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If, however, you expect too much of him without giving time for this structure to form, you drain him of energy and not the other way around. [...] At the same time, the psychological structure has not reached far enough outward so that he is gathering enough energy from our symbolistic other side: and at times you are asking him to make the leap. [...]

Now: In your dreams the other personality can communicate and without the psychological bridge framework, but only in dream reality. [...] Over a period of time, you see, these will collect. [...]

You are beginning to form this psychological bridge. [...] The bridge is a living psychological bridge because in this type of communication feelings and emotions are involved. [...]

[...] He will indeed be the psychological bridge, the psychological framework, structure and image through which that personality can communicate. [...]

[...] I have now experienced both sensations many times. [...] I was lying upon my back at the time, and this is the position I use while trying psychological time.

They move through psychological time. [...]

(The following data are from Jane’s psychological time notebook:

[...] As a brief byline here, I mentioned once the Crucifixion, saying that it was an actuality and a reality, although it did not take place in your time. It took place where time is not as you know it. It took place in the same sort of time in which a dream takes place, and its reality was felt undeniably by generations, and was reacted to. [...]

[...] … My trancetime is more concentrated than regular time. [...] Instead it’s as if I’m practicing some precise psychological art, one that is ancient and poorly understood in our culture; or as if I’m learning a psychological science that helps me map the contours of consciousness itself … after all this time, I’m finally examining the trance view of reality and comparing it to the official views of science and religion. [...]

[...] After the layoff, there was Seth poised psychologically once again (for over the thousandth time). [...]

[...] In the meantime I’d read over the 17 chapters of my unfinished novel, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, and looked over groups of notes for possible books, but nothing hit the spot. I asked for some ideas from my “natural spontaneous self,” and on August 5, 1980, I dreamed that a moving van with me in it was itself being moved by a larger vehicle ahead of some planned time. [...]

[...] Actually, the sessions usually last anywhere from one to three hours, so I suppose that many people spend a good deal more time than that playing golf or tennis.

[...] Seth told Rob again that contact could be facilitated by the Psychological Time exercises. (These will be explained in the chapter dealing with the development of psychic abilities.) Rob did these exercises several times that week without making any contact with Dr. Pietra as far as he knew. [...]

“It should be obvious that the psychological frameworks must be different when the time-experience is different. You can see for yourself the psychological variations that exist simply between the conscious and subconscious, for example. [...]

[...] Over the next few weeks he did psychological time exercises suggested by Seth, and tried to be intuitively alert to anything out of the ordinary. [...]

[...] As a sideline, there are some interesting episodes when a severe psychological shock or deep sense of futility causes a short circuit so that one portion of the self begins to experience one of its other probable realities. [...] In some instances such an individual is experiencing a probable event, but he must experience it, you see, within his own time system.”

[...] She had achieved this ecstatic state, as she described it, several times by that date. [...] Seth stated that he did not realize Jane would achieve this focusing of inner energy so early in her studies with psychological time, and furthermore said that it could have unpleasant effects if it was unwittingly directed toward someone else. [...]

(I have yet to resume a planned study of psychological time, but as noted previously I continue to have small experiences almost daily. [...]

I am of the opinion that your psychological time experiences will shortly become more vivid, Joseph; and also Ruburt’s. The inner spontaneity is coming back to Ruburt, after he tried too hard during the last of the summer.

[...] The change in the direction of the bed will also aid in psychological time experiments, when tried there.

[...] You pretend to agree that it does; we meet in no place of space or time. [...] You know that you hallucinate the room, that you are as much in trance here as you ever are when you are in psychological time. [...]

[...] You are not the same being physically, psychologically, spiritually, or psychically, and ten minutes later you will be different again. To deny this is to try to force consciousness into some rigid form from which it cannot ever be freed, to apply rules to it that make a very neat psychological landscape.

As you know yourselves, you only accept those suggestions, ideas and hang-ups that suit your purposes at this time. [...]

[...] You did not set them like millstones about your neck, hoping ahead of time that you would drown.

[...] I refer here to humanity at this time. These psychological structures through value fulfillment, ever enlarge their abilities to form new realities and to act within them. [...]

Now I have been speaking about psychological structures that are far more complicated than those with which you are familiar. [...] For in a very dim manner, the psychedelic experience can give you some glimmerings as to the nature of these more advanced psychological structures.

Of itself such an experience will not give you psychological mobility through other portions that compose your own becoming psychological structure. [...]

(Jane began speaking in trance while sitting down; she was smoking; her eyes began to open soon; her pace was rather fast and her voice quite loud, comparatively—the loudest it has been in some time.)

[...] While trying psychological time, Jane again experienced the feeling she has likened to ecstasy, and described so thoroughly on page 66. [...] We thought that a small step at a time was sufficient.)

(After the very short 53rd session tonight I tried psychological time. [...]

(While trying psychological time I had the following experiences:

[...] As usual this vision was over before I realized I had seen it, yet during the sighting I was for the first time unaware of my body lying on the bed.

[...] Life is everywhere both individual and particular, and at the same time united with all being. [...] All That Is composes the fabric of the universe—which is everywhere unified, since nothing exists outside of it, and every wave or particle, or field or whatever within it, consists of a divine psychological fabric that is populated by individuation, sensation, meaning, intent, in which the most innocuous shadow of an electron rises up joyfully and shouts “I am I, and not you.” [...]

[...] A note to Ruburt: to impress that universe on a conscious level, you stress your individuality, while at the same time trying to realize that your uniqueness rises each moment from that divine psychological fabric. [...]

[...] Each individual is a portion of the universe, of course, apropos of the book on the Fabric of the Universe, but the universe is everywhere composed of awareized energy—energy “stamped” with its own unique psychic or psychological “individuality.”

Each conceivable particle or wave “at any given time” possesses its own unique position in the universe, however, and its own privileged viewpoint. [...]

[...] People cannot admit that they want to die at certain times. [...] Many do: The psychological condition changes for the better, and the body cells are no longer amiable to the cancerous condition.

[...] A cell mirrors a psychological state. [...] There are literally uncountable psychological states mixing and interchanging constantly, with the overall psychological stance being one of biological integrity (colon): The organism holds together, maintains its functions, and so forth.

[...] But you quite studiously ignore that feeling exists on microscopic levels, that there can be psychological particles, much less come to the conclusion that all particles are psychological particles, with their own impetuses for development and value fulfillment. [...]

[...] Your psychologies, stressing “the norm,” made people frightened of their individual characteristics and abilities, because psychology’s norm did not fit the contours of any one human being. [...]

(Both of us have kept strict records of our psychological time studies, for example, with the hope that Seth will eventually discuss them. The records have now piled up to such an extent, however, that we do not really understand how Seth can ever cover them, as he has promised to at various times, in very much detail. [...] Actually the time set aside for gathering material is quite limited, yet it keeps us busy.

(November 23, Monday, 8:15 PM: This was my most active experience since resuming psychological time study. [...] Most of the sightings and sounds are now hard to recall, frustratingly enough, but they were very vivid at the time, and I did achieve partial duration in memory.

(Trying psychological time for fifteen minutes on Tuesday, November 17, and Wednesday, November 18, Jane achieved an excellent state on each day.

Nor have I forgotten any of the psychological time incidences. [...]

Again, this may seem difficult to understand, because you assign psychological characteristics to sexual affiliation, whichever it is. [...] All of them will not necessarily be heterosexual at any given time.

Puberty comes at a certain time, triggered by deep mechanisms that are related to the state of the natural world, the condition of the species, and those cultural beliefs that in a certain sense you transpose upon the natural world. [...] The time that puberty comes varies, then, and afterwards it is possible to parent a child. A time then comes when the period is over. During what is called the sexually active time; the larger dimensions of personhood become strictly narrowed into sexually stereotyped roles — and all aspects of identity that do not fit are ignored or denied. [...]

[...] It is quite natural, biologically and psychologically, to operate in certain fashions that are not acceptable in your society, and that seem to run counter to your picture of mankind’s history. In terms of your definitions, then, it is quite natural for some people to behave as males sexually and as females psychologically. [...]

Your identity is simply not dependent upon your psychological or biological sexuality.

[...] And at the present time you are not willing to give that much attention to these other portions of your personality that you recognize do exist. And you have recognized your own gifts for some time. [...] You are afraid for example that in psychological time—granted you find the physical time for it—you will take needed energy away from your physical pursuits. [...]

The remarks are these—We will and we have, to a very small extent here, begun a study of multidimensional psychology...and it will be the psychology of the future for it will regard personality in its true and entire light. [...] But this will take some time. [...]

Once psychology realizes that the personality is also alert and conscious in the dream state, then indeed its precepts and its bases must change. [...] Now your sleeping self is awake all of the time—you dream all of the time. [...]

Try your psychological time experiments. [...]

[...] At one time some years ago, at a writers’ conference, she became involved in circumstances that could have led to her psychic development before she was ready. The psychological climate at that time, of those involved, initiated the conditions, and without realizing what she was about our friend [Jane] went into a trance.

Our psychological structure does mean that we can communicate in far more various forms than those with which you are familiar, however. [...]

Our experience, however, does not include the time divisions with which you are familiar. [...]

[...] There is no period of time, in your terms, that you can mention, but some of us have been from there, and carry within our memories the indelible experience that was gained in that particular context.

Now, we will see to it that you live very adventurous nights, and those of you who do psychological time and take the physical time necessary to do the experiments, will find the mobility of consciousness—I am using that term because Ruburt likes it so well—that is necessary. [...]

[...] Now when you are quieted and when you are in the dream state or when you are doing psychological time then you free yourself from the three-dimensional system and allow your consciousness to recognize other portions of its own reality. [...]

Tell our friend, Ruburt, that Nassair should not set up what he is thinking of setting up, his offshore fund; and tell Ruburt that that is the only message I have for Mr. Nassair at this time. [...] Tell him also that Mr. Nassair’s friend, who was here at class, subconsciously knows that Mr. Nassair should not set up the fund at this time, but did not want to take the responsibility for saying so. [...]

(To Giselle.) Now, I am aware of the problems of which Ruburt knows, and we will discuss them at a later time whenever you can get up here and discuss it. [...]

Now basically, consciousness itself is a type of barrier, and anything that has consciousness experiences time to some degree. [...] Self-consciousness presents a larger barrier, therefore the sense of time is greater. Psychological time is the lowest common denominator, so to speak, from your viewpoint. [...] Psychological time represents on your plane the closest you can come to the experience of timelessness as far as your physical laws are concerned.

You do experience time, but not time as it is bound by your camouflage patterns. As I have mentioned you can in a dream or daydream or through conscious use of psychological time experience many hours in a few clock minutes. [...]

[...] Had you had the opportunity to do more work with psychological time you would have been able to attain greater perception than you did. [...]

[...] Try and use psychological time as I have told you. [...]

[...] You know ahead of time the nature of the period into which you will be born. You [Jane and Rob, or Ruburt and Joseph] were both born with certain abilities, and you knew ahead of time that you would have to enlarge the framework of conventional concepts if you were to have room to use those abilities. [...]

[...] It involves great sweeping psychological attitudes on the part of many, and meets the needs and desires of those involved — needs which, in your terms, arise in a framework of religious, psychological and cultural realities that cannot be isolated from biological results.

[...] His culture, his religion, his psychologies, and his psychological nature together form the context within which both private and mass events occur. [...]

[...] [I’d also wanted to see what she and Seth would come up with on demand.] But this time Seth fooled me and started Mass Events only a couple of weeks after finishing Psyche. [...] At this time there’s no way we’re going to see it all published.

[...] At the same time he believed he was the Sinful Self, and that expression was highly dangerous—so between those two frameworks, the psychological organization, he operated as best he could, still seeking toward the natural value fulfillment that was his natural heritage. [...]

(She’s been sleeping in the mornings because I haven’t called her at 6:15 when I get up, but starting tomorrow she plans to get up with me so we have enough time through the day to do more things. Jane still hasn’t been going to the john more than three times a day, nor have we yet tried point 4 on my list: taking one step a day with the aid of the typing table. [...]

(After supper today Jane said that for the first time in some little while she went to the john without a feeling of panic. [...]

(I was so absorbed typing that Jane had to call me three times for the session. [...]

The window of each day can be opened or closed, but it is framed by your current psychological experience. [...]

[...] So, at your normal physical death, you come to the point where your earth-attuned consciousness can no longer handle further data without a “longer rest,” and organize it into a creative meaningful whole — in terms of time.

[...] “That was one of the few times in all of these sessions,” Jane said, “when I was not even in trance.” [...]

Many artists unknowingly paint portraits of their simultaneous selves.³  Many mothers find themselves feeling younger than their offspring at times, or about to call some of their children by different names. [...]

[...] Yet there had been an earlier moment just before the onrush of material when I sensed an odd psychological threshold, a certain accelerated state, that in this case at least signaled the intersection of Seth’s thoughts and mine. Then there was a brief point of psychological rest, an almost neutral psychological platform in which Seth’s outline began to emerge.

As far as my relationship with Seth and his with me, because of our long-standing association I think we must have formed a unique psychological alliance; somehow I am part Seth, and in sessions at least, Seth must be part Jane, in a kind of psychological bonding on both sides. [...]

Talk about psychological complexities! [...] The subjective pace quickened and kept accelerating — then I hit a psychological brick wall, and I could carry the concept no further. [...]

[...] Seth maintains that we can’t trust ourselves while distrusting our impulses at the same time. [...]