“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You react to your beliefs habitually, often unthinkingly, and in usual ideas of time, and in your experience of it — you must allow yourself “some time” to change that habitual behavior.

[...] Later, conflicting beliefs often smother such earlier attitudes, so that by the time children have grown into adults they actually hold almost an opposite set of hypotheses. [...]

Again, because of the simultaneous nature of time, beliefs can be changed in the present moment.

[...] She’s tried to do so for me several times, without success so far, but has succeeded a few times in the mornings. [...]

[...] Knowing that relieves me of spending my valuable time in adversarial positions and activities. [...]

[...] Jane was bothered by leg and bladder spasms at the same time. [...]

[...] I believe that’s the first time in well over a thousand sessions that I’ve forgotten to type one. [...]

[...] The entire idea, or fear, that Ruburt had at one time of leading other people down the garden path, was based upon those old beliefs. [...]

[...] Children, however, will concentrate for hours at a time on subject matters and questions that interest them. [...]

[...] These sessions, in that regard, came naturally, as the expression of natural abilities and tendencies, finally emerging despite your official views at the time, jointly.

[...] This was the first time I’d heard her express her impatience at Seth, as though everyone was supposed to be ready when we wanted a session.

[...] “I’m not blocking,” she repeated several times, reiterating that she really wanted the session, no matter what it said.)

[...] Do not worry if the first time our Ruburt does not perform; nor should he, but cultivate the environment in which this is normal, and he will react to the stimuli.

He is physically capable of performing now with much better flexibility than he does, and with comparative physical ease and comfort, at this time. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

(Ordinarily, Jane said, she would have had a cigarette during the delivery; but this time she “got the message” that she was not to smoke. [...]

[...] Seth had come through so rapidly and emphatically that while taking notes I’d hardly had time to think about questions. [...] [Here we go again, I speculated, back to struggling with that contradictory notion of “simultaneous time.”] How does Seth’s instantaneous “beginning processes that formed the universe”—with no time involved—square with fossils in the earth? [...]

[...] There was no time, so all of this “was happening” simultaneously. [...]

The first “object” was an almost unendurable mass, though it had no weight, and it exploded, instantaneously beginning processes that formed the universe—but no time was involved. [...]

[...] I told her it raised many questions, but that I didn’t think anyone, at any time, had dealt better with the “origin” of our universe, our world, our history.

[...] I was really uncomfortable by session time, I told Jane. [...]

In your case, I meant to mention (in the last session) that the time of taxes has some involvement with your difficulties, for reason tells you they must be paid, while your emotions are resentful. [...]

6. Note: Insight received at 10:15 PM: The feelings in the groin of “having to go” all the time, are nervous interpretations on my part of the urge “to go” ahead creatively in whatever way is chosen....)

[...] I already regretted the time I was spending on the session for Dreams.

[...] It is a temptation at times to use more specific scientific terms, but these would be as confusing as the various definitions and classifications (with humor) that you read in the dictionary, so overall we try to hit a “happy medium.” [...]

Again, do review Wednesday’s session often — and it is a good idea to designate Day 1 and so forth, as each of you try to make this a new beginning, and take each day as it is, one day at a time. [...]

[...] in which no time is needed in your terms for experience... [...]

[...] although in my terms, more than fifty centuries of your time has elapsed since your seemingly present existence.

[...] We have spoken to you since the beginning of your time. [...]

(Both of us lost track of the time. [...]

[...] If I may, however, I would like to look in on you at various times over the holidays.

[...] Well over two and a half years ago, I wrote in the opening notes for that session that Jane had “some 17 chapters in fairly good shape for her third Seven novel, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time.” [...] Although she considered resuming work on Seven Three at various times while she was producing Dreams with Seth, she never did; the status of that novel remains the same. [...]

[...] Isotopes of some of the elements involved with that energy have “half-lives” of millions of years—far longer, quite possibly, than our species will exist in those terms of time. Those reaches of time are so great, so timeless, that I see them as another earthly analog of All That Is.

[...] (Such associations also apply to large geological and geographical events, for example, and I wish I had the time and space to go into those!) But if Jane and I, say, as counterparts are exploring certain long-range connections through our own adventures in consciousness, then the consciousnesses of related major events must have much greater abilities and desires for fulfillment. Consider the following group of events as seen through a narrow window of ordinary time; consider the moral, economic, and diplomatic impact they have had—and are still having—upon our own national interests (let alone the interests of other nations). [...]

[...] That world has been largely hidden by the camouflages shed by science and religion alike, but in your times the landscape began to appear so dark and threatening, so forbidden [...]

(Note that Seth’s idea of our time is quite different from our own at times. [...] At various times Seth has told us his idea of time may not coincide with ours. [...]

For that matter, some intuitive understanding of the inverted time system can be achieved through a study of time as it appears to the dreamer.

[...] Jane had seen it a long time ago, I knew, but certainly not recently. [...]

[...] The publicity may include adds in the New York Times Book Review; surveys taken by the publisher show the book should have a good reception and sale. [...]

(Long pause at 11:54.) Yet with all of this there is always change, as with the experience of time in a linear fashion any event must “knock out” another one. In terms of your focus a given occurrence “takes time.” [...]

[...] Your nervous system would find great difficulty in a rhythm in which a day was stretched out to be three or four times as long, for instance.

[...] To make this easier to understand, however, I am talking in terms of your time.

[...] As far back as the 613th session in Chapter One, Seth was making statements like this: “Your feelings have electromagnetic realities that rise outward, affecting the atmosphere itself,” but at the time we paid little attention to the implications behind such ideas. [...]

[...] If you decide to devote this time, energy and concentration to these endeavors consistently, then you should indeed meet with success. Time is necessary, for certain portions of your personality must be given the opportunity to catch up with other portions. [...]

On the one hand he cannot communicate with you clearly because of his own condition at this time. [...]

[...] There must be a sense of almost severe integrity on your part at all times in connection with your abilities. [...]

[...] Perhaps it is unfortunate, and perhaps it is not, but if you are to become involved to any important degree in this particular kind of endeavor, then you must be willing to devote time, energy and concentration to that work.

Dictation: As you examine the contents of your conscious mind, it may seem to you that you hold so many different beliefs at different times that you cannot correlate them. [...]

(9:50.) This subject leads to what I will call bridge beliefs, and again Ruburt received some information on this topic ahead of time for his own benefit. [...]

(Long pause.) The emotions connected with these bridge beliefs may indeed surprise you, but standing upon such unifying structures you are also free to let the emotional flow sweep past, feeling it, but aware for the first time, perhaps, of the origin of those feelings in your beliefs, and no longer afraid of being swept away by them.

(Pause.) At such times there can also be strong emotional content, as of finally triumphing over psychological chaos, or even of rising from the dead. [...]

[...] This same man, however, who would not purposely entertain fantasies of such nature under normal conditions, may in time of war imagine himself killing the enemy with the greatest feelings of holy joy and righteousness.

[...] Your problem then is not how to deal with normal aggressiveness, but how to handle it when it has remained unexpressed, ignored, and denied over a long period of time. [...]

It is very possible to “see” such information and not see it at the same time, simply because you do not add all of the data together. [...]

In your terms man is an animal, rising out of himself, from himself evolving certain animal capacities to their utmost; not forming new physical specializations of body any longer (again in your terms), but creating from his needs, desires and blessed natural aggressiveness inner structures having to do with values, space and time. [...]

(Jane used many pauses, some of them long, in delivery; her eyes opened at times.)

(Briefly, Jane’s voice became a little stronger.) While I was the source of the material, Seth as you think of him was at times a silent partner, helping Ruburt make the proper translations while standing aside in a personal manner. [...]

[...] She had thought the session terribly slow, and thus was surprised at the amount of time passed. [...]

[...] Yet at this time her pace was still but average, with many pauses, and her voice still peculiarly gentle.)

[...] 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. [...]

There simply is no time as you think of it, only a present in which all things occur. [...]

[...] She sounded like things I’d said—and Seth too—many, many times; I’d thought she understood this. [...]

[...] The expected call came as I finished reading to Jane at breakfast time—but it wasn’t from Tam: Ethel Waters apologized for the fact that now Mass Events has been delayed until May 19, or just possibly only May 4. Mass Events and God of Jane are now due to be published in the same month. [...]

[...] For it gave us the extra time to have these sessions before the book’s publication. [...]

[...] We went to bed at 2 PM and slept until supper time, after watching the perfect reentry and landing of Columbia, the country’s first space shuttle.

(Ann Kraky visited us at supper time last night. [...]

[...] By session time they were somewhat diminished, but were very inhibiting during the day, making me hesitate to do the things I’d ordinarily do without a second thought, such as drive to the post office to mail Jane’s intro for Sue’s book Conversations With Seth. [...]

(Jane was so relaxed by session time, so “out of it,” that she didn’t think she could manage a session. [...]

There is also something else you can do at such times—and try all of these suggestions of mine, for one or another may be particularly effective, while another simply does not suit you as well: one way or another, imagine a kind of neutral platform, a subjective platform. [...]