“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I’ve never been one to accept other people’s word about the nature of things, even though at times I have accepted more than I should have. [...] I do much better that way, because I don’t feel that I’m being tested, and I don’t have time to fret about results. [...]

[...] While he sees reincarnation as a fact, he places it in an entirely different time context, and reconciles the theory with the idea of “simultaneous” time. [...]

“If you sell yourselves short, you will say, ‘I am a physical organism and I live within the boundaries cast upon me by space and time. [...] I am free of space and time. [...]

[...] Gene has his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England, in experimental psychology, and taught at Cambridge. [...]

[...] We shall indeed discuss Ruburt’s dream in good time, when he is not expecting it. For now, I would like to add somewhat to our discussion concerning inverted time and probable events.

[...] They were so pressed for time on this particular weekend that the day of the wedding was changed from Sunday, January 23, to Saturday, January 22, so that they could return to their home in time for work Monday, January 24. [...]

[...] For the subconscious, like the probable self, is aware of its existence in the inverted time system. [...]

The self is far from a simple psychological structure, and your psychologists are barely beginning to have any understanding of what it is.

[...] The whole self as it exists at any given time can be glimpsed through studying the actions of the physically-oriented ego, as seen in physical manipulation, and in studying the activities of the inner ego as seen in dream experiences. [...]

The inner ego is the self who drives the wheel with purpose; at the same time there are many other wheels and many spokes… Our moment point analogy will also help you here. [...]

The psychology of personality cannot be grasped unless reincarnation is taken into consideration, but even then this only represents energy operating within one system. [...]

[...] Her eyes had been open most of the time. [...]

[...] “Fuck you, Seth!” one girl screamed — which daunted that worthy not at all: Class members hardly agree with Seth or anyone else all of the time. [...] She also took time to sing very delicately in Sumari, in contrast to Seth’s powerful deliveries. [...] Class lasted from 7 P.M. until after midnight, and by the time it was over everyone involved was, if not exhausted, certainly well exercised emotionally. [...]

[...] If for simplicity’s sake you think of other realities as different cities, then after you leave your own you would pass through the suburbs, then into the country, then after a time into other suburbs until you reached another metropolis. [...]

[...] These are all playing at the same time. [...]

[...] As he falls asleep some night our grocer, Wilford, might suddenly hear the full strains of a symphony in his head, or instead catch a quick glimpse of a football player; or on the other hand one of the musicians in the symphony orchestra may suddenly find himself thinking about how difficult it would be to have a mistress and a wife at the same time.

(This time however Jane brought Seth in herself. [...]

[...] Twice in a frisky mood, the voice climbed very briefly in volume; both times this happened near the end of the session.

[...] Bill confirmed my own thought at the time, that a stray burst of wind had affected the flame. [...]

[...] At the same time Seth stated he was not a spirit, although if he materialized in the middle of the floor we would pay more attention and not take him for granted.

[...] The time element is important when you project from the physical image. [...]

Any real psychology must take all these levels of the self into consideration, for the physically-oriented self that you know is largely formed by the subjective self of which you know so little.

[...] I remember that I was sick three times that winter, each time to a lesser degree. The first two episodes cost me work time of several days each. I do not remember having any thoughts, at any time, connecting my illnesses to the polio vaccines.)

[...] As Seth said, she did not appear; her planned activities at the newspaper where she works were changed unexpectedly; she was taken out of town Wednesday night, the time of the 242nd session. Peggy was given the assignment in the afternoon, she said, and it could have been around 3 PM; she does not know the exact time. [...]

(At supper time this evening we were notified that once again Peggy could not appear tonight. [...]

[...] I wrote up the notes on these and read them to Jane just before session time, thinking that if Seth didn’t cover all the points this evening, at least a beginning could be made.

[...] Experiments and experiences using psychological time, and all projection events, deal rather directly with the use of these inner senses.

(Thus Seth returned three times in all. Jane had been well dissociated each time.)

[...] For one simple example, Ruburt experienced a valid projection begun from the dream state, some time ago.

Your consciousness is far divorced from the physical organism, and it would be dangerous to stay away for any extended period of physical time. [...]

[...] The object was torn by me from pages 11 and 12 of the New York Times’ first news section for Sunday, November 6,1966. [...] I did however know the object came from the New York Times. [...]

I have given it a whacking many times. [...]

[...] The author, while basically correct, ignores for example the reality of reincarnation; and Ruburt’s protests to the contrary, reincarnation belongs both with metaphysics and psychology, and cannot be ignored.

[...] Upon our return that evening at supper time, Jane began to go outside to look for the cat perhaps every fifteen minutes. [...]

I have described those early sessions elsewhere, but here I’m including, instead, a poem that is a dramatic, intuitive statement about my feelings at the time. [...] Seth didn’t really announce himself until we had worked with the Ouija board four times. [...]

It was the first time Miss Cunningham and I had really talked together in some time, and I was shocked by the change in her. [...]

During the rest of that September in 1963, I reread the “Idea Construction” manuscript many times, trying to understand it and hoping to recapture some of the feelings I had had during its delivery. [...]

[...] Ideas for poetry, in particular, came so quickly that I hardly had time to write them down. [...]

(“And a connection with time mentioned.” [...] We mentioned time many times during the evening, of course. A prominent written source of time last Friday evening lay in the Fate article on table tipping, which we all read in turn: twenty seconds; after midnight; twelve years; a month later; four months later; three minutes; since 1960, etc. [...]

[...] Both trios worked at tipping the table several separate times, for many minutes at a time.

[...] As stated, the first two times Bill, Don and I sat at the table we deliberately made the table tip; the last time however, with Jane added to the group, the table really tipped through subconscious pressure.

[...] In other words, at this time various biological changes must occur in order for you to tune in upon them directly.

Rob called me several times, getting no response. [...] This last sensation wasn’t new; I’d had it in some Psy-Time experiences. [...]

“This communication, while taking place in your time, is nevertheless responsible in other dimensions for what you would call future developments in your own personalities which you can, in turn, contact. I look back on you as the selves from which I sprang, yet I am more than the sum of what you will be when you are finished with the dimensions and times that I have known.

[...] “You have been given a sketchy outline, but we have time to fill it in,” he said, smiling. [...]

[...] Later we were to read that above paragraph over many times when—as you’ll see shortly—I found myself almost “in over my head.”

[...] In July 1964 Jane worked at the Arnot Art Gallery, and Caroline Keck and her husband Sheldon spent some time there then, putting the gallery’s collection in shape. [...] The drawing of the pigeon was among a group I had exhibited at the gallery at the time the Kecks were present; they saw it and admired it. [...]

[...] Seth presented some very interesting material on flying saucers, time, other systems, etc. [...]

[...] The person that was exists as a sort of psychological unit, however. [...]

As his own experiences grow the previous earth experiences become less important and dreamlike, though they can be activated most vividly at any time. [...]

[...] Expect another tape at a later time, and we will cover more regarding will. [...]

You will realize by the time we are through that it is simply a difference of interpretation.

Even in psychological circles you are to some extent considered a joyful rebel. [...]

Now there will be another tape within 3 months time if we do not see you earlier.

(Jane has had other experiences, both in dreams and in psychological time, in which she heard Seth’s voice but did not recognize it. For an account of an instance occurring during psy-time, involving John Bradley, see the unscheduled 190th session. [...]

[...] At the same time I felt touches of my familiar thrilling sensation that I have often felt during psy-time, or when I see a vision; this gave me the feeling that I might be half right about what I had said; Seth however said nothing about it. [...]

[...] presently a small firm comparatively speaking, but it will expand drastically within a short time... [...]

[...] They plan to make their own notes at these same times for later comparison.

At one point Seth smiled broadly and said, “Now, I have lived and died many times, and you can sense my vitality. [...] You helped him ‘save his soul’ at one time [in a past life] and he was returning the favor. At one time he was tempted to use his abilities to gain power, and to use the priesthood for gain. [...]

[...] By the same token, there is no reason to suppose the reincarnational material was any less correct, though we can’t check it because of the long time periods involved. (Some reincarnational data is much more recent and can be checked to some extent if the people involved have the time and want to make the effort. [...]

[...] The dream state becomes an extremely vivid time, for such experiences assure the personality of its larger nature. It knows it is more than the self that it has for a time chosen to be.”

[...] As I mentioned earlier, when the sessions started I didn’t believe that we survived death once, much less many times. [...]

[...] Her eyes darkened considerably; at times they appeared to contain no highlights.

[...] Her voice was normal most of the time; she had a few periods of loudness.

At times the ego can hold you in a tight vice, which the dissociation breaks. [...]

[...] Its other abilities lie unused for the time and latent, but they are present.

[...] This time I change the events from the way they happened the first time, realize how important his problems are to him, smile and send him good thoughts. [...]

At the same time, however, you must understand that these probable selves were also created because of your own great hopes, hopes you felt you could fall far short of; so they were ‘born’ with the same hopes that you had at that time, but they were personalities that were overburdened with fears.

You had planned for this as a temporary arrangement — six months, at most, to save money — then you were going to paint full time. Instead, however, you stayed, supposedly to aid your parents, but this was largely an excuse because you were afraid to take the chance and paint full-time and also afraid to give up the regular money, even though you had no rent to pay.

On Friday, October 9, 1970, I received a letter from a reader, Peg Boyles, about my book The Seth Material. With it she included an excerpt from Living Time by Maurice Nicoll, and another from a manuscript by Alice Bailey. [...]

The practice of psychological time will allow you to reach these portions of the self. [...]

(This was the first time either of us had specifically noted that Dr. Lodico had his office in a certain building that both of us had driven past many times. [...]

[...] Again her pace had been fast, her voice strong; the exception now was that her eyes, very dark, began to open at times.

[...] Her voice was not as loud this time but her delivery had been fast, as though she wanted to give the data without thinking about it. [...]

[...] You can best achieve some approximation of an idea by using psychological time...”)

When you intend to leave in the middle of a session, there is hardly time for me to light into you adequately, or to answer the questions that I think we could answer. [...] Indeed, I have been harsh with no one, though I have been tempted at times. And I am always hampered both by time and because of mechanical difficulties, and because we must be so still and silent.

[...] If you have time we shall explain this evening. If not we shall explain another time.

[...] This places it in time a couple of weeks before we saw John last time, during the Binghamton meeting affair. [...]