“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In this one Seth for the first time mentioned that Jane should work full time at her writing. [...] By the end of September she had left the gallery where she had worked part time four years. [...] This improvement has seemed to blossom like magic, and we feel that the time when Jane begins to sell her work regularly will soon arrive.)

[...] Not only would I sit through the session with Jane even though we were recording, but in doing the transcription I would have to expend an equal amount of time listening to the session again, plus the time necessary for typing, and starting and stopping many times.)

[...] Her manner was quite smiling and relaxed and at the same time surprised. [...] She had no trouble talking, although as she walked about at times I noticed a lilt to her step; at other times her knees would bend a little more than usual, as though her legs were rubbery; but to no great degree.

(The effects took some time to wear off. [...] She had no trouble with coordination, [could type easily enough, etc.] as she had in the January episode, when she could not even use a pen effectively for a time. [...] She agreed with me that she had overdone it, however, and we spent some time discussing ways in which either of us could appreciate the first warning signals, and halt any experiment that involved too much, too fast.

(Ruburt:) “Because you have to go beyond that group at that time. [...] While they are here in this room now, frankly, they were not friendly at that time. I was one who was friendly at that time. It is only because I was there and you were there at that time, that you can now realize this. [...] The sense of resistance has to do with the neurosis picked up in that time. [...]

“In that time, you did not leave the group and you should have. [...]

[...] And in the face you’ll find confidence to leave the group at that time. [...]

(Ruburt:) “Starting with yourself, counting yourself, the third person down to your left at that time was in conflict with you. [...]

(I have hoped many times for another such contact, with the promise to myself that I would do better next time. [...]

[...] These reincarnations all represent portions of your entity, living or experiencing sensation at various times within a physical time system.

[...] The one who is at any given time free of such difficulty should indeed help the other when such occasions arise. You actually put yourself in a trance state, and the suggestions take strong hold; and they are rarely constructive ones at such times.

[...] I was conscious of doing this, and that it took some little time, yet felt no urge to prod myself wide awake. [...]

[...] Not so, I said — after all, I worked at commercial art four years full time at one stretch, and part time a number of other times. She agreed that she needed much approval — something I hadn’t fully understood at the time we married. [...] I discovered today that I could have been wrong at times — strange.

(Jane began to cry when she recounted the time at home a few years ago when she couldn’t get up and on her feet — finally reaching that point of helplessness. [...] She remembered my crying at times. I told her I’d cried at times when she hadn’t known it.

[...] A strong wind — very strong at times — had sprung up this afternoon, and at times I had trouble hearing Jane above its noise. [...]

(She’d even thought I disapproved of her way of dress at times, whereas, if memory serves me correctly, I’d almost always liked the way she dressed, fixed her hair, and so on. [...]

[...] Basically, experience has nothing to do with time as you know it. [...] The dream experience is rather independent of physical time, and its experience, or rather its intensity—my error—is felt more directly while you are in the dream situation.

[...] She had an image of spirals, for instance, all interlocked without being regular, that concerned the material on paintings and time, but she couldn’t get it clearly nor even describe it adequately. There were images within this concept that were something like an accordion, Jane said, having to do with time opening and closing, etc.

[...] Her slow pace had increased somewhat by break time. [...]

You are in touch with infinity in such undifferentiated areas, for it is only camouflage that gives you your conception of time.

[...] When you think in terms of earth’s destruction, or the ending of the world, you are thinking of course of a continuum of time, and of beginnings and endings. From your viewpoint in space and time, it seems that planets have come and gone, stars collapsed, and when you look outward into space, it appears (underlined) that you look backward into time. (Long pause.) There are great pulsations, however, in existence — pulsations that have nothing to do with time as you understand it, but with intensities.

[...] At the same time, it’s so simple… It was a different session in some way. [...] Not that I had any sense of time in the session. [...]

[...] As Seth told us in 1979, Jane had been a poet all of the time, in its most profound meaning. She’d been letting If We Live Again grow for some time as she selected poems for it from the many she had written, and kept writing.

(Pause, one of many.) I choose my words quite carefully at times, because I realize the various interpretations that can be placed upon them. [...]

Such a teacher must be able to instruct various portions of one entity, in your terms, at the same time. Say, for example, a particular entity has reincarnations in the fourteenth century, [in] 3 B.C., in the year A.D. 260, and in the time of Atlantis. [...] Such communication demands a complete knowledge of the root assumptions of such eras, and of the general philosophical and scientific climate of thought at the time.

Art is created, then, using time — for example — as a structure. In your terms time and space might be mixed. [...]

[...] At about the same time my father got rid of his, for good. Seth told me some time ago that my father had given me his hay fever, and that for reasons of my own I had accepted the “gift.”

[...] The time of choosing is somewhat more complicated if the last reincarnational cycle, in your terms, is completed.

Earlier I mentioned several times that we must reach a point at which you are able to see around the corner of seemingly contradictory material,²¹ and this is one of those occasions. (Long pause.) Time overlays present you with a picture in which you have free will—yet each event that you choose will have its own time version. Now those time versions may be entirely different one from the others, and while you certainly initiate your own time version, in terms of usual understanding there is no true place or time in which that version can be said to actually originate (again with emphasis).

Time overlays are the time versions of certain events, then. These time overlays always exist. (Pause.) They may become activated, however, by certain associations made in your present, and therefore draw into your present time some glimpses either from the future or the past. So-called present time is thickened, then, by a psychological realization on deep levels of the psyche that all events are interrelated, and that the reincarnational experiences of any given individual provide a rich source of experience from which each person at least unconsciously draws.

[...] There are certain points where such events are closer to you than others, in which mental associations at any given time may put you in correspondence²⁰ with other events of a similar nature in some future or past incarnation, however. It is truer to say that those similar events are instead time versions of one larger event. As a rule you experience only one time version of any given action. Certainly it is easy to see how a birthday or anniversary, or particular symbol or object, might serve as an associative connection, rousing within you memories of issues or actions that might have happened under similar circumstances in other times.

Jane did feel considerably better by the time the page proofs for God of Jane reached us in mid-January. We corrected those over the time our new president was sworn into office on the 20th, and the 52 American hostages were simultaneously released after 444 days of captivity. [...] At the same time, the hostages were “almost free” in Iran, aboard their plane taxiing into takeoff position at Iran’s Tehran airport. [...]

[...] At the same time she was squirming uncomfortably in her chair—her seat hurt “from dragging my pants over it today all those times when I went to the bathroom.... [...]

[...] The resulting sensations may be unpleasant at times—but the entire procedure balances itself out so that no one area is under undue strain for any long period of time, as other areas unwind. [...]

[...] She called me several times during the night to massage her legs and feet, reporting many strange sensations in them. I took all of this activity as an example of Seth’s material, above, and mentioned it to her at the time. [...]

[...] Tomorrow morning Jane goes on the 100 mcg Synthroid dose for the first time, boosted from the 75 mcg. [...]

[...] At one time I mentioned massive units or blocks of intelligent energy, pyramids of psychic comprehensions, of which I cannot tell you too much at this time; but perhaps you can begin to perceive now how such comprehensions could be formed.

[...] You know very well that time as you know it has no meaning except within the domain of your own plane. I have hinted once in the past that I was touched by something that could be loosely related to, or substituted for, what you think of as time. [...]

[...] It was strongest in the fingers of my left hand this time, whereas usually my right hand will be most involved. I did not attempt any measurements this time, being satisfied now that when this feeling of enlargement is present, there is a definite physical difference. [...]

[...] According to Seth, John in his immediate past life ran such a shop in Boston; he moved at that time in the outer circle of our acquaintance. [...] In that life Seth states John died in 1863, which helps determine the time Jane and I lived in our immediately past life also.)

Even if you think the body does have something wrong with it, then the necessary adjustments would be made in another kind of time that in Framework 1 would take no time at all—or, the amount of time you thought required.

[...] He gave himself a time period that he knew he could reasonably handle. [...] That kind of method gives you something to work with, and a time period you can handle.

This is a way of encouraging Ruburt’s physical spontaneity, for his emotions and body each together want to move at such times. [...] Carried to the extreme in the past, Ruburt would not even want to take time for a decent shower, unless his other goals for the week were met.

We will call your working framework, Framework 1 for purposes of discussion, and this higher framework, Framework 2. In Framework 1, time must be allowed for the body to respond, physical time. [...]

[...] They are conscious in other times, though you are neurologically equipped to perceive your own interval structures. When I speak of time, I do not merely refer to other centuries as you think of them. But between the moments that you know, and neurologically accept, there are other kinds of moments, if you prefer, other versions of time, and other kinds of accomplishments and fulfillments that are not dependent upon your usual ideas of, say, growth through time.³

[...] (Long pause.) Space is in many ways more “timely” than you think. I am not speaking of the usual time concepts, of course, of consecutive moments, but of a certain dimension of activity in which your space happens.

[...] What a pleasure it is to see her walk more easily, if only for a few steps at a time—and even if she leans upon a table for support, or whatever else may be handy.

[...] She finished Chapter 17 today, and wrote in her journal after supper: “Very very very good on Chapter 17—oodles of new insights! Pleased!” She envisions at least another half dozen chapters for the book, but at the same time she’s leaving final decisions up to her creative self. [...]

[...] For the test object I used a wallet identification card that I picked up two years ago in an empty house that Jane and I nearly purchased. Both of us had met the owner of the house, Jim Birch, a few times. He had changed jobs and left Elmira at the time we were interested in his house, in June 1964, however. Seth dealt with the purchase of this house in several sessions, saying it would be a good one for us psychically. [...]

The connections therefore can be changed at any time, and such changes are far from uncommon. They happen spontaneously on a subconscious basis a good deal of the time. [...]

[...] You then reacted to them in present time, at the time, you understand.

[...] It is not, and never was, imprisoned by ego time. Its perceptions of other times are merely inhibited by the ego. [...]

These grids of perception “do not exist forever” in your dimension of time, for your dimension of time cannot hold anything that is outside it. Once a world exists, however, it becomes imprinted or stamped upon eternity, so that it exists in time and out of it “at once.”

[...] The patterns for worlds—the patterns—continue in your time dimension, though in that time dimension those worlds must disappear, again, to continue “their existence outside of time.” [...]

Now in a manner of speaking—though I see that little time has passed in this living room where I speak with Ruburt’s permission—we have transcended time to some extent this evening, for in what I have said there are indeed hints and illusions—cadences—that can, if you are ready, give you a feeling for existence as it is outside of time’s context. [...]

[...] Using your idea of time, I can only say that when the entire gestalt of consciousnesses that formed a particular earth have formed its reality to the best of their abilities, fulfilling their individual and mass capacities as far as possible, then they lovingly turn over that grid to others, and continue to take part in existences that are not physical in your terms. And that has happened many times.

[...] This was later than the time when you belonged to it. [...] I believe at that time the members of the order also took names that were derivative of Mary. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been deeper this time, and she was slower coming out of it. She had spoken most of the time with her eyes closed. [...]

(Tam was a little nervous as time for the session approached, and Jane was also. [...]

The personality sensed this lack and at the same time was aware of an impetus. [...]

My main point is that I also feel, without having asked Seth, that the farther one travels ahead in time the greater the play of probable realities and probable lives he or she encounters. [...] But that must happen all of the time!) The uncertainty perceived here by the conscious self, however, can act as a great restraint toward knowing a future life or lives—just as much as might the fear of tuning into one’s physical death ahead of time in this life. [...] Everything considered, we may just not want to know about future lives most of the time.

[...] Even if you think the body does have something wrong with it, then the necessary adjustments would be made in another kind of time [in Framework 2] that in Framework 1 would take no time at all—or, the amount of time you thought required.” For emphasis I myself underlined that last phrase, because it’s easy to miss how very important it really is: Our individual concept of the amount of time necessary to accomplish an action like a healing will govern its progress. [...]

At such times I’m apt to think about ideas of reincarnation and counterparts. [...] But without dwelling upon them too heavily, I may consider the notion of my larger, nonphysical “whole self” or “entity” being made up of a number of other psychically related physical selves projected into time. For Seth, basically there is no time, only a great “spacious present” that’s a manifestation of a sublime, indescribable All That Is. [...]

I think it quite humorous (and ironic) that whether or not they realize it, those who engage in past-life regressions play with the notion of future selves all of the time—for from the standpoint of any “past” lives they reach their present lives obviously represent future existences. [...] (This time, see Appendix 18 for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality.) Yet we are all of us different now: “Ruburt (Jane) is not myself now, in his present life. He is nevertheless an extension and materialization of the Seth that I was at one time.”

[...] (Long pause.) There are times when circumstances make some conditions more palatable than others, times when a trip to an emergency room is quite necessary. [...]

[...] She gave signs of starting to doze in her chair at times, although I could tell that she was still in trance. [...] At other times I too miss out.)

[...] I got my notebook and pens, and Jane said that at the same time she thought of a session, she “got that dozing-off feeling thing....” [...]

(My own moods have been poor lately, and it’s been a struggle to revive myself at times and to try to keep them from influencing Jane, for I can see that they do. [...]

[...] In your conception of the centuries, then, there are other counterparts of yourself living at the same time and in different places — all creative versions of the original self. There is a great intimate cooperation that exists biologically and spiritually between all of the beings on your planet “at any given time.” [...]

[...] They merge together beautifully to form an inner picture of the world at any given “time,” even while that picture is ever-changing. In greater terms, the picture of your world at any given time can be compared to the position, behavior, and characteristics of an invisible particle as it is “caught” intruding into your reality.

Give us a moment … (Humorously, to me:) You are the living version of yourself in space and time, around which your world revolves.¹¹ The great potentiality that exists in the unknown self, however, also actualizes other such focuses, and in the same space-time framework. [...]

[...] Mental impressions of any kind therefore are not simply imprinted, or written, as it were, in a medium of space and time. [...]

[...] (Jane held up her cigarette lighter.) The events in the times of the Crusades, for example, were this high. (Jane raised an arm over her head, full length.) Following the analogy the times, the physical times in which they would ordinarily have occurred, would have ended, say, here—(Jane indicated a spot six inches above the lighter)—but the energy was so great that it catapulted some of these events, displacing what you think of as time, so that they appeared, as Hitler did, where theoretically, now, they should not have.

The two of you were exceedingly close in male comradeship—far more intense than any known now in your time. [...] It was no coincidence that Father Traynor used to read Don Juan of Austria (in the Catholic Church the young Jane attended), for they knew each other at that time.

The energy from that time, the disturbance between Christendom and the East, generated such energy—very simply put, now—that the physical times could not contain it and it erupted, in your terms, into the future.

This kind of displacement can occur, but in practical terms, the terms by which you judge time, this is unusual. Hitler appeared therefore as a far more vicious character against your current world, than he would have had those other times contained him.

(Long pause at 8:43.) Deplorable as world conditions seem, for example, as man’s desperate need for self-understanding is made known to himself, so in that world also there is a time of sensed change: new values that “will take this time.” [...]

[...] That has passed, but Jane is in poor shape; her decubiti are much more aggravated, and have been for some time. [...]

[...] She was restless and quite nervous, lapsing—for the first time—into periods of what approached a sleep state. [...]

It will be enough to reestablish the sessions, and Ruburt’s confidence this evening, continuing tomorrow if you prefer—but certainly not wasting any too much time. [...]