“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

While mountains generally maintain a more or less permanent position, in your terms, the vegetation that grows on the different levels changes. New flowers come each spring. You may always find a patch of violets in the same general position in the foothills each year, for example; yet they are not the same violets that grew last season, or that will appear next season.

You are only aware of your own position within time, or your own place on the “platform,” or the ledge as you understand it.¹ Not only do these ledges or platforms of time exist simultaneously, but each one brings forth its own batches of personalities in its own different seasons. To that degree you are aware of your own season only, and we will call it the physical one — the particular probable reality that you accept as real.

(9:43.) Give us a moment … The year 1940, then, continues to exist as the mountain ledge continues to exist, and it brings forth new creativity “each season.” The violets on our hypothetical mountainside contribute to the life of the mountain even while they have their own independent reality, and the overall cycle of the seasons regulates the growth and development of the mountain and all of its manifestations.

The pattern for those flowers serves to seed each new batch. All kinds of alterations also take place in the soil beneath the mountain’s layers. So, while different ledges may appear more or less the same, this sameness is the result of minute changes, new growths and seasonal variations.

([Jane:] “I got this fantastic image of everybody spontaneously forming all these seasons and everything. And there was a tremendous effort involved individually to get spring going—to get the buds out...that the good things that we do that we don’t realize...you know we think of war—and we see all the evil we do; and that the good things we do, we often don’t realize—and that we actually form the seasons—the spring, the other seasons; and that the earth itself, the physical earth, is like the Garden of Eden in our subconscious. [...]

[...] Now the seasons come each year as they have come for centuries upon your planet—and they come with a magnificent spontaneity and with a creativity that bursts upon the world. [...] And you do not fear the coming of the seasons. [...]

[...] For you can consider the body of the earth and all that you know—the trees and the seasons and the sky—to some extent as your own contribution—the combination of spontaneity and discipline that gives fruit to the earth. [...]

[...] Commercials on television bring a new barrage, so that (amused) you can go from the hay fever season to the flu season without missing any personal medications.

The flu season intersects with the Christmas season, of course, when Christians are told to be merry and [wish] their fellows a happy return to the natural wonders of childhood, in thought at least. [...]

So the Christmas season carries a man’s hopes in your society, and the flu season mirrors his fears and shows the gulf between the two.

[...] The official told all listeners that the flu season had officially begun. [...]

There were a few remarks that I intended to make concerning the Christmas season, and perhaps I shall make them now.

As you both suppose, enough constructive psychic energy is generated during the holiday season to recharge psychic batteries, so to speak, for quite some time. [...]

[...] You could not therefore enter into what you felt to be the hypocrisy of the season. [...]

[...] So far this season, I believe my attitude has shown a marked improvement.

Do not be afraid but change with the seasons, for you are more than the seasons and you form the seasons, as they are the reflections of your psychic climate. [...]

[...] Your own consciousness is part of each season. [...]

(I’m intrigued by Seth’s rather mysterious closing phrase, above, about this season as it was established long before the time of Christianity. Something similar in meaning to our Christmas season? [...]

I give you both my blessings for the meaning of this season, as it was established long before the time of Christianity. [...]

[...] It’s a lot more than I thought I’d have to look forward to this season. [...]

[...] I am not sure if it is white or brown wheat bread that has a tendency to bother you during this season. [...]

These instructions apply only during hay fever season. [...]

[...] If you follow my suggestions and use what you know, then you should have a very light hay fever season. [...]

[...] During hay fever season Ruburt should use a diluted (underlined) ammonia household cleaner.

the seasons come and go

not to affect the seasons

[...] For reasons that I will discuss later, the shift of seasons always gives rise to added bursts of psychic energy, though indeed the added bursts of psychic energy are in main responsible for the shift of seasons.

I believe that you will find during such times that you achieve higher plateaus of success at these times, and the natural aspects of the season’s change will themselves trigger such inner activity, if only you allow it.

[...] The seasons as you know represent the physical construction of the inner psychic climate. [...]

[...] But the seasons are automatic constructions along the lines of alterations, happening to matter already constructed.

Using the intellect alone, man did not simply learn through daily experience over the generations, say, that one season followed the other. [...] In one season he dreamed of the others, however, and in dreams he saw himself spreading the seeds of fruits as he had seen the wind do in daily life.

[...] You would not have had any overall picture of the seasons, for dreaming educated the memory and lengthened man’s attention span. [...]

His dreams reminded him that a cold season had come, and would come again. [...]

He is receiving larger doses of energy due to the season, and his own natural reactions to it, but he is not acting or reacting with the spontaneity that is natural to him in early springtime. [...]

The condition now is due to this need for readjustment due to the season: bursts of impulsive and yet directed behavior followed by relaxation.

[...] What you think of as 1940 is but one season on that ledge, the season that you recognize. [...] In the same way, those born in 1940 “at one season” do not, in a greater context, mix with those born in the same year either.

[...] Ahead of time, you choose the seasons of your birth.

[...] I said that the seasons came and went, and that many crops of spring flowers grew there over a period of time. [...]

The word “season” here may be misleading. [...]

[...] The electrical currents are not working to our advantage; this being a peculiar circumstance, incidentally, having to do with a changed ionization of the surface of the ground, that sometimes occurs about this season. [...]

[...] It is the altered ground ionization, somewhat peculiar to this season, that causes the difficulty.

[...] Feel the kernel of your consciousness rise as one of your seeds, higher beyond the knowledge of seasons, beyond the feeling of your days or moments, beyond the relationships of blood, beyond all those kinships which you take for granted. [...] A warmth that forms the very pulse of physical existence and yet is born from the devotion of our isolation; that is born from the creativity that is beyond flesh and bone, that forms fingers without feeling fingers, that forms seasons without knowing spring, that creates sand without knowing sand or ground, that creates the reality that you know without experiencing it, that forms fathers, sons and daughters and mothers without knowing what fathers and mothers and daughters and sons are, and yet from this devotion, from that creativity comes all that you know. [...]

[...] The seasons within your system come and go. [...]

[...] The seasons within your system come and go. [...]

“It is a gift, a boon, an exquisite pleasure, to become physically alive on your functioning planet, couched securely within your dusk and dawn, your existence supported by the seasons and by an overall operation of spontaneous order.”

[...] Many people, long before the time of printing or reading, learned to read nature very well, to observe the seasons, to feel out “the seasons of the soul.” [...]

[...] Naturally, high winds or snowstorms used to exhilarate him and act as stimuli, but overall his physical being always exhibited its greatest health, flexibility and exuberance in the other seasons. [...] He does not naturally feel as great a rapport, then, as he does in the other seasons.

[...] That is not a particularly important point, but given here simply to give you an idea of other issues that operate, having to do with a personality’s natural leanings toward certain seasonal conditions.

People often respond to the seasons in individualistic fashion, of course, using certain elements to spur them on or hold them back, using the sessions as sounding boards. No season is itself only. [...]