“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He did this to give himself time on a conscious level to deal with the situation. Some time ago, after Seven, he mentioned my book, my new book, to Ruburt, and Ruburt said he did not want to contract trance material ahead of time, so Tam let it rest.

[...] The charge built up, for him (underlined) about time and work, is masking of course his fear of not achieving as he wants to. This is aside from normal practical considerations of time.

For some time I have given you much advice, many suggestions, knowing full well that some would go by the board. [...]

In reference to my book’s theme now, the basic dilemma as well as its reasons and development, was quite available in Ruburt’s conscious mind all of that time. [...]

Because time is open-ended, as you think of it, you can also affect what you would think of as past reincarnational selves, and at times react in and to their environment. [...]

[...] “I was really out that last time but it was for such a short time that I really felt the transitions from ‘here’ to ‘there’ and back. [...]

[...] Even a life centuries ago may be perfect in detail however if it included, for example, battles or events of great import, where the dates themselves were impressed upon the personalities because of the occurrences at those times.

It will do no good to ask deep questions concerning the history of the times of some personality who was impoverished, ignorant, and limited. [...]

[...] As session time approached she felt a little nervous, yet not very much. By 8:50 PM, Willy was once again prowling through the apartment, both alert and stealthy at the same time. [...]

In fact, cotton soaked in this water, and applied upon the eyelids before psychological time experiments would be the most beneficial. [...] At some times the temperature of the water will be as low as 58 degrees Fahrenheit.

[...] 7/8, I missed trying psychological time. [...]

For the time being the word will serve, since I know what you mean by it. [...]

[...] That morning and each morning until that time, I’d been sure of one thing: you could trust physical reality. You might not like it at times, but you could depend on it. [...]

[...] This time I was determined not to let the same thing happen again until I had time to think it over, and I told Rob. [...]

[...] I didn’t even have time to call out to Rob.

[...] Yet I seemed to be somewhere else, at the same time, traveling through things. [...]

[...] All this time she was so uncomfortable in her chair that I thought she’d pass up the session, although I’d been hoping she’d get at least a little something on herself; I thought we shouldn’t be losing any chances to do so at this time. [...]

[...] At the same time, her neck was so relaxed that her head kept dipping down. I said I felt that her fears were behind much of her hip discomfort, and she had admitted to feelings of fear several times lately—including today when she did her notes. [...]

[...] This I mentioned in particular some time ago (long pause). He feels he is facing the nitty-gritty, determined for a way out, yet still at times he is afraid the worst possibilities will occur instead, and he is suspicious of changes in the body unless they are of obvious improvements. [...]

[...] I went back to working on taxes while Jane talked to him, and at the same time found myself wondering whether his unexpected visit might symbolize one of the very facets of Jane’s dilemma about privacy versus the public life—at least as I understand it: Her vulnerability and availability to anyone who chooses to come here. [...]

[...] Creatures relied upon inner senses while learning to operate the new, highly specific physical ones that pinpointed perception in time and place. This pinpointing of perception was of vital importance, for with the full arousal of consciousness in flesh, intersections with space and time [had to be] impeccable.

[...] The same to you,” I said, knowing that Seth’s understanding of “time” was certainly much different than ours.)

For some time, in your terms, the sleepwalkers remained more or less at that level of activity, and for many centuries they used the surface of the earth as a kind of background for other activity.Their real life was what you would now call the dreaming one. [...]

[...] After forms were fully physical, however, all species operated as sleepwalkers for many centuries, though on the scale that existed then the passage of time was not considered in the same fashion. [...]

(Both Jane and I have lately begun to practice psychological time regularly, if only for a few minutes each day. For myself I have nothing yet to report; and as previously noted, Jane has had some success at various times with what are usually quite brief flashes of insight.

[...] Ten minutes of your clock time a day would certainly be of great value in the use of psychological time, and I suggest that you try this.

[...] Consciousness takes up no space nor is it enclosed by time, as you know time. [...]

The actual telepathy contact with this alien intelligence will occur, your time I believe, not too far distant, perhaps by the year 2001. [...] The intelligence that you contact will no longer inhabit that same universe by the time that the contact is made.

[...] For some time there was no direct challenge, however, made to the Sinful Self once Ruburt left the church. His creative abilities were growing and developing, his concepts enlarging, but he was for some time so convinced of science’s viewpoint that the ideas of the Sinful Self were looked upon as unworthy and superstitious. [...]

We will save that for another time. That will take some time. [...]

(At the same time, on the occasions when she’d come half awake, Jane told herself that she remembered Seth’s material on expressing previously buried fears, and made strong efforts to go along with it by letting the feelings surface where she could encounter them. [...]

[...] I certainly hadn’t expected him to go into the question tonight; in fact, I’d come very close to not mentioning it at all at this time.)

(The last time Seth’s entity spoke was in the 446th session for November 6, 1968. We had wondered at times why the entity hadn’t spoken more often; Seth has said little about his entity, and we did not ask that this personality speak tonight.

[...] It is necessary that we rely upon the mental equipment of the person through whom we speak, and at times we are able to activate the intellectual capacities many times above normal, in order that certain concepts be given. [...]

(A note: at times Jane’s head would shift or vibrate slightly from side to side. [...] This has been noted a few times before when Seth’s entity speaks. [...]

(At no time during the session was there much of a pyramid effect. Jane said that as she left trance last time she got the feeling that “this personality felt that he was able to use some of my processes, that we were clicking together better, to get his ideas across.”

[...] On the other, he must not let ideas about time and the body impede him. [...] Yet Frank believes that muscles can only operate in a certain way in time, and he supposes that certain improvements must therefore take so much time. [...]

[...] The muscles need time, practically speaking. Yet the time needed can be prolonged if it is concentrated upon. [...]

[...] At times she’d stressed the syllables of words more than the words themselves; at other times she hadn’t.

[...] It was the practical impetus of your need at the time, however, that operated as the final emotional trigger—you recall the circumstances.

[...] I remember that I was sick three times that winter, each time to a lesser degree. The first two episodes cost me work time of several days each. I do not remember having any thoughts, at any time, connecting my illnesses to the polio vaccines.)

[...] As Seth said, she did not appear; her planned activities at the newspaper where she works were changed unexpectedly; she was taken out of town Wednesday night, the time of the 242nd session. Peggy was given the assignment in the afternoon, she said, and it could have been around 3 PM; she does not know the exact time. [...]

(At supper time this evening we were notified that once again Peggy could not appear tonight. [...]

[...] I wrote up the notes on these and read them to Jane just before session time, thinking that if Seth didn’t cover all the points this evening, at least a beginning could be made.

[...] I take it for granted that you understand the jumps in time. This was merely to remind you of certain continuities without going over events already mentioned—so going back to the point in time mentioned earlier in tonight’s session: when Dialogues was finished Ruburt tried it out on Prentice, and felt briefly that Tam might take it. Even then there was talk from a time earlier about a paperback deal. [...]

[...] You would have time to work and play. [...]

Both of you were sure of your love, but each of you at various times were quite willing to let its personal aspects take second place, and I am not speaking alone of physical love-making. [...]

I want to come back to this point in time, where we left off.

I will from time to time give subsidiary material for Ruburt and also for you, implementing a chapter in the book for your personal use. [...]

[...] Each time I woke up, dictation, or stuff like that, was going on. It was pretty insistent — almost unpleasantly so at times….” [...]

[...] It orients you toward the environment in which you must operate, and it is because of the mind’s allegiance with the temporal brain that you perceive, for example, time as a series of moments.

[...] The times noted as she delivered the material show that she’d marched along at a good pace. [...]

(As Seth stated in the 201st session, Jane’s psychological time experience of October 22, involving the Gallaghers, did prove to be quite legitimate; along with some less striking psy-time events Jane experienced during the week Peg and Bill were in Puerto Rico.

[...] I have at times been more presentable than that. Someday we shall show that face, and this face (Jane pointed to herself) for I am a stubborn gentleman, and in my own time we shall indeed give quite adequate proofs of what I am.

[...] Before this however we had the time to go over the three sessions in which Seth dealt with the Gallaghers while they were on vacation in Puerto Rico; these are sessions 199, 200, and 201.

[...] Jane’s psy-time experiments will also be so treated so that we have a unified body of work covering this experiment. [...]

[...] Let the room, therefore, be a meeting place of selves, a gathering together of selves from many times and places. Let the secrets of your selves come into your knowledge and into what you think of as this time and place, and let all portions of your personality therefore unite and meet here. Let there be a convention of selves from all places and times. [...]

[...] And as many of you come and go, so have you come and gone in other times and places. And you will indeed work out dramas in what you think of as this room, and by working out these dramas, you change events both in your past and in your future, for time is open-ended. [...]

(Phil went over to Janice and they embraced, “I won’t leave you again; I want to stay this time,” Phil said. [...]

[...] Of all people, why couldn’t you tell her after all this time?”

[...] This at once compressed her ideas of the time in which to do anything, although I didn’t feel any pressure. She asked me about the time quite often.

(After a meager lunch she said that last night she got a flash, like an “ear pop,” that she wasn’t going to die at this time. [...]

[...] I must be more negative than I thought after all this time, for I didn’t believe her when she said she wasn’t going to die now. [...]

[...] Eyes half closed most of the time.)

[...] We saw at once that the book had been rather drastically cut—not only my own notes, which contain excerpts from Seth material at times—but Seth’s material itself. [...] Times are also left out, and no words are underlined. [...]

(Jane also discussed with Tam a number of points growing out of our last royalty statements; some of these are quite legitimate gripes that we’ve kept quiet about for some time. Her implications to Tam were clear enough—we hope: that for the first time she was thinking of alternate courses of action to being published by Prentice-Hall, perhaps trying other publishers, Eleanor Friede among them. [...]

[...] I would suggest walking three times a day now, as he has been doing, but one more time. [...]

[...] I bitterly resent the cutting in the first place, and the time that will be spent away from Mass Events, now, as I do all the work necessary to make our points. [...]

[...] When you attempt to understand your psyche, and define it in terms of time, then it seems that the idea of reincarnation makes sense. [...] And so you try to define the psyche in terms of time, and in so doing you limit your understanding and even your experience of it.

Largely, the writing of this book occurs in a “no-time, or out-of-time context.” [...]

(9:15.) When in colonial times men and women traveled westward across the continent of North America, many of them took it on faith that the land did indeed continue beyond — for example — towering mountains. [...]

[...] On the other hand, you create physical time for your psyche, for without you there would be no experience of the seasons, their coming and their passing.

3. A note added five months later: For some of Seth’s early remarks about time, see the excerpts from the 14th session (for January 8, 1964) in Chapter 4 of The Seth Material. I quoted a few lines from the same session midway through the Introductory Notes for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality (as well as after the 724th session in Volume 2), and considered some thoughts about our attempts to grasp Seth’s concept of simultaneous time. The notes introducing this first volume also contain other applicable material having to do with Jane’s trance production times for the Seth books.

Your own consciousness as you think of it, as you are familiar with it, can indeed help lead you into some much greater understanding of the simultaneous nature of time³ if you allow it to. You often use tools, instruments, and paraphernalia instead — but they do not feel time, in those terms. [...] Studying your own conscious experience with time will teach you far more. [...]

Ruburt has at times been able to throw his consciousness into small physical instruments (computer components, for instance), and to perceive their inner activity at the level of, say, electrons. Given time, in your terms, a knowledge of the structure of so-called particles could be quite as clearly understood by using such techniques. [...]

(I finished typing last Wednesday night’s session after supper this evening; in fact, Jane just had time to read it before we sat for this one at 8:50.

Is Seth actually my trance personality, though — a native of timeless psychological realms, who sends his messages to our time-tinted world? Or am I Seth’s trance personality, living in space and time, nearly forgetful of my heritage? [...]

[...] Actually, I was quite concerned with the quick passage of time, and the pressure to prepare manuscripts for publication. [...] I knew that on session nights, Rob “lost” his work time on that project, and he still had to type up the latest book session on the following day, while all I had to do was … what? [...]

I’d been producing my own books during this time, and getting them ready for publication, so surely Seth wasn’t taking up any creative slack of my own. [...] They yielded results in the world of time. [...]

[...] So “real” time and trance time have each vanished: And this week I’ll go into trance, and again Seth will dictate part of another book that Rob will be typing up for publication a year or so from now. [...]