“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause at 9:35.) As I have said frequently, time as you think of it does not exist, yet in your terms, time’s true nature could be understood if the basic nature of the atom was ever made known to you. [...]

[...] The mind, which is the inner counterpart of the brain, can at times perceive the far greater dimensions of any given event through a burst of sudden intuition or comprehension that cannot be adequately described on a verbal level.

It seems as if an atom “exists” steadily for a certain amount of time. [...]

[...] It would seem to you as if there would be gaps between the fluctuations, and the description I have used is the best one for our purposes; but the probable systems all exist simultaneously, and basically, following this discussion, the atom is in all these other systems at one time.

Now, in the winter time our poor idiotic flower seems, indeed, to be dead. [...] They are being nurtured, but do they in this darkness, therefore, look about them and say, “This is a time of death? [...] How is it that I remember a time in which I blossomed? How is it I vaguely remember a summer in a time in which I was strong and spontaneous and free? [...]

(To Arnold.) Now, to our friend here, you are worried about being aggressive in your psy-time. You can allow yourself aggression in your psy-time. [...]

This is a crossroads that comes, not only to you, but to each individual upon the face of the planet and in every time it comes when an individual realizes that they are using all the resources that they have, and that they are not getting the results that they wanted. [...] When they look back on their childhood and realize that, in that time, there was great magic and great rejoicing and great freedom and they ask, “Where has it gone?” It is a crisis that comes to each soul born in flesh. [...]

[...] This will improve your painting, your creative life, and your psychic life, but you are turning inward too much without knowing what you are doing, at this time. [...]

(In this case, though, too much time passed between sessions. [...] But given that right kind of equanimity, time — our ordinary time — slides by; then, looking back periodically, we discover that we’ve accomplished at least something of what we wanted to do.

Now: It is true, then, that the cells do operate on the one hand apart from time, and on the other with a firm basis in time, so that the body’s integrity as a time-space organism results.

[...] Then quietly:) Basically, cellular comprehension straddles time. There is, then, a way of introducing “new”‘ genetic information to a so-called damaged cell in the present.⁶ This involves the manipulation of consciousness, basically, and not that of gadgets, as well as a time-reversal principle. [...]

For now think of it as you usually do, in a time context. [...]

[...] Acting upon impulse while we were in the store, I bought one of those watches that gives not only the time of day but the day of the month. [...]

(See the 636th session in Chapter Nine for some material on karma, reincarnation, and Seth’s idea of “simultaneous” time.)

[...] You may have one, two or three preferred characteristics that correlate with your ideas, for example, but your concepts about age leave you no such freedom; for at one time or another all of you, “if you are lucky” in your terms, will approach old age.

Many believe that it is a time of spiritual and/or physical deterioration, an era in which all those hard-won attributes of maturity vanish, and the reasoning faculties disappear like grains of sand held too long by the thinking hands of the mind.

[...] He also learns by his successes, and there are times when he holds his hand, moments of deliberation, periods of creativity. [...]

Christendom may well have perished along with the rest of the world, but this possibility would not have been considered, so narrow and evilly self-righteous were the governing powers at the time. [...]

[...] In terms of time this is behind us all. [...]

This is some of the most important material that I have given you, for you have wondered about the purpose, and have been able often to see but one small speck of time and space.

(I hadn’t had time to buy Jane’s birthday presents, although we both know what she wants—hot plate for the kitchen, and a summer bed spread. We’ve had a succession of visitors, all but one of them unannounced, and have lost work time as a result. [...]

[...] Your original purpose did not involve gaining the respect of those authorities, and it is, if you will forgive me, overall shortsighted to worry about the approval of such people in your time. It can make you bitter for no reason, for this kind of creative work exists outside of its time, and will still be read when the old authorities no longer exist, in your terms.

(I explained to her, as we waited for the session to begin, my dilemma about Note 6 for Appendix 22—my feeling of time wasted after I’d spent a couple of days writing it very carefully—only to have it fall apart at the last moment because I’d forgotten to deal with one crucial point. [...]

[...] At the same time, her knees are much looser. [...]

[...] During break I mentioned that I wondered whether Seth could tell us what Bill Macdonnel was doing on his vacation on Cape Cod., since we’d had but one card from him some time ago. The three of us had made plans to try some telepathic communication at certain times, but not hearing from Bill had sent these plans awry. [...]

The shape of the physical environment, for example, is not static; though it is made of material it is not one thing at one place and within one time, and not something else. That is, the quality that you call environment, and speak of as if it were one thing with one shape and form always, is indeed at various times many things in many places, with you at the focal point.

[...] This rather pleasant and definite feeling had good duration; at one time I felt as though I was turned to lie upon my right side, so that my left side was raised up. The feeling varied in intensity at times, and along with it I had the thrilling sensation in various limbs.

(Jane had nothing to report from her experiments with psychological time. [...]

[...] Jeff doesn’t suggest antibiotics at this time, but told me that the ulcers on Jane’s right knee and left hand won’t heal themselves, and that the new swelling on the top of her right shoulder may turn into another such area. [...]

[...] The passages are on death and suicide — natural death, no less, and how we continually interfere medically with people’s chosen time of death. [...]

[...] Although she obviously played a vital part in keeping herself alive, I believe that that action came after her own natural, chosen time of death had been subverted. [...]

(I was also angry that Jane hadn’t allowed anything to come through in sessions about herself for some time. [...]

[...] The rest of the time I worked on Dreams. [...]

[...] But she needed the new one after the new girl on the floor had pulled it loose several times while taking care of her. [...]

[...] The pendulum told me I was fretting about losing time on Dreams.

It would be a good idea once or twice for him to remember the Jungle Gym (in Webster, New York where my younger brother Bill and his family live), and the first time he remembered faltering in a physical fashion. [...]

[...] A natural-enough resentment comes to the surface at times, natural enough under the circumstances, in which he objects to taking special time out, but largely he is overcoming that attitude and a more pliable attitude toward the body is being set up.

[...] Special diets, at particular times, restricted ones, can be of benefit in certain specialized areas of development, but there is always the danger of going overboard.

It may seem that results did not show (they didn’t) but Ruburt’s notebook clearly outlines various points of progress during that time. [...]

[...] Also discuss your other plans if you wish, but use the time to communicate in that manner.

Action is not affected by time as you know it. [...] You may, however, only perceive parts of action in your time breakdown. Ideally, psychological time experiences will allow you to perceive action more clearly and directly. [...]

[...] The chair created then by any given individual, and perceived by him, is an identity in that it exists at any given time, without any exact duplication. [...]

The continued existence of your physical body is determined by action, although consciously you are not aware of this most of the time. [...]

We shall have to consider, later, color as it appears in dreams, but this is not the time for such a discussion. [...]

[...] They die because of emotion and belief, and because there is a subjective rather than an objective time for dying. You live then in a personal universe, in which each being of whatever degree comes personally in contact with space and time, alive with meaning, alive as a portion of reality that no other being could or can replace.

[...] Jane had no questions for Seth other than her usual desire that he continue his material on Frameworks 1 and 2. I didn’t either, not having taken the time to focus on any.

It hints at the most precise and powerful focus, so that amid an infinity of data, events can be arranged at times so that two particular people, for example, separated in childhood, could, 30 years later, find themselves living next door to each other. [...]

He began to creatively consider what he would do, and then out of habit projected, at times, his present circumstances, so that they seemed to contradict his hopes. [...]

(As usual, I said a lot of things in the short time we talked before company arrived. [...] An understandable-enough resolution, I said, and one I couldn’t argue with basically, since such a course could logically be the one chosen by some personalities—but it was also one that I didn’t choose at this time. [...]

[...] Of late the situation has led to at least a momentary framework in which physical disabilities take a good bit of mental and physical time. [...] Time is spent “getting better” that otherwise would be spent in any other area of activity. [...]

[...] I’d been aware of this possibility for some time, and wasn’t surprised that the time had come. [...]

[...] I’d told Jane earlier, referring to it several times from different angles, that I felt the sessions were closing themselves down, for good. [...] I know that sooner or later I’ll be doing this no matter what the outcome of our present situation is, whenever Dreams is finished, I suspect at this time. [...]

In certain portions of your world there were memories from other peoples and other layers of existence, and these memories for some time remained. [...] Now this particular situation was reenacted many times and many places and not in one way only. [...]

Now, you also have the memory of your future existences, for time does not exist as it seems to you now, and a portion of you is aware of your future as it is aware of your past. And so also, in your terms of time, as this sifts through to the physical being you had a great dream of grandeurs achieved, and yet you look around and see them unachieved in the morning. [...]

[...] It is difficult to start an exam the second time when you knew you failed it the first time around. [...]

Oh, now we want a time element and some (words missing). It will, indeed, disintegrate in the manner in which it is now known by that time. [...]

[...] He has been over-suggesting again, particularly at nap time—at himself too much. [...]

Simply as a matter of temperament, this time of year has always made him impatient. [...]

Tell him that when he is writing a poem, or wants to, he does not stop each time he picks up a pen and says “I can’t do it.”

[...] The reflection will automatically set up a gap of time in which he is not acting automatically in response to the negative suggestion.

[...] Finally when Jane went to the post office just before closing time today to claim the package, it proved to be lost again, this time on the premises. [...]

By the time we are finished, we will have some excellent evidential material. By the time critics’ voices become noisy we will be ready to show what we can do. [...]

The inverted time system should be at least briefly explained in the Seth book. [...] It occurs to me however that it would be advantageous to include in the middle section my ideas concerning the construction of physical matter, the inverted time system, moment points, a discussion concerning the dream universe, and the system of probability. [...]

(I discussed with Seth the surprise with which Jane and I have watched young people take to his ideas on time, dreams, clairvoyance, telepathy, etc.; with this I speculated as to the reaction of Jane or myself had we been introduced to such ideas at the age of 20 or so. [...]

Popular novelists and writers are above all things people of their times. [...] They cannot see beyond the times. [...] They share the belief systems of their times, and they are richly rewarded—generally speaking, now—for there is overall no great conflict between their natural works, their writing, and the world at large.

[...] On June 22 the pendulum told me that my stomach bothers me not because I don’t spend enough time painting, but because I feel guilty at spending the time I do, in view of all the other work with Jane that I feel I should be doing: working on sessions, “Unknown” Reality, etc.

[...] You are ahead of the times, and behind them—yet through the point of power you affect those times. [...]

[...] Royalties, prime-time TV series, movies, TV specials—there was no area in which the family wasn’t making incredible amounts of money. [...]

Now in time, you will all receive individual sessions, and in time you will receive enough individual sessions so that you will have something upon which to build. [...]

[...] It is fine and well for me to come here and talk to you, but you are not taking time from your daily activities to develop your own abilities, not to look inward, and you (Theodore) need not be included here. You will have your sessions when you take some time to look within yourselves. [...]

[...] There was another point, however, that I wanted to make, and I have spoken to you many times to get this simple point across, and yet by your actions this evening, all of you then, I can see that I have not put that point across. [...]

[...] You have merely to take some time for peace and quiet amid the objective activities of your day. [...]

(“The trouble appears to be in the lower left groin or side, with ramifications at times in the left testicle. [...] Today, my stomach began bothering; I’ve taken baking soda three times, and that seemed to help, if temporarily, each time. [...]

[...] Pendulum tells me the side bothers because I’m not working on Mass Reality, which will get us money, whereas Through My Eyes is a less-certain project, would take longer, and the time I spend on it is time lost on Mass Reality. [...]

[...] You start thinking “How much time is available?” when the very creative thoughts themselves make more time available.

(“The pendulum says I don’t think I’ll get money for Through My Eyes, that it’s a waste of time, that I don’t want to work on it. [...]

[...] You also possess what is often called the subconscious, and this merely consists of feelings, thoughts or experiences that are connected to your conscious mind, but would be considered excess baggage if you had to be aware of them all of the time. [...]

If you tried to hold all of those subconscious memories uppermost in your mind all of the time, then you would literally be unable to think or act in the present moment at all. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Reasoning takes time. [...]

[...] The other portions of your consciousness, then, deal with a kind of automatic thinking, and operate with a kind of knowledge that takes no time in your terms.