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[...] Yet at the same time, they are not hampered in its use by certain characteristics that often impede the practical potential of human consciousness.

There is however a portion of you, the deeper identity who forms both the inner ego and the outer ego, who decided that you would be a physical being in this place and in this time. [...]

[...] She had no idea, she said, of her pace, fast or slow, or of the passage of time per se. [...]

Now at times I will be using the term “camouflage,” referring to the physical world to which the outer ego relates, for physical form is one of the camouflages that reality adopts. [...]

[...] Yet at the same time she sat stiffly forward, her body canted to her left; she didn’t look comfortable, and she decided to try the foam rubber pads beneath her thighs, a move that sometimes “helps relieve the pressure on those [pelvic] bones back there, and keeps me from feeling that I’m falling forward. [...] Her talk reminded me, paradoxically, that last night while sitting on the couch she’d been able to cross her legs in a way she hadn’t been able to do for a long time.

(For the first time in a very long while, most of last week’s mail remains unanswered—sitting in the basket on the table at the end of the couch. [...]

(Pause.) If such an individual can convince himself or herself that somehow the entire affair is more in the nature of a game, then you can have at times some success, because in a game the conscious mind is willing to make allowances, and to “pretend.” [...]

The nursery school was at the time the only move he felt really open to him. [...]

He was bothered particularly, you see, because his own mother’s position makes him terrified of being financially dependent, yet the way he chose to make, money at this particular point was precisely the wrong way for him at this time.

The result, of course, was a complete stoppage of writing for a time. [...]

Had the same time and effort been given then to the kind of endeavors he is now planning, as was given to the selection of a job, there would have been no further difficulty.

I finished typing Monday evening’s session from my notes just in time to get ready for this one. [...] To her surprise he sounded weaker than he had the last time she’d spoken to him, and at his request my planned visit tomorrow was put off until Friday afternoon.

(Jane has been taking time off from God of Jane and If We Live Again to work on the Introduction for Sue Watkins’s Conversation With Seth. [...]

[...] In times past in particular, though the custom is not dead, men purged themselves, wore ashes and beat themselves with chains, or went hungry or otherwise deprived themselves. [...]

[...] He sees himself suddenly, in a leap of comprehension, as existing for the first time not only apart from the environment, but apart from all of earth’s other creatures.

[...] By the time the Biblical legend came into being, however, historical events and social beliefs were transformed into the Adam and Eve version of events.

[...] Some stimuli were to be sought out, and others avoided, and so over a period of time he translated the pleasant and the unpleasant into rough versions of good and evil.

[...] Jane and I find it fascinating to think about—to attempt to trace—some of the ways by which the overall consciousness of the United States continually becomes involved with—entwined with—the consciousnesses of adversaries like Russia and Iran: Such consciousnesses, once created, continue to grow and to complicate themselves in new ways within our concept of “time.” [...]

At times they are able to be perceived as pseudoimages. [...]

The image can be perceived at times. [...]

[...] Jane’s delivery was active and positive, with her eyes open much of the time. [...]

By the time he realizes the truth of the second statement, neither crime nor punishment affect him.

[...] During the time of relaxation then there often may be a less reliable overall posture. (Which Jane has mentioned.)

[...] Because the procedure is a natural one, the heat sensations can neatly show you the areas directly involved at any time.

[...] Good evening—and you have good times to look forward to.

[...] Since at the time I was working as a typesetter,² I figured my impression had derived from that. [...] In the plant where I worked at the time, I ‘recognized’ several people in the Grunaargh family — all were printers — and with a feeling quite as strong as the recognition I had for Sumari.

[...] Actually, she told us, the material available to her from that time “could go on” indefinitely. [...]

(In closing out the last session, Seth told us that he’d “cover everything that needs to be covered” in his books, and I wrote that sometimes I’d still choose to insert other particularly apropos material of his into whatever book he might be producing at the time. [...]

[...] Nor do I want to wait an indefinite time before he may incorporate similar information in a book — even this one. [...]

[...] All of the time, the psychological reality is the primary one, that forms all of your events.

[...] Each time it expands to include more.

(Whereupon I commented with a laugh that I was spending a lot of time thinking about these sessions.)

(“Seth, why does my left ear become noisy at times?”)

[...] The temperature was still high at session time; even hotter weather was predicted for tomorrow. [...]

[...] She’d been correct in this case also, saying the person was not dead; he returned within the time she specified, also, namely one dating several months after his disappearance. [...]

[...] There are certain methods involved as a rule, and perhaps time requirements. [...]

This does not mean that at times he may not help others generate healing abilities within themselves, since he is indeed involved in those other patterns of action that interweave with all of life’s activities. [...]

[...] It will help also at times if, when hearing various voices that have annoyed you in the past, you try to think of them in terms of images and colors. At other times simply go along with them, without such ideas, and your intuitions will deliver their own product.

(We expected Seth to speak tonight, and to deal with material Jane and I had been discussing just before session time. [...]

[...] (Humorously:) I have the time.

At times however my identity comes through, and my reality, so clearly, that comparatively speaking (underlined), I can exist independently as myself without Ruburt’s usual assistance.

[...] She didn’t think much better of women, yet at times she could be very warmhearted. [...]

[...] Her age bothered her; she was certain that “life would be over by the time you reach forty”—and for her it was, by several years. [...]

[...] Seth was quite serious and not as jovial as usual, and at the time I thought that he was being rather hard on her. [...]

[...] If you read our early material, you will see that your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. [...]

[...] In that session Ezra is dealt with in the envelope data with the same type of data; Seth gave Jane the grave data, signifying Ezra’s death, but at that time Jane, who did not like the idea of graves, did not use the word. This time, Jane now said, she came out with it when Seth gave her the data. [...]

At the same time, because of the methods we use, some translation is often necessary. [...]

(It was now time for the 47th Dr. Instream experiment. [...]

(Yet note that above she has an impression of a basement instead, personally, and when speaking for Seth does not use the word grave, as she did the first time. [...]

(Note that here Seth implies that Senator Kennedy, who was alive at the time of this session, would die. [...]

Ruburt’s earlier thought was correct, granting probabilities at this time.

[...] Jane did not know this at the time of this session, for it had not been publicized.)

[...] Time will reveal whether there is more specific application of this data,, and that immediately following.)

Now: remember that while your dreams occur one night at a time, their logic is timeless. [...] The beginning of our sessions represents to you your own version of hearing the voice of God, in that you felt that it was the first time in your life that in whatever guise, some portion of the universe “had a message for you”—or that you were in contact with anything beyond the ordinary, that at least held hopes for a glimpse of any real knowledge beyond the known.

[...] Her legs have bothered a lot lately, and she’s felt down at times.

When Ruburt has such dreams, his muscles and joints react in sleep, mimicking normal actions—and he well might be sorer than usual upon awakening, because in sleep, at such times, now, without the weight of his body, standing and so forth, the muscles and joints will make motions of a releasing nature quite painlessly in the dream state. [...]

(“Pills to Help Us Remember”, by Isaac Asimov. The New York Times Magazine, October 9,1966.)

[...] Now basically the original intensity of the charge determines its duration in your time structure. [...]

[...] Once the symptoms become physical however, then they follow physical patterns, and it takes the physical system some time to heal usually, (underlined). [...]

[...] This obviously does not mean he need never take time out. [...]

[...] There may be a definite memory recall, a few curious moments when time dissolves, when even beneath a portrait you have painted you will see another face.

[...] (Seth promised to do this last session.) I prefer we wait a short time, since our friend is only too willing to return and speak his own piece, and Ruburt has had sufficient experience for a fortnight.

[...] In many ways it is an aggressive tool that the consciousness uses to pierce through time and space as you know it.

(At various times in the past I have heard Jane mention this same sort of intense focus in trance, but not to this extent previously.

[...] The color was much subdued at session time tonight. I’ve noticed it at times before, as well as the lumps or nodules that seemed to move about in the muscular structure of the arms. [...]

[...] See the Time Magazine on file.

[...] The left arm for some time was considerably “tied in knots” from the elbow down. [...]

[...] I read it over just before tonight’s session began, and was able to reaffirm my opinion that it’s still one of the best; at the same time it aroused questions, for it deals with causes in the past. [...]

(At this writing at least I plan to spend evenings typing new session material, and in the time left over to restudy the past material in the hopes of putting it all together with and/or without Seth’s help. [...]

Now: you had of course other problems that he was not experienced enough to see, and at the time the sessions began you were both at a low point. [...]

[...] You think of isolation and being cut off from the world, while at the same time you want little to do with it. [...]