“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I have hoped many times for another such contact, with the promise to myself that I would do better next time. [...]

[...] These reincarnations all represent portions of your entity, living or experiencing sensation at various times within a physical time system.

[...] The one who is at any given time free of such difficulty should indeed help the other when such occasions arise. You actually put yourself in a trance state, and the suggestions take strong hold; and they are rarely constructive ones at such times.

[...] I was conscious of doing this, and that it took some little time, yet felt no urge to prod myself wide awake. [...]

[...] With the eraser the “evil hand” would try to rub out all of the good, and at the same time the “good hand” would be trying to erase all of the evil. [...] You will have a tendency to consider the body with its natural appetites wrong, and deny them, while at the same time the physical part of you will look upon your “good intents” as wrong, and infringements upon its own existence.

[...] At the same time, you are more free. [...]

[...] At the same time your own physical being knows better, and basically cannot accept such a concept.² So in daily life you may project this idea of unworth outward onto another person, who seems then to be your enemy; or upon another nation. [...]

If you take your own world view with you all of the time, however, as you travel, even in your own world, then you never see the “naked culture.” [...]

[...] That morning and each morning until that time, I’d been sure of one thing: you could trust physical reality. You might not like it at times, but you could depend on it. [...]

[...] This time I was determined not to let the same thing happen again until I had time to think it over, and I told Rob. [...]

[...] I didn’t even have time to call out to Rob.

[...] Yet I seemed to be somewhere else, at the same time, traveling through things. [...]

[...] I have told you that all experience is basically psychological, and that it is held in coded form within the cells. [...]

[...] It is the ego’s persistent discrimination in choosing the stimuli to which it will react that in a large measure determines the nature of physical time as it appears to the personality. [...]

[...] The plans are simple; at session times next week Bill and Peggy will attempt to concentrate on Jane, Seth and me, with a view to seeing what Seth can pick up.

A time several years ago. [...]

[...] On Saturday, October 27, I’d evidently come down with a “bug” of some kind —whether physical or psychological, and haven’t felt good at all since. [...] The worst part of the whole thing was that I developed urinary difficulties during the malaise: urination became very painful indeed, and I had a strong sense of blockage and impairment at times. [...]

(All during this time, October–November, we’ve also been involved in a series of hassles with the foreign publishers Ankh-Hermes and Ariston. [...] As I’ve said to Jane more than once, “I wonder what we ought to know that Tam hasn’t told us”—meaning of course that every time a hassle develops with Prentice-Hall we find out a new batch of information that Tam has known all along but never relayed to us. [...]

(The little I’ve worked with the pendulum tells me my troubles are rooted in money attitudes, as well as the production time I’ve lost on Mass Events for the last two weeks and more. [...] I would go back to painting, try to sell some, and possibly end up with a part-time job for ready money—anything to break the vicious mental pattern of distrust I seem to keep creating. [...]

[...] At the same time, you are more than a little contemptuous of what we may gently call the mental culture of Bill Crowder’s life and mind. [...]

[...] I will also continue with your fifth dimension material, add much to the time discussion, and go into some elements of existence on other planes that are different from your own. This will all take time and we have plenty of time, so there is no difficulty there.

[...] Time had passed very rapidly, it seemed, and we suspected time fore-shortening on Seth’s part. [...]

[...] At times during a session her hands feel heavier and waterlogged, the fingers fatter, the palms thicker, so that when she makes a fist her hand has a different feel to her than ordinarily.

[...] Any time you become uncomfortable you have only to say the word. [...]

At times Jane still becomes depressed, just as she still dozes in her chair. While at work in my own writing room I occasionally hear her talking to herself as she sits at her card table in the living room, just down the hall: I’ve learned that on such occasions, she’s asleep and often dreaming aloud, solving the psychological equations continually arising among the levels of her psyche as she pursues her chosen learning processes. [...] While I spend all of this time working on these essays for Dreams, I’m always afraid I’m leaving her alone too much. [...]

[...] That such feelings are rearoused in us at this time is hardly coincidental in view of our lifelong habits and belief systems; our tendencies toward secretiveness and our desires to be as self-sufficient as possible—even with Jane’s very dependent situation. Different modes of behavior don’t fit our chosen courses of action in physical life “this time.” [...]

[...] Seth put it beautifully a couple of months ago in the session for April 12—the first time Jane spoke for him since leaving the hospital—and I return to it again and again. See the essay for April 16: “The entire issue (of Jane’s living) had been going on for some time, and the argument—the argument being somewhat in the nature of a soul facing its own legislature, or perhaps standing as a jury before itself, setting its own case in a kind of private yet public psychic trial. [...]

[...] And just last week (after another routine blood test) Jane’s doctor again raised the dosage of the synthetic thyroid hormone she’s taking, this time from 75 to 100 micrograms per day.

(Seth told Bill he didn’t seem to have enough time in the day because he had the common habit of chopping time up into segments of minutes. A conception of time close to psychological time would give Bill enough time to do all he wants to do.

(Jane, her ESP book finished and mailed, has some free time for a change. [...]

[...] They visited us at 8:30 PM Wednesday, and before Jane and I realized it session time had come. [...]

[...] She smoked as she talked with us, and at times got to her feet as Seth. [...]

(This is the first time Jane has had such an experience in the waking state, although she has seen many things in psychological time experiments. [...]

(I have long been aware that the yoga exercises have a powerful effect on me personally, and that I evidently end up in a dissociated state at times after doing them. [...] The last time I heard voices they chattered away at a great rate, like a tape played too fast.

[...] This passivity comes rather easily to you under such conditions, as those that existed at the time.

[...] She took time out to put out her cigarette and sip some wine, her eyes blinking.)

(While trying psychological time Jane and I had the following experiences.

[...] This time she was quite aware of Seth’s concern lest anyone, upon reading this section of the material, commit suicide in a misguided effort to prove that it is possible for the consciousness to get along without the physical body. Jane said that at times she is aware of as many as three separate, parallel streams of thought, at the same time as she is giving voice to one of them.)

(As break began, I realized that my hands felt fat or enlarged; at the same time Jane said hers did also, and that she had been aware of it earlier in the session but forgot to mention it. [...] At such times the skin acquires a taut, almost flushed look, and the fingers feel strained when they are doubled up. [...]

(Jane also announced that at various times during the past two or three weeks, she had had the feeling of her left foot or hand—never the right—being plunged in hot water. [...] It will happen at any time—at work, at home, etc. [...]

[...] Even with your projected technology, this would involve great elements of time. Imagine here, now, that the screen’s picture is off-center to begin with, so that everything is distorted to some extent, and going out into space seems to be going backward into time.

(Pause.) If the picture were magically centered, then all “time” would be seen to flow out from the instant moment⁴ of perception, the private now; and in many ways the mass now, or mass perception, represents the overall now-point of your planet. From that now, “time” goes out in all probable directions. [...]

[...] True space travel would of course be time-space travel,⁵ in which you learned how to use points in your own universe as “dimensional clues” that would serve as entry points into other worlds. [...] You not only tune in the picture but you also create the props, the entire history of the life and times, hyphen — but in living three-dimensional terms, and “you” are within that picture.

There are space-time coordinates that operate from your viewpoint — and space travel from the standpoint of your time, made along the axis of your space, will be a relatively sterile procedure. [...]

[...] Psychologically you will use your inner abilities as you use your exterior abilities. [...]

[...] You are doing well and using your abilities, and you will do better, and I will have more to say to you at another time. [...]

You have all had time now to figure out some pretty good answers so let’s hear them. [...]

[...] I am referring to two particular people at this time, and you should look into yourself and see if you can find the reason. [...]

[...] At the time Seth said it was a wise move, and that from that point on Jane would do well with her writing. [...] At the time, we found the psychological information contained in these sessions very helpful. [...]

[...] At various times I have spoken concerning the reality of what you refer to as the astral body. [...]

[...] At the time of the exhibition I participated in at Bill’s gallery last winter, he had not had the gallery open very long. [...]

Jane worked less and less as the holiday season approached, although on December 15 she gave her fourth private session; its most evocative subject matter—art and child psychology—is separate from our themes for Dreams. [...] I was busier than ever, however: running the house, preparing for Christmas, helping my wife in various ways, working on the earlier notes for Dreams and trying to accumulate some painting time. [...] Our program of self-help gradually began to diminish, as had many of them before.⁸ Finally, in an effort to cheer up Jane one day as she sat idly at the typing table in her writing room, I tried a variation of a tactic that had worked so well for her inception of Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche almost six and a half years ago: This time, standing in back of her, I put my arms around her and rolled a clean sheet of paper into her typewriter—but here’s the note she wrote the next day:

[...] We tried what Seth had suggested many times: After discussing her voice effects we gave Jane gentle suggestions that they could be greatly minimized, then turned our attention away from them. Actually, I hoped that our almost childlike trust—which I felt was closely related to at least some of the psychological elements involved in her acceptance of the voice challenges to begin with—would make possible their complete disappearance.

[...] She showed more animation than I’d seen her display for some time, and I was glad to agree that she made some good points; others I disagreed with. [...] At the same time, I tried to make it easier for her to do the typing itself. [...] I took the time to build a lower, very solid table whose top rides just above her knees as she sits in her office chair; she can operate her typewriter much more easily at that lower level. [...]

[...] Each time I think of beginning MAGICAL APPROACH I feel this reluctance; I’m not sure what bugs me, the copying of records, putting together the days events or what—but i want more of the fun and magic of it for myself, and less hard work. I’d planned a consecutive story line book including some of robs dreams with interpretations yet feel strain there now, showing how this detail or that one fits the picture, this noon it came to me that the approach seemed to rational at this time; i wanted one that was lighter in tone, quicker yet more expansiveso if anything the books technique would be magical itself…. forcing the reader to make some connections from other-than-time frameworks. [...]

[...] You need also to expand in the direction in which you are going, in terms of these sessions and psychological time.

[...] I will never cease to be amused with Ruburt’s little tricks, such as watching the minutes, and I would not at all be surprised, Joseph, to find that he continues in the same hilarious fashion as times goes by. [...]

[...] He has used them well this time, to give himself added discipline, and this is all to the good. [...]

[...] Such a division occurs at various times in history, and is occurring now.

(My thinking at this time is that when we allow ourselves expression freely—painful as it may be at times—and live in ways that are in keeping with our natures and abilities, we will achieve that necessary and vital balance that automatically results in creative work, health, whatever material success we require, etc.

[...] For his own benefit and mine, two or three times a week he should sit down and write out his feelings, as he began to do last summer. [...]

(9:15.) He felt for some time that you were intrigued by the spontaneous parts of his personality, as long as they could be controlled, kept proper and in their place. [...]

From that point on he kept any negative thoughts or criticisms to himself, and during that time he feared that you almost disliked him completely. [...]

[...] It took some time for her to come out of the trance, with what little help I could offer.

(Indeed, Jane slipped back into it several times, at brief intervals. [...]

[...] A time of safety was chosen.

[...] A journey through time and space was involved. [...]

[...] Deeper stages of this are what Jane has called ecstasy in her psychological time experiments.

(This time it began in both my feet and moved up my legs to my hips, then manifested itself in the back of my head. [...] Seth went into the experience in detail in the 24th session, explaining how at times it represented my attempts to perceive him, and at other times my attempts to perceive other data outside the usual sense channels.)

(Seth told us at the time that the apparition was of him, and that Bill could see it but that Jane and I could not because we were too “fussy” about what we allowed ourselves to see. He said that in the future—time unspecified—we should be able to see his apparition at times, but by no means regularly.

[...] The first time I had asked Seth for data on a category not mentioned, namely color. The second time I asked him to start over the whole thing. This time I tried something else.

(Jane began speaking in trance this evening at a rather slow pace; her eyes opened at times; she was smoking; voice average.)

[...] They are quite real (smile) psychologically and psychically.

[...] There are some shortcomings in Zen philosophies that we shall discuss at another time. [...]

[...] She resumed at the same rather slow pace, eyes again opening at times, at 9:31.)

[...] She intended to leave before session time, but Jane invited her to stay at 8:50. [...]

[...] The other information will come in its own time.

[...] Your entire life is a statement in physical terms, written upon time as you understand it.

[...] “I’m way ahead of you this time, Seth.”)