“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Because of the physical structure, experiences within your system have a slow-motion distortion which creates the appearance of time. Time as you know it, waking time, is intimately connected with the emotions and with emotional intensities. [...]

When you directly experience an emotional event, when you are at its heart, so to speak, then you do not seem to experience physical time. Only as you move to the outskirts of the experience does such time realization enter in. The dream experience however is always free of the realization of physical time, practically, for you experience dream events directly from the center of awareness.

[...] It seems to recede in time and to shrink in psychic space as the intensity of it begins to diminish. An intensive emotion will represent the present in time, a particular instant of now.

You move from the outskirts of one dream into the core of another without a change of intensity, and therefore without the sense of physical time passing. It goes without saying that a sense of time may or may not be interwoven in any given dream sequence, but you as the dreamer are not conscious of the physical hours that pass as you sleep.

(I was somewhat dubious about Jane’s hypnosis attempts since we haven’t had time to do much work in this direction lately. [...] Both Bill and Peggy said they thought they could have done better had Jane taken more time with her induction, yet Jane’s approach had been quite leisurely; thus time appeared to have been compressed for them.

When the inverted time system is understood for what it is, then the individual is in contact simultaneously with the experience gained in the so-called past, and is also able to take advantage of events which have not yet occurred within your present. This does not mean that he will be consciously aware of future events, for if you remember these events can be changed by him at any time. [...]

[...] An event foreseen through precognition or clairvoyance, a future event, may or may not actually occur within time as you know it. For you are seeing into probabilities, and the probable event may or may not occur, within your time system.

[...] In such a system however, as in your own, the perceiver is also a participator and a creator, but he does not work with your conception of time, but with probabilities. In your terms then, he would seem to delve into each moment in all of its probabilities, so that in your time on the one hand many centuries would have passed, and on the other hand only an instant.

[...] There is no doubt that at times he is unaware of his surroundings during a session. [...] It is a phenomena in which he gives consent, and he could, at any time and in a split second, return his conscious attention upon the physical environment.

[...] That is, it will be a good policy to arise at 7:30, and get your painting time in. I do not want to take up all your working hours, and you must have time to paint. [...]

Condensed time is the time felt by the entity, or experienced by the entity, while any of its given personalities “live” (and you had better put that in quotes) on a plane of physical materializations. [...]

[...] The match was exact both times. For some reason it made an impression on me, whereas many times while Jane is dictating I have had a thought similar to the one Jane was about to voice. [...]

[...] I have mentioned earlier that in a dream experience, as far as the senses are concerned you may visit a particular location, experience a certain time duration; and yet the location does not exist and cannot be found in your space, and though you experience, say, five hours time in your dream, this perhaps takes up merely a flash of clock time, and the physical body does not age during the psychological dream experience in any proportion to the actual psychological reality involved. You are free of space, and to a large degree of time, in the sleeping state, because you are not using your energies to transform ideas into durable physical camouflage patterns.

[...] The web exists both in time and space, as all physical constructions do. That is why I have said that your universe does not exist in the same fashion as the web, simply because it is not bound by space or time. [...]

[...] At no time was I concerned for my own safety. [...] It did not ring, however, and I became aware that the time set for the trance was over.

(At 8:00 I tried psychological time, without success. [...]

[...] Within it fulfillment and development are not dependent upon permanence of physical matter, however, and are not at all dependent upon any concept like that of your physical time. There [are] therefore possible bursts of developments, that have matured within perspectives that are not bound up in time, and that would appear spontaneous to the waking self.

Now basically even the physical universe itself is so constructed, but for all practical purposes, as far as general perception and experience is concerned, time and the physical growth development apply, so that we find the ego portion, particularly of the human personality, is to a large extent dependent for its maturity and development upon the amount of time that the physical image has spent within the system.

[...] He may if he prefers do his psychological time in the afternoons, when you are here, Joseph. Indeed now regularity is good, particularly since I have limited his time.

[...] I have been mentioning the incidents to Jane just before session time, in case Seth cared to comment on them, but to date he hasn’t dealt with them. [...]

There are rhythms that exist, as I have mentioned before, and over a period of time, had you the time to check your records you would see that overall we have about the same number of sessions over a yearly period. [...]

[...] As we waited Jane said several times that she felt “a sense of reassurance” from Seth, that he was organizing some kind of material or program for her because of her physical situation. [...]

[...] Some will be given in session time, though not this evening, and other material will be given at various levels of consciousness. [...]

[...] They are more intense at certain times than others.

This value, or this particular extension of self to include other self experience, is one of the attributes that can be expected through the use of psychological time. It is an attribute that is independent of and free from your physical as well as clock time. You should remember the difference between physical time and clock time—I have given them to you.

It should be obvious that although an idea is born in time, after its conception it is free from time in a way that a spider’s web can never be free from time. [...]

(She said she also had the feeling the quality of this material had something to do with psychological time, yet in a way that had nothing to do with gaining time. [...]

All things in good time, and believe you me, we shall have some good times. [...]

There is much to be said concerning the interrelationships that exist between the human system and the weather system, and these shall be, these interrelationships, shall be discussed most completely at a later time. I do not want to interrupt our data concerning probabilities and time, however, to get involved in any long involvements on other matters. [...]

You are on short time, and such suggestions will allow you to produce in a minimum of physical time excellent work.

I recommend most strongly that you use the same procedure; success would allow you to do ten times as well in the available time as is usual. [...]

[...] Jane agreed; as session time drew near tonight she said she thought Seth would discuss the storm, and our weather in general. [...]

So the inner senses and the subconscious can do the same thing as far as inner space, and what you would call inner time, is concerned. [...] Time and space, dear friends, are both camouflage patterns, therefore the fact that the inner senses can conquer time and space is not, after all, so surprising. To the mind with its subconscious, and to the inner senses, there is no time and space, and therefore to them nothing is conquered. [...]

[...] He is also in some respects further ahead in time, yet actually he is not. [...] The man on the corner at the same time sees the motorist drive beyond. But although he sees him pass in space he knows that they exist, he and the motorist, simultaneously even though usually the idea of passing on involves time.

(Jane had no voice phenomena this session, nor any changes in her hands; the same rings she was so troubled by last session bothered her not at all this time. Seth proceeded at an especially deliberate pace, with many pauses, yet in spite of this we seemed to gather as much material and within the same time limits.

[...] There is no lapse of time in perception, since there is no time.

[...] It told me once that this time taxes weren’t involved. [...] I wanted to do both at the same time, and figured I couldn’t manage that. [...]

(“Yes,” I said, for I’d felt my stomach act up pretty strongly several times while Seth had been speaking. [...]

(“Well, taxes come up this week,” Jane told me, “and every time they do your stomach starts up. [...]

[...] That time I reacted much more strongly, and Seth came through with an excellent session about it all. [...]

[...] Last night she’d slept fairly well, although at one time she sat up and wrote some notes on the Speakers’ manuscripts. [...] I should add that she stayed up all day yesterday, for the first time in many days. She did take a nap late in the afternoon at the same time I lay down. [...]

[...] This is a time of clearing the board. You live physically in present time, so it is the body that takes the brunt of such difficulty. [...]

(Jane didn’t feel particularly like having a session last night, and the time just passed without our holding one.

[...] Had she succeeded in repressing them, as she had done in the past, more trouble would have presumably erupted at a later time. [...]

[...] and this time the church has provided the same kind of organization... [...] and at that time you envied him that security and that sense of identity within the system in which he believed. This time the orator part of you is still strong in that you want to teach and like to talk and to discuss issues... but also at the same time you wanted the sense of security that you felt the other brother had... [...]

[...] You had a brother and the brother was with you at the time of the accident.

[...] This would be his name, not the other twin; that is because he had this telepathic communication with his twin, he has this sense of wanting unity within himself very strongly, at the same time a sense of being divided. [...]

[...] Break came early, considering the time the session began. [...] “I was bothered at times.” [...]

(10:01.) For example: I told you time does not consist of a series of moments, one before the other, though you do perceive it now in that fashion. [...] After death you will not concentrate upon the physical forms taken by time and events. [...]

[...] Finally it began to rain hard, with thunder and lightning, at about 9. We wondered whether a session would be held, since Seth had told us some time ago that electrical displays interfered with trance states. [...]

They serve to mask other quite valid realities that exist at the same time, however, and actually from these other realities you gain the power and the knowledge to operate the material projections. [...]

[...] His third dimension is time but he cannot see it. Similarly our fourth dimension is time and we cannot see it. [...] All of the past and the future exist now to those who can see time as the fourth dimension. [...]

3. Suppose now that one card in the stack represents a living, intelligent, two-dimensional being at some moment in time. [...]

AN AID IN VISUALIZING TIME
AS A DIMENSION
BY: ARNOLD PEARSON,
MEMBER OF JANE’S ESP CLASS. [...]

[...] It is this: your ideas of the daily amount of time being limited—these ideas are limiting you and your work far more than time is. This attitude automatically suggests that progression in your work takes a certain amount of time, and limits your intuitional insights, confining them to your idea of time.

You deal then with a single-line type of within-physical-time development, and tend to ignore the value fulfillment kind of development which is entirely independent of a time structure. To be fearful for time is to neglect its full use.

[...] I am saying be cautious, for while certain periods of time seem necessary within your system for the development of your work, that the ideas of limited time on a daily or weekly basis can slow down the intuitional qualities of your work and growth.

[...] The last on time is connected, incidentally, with what we have been speaking of, for it can lead to an insistence upon outer realities, and result in a lack of inner intuitional development, which alone is the fountainhead of true art.

(I believe Jane was a little nervous at the idea of being hypnotized, since I mentioned it at supper time. [...] I felt I had read enough about the subject to know intuitively how to proceed once the time arrived. [...]

[...] Yet it was now apparent that Jane felt a sense of blame, even shame; at the start of the deeper trance state she told me she felt I was mad at her all the time because I had worked full time at Artistic, etc; I tried to counter this by pointing out to her the benefits we had both obtained from this.

(Tonight I hypnotized Jane for the first time.

(I had wanted to hypnotize Jane for some time, but had been hesitating even though my pendulum told me I had nothing against the idea. [...]

[...] I do think that the point of no return there was passed some time ago—several years, in fact. [...] The time spent in performing such simple chores as limping down the stairs and out to the car, for example, is far more on a daily basis than any that would be spent chatting with a neighbor, or even visiting, etc. And above all, the symptoms are not worth it to achieve isolation, for ironically the resultant time to work has lost the one ingredient that is important above all: peace of mind in which to carry out the appointed tasks.)

(Again: any time spent sexually during the day cannot compare with the amount of time spent, on a daily basis, in worry, concern, frustration, fear, anger, etc.)

[...] By session time I didn’t know whether Seth would blast us or praise us.)

[...] Because of your time concepts and beliefs, the examples from the future even in this exercise will not appear as clearly as those of the past. [...]

(Talking about distortions during last break, I had been reminded that many sessions ago Jane-Seth had stated first that [my brother] Loren had been three times a woman, then three times a man in a following session. [...]

[...] Jane had visited her a couple of times through the week, and Miss Callahan now recognized her when she saw her. [...]

(Returning home from a drive on Sunday, we were surprised to see Miss Callahan and her companion sitting on the front porch; this was something we had never seen her do in the four years we have lived here; Jane said that Miss Callahan appeared to be very restless, and that the last time she had visited her Miss Callahan had doodled and written constantly on a pad without seeming to be aware that she was doing so.

[...] Bill has been a witness several times. [...]

(Pause.) At the time, Christ united man’s consciousness in ways that reached out into history. [...] The same consciousness gave birth to all of your religions, therefore; the various frameworks through which the peoples of different times could express themselves and grow. In all cases the religions began with the beliefs prevailing, spoke through the dictums of the times, and then expanded. [...]

In a certain way the Christ personality was a manifestation of the evolution of consciousness, leading the race beyond the violent concepts of the times, and altering behavior that had prevailed to that time.

In terms of time — evolution as you think of it — emerging consciousness had come to the point where it delighted so in distinctions and differences, that even in small geographical areas multitudinous groups, cults and nationalities were assembled, each proudly asserting its own individuality and worth over the others. [...] By Christ’s time, however, some principle of unity was necessary by which this diversification would also experience a sense of unity and feel its oneness.

There are indeed lost gospels, written by men in other countries in that time, relating to Christ’s unknown life, to episodes not given in the Bible. These formed a quite separate framework of knowledge that could be accepted by people who had different beliefs than the Jews at that time. [...]

[...] After that we seemed to let time get away from us, watching TV and so forth. [...] Jane spent a lot of time waiting for people to do her vitals, then finally decided on a session.)

[...] Before that she’d had visits from our friends Debbie Harris and Elisabeth — who were there at the same time. [...]

[...] She’d gone down to hydro at 10:30, and it had taken all that time to get through the routine. [...]

(Today is Day 3 of Jane’s new routine, following the session on February 1. She said she catches herself all the time getting off the track, then tries to remind herself of her new healthier goals — living in the moment, thinking positively, and so on.