“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I’d left the house a little early this noon so that I’d have a bit of extra time to go up to room 522 at the hospital, to see if Joe Bumbalo was there — but he wasn’t. I made the trip again after leaving Jane, and this time found him. [...] Joe lay in bed with his eyes closed the whole time, although he alertly followed our talk. [...]

(A canker sore that began to erupt at supper time last evening really bothered me while I tried to sleep. I was up three times, and this morning it seemed the swelling and tenderness were worse than ever. [...]

[...] Donna came in to take Jane’s temp: 98.8. I didn’t tell Jane, but a couple of times I’d actually fallen asleep for very brief periods while Seth spoke — something I’d never done before. [...] Indeed, I’d had trouble sticking to my work on Dreams this morning, even as I began to rebound with more energy and relaxation at the same time.

[...] This time, though, almost as soon as I’d finished giving myself some gentle positive suggestions, I suddenly began to feel better. [...]

(It might be interesting to note that at the time Jane received this idea, I was working on an index for the 35th session, of March 16, 1964. [...] Jane did not know what session I was working on, and we were also separated by two rooms at the time.

[...] It is now quite a few days later as I type this material, and Jane and I have had time to think it over. [...] She did not want to dispense with the board for some time.

[...] Her second thought was one of panic, in that she wouldn’t know the passage of time as usual, etc.

[...] She was not particularly trying psychological time, yet she felt that she was familiarizing herself for a new development. [...]

(Then again, later yet, I heard myself asking: “What’s your name, little girl?” This time a voice, it could have been my own, answered from offstage to my right: “I’m Bonnie Lou Ryerson.” [...] I did not see anything this time. There was more, but I believe that by this time I was coming out of the desired state and was consciously connecting the name Ryerson with a local teacher by that name whom Jane sees occasionally in connection with the art gallery where she works. [...]

The woman will marry again at the end of three and a half years, in your state of California, and this time she will be in much better condition. [...] She was at that time a male, dying in 1911.

Antimatter exists simultaneously with your own universe, and approximates it in terms of your own idea of time. This may be possibly discovered within a short time, but it will not be accepted. [...]

[...] However, I then remembered something that had happened sometime last week when I had also been trying psychological time, that I had forgotten. That time I had also turned the radio off, but then I kept on hearing music from it, in varying volume. [...]

(Jane has been sleeping poorly, lying down for a couple of hours at a time at the most for the last several nights. [...] We’re on a three-times-a-week schedule now, which will very soon be cut to twice a week. [...]

He told you he thought you both needed help in getting him into the car, which would necessitate motions quite difficult for him at that point in time—but he went along with your opinion, feeling again that negative suggestion alone was responsible for his own feelings. The body simply knew it did not need that extra stress in a time of stress. [...]

[...] The sharpness of the encounter made Ruburt come to the decision then and there that he would not use drugs to combat ahead of time conditions that may or may not appear at some future time. [...]

Ruburt needed some time to rest, and so did you. Again, I suggest that several times a week you sit in anticipation of one kind of session or another. [...]

It is necessary, even regardless of your physical health which is in good condition, and your mental health which is fine, it is still necessary that I give you a period of relaxation from time to time. [...]

[...] She was as surprised as I was at the short session and the extra time off. [...] It hadn’t occurred to us to ask for any time off.)

(Jane had no idea of the material to be covered in the session as the time for it approached. [...]

I wanted to give you the following, I suppose welcome news, that you will have some time off. [...]

Give us time.... [...] Until recently you spoke to him against travel because you lost work time. He believed that you thought it a waste of time, so he did not believe his lack of physical mobility that way would hamper you.

The idea of cutting down stimuli and concentrating on work was quite agreeable to both of you for some time, far beyond the time you think it was. [...]

At the same time you encouraged him to success, but he felt only to a certain point, for the fruits of the success you might find disruptive. [...]

Give us time, and we are still dealing with the same question.

[...] I have not asked Seth about it simply because of the time problem. [...] Many times when we would like something at least mentioned by Seth, we mention it before a session in the hope it will be dealt with. [...]

(Concerning Jane making sale of her writing soon, the last statement of the session above now makes four times that this bit of information has come to us, either through sessions or Jane’s psychological time. [...]

(Naturally, after Jane’s experience with psychological time earlier in the day, we wondered whether there would be a session at all tonight. [...]

[...] Jimmy states that attendants there direct him to a different spot each time; the size of the dump precludes any detailed search, so we conclude that the cover will probably never be found.

[...] You came in contact with him at various times. [...] Your friend was four years younger than she, five times poorer, and ten times more ambitious.

He merely moved in the circle, the outer circle, of your acquaintance at that time. There is no reason in particular why you met him this time, except for this sense of familiarity. [...] Many times in fact you solve problems that arose with certain personalities by helping other personalities in other lives.

(I did not have time to say it here, but when I did the sketch I had the feeling that there might be more than the one bed in the room. [...] I also had the thought that I’d probably made the room look too spacious for the times.)

There was choice also on her part, that is, they chose to be reborn at approximately the same time so that their ages made them contemporaries. In many cases such as this, one or the other waits a longer period of time, being born as a child to the other party. [...]

[...] Her head kept dipping down and I kept calling her, and she kept telling me that every time I did so I interrupted her when she was “getting something.” To me it looked as though she was falling asleep each time. [...]

(As far as I can remember, this will be the first time that we held two separate sessions during the same day—if one develops now. [...]

[...] “Do you have any insight as to why the relaxation at this time? [...]

[...] eyes closed.) These interlaces (word repeated at my request) referred to earlier operations as carriers of information—information that is triggered by your own needs at any given time. [...]

[...] Is this the ancient that you are referring to or are you talking about ancient time as we know ancient time?”)

(To Ron.) And this applies even to you who feel that you have so many webs in front of your brain that you cannot possibly see through them, and of course you can, and the webs are there because you want to play with them at this time, and so feel free to do so. [...]

(To Chet.) Over here, however, is what seems to be a young gentleman from a strange town who is attending class for the first time. [...]

[...] It does not mean that free will does not operate, it simply means that they knew the way and the time was not right. [...]

[...] As the intensity of the emotion fades, so it seems to you that it recedes in time. [...] Therefore the dream state more clearly represents the actual nature of time. Intense emotions within the dream state are experienced as present time, and the personality moves easily through these emotional intensities without experiencing the sense of passing time, although any given dream may contain within it its own time element.

[...] This time, while bending over my desk, I saw with inner vision a rusty opened sardine can lying on a worn wooden shelf. [...]

[...] This time I picked a negative I had taken during our vacation in 1964 at York Beach, ME. [...]

[...] She used few pauses, and sat much of the time learning forward with her hands clasped before her and her head tilted down slightly. [...]

(Telling us about his recent dream and apparition experiences, Bill had mentioned that at times when his eyes were closed he was aware of the feeling of a white light, or glow, that varied in intensity at different times. Jane was interested in this description because it tallied with an effect she attains quite often in psychological time experiments—this feeling of a light within, even though the eyelids are squeezed tightly shut. At times Jane has seen images after the appearance of this inner light, but Bill has seen only the light. [...]

(Through last week, also, Jane had enjoyed a burst of painting activity after a rather long time away from it. [...]

(It will be recalled that at various times Seth has said that Bill Macdonnel has much natural psychic ability, and that it is largely untrained. [...]

(I would like to say here that recently Jane had remarked, several times, that she would feel better if she herself could see some physical evidence of psychic phenomena. [...]

[...] The personality appears in its truest state if it seems, in dreams, that you are free of space and time. It is indeed because the basic self is free of space and time. If you appear to hear voices out of the past, if you seem to see into the future, it is because the dream state is a more or less faithful approximation of a basic reality in which your time and space simply do not exist.

[...] Therefore the whole self is not only the sum of the personality as you know it in your time, it is also the sum of what it has been and what it shall be. For as I have explained action is simultaneous, and time as you think of it is caused by your own physical perception.

[...] Her eyes had been open at times, and very dark. At times she had switched in and out of the trance state very rapidly—more rapidly than indicated here. [...]

Again, the nature of space and time is glimpsed more clearly as it appears to the sleeping self, for in the dream state reality is to a large measure uncamouflaged, and the personality appears in a freer state. [...]

By this time it was somewhat later in the day. [...] There was no time to answer the letter, of course.

[...] It took me some time after she’d started delivering the Seth material to realize that in spite of her outgoing, friendly nature, Jane is as much a private person as I am.)

[...] Most events appear both in time and out of it, their action distributed between an inner and outer field of expression. [...]

[...] They lived out of town, separated in time by a drive of approximately [half an hour]. [...]

[...] It may be easier to say, for example: “This or that event began at such a time, and ended later at such-and-such a time.” [...]

In your terms again, then, at any one earth time many such patterns exist. In greater respects however, all time is simultaneous, and so all such physical patterns exist at once.

[...] You tailor it to fit time sequences. [...]

[...] That book required much more work on Joseph’s part, and that additional effort itself was a demonstration that the psyche’s events are very difficult to pin down in time.

[...] Time can only be measured through experience. It is obvious that other gestalt personalities experience more in an equivalent amount of your time, but this is not the point.

[...] Your time seems marked, individually, by birth and death. When these are known for what they are, when the personality can change form at will, such quote “timing” is meaningless.

[...] Since I have known your time it is meaningful for me, though it no longer hampers me. [...] Other psychological structures have not been initially aware of this peculiar relationship between your physical framework and your time concept.

[...] Smile.) My big brother does not have to tune in, you see, at the time of the session. The session exists in all time. [...]

[...] I say this time and time again. [...]

[...] To some extent you have taken his progress, recognizing it for what it is, as an “opportunity,” or rather as an opportune time to tackle some of your own problems. [...]

In the past at times you did get various symptoms when Ruburt began to improve, and because of his lack of confidence and the state of his beliefs, he backtracked. [...]

This time, however, Ruburt continues to improve. [...]

[...] There are many kinds or varieties of dreams, some more and some less faithful to your memories of them — but as you remember a dream you automatically snatch certain portions of subjective events away from others, and try to “frame” these in space and time in ways that will make sense to your usual orientation. [...] A photograph will show certain events natural to the time in which it was taken. It will not show, for example, a picture of a Turk at the time of the Crusades. [...]

In usual circumstances you may remember the emotions that you felt at the time a picture of yourself was taken, and to some extent those emotions may show themselves in gestures or facial expression. [...] Because you must manipulate within specific time periods, you do the same kind of thing in daily life, and on a conscious level ignore or exclude much information that is otherwise available.

[...] It should be obvious that there you can leap from time to time.

In a way, one remembered dream can be compared to a psychological photograph, one picture that is not physically materialized, not frozen motion, not framed by either space or time; therefore many of those ingredients appear that are necessarily left out of any given moment of waking conscious activity.

[...] At the time, many years ago, we did not meet. [...] This time it was a syndicated comic strip. [...] Then for some time we did not see Ed; the last time was during an overnight stopover in New Paltz, when Jane and I were on our way to York Beach, Maine, on vacation. [...]

[...] It has no existence basically in time, in that it did not occur to any particular person, per se, at any particular time per se. [...]

[...] This involves a time when Bill was 11 years old. [...] He never has found it, although at odd times he has attempted to over the years. [...]

(At 8:00 PM Jane and I both tried psychological time, before taking a brief nap. [...]

[...] There is an old saying: Time is money—and in his own way Frank would like to make that kind of a statement, clear, direct, and unambiguous: Turning clocks or time directly into good hard cash, a magic of a sort. This is also meant to make up for any “wasting of time” that he might otherwise be engaged in. In a fashion it is an attempt to deal more directly with beliefs regarding time, money, and creativity. [...]

Ruburt is still dealing with spin-off material following or resulting from his Sinful-Self data, and this material generally follows the lines of development that are fairly obvious in the poems and notes that have followed since that time. [...]

[...] There are several lines of a poem and a few of the notes, untyped, that should be also typed at the same time—but he is pulling such issues together. [...]

[...] Then Seth spelled the name again —this time as he’d first pronounced it:)