“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth told Bill he didn’t seem to have enough time in the day because he had the common habit of chopping time up into segments of minutes. A conception of time close to psychological time would give Bill enough time to do all he wants to do.

(Jane, her ESP book finished and mailed, has some free time for a change. [...]

[...] They visited us at 8:30 PM Wednesday, and before Jane and I realized it session time had come. [...]

[...] She smoked as she talked with us, and at times got to her feet as Seth. [...]

[...] Seth told Rob again that contact could be facilitated by the Psychological Time exercises. (These will be explained in the chapter dealing with the development of psychic abilities.) Rob did these exercises several times that week without making any contact with Dr. Pietra as far as he knew. [...]

[...] The Spacious Present is the basic ‘time’ in which the whole self exists, but the various portions of the self have their experiences in their own time systems.

[...] At the time of the session, we didn’t know what probable selves were, though Seth had used the term once or twice in the past. [...]

“Now these drugs are like time capsules, cutting down stimuli for certain intervals, and then injecting stimulants as destination points are reached. [...]

[...] She was concerned at the amount of time she was taking up with her motions, but I told her to forget that. [...] I said I thought she might be at least some of the time; the new motions, repeated, could act to put her “under” because of the novelty of the new motions, etc. [...]

[...] However, by this time Jane was in the process of straining, grunting and groaning as she moved her entire body to some degree. [...]

[...] Then her feet began going in time with the arm. [...]

[...] and torso, all the time grunting and breathing loudly. [...]

[...] Her eyes kept changing; at times she could see well. [...] Most of the time Jane had trouble, trying to read around being given her vitals, and finally she gave up. [...] The time seemed to be gone before we could get anything done.

(Yesterday’s session was mainly on the Sasquatch phenomenon, triggered I imagine by the program In Search Of, and I’ll probably take time off from Dreams one morning to get it done. That’s complicated at the moment because I’m already taking time off from Dreams each morning now, to work on 1983 tax figures. [...]

(I did remind Jane that in yesterday’s session Seth hadn’t addressed the question I’d mentioned to her at lunch time — why were we such extremists in our behavior, considering the severity of the symptoms, and so forth? [...]

[...] Or those extremes when entire families suffer patterns of tragedy so whole numbers are wiped out at one time.

The action performed within the dream; the location; the lack of specific location; the time in which the dream appears to occur; the apparent movements through time within any given dream; the emotional content; the surface psychological content; the work done within the dream; the familiar persons spoken to; the unfamiliar persons spoken to; the relation of the dream to past events and to events immediately preceding sleep; the dream events in relation to future events; messages that are given or sent in sleep.

This business of primaries and secondaries will concern us for some time, and in more ways than you suppose. [...]

And now, if Ruburt worries that he does not carry his share of the work load, because you spend so much time typing our sessions, then the work of typing the dream experiences, both his and your own, shall be his. [...]

(Her eyes began to open at times now as the session progressed. [...]

[...] I’d had that extra time to work some things out. [...] It seems that in recent years one of my main goals in life has been to pare down—or eliminate outright—a number of ideas and obligations and hassles that I’d finally realized weren’t worth the time to retain. Each time I manage to dispense of something that way, I regard it as an achievement. Now, I told her, I want to spend my time on the few things I consider important in life.)

[...] It seemed like a strange idea to me, but I didn’t have time to think about it at the moment. I didn’t have time to really think about what I’d been saying myself, but I hoped there was something to it, and that discussing it would offer her some help in the form of improved health. For some time now I’d thought, often, that it could be that she wanted to be sick —that that was the role she’d chosen for this life, that in many ways all of our efforts to get out from under the symptoms were really beside the point. [...]

(Obviously, many facets of these ideas have been discussed many times. [...] Dealing with our personal situations was taking up more and more of our time. [...]

[...] “I think it’s something we’re blind to, that’s right in front of us all the time, but we can’t see it,” I said. [...]

He felt finally that at least if you worked full time for yourself that (underlined) complaint would be taken care of. He considered it a practical move in the physical universe, one of the few actual changes that either of you had decided to make in all that time.

Up until that time. I am saying that the build-up of influences affected Ruburt more because this was his only environment through those years when you were away part time.

You have private rooms now in a public area that becomes more public all the time, as tenants, strangers, move in and out. For a while the whole house had feelings of privacy when the same tenants, for example Lucy, were here for some time. [...]

[...] I did encourage you to move at one time.

[...] Jane was this time more fully dissociated, she said. [...] As far as I can recall this is the first time an interruption of this kind has occurred during her dictation.

[...] The feeling lasted for some time. [...]

(She began dictation on time and in a normal tone of voice. [...]

It is basically as meaningless in essence, to ask this kind of question as it would be to pause in the middle of a dream, and wonder when first the dream location was created: To stand facing a dream landscape and wonder at what point in time the rocks had their origin. [...]

[...] But in his own way, and no matter how misguided, he was trying to pace himself and his temperament with yours, to play up those mental writing abilities that would help his career, and in which you took such pride—and while doing that, play down qualities that might distract you from your own work, by encouraging physical activities—parties, vacations, travelings, that would further take up your time, when you were already taking time away from your art to help him in psychic work.

[...] Because of this, however, he was never sure whether or not you resented the time spent in this work—the sessions.

[...] We had talked about this at times, of course, but now I thought I saw a new angle to things, and felt hope; where before I had thought there were no new angles....)

Viewing you as he viewed himself, using the same logic, he was afraid however that basically you felt our work a detriment to your own, and that its success, while pleasing you on the one hand, might prevent you from success as an artist because you would not have the time, and that you would basically resent it. [...]

[...] I thought that this would be a great time to do something. Now was the time for a fine adventure. [...]

(All this time Jane lay beside me. [...] My attention now began to change its focus; for the first time I really heard myself. [...]

(I slept rather uneasily, waking up several times while class was still in progress. [...]

(This was the first time that no element of fear was present in any of my rather infrequent projections. [...]

(Jane described a dream she’d had last night, a very positive one, she thought, in which she’d looked at her face in a mirror for the first time in a long while. [...] “The last time I did—some months ago—I thought I looked terrible, with a double chin and my face bloated all out of shape....” [...] It was approaching time for people to start coming in to check her vitals when she said she’d try for a short session. [...]

[...] At the same time Jane’s left foot hurt when I rubbed the leg, and turned outward on its side. [...]

[...] During this time Jane moved her arms and hands—which look better—and various other portions of her anatomy. [...]

[...] Her catheter hasn’t been changed now for some time; she’s done well with it. [...]

(Long pause.) In your terms of time, however, we will speak of a beginning, and in that beginning it was early man’s dreams that allowed him to cope with physical reality. [...] In times of drought he would dream of the location of water. In times of famine he would dream of the location of food. [...] He would not waste time in the trial-and-error procedures that you now take for granted. [...]

[...] However (pause), in its purest form a unit of consciousness can be in all places at the same time (forcefully). It becomes beside the point, then, to say that when it operates as a wave a unit of consciousness is precognitive, or clairvoyant, since it has the capacity to be in all places and all times simultaneously.

[...] The ground has been bare of snow most of the time—so far!

[...] When CU’s operate as particles, in your terms, they build up a continuity in time. [...]

[...] If you are each ahead of your times in certain terms, you are very much in the natural world. You are in your times then in important biological and psychic ways, interconnected with all other physical creatures, and with the natural world itself. [...]

A dream may be said to be “ahead of its time” if it occurs tonight but foretells events that will not occur for a while. [...] It would be of some considerable value if you both emphasized your belonging in the natural world, rather than emphasizing the fact that you are ahead of your cultural times.

[...] It is almost true to say that your species could not survive if all of its members were awake at any given time.

Deeper communications than you realize happen between the waking and sleeping members of the species, and in such a manner the formation of physical events is to some extent timed, or paced. [...]

[...] I can do this in a conscious manner and yet still, as I am here and as I have mentioned, I find a difficulty in looking at you and relating to the selves that you think you are within your given moment of time for I see the composites, so it takes some training on my part to pinpoint you in the time and space with which you are acquainted. [...]

[...] You pretend to agree that the room exists and so we meet in no place of space or time. [...] You know that you are as much in trance here as you ever are when you are in psy-time or when you are making an effort to look inward. [...]

[...] And so I must remember that she is not aware of these, and when I speak to her I must use a designation that will make sense to her at this particular time. [...]

[...] Now, I have been a very lively corpse many times, but then, so have you all. [...]

[...] — there are points, again speaking simply and in your terms, where probabilities meet: intersections with space and time that occur in your minds while you change directions, where new probabilities that once lay latent suddenly emerge.⁹ And in terms of your civilization and your time, such a time is now.

(Still to Warren:) So forget all of the histories, my dear friend, and listen to your own thoughts, which are today as alive and vital as those of any man ever born, in whatever time. [...] In that moment can you hear the insects sweeping across the continents and the voices of the leaves speak, and feel their echoes in your blood — and that blood lives, beyond the time. [...]

[...] Some of those present were members of Jane’s ESP class; all had heard Seth speak at one time or another.

[...] As Warren made similar remarks about the development of individual consciousness through historical times to our point of civilization, Seth suddenly and unexpectedly came through loudly and forcefully:

[...] He should follow the rhythms of his own creativity without being overly concerned with the time. [...] Granted, you need time to write physically, but the basic creativity has its own time.

[...] He has been doing very well, and he tried to approve, but since he lost work time yesterday his approval barely went skin deep (louder).

[...] Other times, they are the results of your own ignorance at any given point and basically unnecessary. [...] But many people do not learn for some time, in your terms, and continue in such periods when they are not necessary. [...]

([Kyle:} “Then the learning experience is no more valid for having spent more time in a depression. There is not more gained because more time has been spent.”)

[...] All the time thinking that it’s open-minded. [...] Also, then, you were one who took care of a church calendar where each given saint had his day and for you, at that time, each day then took on the character of its saint for you believed in this implicitly. [...]

[...] I see you as a Brian Donlevy, in a town 30 or 35 miles from Dublin in 1831 at the time of a hidden rebellion, as a runner. As a runner between the Catholic Irish and Englishmen and in a time of terror. [...]

(With emphasis:) Reincarnation simply represents probabilities in a time context (underlined) — portions of the self that are materialized in historical contexts. [...] All kinds of time — backward and forward — emerge from the basic unpredictable nature of consciousness, and are due to “series” of significances. Each self born in time will then pursue its own probable realities from that standpoint. [...]

[...] The flower knows it is alive in the bulb, but it takes “time” for the bulb to let the stem and leaves and flower emerge. [...] Only in your system is that time period meaningful.

[...] It uses a time context instead, with each self given a body and a time; but a knowledge of the ideas of multipersonhood could help you realize that you have available many abilities not being used, latent to you but still important in your entire identity, and significant enough to you personally to be developed.

[...] In its ordinary dictionary sense, the term has appeared a few times in the sessions, but Seth’s use of it in the passage quoted above has a special implication, I think; one that Jane and I missed at the time of its reception. [...]

[...] Had you told him “Never mind, when the time comes you will make it,” that would have been adequate enough. You did say, several times, “You’ll be able to make it all right”—and that was also adequate and a good response.

Paul’s activities over the weekend, yours, the time of your call, the fact that he did have the time today, when ordinarily he would not—all of these issues were juggled in Framework 2, to give you, now, the best possible solution, given the conditions in Framework 1, with the desires and beliefs involved.

[...] After he’d left, we could see that in actuality Paul’s visit had offered all that Jane could have desired, under the circumstances; we hadn’t asked for any of it, even his preliminary visit to the house to examine Jane this time—although he’d done that on a couple of previous occasions, again without being asked by us.

[...] I’d say we both lost much confidence in the idea of Frameworks 1 and 2 that evening; I still feel that way to some degree; at the same time Jane has felt better. [...]

[...] As you know, the running records have been broken in late years time and time again. [...]

[...] You know ahead of time the nature of the period into which you will be born. (Pause.) You were both born with certain abilities, and you knew ahead of time that you would have to enlarge the framework of conventional concepts if you were to have room to use those abilities. [...]

[...] Every time she jumped up on a chair—or down—Jane and I winced, but Mitzi wasn’t concerned at all. [...]

[...] Indeed, our only problem was keeping him from constantly nosing after Mitzi, since she usually ran away from him each time he tried to investigate what must have been changed bodily odors of hers. [...]