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[...] At the same time such perceptions give insights into the book itself.

[...] This is the way the book of poetry that I finished early in March, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, began.

(“At the same time, in contrast, my perception of my room underwent a transformation. [...]

[...] This time I was a dinosaur. [...]

At the time of the session I understood Seth to mean that the second house Jane and I looked at on April 25 was also my mother’s second choice of the day for us. [...] For not only would both houses have to be for sale at the same time, and not only would Jane and I have to inspect them on the same day — but of the hundreds of houses in Sayre, it would be necessary that these two had ranked first and second in my mother’s preference for many years. [...]

[...] A coincidence — a mere trick of fate that Joseph could be walking through the old man’s home,² and that Mr. Markle would be spending his last time in a nursing home, as had Joseph’s mother — meaningless but evocative that this house was for sale, and that the old man was insisting upon a price higher than the house is worth, just as Joseph’s mother insisted upon a high price for her own home, and determined to get it.³ Period. [...]

Her own psychology and characteristic methods of behavior are still hers, however, and operate, so that “she” “tunes into” those areas of probabilities that concern her own desires and interests. [...]

Give us a moment … (Jane, as Seth, took the time to light a cigarette.)

[...] You came in contact with him at various times. [...] Your friend was four years younger than she, five times poorer, and ten times more ambitious.

He merely moved in the circle, the outer circle, of your acquaintance at that time. There is no reason in particular why you met him this time, except for this sense of familiarity. [...] Many times in fact you solve problems that arose with certain personalities by helping other personalities in other lives.

(I did not have time to say it here, but when I did the sketch I had the feeling that there might be more than the one bed in the room. [...] I also had the thought that I’d probably made the room look too spacious for the times.)

There was choice also on her part, that is, they chose to be reborn at approximately the same time so that their ages made them contemporaries. In many cases such as this, one or the other waits a longer period of time, being born as a child to the other party. [...]

Your clock time as you know is camouflage, and does not exist as far as the inner ego is concerned. This certainly should not be strange to you, since you know that even your present personalities can to some extent escape from clock time through the use of psychological time. I have said that there is no time without barriers. The inner ego is aware of fewer barriers and therefore is not bound by time to the degree that the outer ego is bound.

[...] I do not want to be blamed for any distortions that might arise, though at a later time Ruburt will be able to get this sort of material through without such distortion.

Nevertheless the fact remains that he boo-booed, that such errors, while unavoidable at times at this stage, are most regrettable and apt to cast a slur upon the material as a whole.

[...] However, and I have emphasized this at times, because of our materials and methods of communication such distortions will almost of necessity occur now and then. [...]

(The double test envelope for the 8th test contained a page from an old novel of Jane’s entitled The Adult Time. [...]

[...] Her eyes were closed most of the time.

[...] At the time, I had assumed that the two people referred to were Jane and me, since she was in the picture I took. [...]

You have noticed, I am sure, that at times visitors to a session are of definite value, for the psychic energy is pooled, and can be of value. [...]

[...] During their visit the woman, Carol, several times expressed the thought that she returned the second time, to see if we were home, because “it was meant to be,” or words to that effect. [...]

[...] Jane and I ate supper with the lights off and the blinds drawn, but by the time she went to work Jane decided to turn on the lights in her writing room, and see them should they return. [...]

[...] In Framework 2 however, again, time and space are not barriers, and there are no impediments in usual terms. [...]

(In a long conversation that Jane and I found hard to follow at times, Carol described how she’d put together elements from various philosophies and belief systems in order to get what she wanted. [...]

[...] In times of psychological stress or crisis, quite unwittingly you withhold this strong reinforcement.

[...] This is the key to physical problems that have arisen, and if you recall they bothered you in different form in different places from the time, and even before the time, that you took art up seriously.

To be afraid of the shortage of time is to hoard it. [...] But to respect time is not to hoard it, but to let each moment enlarge so that it becomes more than a moment, and only the strong freedom of your subconscious drives can achieve this.

Nevertheless the two of you interact, and because Ruburt is strongly intuitional at times he is a help to you. And at other times Ruburt senses your state of mind even before it materializes, and this sends Ruburt into an overanxious state which is not beneficial to either of you.

[...] As I have told you again, and time and time again: Basically there is no such thing as murder, for consciousness continues. [...]

[...] As I believe I told you before I have been both a man and a woman many times. [...] I have been ignorant many times. [...]

Now, when you spoke of your friend last time, I told you to distrust easy answers. [...]

You may be a follower, and there are many followers, and it is necessary at times to follow. [...]

[...] At times it became louder, but never approached the volume of the 158th session, for example. [...] I had to ask Seth to slow down several times during the first part of the session.

(Times noted indicate when Jane was in trance and when she came out of the state. [...] Her voice was fairly strong as before, and very briefly at times it hit a stronger volume. [...]

For my own enjoyment I use such tricks at times. [...] The voice can occur at any time, but it is hardly the kind of evidence with which, Doctor, you are concerned.

[...] The third man is a psychology instructor at the college, perhaps in his late thirties. [...]

[...] One of my favorite sessions, however, is the 566th in Chapter 16, where Seth discusses the “profound psychological interconnections” involving probable pasts and futures, dreams, telepathy, present abilities, suggestion, and related subjects. He also produces lines like, “As you sit reading this book in your present moment of time, you are positioned in the center of a cosmic web of probabilities that is affected by your slightest mental or emotional act.”

The past, in the present, would appear so brilliantly that man could not react adequately in circumstances of time that he had himself created. [...] With memory, however, mental projections into the future were of course also possible so that man could plan his activities in time, and foresee probable results: “Ghost images” of the future probabilities always acted as mental stimuli for physical explorations in all areas, and of all kinds.

[...] Bodily physical action, then, to that extent, loses its immaculate precision in time. [...] (Intently:) Again, to that extent instant physical action in time is not the same kind of life-and-death factor that it was when a man was faced with an enraged animal, or enemy, in close combat.

[...] This time, however, it came through verbally, as dictation, although Seth wasn’t involved. [...]

[...] All touch, to each of you now, was not innocent or joyful encounter; it meant “How far will this lead, and is the time of the month correct?” This applies to you both. [...] At the same time however, implied in any such touches, in his mind also was the question “How far will this go?”

[...] When you were working full time some years ago at Artistic your fears that Ruburt would become pregnant became an obsession. You were already breaking one of your directives, you see, in working full time at other pursuits, and so you became twice as frightened that you would fall into the world’s familiar mold, have children in which case the job would become indispensable.

As I will tell you, these goals have strong connections in past lives, and in this life you each gave yourselves powerful psychological charges to insure that these goals would be followed through. [...]

You chose ahead of time therefore to be driven along certain directions. [...]

[...] Two days ago, she worked on our new front porch for the first time; she sat in the slanting sunlight and wrote down the information she psychically picked up from the “world view” of William James, the American psychologist and philosopher who lived from 1842–1910. [...] [In the note she’s making for her Introduction to Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche, Jane describes a world view as “…a living psychological picture of an individual life, with its knowledge and experience, which remains responsive and viable long after the physical life itself is over.”]

[...] That is, they do not respond to what is physically present or perceivable in either space or time, but instead [dwell] upon the threats that may or may not exist, ignoring at the same time other pertinent data that are immediately at hand.

[...] They anticipate mating, for example, before its time. [...]

[...] In any given period of time, with one physical body, he can anticipate or perform an infinitely vaster number of events — each one remaining probable until he activates it.

[...] You perceive directly psychological experiences, but you do not perceive these in their undiluted form. You protect yourselves and automatically sift out what is too vivid or intense at any given time.

[...] While it was not the most suitable solution, it was the closest man could come at that particular time in physical reality.

(It was now time for the 58th Dr. Instream experiment. [...]

[...] There is no need to take our time and go through them one by one.

[...] In others they remain psychological shadows, while in others they may retain strong drives, but serve as springboards for the prime operating personality. [...]

[...] The rain had stopped by the time I left at 7:15; the drive home was uneventful, although I took it easy. [...]

[...] You either take the time and the effort to look into yourself or you do not. If you take the time and the effort, then I tell you, Jesuit, you will have no terrors of the flesh. While you do not take the time you must put up with it, and depend on your doctors...

(Seth also said that Jane and I would die within a short time of each other, when our earthly work was finished. [...]

The book will yield a tremendous amount of psychological knowledge, for little if at all has been done to explain the subjective personality ...

[...] That you do not take the time and the effort is the reason why you still have the symptoms. [...]

[...] Regretfully, she had to tell him she’d had little time to work on the scientific projects discussed then, although she was still interested. [...]

At the same time, the inner self will transmit to the conscious mind insights and intuitions meant to clear its sight. [...]

[...] Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do. [...]

[...] Because of the psychological theories of the last century, many Western people believed that the primary purpose of the conscious mind was to inhibit “unconscious” material.

Both prisoners and officials, however, take it for granted that most of those now behind bars will return time and time again. [...]

[...] It had been falling forward each time she lowered her head.)

[...] The enforced incarceration of violent men often leads to a riot, and the private closeting of normal aggression often brings psychological rioting and outbursts of physical symptoms.

[...] This usually means that no time is allowed for necessary inner dialogues of self questioning, and the self-healing that might otherwise occur is brought about through belief in another. [...]

The “victims” choose to participate in those conditions at spiritual, psychological, and biological levels. [...] Conscious comprehension need not follow, for many people know such things, and pretend not to know them at the same time.

[...] It does not bother you one whit that the physical substance of your body is made up of completely different atoms and molecules than it was composed of seven years ago, [say], or that your familiar hands are actually innocent of any smallest smidgen of matter that composed them [even in recent times past].

[...] This time he jumped up into her lap, then positioned himself with his forelegs against her chest while examining her face. [...]

[...] No one perceives the same chair [all of the time], though perhaps a given chair will seem to be “the same one” seen from different angles.

[...] I arranged that both women would meet here at 4:00 PM to talk with Jane for an hour before supper time; Sue Watkins was also due that afternoon with some typed material for Psyche—which is why I made the arrangement to begin with.

Those experiences may at times be quite jarring, tragic, frightening, but they will happen within a framework provided by the accepted suggestions of the society. [...]

[...] At the same time you provide a new group of suggestions, an alternate way for others. [...]

[...] At the same time you are everywhere surrounded by the suggestions of your culture.

(Pause at 9:59.) At one time these postcards represented initial original visions and individual interpretations. Later, however, they began to serve as guidebooks consulted ahead of time. [...] When you journey into other realities, or when your consciousness leaves your body, you can also rely upon guidebooks that program your activities ahead of time. [...]

Now in a sense the physical body does this always — that is, it sits astride realities, containing within itself dimensions of time and being that cannot be even verbally described. The cells themselves are “eternal,” though they exist in your world only “for a time.”

Instead of telling you that you take an airplane from a certain airport at a certain time for a particular earthly destination, leaving one latitude and longitude and arriving at another set; instead of telling you that you leave your country for another ruled by a dictator, or a president, or by anarchy, they will tell you that you leave this astral plane for any one of a number of others, ruled as the case may be by lords or masters, gods and goddesses. Instead of pointing out to you, as in earthly travel booklets, the locations of art galleries and museums, they will direct you to the Akashic Records.⁶ Instead of leading you to the archaeological sites of your world (intently), and its great ruins of previous civilizations, they will tell you how to find Atlantis and Mu⁷ and other times in your past.

[...] At times, because her delivery had become so steady, even precise, I’d wondered if she had entered into a Seth trance, but one without Seth’s usual voice effects. [...] Nor had she spoken for Seth, I realized by the time she finished. [...]