“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The condition originating in one incident some time ago, and further aggravated by a second incident in more recent times. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Give us time here. (Long pause.) The condition leads at times to a bunching of muscles in the side of the neck in precisely this area (Jane touched the right side of her neck) that can occasionally appear almost as a hardish lump. [...]

Now give us time. [...] (My phonetic interpretation.) Perhaps letters from an Osburn at one time. [...]

[...] We shall get to these in good time.

[...] And since past, present and future exist now in your terms you need bridges, because you do not really understand the nature of time, so you think you need a bridge to get from past to present or from past to future or from one kind of reality to another. [...] They are yourselves speaking to you in multitudinous voices in many languages focused for you in a particular place and a particular time. [...]

([Bette:] “Did you and I sit one time, a long time ago? [...]

([Bette:] “Then it’s the very core from which ...when we get involved in this time and all time is going on, all our lives are going on now—past, present, future...”

(Seth singing very loudly.) Sumari is a friend of mine and their time is your time. [...]

[...] That time it gave a version of a requested Irish jig. This time we asked for another jig. [...]

[...] At times the table tipped up on two legs, then would poise there, seemingly balanced by itself. [...] Each time we pushed the table down, it rose up again at one edge. [...]

[...] It described circles, balanced on one leg at a time, then two, in a regular rhythm. At times it scooted in a straight line. [...]

[...] (Jane pointed to the large heavy green table up by the living room windows.) He does not need my help with the small one, and the time and circumstances were not good on the other occasion when he requested my aid.

At one time these two were brother and sister. At this time, 1602, in England, the man committed an act which put him greatly in his sister’s debt. [...] It was a time when such cruelty was indeed accepted, and sensitivity was hardly a way of life.

There was difficulty with the left foot at one time. There was at one time difficulty with the forefinger of the left hand.

Death came at one time from a knife wound. The involvement between the two personalities of the man and the woman at this time is a good one, as far as commitments previously in other lives is concerned. [...]

[...] Jane spoke for some little time in a repetitious voice, as a way of inducing a relaxed state within us, but no phenomena of any kind appeared. [...]

[...] Jane had a “scary” dream episode last night, one that was quite unpleasant, she said, and involved her seeing herself in different time frames and three different programs or movies on TV at the same time. [...]

Ruburt’s symptoms are not his challenge this time, as you asked (in question 13), but the philosophical connotations behind his difficulties certainly do involve his challenges this time.

[...] It was 9:00 by the time I got settled—and she still didn’t “feel him around”—meaning Seth, of course. [...]

[...] So upon that premise, the questions are being discussed all the time.)

They begin with a certain impetus, give you a certain kind of progress, and regardless of how great or small that progress may be, there is a necessary time of assimilation—that is, the stimulation over a period of time is more effective when it is in a fashion intermittent, when certain methods are tried out, applied and so forth, but by the very nature of the healing process there is also the necessity of letup, diversion and looking away. [...]

Reading the sessions of the Magical Approach with some consistency is now in order, where for example I might counsel at another time that they be set aside for a while. In this case at this time, however, they can serve as valuable springboards to release from your own creative areas new triggers for inspiration and understanding, and hence for therapeutic development. [...]

[...] So we spent the day rearranging her things in the back room, and finished by nap time. The place looks good, and Jane said it gave her a good feeling, although she had no time to make notes or read. [...]

[...] At least, I thought, while talking she showed more animation than she had in some time. [...]

[...] I’d spent some little time trying to talk her into a short session to begin with, and she’d finally agreed to try for one. It was 8:52 when she really fell asleep in her chair, for perhaps the tenth time. [...]

[...] The entire issue had been going on for some time. [...] To whatever degree possible, given your time requirements, I will try to explain such matters. [...]

[...] Meaning that I could see she wasn’t going to be able to contribute much physical work on it at this time. [...]

(A note: Jane has mentioned several times since returning home that Seth may dictate a biography of her—presumably including her hospital experiences, etc. [...]

While you believe in and experience the passage of time, then such questions will naturally occur to you, and in that fashion. [...] When you begin to question the nature of time itself, then the “when” of the universe is beside the point.

[...] This happens all the time, and I mean all the time.

[...] It is a time and a probability in which every bit of help is needed, and your talents, abilities, and prejudices made you both uniquely fitted for such a drama. At the same time, do not dwell too much upon that world situation, for a concentration upon your own nature and upon the physical nature of your world — the seasons, and so forth — allows you to refresh your own energy, and frees you to take advantage of that clear vision that is so necessary.

[...] At the same time EE (electromagnetic energy) units became manifest, impinging from the invisible universe into definition. [...]

The psychic intensity of an experience shatters all concepts of time. [...] All identities do not have to be physical at any quote “time.”

[...] She had used the new distant voice throughout, as before; this time though her pace had usually been better. She said she didn’t get the cone or pyramid effect after the one time noted before the session began.

The coordinates have nothing to do with time as you know it, nor with space as you know it, though in your system they form the reality in which time and space appear. [...]

[...] Jane spoke with eyes opening at times, and with many pauses, some of them long.)

You block your own energy many times because of old habits. If you faithfully followed through on your moods, inclinations and leanings, in, say, any given week, you would discover that you wanted to work, felt like working, and worked well for certain periods of time.

[...] When a so-called distraction at one time is welcomed at another time, then obviously it is no distraction, but expresses a need. [...]

[...] It is silly, however, in the same way to force yourself to concentrate at a time when you really yearn for activity. [...] Obviously you may not each feel the same way at the same time, but if you clearly communicate your feelings to each other, that is no problem. [...]

(After Jane and I had spent an hour talking about the time spent in chores, seeing visitors, other interruptions, etc.)

[...] You want results, so, at the very least a ½ hour a day is to be used for this purpose, and when you have the time an hour. Before any time-consuming exercises are given however, read the book together and discuss it as it applies.

We are starting anew, and again this time I will not hold another session for you unless you follow what I say this evening.

[...] At the same time you stay where you are so you can work, while denying yourselves the sense of ease that you could otherwise enjoy.

(To me:) You imagine a quiet home in the country—the dream in that regard in your mind, knowing full well you have no intentions of using “valuable time” to mow grass, fix pipes or tend to furnaces. [...]

[...] These vehicles cannot stay on your plane for any length of time at all. [...] To conform to the laws of a particular plane is a practical necessity, and at this time the flying saucer craft simply cannot afford to stay betwixt and between for any indefinite period.

[...] A plane may be a time. [...] A plane is something apparently divided from the rest of the universe for a time and for a reason. [...]

[...] Had the human species gone into certain mental disciplines as thoroughly as it has explored technological disciplines, its practical transportation system would be vastly different, and yet by this time even more practical than it is now. [...]

[Many of] the flying saucer appearances come from [such] a plane, [one] that is much more advanced in technological sciences than earth at this time. [...]

(Jane was also surprised at the amount of time that had passed. She’d had no sense of time passing, whereas at other times she might have quite a definite sense of “the psychological distance,” or time that had passed.

[...] “Here it’s session time and I don’t have an idea in my head....” So after all this time she still preferred to know in advance what was coming up in a session.

Drawing and painting during such periods was considered both sacred and immensely useful at the same time. [...]

[...] Your society has emphasized and exaggerated the objective characteristics of life to such an extent, however, that art seems to be an esthetic, fairly remote phenomenon, quite divorced from physical time. [...]

[...] It includes other interweaving physical relationships that bind you with all others upon your planet at the same adjacent level of time. [...] You are time contemporaries. [...]

Here also ideas of time hamper you, for I must explain all of this in temporal terms. Since time is simultaneous, at other levels your ancestors knew of your birth though they died centuries ago in recognized continuity. [...]

[...] These selves, however, dropping from one branch of time, root themselves in another time and become new plants from which others will sprout.

(Pause at 9:57.) Let those who will, laugh at tales of spirits turning into the trees⁵ — a simplistic theory, certainly, yet a symbolic statement in such societies: The dead were buried at home in the same close territory, to form in later times the very composition of the ground upon which religions grew. [...]

[...] One of those “Seths” was born in your space and time. That Seth then seeded himself, so to speak, in the space-time environment you recognize — appearing through the centuries, sending out offshoots of “himself,” exploring earthly experience and developing as well as he could those potentials of his own greater identity that could best be brought to fruition within a creature context.²

Give us a moment … The self, as I have said [many times] before, is not limited. [...] This Seth might be “born” two or three times in one century — or more — and then in your terms not appear for five or ten centuries. [...]

You think in terms of linear time, and the best you can do to imagine your deeper reality is to consider reincarnation in time. [...]

(Jane and I do not ascribe the elements making up our house adventures to that old catchall, “coincidence,” of course; at the same time we have no plans to statistically attempt anything with them either. [...] But Jane, being younger, would designate quite different limitations in time….

Time to your dreaming self is much like ‘time’ to your waking inner self. The time concept in dreams may seem far different than your conception of time in the waking state when you have your eyes on the clock and are concerned with getting to some destination by, say, 12:15. But it is not so different from time in the waking state when you are sitting alone with your thoughts. Then, I am sure, you will see the similarity between this alone sort of inner psychological time, experienced often in waking hours, and the sense of time experienced often in a dream. [...]

[...] Like other experiences of this nature, it was intrusive, in that it seemed to have no connection with what he was doing or thinking at the time.

[...] Seth said, Sleepy time is no crime. [...]

[...] (At times, I knew I could have a session, for example, but mentally refused. [...]

[...] At times, however, you refused to lead in this life when circumstances might have warranted a more active role at particular times, because in that previous life you would not buck Ruburt, and because you also were more cautious this time about the use of personal power.

You were Ruburt’s younger brother at that time, and both of you engaged in many bloody religious battles. You were blunt men, yet highly emotional, living for some time near Constantinople, but ranging far, even to Afghanistan, and on several occasions meeting bands from Rome.

In connection with the Turkish life, you decided upon certain handicaps this time. You were the adored sons of a Turkish chieftain, following the social patterns of your times, gifted at birth with power and position.

[...] The tenants at 458 at one time formed a kind of family, and to some extent that relationship continues, as far as the two of you are concerned, with Ann and Leonard. [...]

Even the duration of an event or object in space or time is determined by the intensity of the thoughts or emotions that gave it birth. Duration in space is not the same as duration in time, however, though it may seem that this is the case. [...] An event or object that exists briefly in space may have a much greater duration in time. [...] Such an event or object does not merely exist symbolically within your mind or memory — but in your terms its actual reality continues as a time event.

[...] It grew out of Tropical Storm Agnes — which, somewhat ironically, had lost its hurricane status by the time it began its erratic course up the East Coast from Florida. [...]

[...] The flood crested within fifteen minutes of the time Jane had given, and within three inches of her projected high-water mark. [...]

[...] This book was put aside for a long time.

In this time of rest and choosing, all counsel is given. [...] There is no time schedule, and yet it is very unusual for an individual to wait for anything over three centuries between lives, for this makes the orientation very difficult, and the emotional ties with earth have become weak.

[...] This is a time, then, of many projections. [...] There are others who like to return when their contemporaries from some particular past historical time return again, and therefore there are group patterns that involve reincarnational cycles in which many, but not all, are involved.

[...] Jane and I were both ready for the session ahead of time, for a change.)

[...] The process of reincarnation is used in many ways, therefore, and in this time of rest individuals must decide on the unique way in which reincarnation will be of use.

While your present conscious beliefs dictate your current experience, and while your physical body wears its solidity only in present time to your senses, beneath this both the ever-changing elements of your body and your consciousness are relatively free in time. [...]

[...] Each individual, generally speaking, knows his challenges and overall programs, and the time of his death. But even such decisions can be altered at any time in your “now” — the entire body can be regenerated in a way that would be impossible to predict in usual medical terms. [...]

[...] You must understand that basically time is simultaneous. [...]

In such instances there is, as easily as I can explain it, a reaching into deep biological structures as they existed at one time; at that point the probabilities are altered, and the condition erased in your present — but also in your past.