psychologists or psychiatrists, if they had time, would find fascinating. [...] Your young psychologist was a case in point, with his “crazies,” your Andrija Puharich, your young people with the child, about Christmas time.

[...] I told him she couldn’t help him, that we didn’t have the time. [...]

[...] You see the beliefs, the motivations, the feelings, of those whose beliefs are carried to extremes, so that you can follow them as if they were psychological clusters or cultures—isolated, so to speak. [...]

[...] The subjects discussed are deeply charged for us, and the physical and psychological aspects of some of them could be devastating if we allowed them to be. [...]

[...] Some of them talked about her right in front of her as though she weren’t there—and, Jane said, with her hearing still much impaired at that time, she almost felt as though she wasn’t there.

For the third time in five days she began dictating her own material right after breakfast. [...]

[...] When they spoke to Rob and me I tried to listen, but my hearing was still so poor that it was nearly impossible to make out one full sentence at a time. [...]

(“I haven’t had too much time to think of questions, but today we were talking about the relationships between Jonestown and Three Mile Island — how those two events stand for the extremes of religion and science.” [...]

[...] We want our country and the world to benefit from those lessons, but at the same time we’re terribly afraid and concerned that our species won’t learn quickly enough. [...]

[...] At the same time these ideals further divorce the scientists from daily practical experience with their fellowman; and since they see animals as objects, they’re bound to see human life in somewhat the same fashion. [...]

“The scientist carries the burden of this alienation, and in his heart he must hope that his mission fails — for if it succeeds he will have effectively separated man from man’s nature in the world of beliefs, philosophically casting man adrift as meaningless psychological debris. [...]

If you examine your thoughts for five minutes at various times during the day for several times a month, you will indeed receive a correct impression of the kind of life you have so far arranged for yourself in the next existence. [...]

Now: Some individuals are being reborn at this time simply to help you understand. They are forcing the issue, and forcing the crisis, for you still have time to change your ways. [...]

[...] It is true that in between lives there is “time” for understanding and contemplation.

(Humorously): I do not keep you busy all the time, because you are such a good friend.

Ruburt will address the group in any case (pause), and many times in the future. Jim Crosson does not have that much time. [...]

[...] Over a long period of time such contact will serve you well. [...]

[...] You will be asked to go out among men at times. [...]

I suggest that under the circumstances, this time Ruburt step aside and let Jim Crosson have his day. [...]

(It also seemed that both of us had made the decision to confine the psychic work to sessions only, which I thought would at this time automatically shut down a lot of possible developments. I also felt there was a strong possibility the sessions themselves would go by the board unless Jane showed much improvement before too much more time passed. [...]

Most individuals dwell focused so rigidly in your particular area of space and time that the greater dimensionality of the entity is unknown to them at a conscious level. [...]

[...] An individual sets for himself those challenges that lie within his realm at any given time. [...]

[...] (Slowly.) Through the years (pause), Ruburt has been more and more aware of other kinds of psychological realities and structures than those usually experienced. [...]

If the dream world, the mind, and the inner universe do exist, but not in space, and if they do not exist basically in time, though they may be glimpsed through time, then your question will be: In what medium or in what manner do they exist, and without time, how can they be said to exist in duration? [...] It exists in time, but the mind takes up no space and does not have its basic existence in time. Your camouflage universe, on the other hand, takes up space and exists in time.

[...] In that session Seth gave us his interpretations of some of the basic laws or attributes of the inner universe, but it will be quickly seen that he was really discussing space and time,² as those qualities are perceived in his reality and in ours. In our world, of course, space and time form the environment in which conventional ideas of evolution exist. For that matter, all of the material in this appendix shows the interrelationship between our ideas of serial time and Seth’s simultaneous time. [...]

[...] Space is a camouflage … This tinge of time is an attribute of the physical camouflage form only, and even then the relationship between time and ideas, and time and dreams, is a nebulous one … although in some instances parts of the inner universe may be glimpsed from the camouflage perspective of time; only, however, a small portion.

(The “value climate of psychological reality” first mentioned in the [44th] session just quoted, is also dealt with through analogy in the 45th session. [...] [Seth’s own kind of simultaneous time, of course, easily accommodates all three concepts, although this appendix isn’t concerned with reincarnation.]

Psychological time is the apparent lapse between the conception of ideas.

[...] The shadow of time glimmers in his eyes as the still imperfected memory of past constructions lingers in his consciousness. [...] The amoeba must construct its small world without reflection and without time as we know it.

[...] She retired from her position as a high school drama teacher and spent more and more time in her little apartment.

[...] I stayed with her for a short time, trying to be as comforting as I could. [...]

He needed time to get his bearings. He felt psychologically paralyzed to some strong degree, and this was reflected in physical terms. [...]

[...] Jane was again very well dissociated, and a long time coming out of trance. [...]