“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The following material is taken from notes I made at the time, and memory. [...] Jane spoke too rapidly much of the time for verbatim notes also. [...] “I was part of that cult Seth told you about last time...you know where it was. [...]

[...] Seth didn’t appear; however, although Jane said she felt him around at various times. [...] Instead of telling us about it, Seth’s letting me feel the emotions of that young girl you were involved with when you were Nebene, at the time of Christ....” [...]

(Jane displayed mild symptoms of anger and resentment, which grew somewhat more vehement at times. [...]

[...] This time though you’re adding to the lines, and I wanted to be here when you put flesh on them through your painting.”

The suggestions he has written down should be read twice at a time, three times daily, morning, noon and before retiring. [...] Never mind resenting the lost time. [...]

[...] Today by telephone Nancy verified Seth, in that her mother is seriously ill at Mayo Clinic; the mother has been ill for some time, but was not, for instance, the last time Jane talked to Nancy, sometime prior to the 358th Session. [...]

(The usual session time of 9 PM came and passed while Jane and I talked. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking while sitting on the divan once more, her eyes opening at times, her pace rapid.)

(Five weeks ago [in the notes leading off Session 821], I wrote that Jane could resume work on The Further Education of Oversoul Seven — or Seven Two — at any time. [...] “Seven’s got all the time in the world,” she laughed more than once. [...]

[...] Ignore for a time everything you have believed and see your thoughts as the real events. Try to view normal physical occurrences as the concrete physical reactions in space and time to your own feelings and beliefs. [...]

While still preserving the integrity of physical events as you understand them, [each of] you must alter the focus of your attention to some extent, so that you begin to perceive the connections between your subjective reality at any given time, and those events that you perceive at any given time. [...]

[...] So now we’re spending much of our working time checking — and double-checking — the proofs against our carbon copy of the copyedited James manuscript. [...]

[...] I cried for my wife several times a day for a year. Even though it’s simultaneous, according to Seth, I needed “time” for my long journey of recovery.

[...] Five months after my wife’s death, I called Laurel, who was an administrative assistant at a center for the arts and humanities in Los Angeles, California, for the first time. [...] Yet even so, as the years passed I began to better see that recovery from Jane’s death was going to take the rest of my life; and that within the framework of simultaneous time uncounted millions of others had experienced that truth, were doing so now, and would be doing so. [...]

[...] Looking back from my position within the framework of simultaneous time, I’m amazed to see that another ten years passed before the publication of this little book by Amber-Allen/New World Library. [...]

[...] At the same time, I wondered often if it was of any use to try publishing Seth books, old or new — why do so, if sales were falling? [...]

No, it is not your first time out, so to speak. It is your third time out. [...]

Now these eyes were actually means of telling not only the time but also the circumference of the earth. [...] And as the shadows fell past these sticks, the time of the day was deduced. [...]

[...] reincarnation: Arnold wondered if this was his first time ever.)

[...] Now it is not generally known that there was a civilization at that time, rather well developed, in the southwestern corner of the continent. [...]

We will take a good amount of time to cover this and allied subjects, as we must also deal with the pattern and its source. Since matter is constantly re-created, and instantaneous, many of your ideas of time are of course distorted, since you have taken it for granted that matter changes with, or in, time. You have judged a time interval by the seeming changes in a given material object.

[...] Although she still chose her words carefully, still there was not the straining and searching attitude so noticeable last time. [...]

[...] I had indeed intended initially to have a short session last time, but because the material — please appreciate my pun—on material was coming through so well, I continued.

[...] There is an interaction that I have yet to explain to you, between time as you know it, and material. [...]

First of all, Ruburt may continue with his daily psychological time experiments. But these are to be carried on but once daily, and if he tries any other sort of experiment, such as he tried with the Father Trainor poetry session last week, then he is not to attempt his regular psychological time experiment for that day.

[...] With the schedule that I have suggested the inner energies are vividly and intensely focused, but for a short period of your time. [...] Too many attempts at this time do not permit this brief but excellent intensification, and can lead to that peculiar semitrance state in which Ruburt found himself last week.

[...] The reading this time was not as striking as the first time, but still there was certainly something definitely going on.

[...] And also, I am at present against these fairly frequent sessions where, on the one hand, Ruburt pretends that he is merely resting; that is, he pretends to himself, but actually he is expanding his energies, and expending them just as quickly, for this amounts to more than one psychological time experiment daily.

Creation occurs, again, most often through value fulfillment, which exists in a dimension having nothing to do with your space and time; and in the deepest sense creation as a whole, originally, if you’ll excuse the term, had nothing to do with either your space or your time, and the so-called birth of your known outer universe came long after in the story of creation and value fulfillment.

The atoms and molecules that make up all physical cells are not basically bound by your time. They act within the framework of your time, but the condensed knowledge that they contain carries with it its own peculiar and unique consciousness, that is not bound by your physical laws.

(While trying psychological time I had the following three experiences. [...]

[...] These experiences with psychological time have become so intriguing and numerous that Jane and I devised a method to keep a list of them, in chronological order for quick reference.

(Actually time plays an important role here. To type up notes from a recording means I have to spend as much time, again, listening to a session. This expenditure is then increased each time I have to stop and rerun a section to pick up a missed word, or because the dialogue simply runs so rapidly, etc.

[...] At times the almost deafening power of her voice, and its emotional content, were indeed thrilling. [...] She said she was subjectively aware of the gestures she executed with her left hand, yet she felt the hand was not really hers at the time. [...]

We will not indeed at this time go into all the circumstances involved in the illness about which we have been questioned at this time. [...]

[...] Her voice had been strong and varied throughout the delivery; she had smiled much and used many gestures, half of the time sitting on the edge of her chair. At times her voice had boomed out.

[...] What you are exists independently of both space and time. When you are resting between reincarnations, you rest in a dimension in terms of space and time. You come back into space and time if you desire to reincarnate. Where I am, space and time as you define it, do not exist. [...]

[...] The duty he imposed upon himself this time was to integrate these two strong aspects of himself, and he has had his difficulties in doing so. We have known each other many times, Ruburt and Joseph and I.

[...] But it is difficult for me, with Ruburt’s eyes closed, for me to see you as you imagine yourself to be at this particular point in space and time. With Ruburt’s eyes open, I can see you as he sees you as a particular personality in this particular space and time and then, you see, I can place you within your own development. [...]

[...] I must always make a point and each time I come here, though my words are meaningless, do I make a point. [...]

(“Did you live in the United States at the time of your death?”)

[...] See pages 4 and 8. We did not pursue these questions at the time. [...]

(“Saros was just three, then, at the time of death?”)

(We did not pursue this further at the time.

(When Jane came out of the bathroom after washing, she said several times that she was getting this information, that it had a strong charge behind it, and that she “didn’t know what to do.” She repeated this phrase several times. [...] She had experienced similar feelings some other times here in the past week, particularly after the last session, and made an effort to discharge them reasonably by talking. [...]

[...] Her eyes were open most of the time. [...] A mild anger showed itself at times.

[...] Now you spend half of your time trying to figure them out, and what is wrong with Ruburt—time that you should be working. [...]

[...] I can say however that for some time I did not care if he was, if these purposes were met. I see now that they would not be, that instead all your time would be spent concentrating upon the condition that was meant as a protection, until no work was done—hence my dismay. [...]

[...] At the same time you must of course work at understanding the prior belief. But at the same time you must make efforts to act according to the new one that you want.

The times that Ruburt managed rather considerable improvements even in the face of strong negative beliefs, were times when he managed to convince himself against all objective evidence that there was nothing wrong with him physically but habitual stiffness. [...]

Give us time. [...] His problem, the artificial dilemma that exists in the daylight hours as to how to spend the time, and the fear that ordinary distractions will take him from his work. [...]

[...] At the same time he did not want you to spend anymore time away from your own work. [...]

[...] He is pleased with the time that has been gained, with the abilities that he has used and developed, and filled with a natural creative zest. [...] The taxes bothered you more this time because they fell just after your projects were finished. You have a nervous stomach—and (heartily) I would have one too if I were forever taking sides against myself, and not approving whatever side I happen to be on at any given time.

(10:06.) You fall into the habit of accepting the disapproval as fact, instead of realizing that it represents a feeling you have at any given time that may or may not be justified. [...] Your spontaneity is more than able to bridge such gaps, but often you will disapprove of it, if its suggestions go counter to negative ones concerning time that you have already given yourself.

[...] At the same time I swore off baking soda, which is an old habit with me, in favor of Maalox, which I found in the cupboard. [...]

[...] At the same time, I said, I was curious as to whether I did have an ulcer, for instance—that if so, I could see that I’d created that situation in order to contend with certain challenges.)

(This occasion was June 17,1964, was a psy-time experience of Jane’s, and also involved her receipt of information about John Bradley. [...] Jane says she has had this experience of static from which a voice emerged three times, all during psy-time.

[...] Her eyes opened narrowly at times during the session. [...]

[...] It is not likely that I will be heard by anyone for some time in the way that Philip heard me speak. [...]

[...] On those occasions when Ruburt has heard me more or less directly in his psychological time experiments, there has always been on his part a sound quite independent of himself, from outside of himself, of static. [...]

[...] This was the second time Seth had given me the chance to ask a question after an experiment. [...] Because we had a witness I didn’t think we would spend too much time checking details. Earlier in the day I had wondered what would happen if I asked Seth/Jane to go over all of the data again; I supposed Jane would take this as a sign that the first data wasn’t much good, and at break Jane said this was her thought at the time.

The inverted time system recognizes the actual nature of time, however. [...]

[...] A connection with a ring, and with a time schedule.” [...] The time element is also apparent in the above material.

[...] The form of the material is a little different however this time, and involves John and his wife for the most part.

[...] This is often a time of deep unconscious activity, when new latent probable characteristics are biding their time, so to speak, waiting for emergence.

In surface terms the sense of “I” that you possess is the result of constantly emerging probable identities, given continuity in time through the physical apparatus of the body with its built-in intervals of nerve reaction. [...] (With gestures, and forcefully.) This is the result of the focusing and yet limiting behavior of the physical brain, for effective survival behavior in your reality depends upon time reactions. [...]

[...] You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. [...]

(Long pause at 11:04.) Give us time….

(I mentioned black and white thinking in the notes, and Seth has also used that phrase several times recently. [...] I meant, of course, that all of us indulge in such black and white thinking at times, on some subjects, and I added that I periodically have to catch myself when I overreact to certain events. [...]

(Rather intently:) He would not have had the sessions to begin with over this period of time for your sake alone, or even for your sake primarily—they simply would have petered out. [...] Nothing, however, would have kept him at the sessions for this amount of time unless he wanted them. [...]

[...] Once again she was very comfortable on the couch after supper, watching the news on television; in fact, for some days now she’d had her best times, as far as feeling better go, while relaxing after supper. [...]

[...] My notes bothered her somewhat when she first read them, and she’d mentioned them several times since. [...]

[...] At times I could see over the top of this wall, made of vine-covered stones; at other times it was honeycombed and complex; and at other times it was so tall that I could not see over it. [...]

[...] So is time many-levelled, yet all levels are one. [...]

[...] One whole entity may need several manifestations, even at simultaneous so-called times.

[...] Wall or walls are the divisions between your various personalities, and also represent the times of incarnations. [...]

[...] The session resulted after the stage had been set earlier in the evening, through Jane’s playing the tape recently received from the Murtough family in Chula Vista, CA; and, afterward, her playing part of the tape made some time ago for Dr. Instream.

(Jane spoke actively, her eyes open much of the time. [...]

(Jane now placed her right hand over her heart, and repeated herself several times, eyes closed.)

[...] During it Joanie enthusiastically verified that she has the odd habit of eating lettuce, a head at a time, as another person might eat candy or pretzels. [...]