Session 424

SESSION 424 JULY 29, 1968 9 PM MONDAY (We were on vacation at Enfield Glen from July 19 to 28, and no sessions were held.

(This afternoon Jane wrote a letter to a spiritual healer, Harry Edwards, in England, but has yet to mail it. She wondered what Seth would say about it. At about 8:30 this evening she got a flash from Seth, commenting on her asking for help in an amused but not sarcastic way.

(At 8:55 as we sat for the session Jane got another flash, concerning time, that it is “intensely personal, that we create it,” from Seth. She thought Seth would speak on time this evening, in continuing answer to my question in the 422nd session; concerning the manner in which Seth’s larger entity appreciates our time system.

(She began speaking in a rather strong voice, eyes open often, pace faster than usual.)

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

We will divide our session into two parts.

Now. Time is the pattern of perception. It is highly personal, and has no meaning without personal experience. To you, then, time is the result of your perceiving mechanisms. You know the senses force you to perceive experience in certain pattern. Because I have also followed this particular reality, it is meaningful, for me, and I can understand it.

There are personalities however to whom it is highly alien. It must be interpreted. Using concepts, I can relate my understanding of your time pattern to others clairvoyantly. Other portions of my entity are aware of it, by a process of mental osmosis, so to speak.

Those portions of my entity that have not had physical experience, however, do not operate within that time system, at any time (smile) , if you will excuse the pun. It is not beyond them. They simply have not chosen the particular experience, nor delved into that moment point.

Now words belong to your particular time system. Without it, they are not needed. Therefore communication is dependent upon your time system. The inner self however is not so limited, as you know, and inner communications continue always beneath words. Word structures and language itself bears a unique mathematical precision. The placement of emphasis, the vowels and consonants, the length of time to utter them, all of these issues are intimately connected with your own nervous systems, and with the intervals inherent within your time system, between thought and action.

There are unities, barely contemplated, then, between language, exterior communication, the physical nervous system, and time, or your idea of it. These merge so beautifully that they all serve to form a seemingly perfect picture of physical reality. The camouflage would not be effective were it less perfect. (Pause.)

You are beginning to perceive the holes in the camouflage, for I have pointed them out to you. They are doorways into inner realities, and other realities, as are these sessions. Those who have survived physical death in your terms, must use words in their communications, for you do not understand word less communications. They themselves are far freer, however.

We should perhaps differentiate between thoughtwords and speech, or spoken words. Thoughtwords are used by many for some interval. I am speaking of those who have survived death in your terms. They do not need the spoken word. Even thought communication however need not necessarily follow the form of words. There can be thought without words (smile) , in other words.

For simplicity’s sake, let us say that there is a process of change. Those alive in your terms rely at least outwardly on the spoken word. Those who have left and survive, use thoughtwords but do not need to speak, though they may (underlined). As proficiency grows and as the inner senses are more fully used, the necessity for even thoughtwords vanishes.

Several other methods of communication occur. They do not spring from nowhere. You use them beneath conscious level to some degree now. They grow into prominence. Images are widely used, but these images would be fourth-dimensional to your way of thinking. They are far from flat. They have a reality, and these are, what you have read, referred to as thoughtforms.

Feelings become far more vivid, pulsating and alive, also. You experience these more directly, and yet conversely enough you do not identify with them falsely, as is often the case in your present situation. You can experience feelings more vividly and powerfully because you realize that they are not you , and your identity cannot be swept aside by them.

You have no fear of them. All of this is a progression, I will say for simplicity’s sake. Now in such an environment, time as you know it does not exist. This is one of the reasons why some projections are so confusing, particularly when the ego is taken along for the ride. (Humorously.) It is used to past, present and future, kept nicely apart.

(Smile.) I am giving you this as preliminary material, for you have asked how my big brother experiences time. (See page 5.) Do you want to take a break?

(It was 9:30. “I’m okay.”)

Now then. Part two, and the saga of Ruburt’s health.

This does not imply that I am unsympathetic. He correctly but imperfectly recalled a dream during your vacation, in which I was helping him with his health problems.

(This is the first dream including Seth that Jane can remember.)

The following morning his condition was worse than it was during your entire vacation. From then on, however, it improved. He would not have been able to take your mountain jaunts at all , earlier. I was having a heart-to-heart talk with him. I have had others, but this was the first time he barely remembered.

Other intimate improvements have shown themselves, and they are symptoms of increased vitality and release, as spontaneity is allowed for, and returns. The whole condition is better. The change was good.

The letter that Ruburt has written is significant in ways that you have not seen. (Pause.) Mr. Edwards admits that he calls upon surviving personalities, healers who have survived death in your terms. In the past Ruburt would not admit, basically, that such survival was a fact, much less ask for help from such quarters.

The letter itself represents therefore an advancement and an act of faith. This is partially the result of our little conversation, of which he has the barest memory. In other words many of those conditions causing the symptoms are beginning to disintegrate.

Before our sessions began, can you imagine him asking for help from such quarters? He did not believe they existed.

Now. Nothing is ever really done alone (smile), and nothing is ever done unless it is done alone. I should end the session here, and leave you with that one, but I will explain what I mean.

When you say “I will do this myself,” you are speaking with a limited idea of identity. You are more than you know. The you that paints your paintings is far more than the Bob Butts you call yourself, though you are that Bob Butts. There is a matter of terms. Now Ruburt, you may say, has done all the hard work leading to a recovery alone; but he has had help. The recovery itself was utterly dependent upon his belief in it, however. (Pause.) This was his primary battle, for he understood finally what the illness represented. Every personality is different. The prerequisites for recovery are therefore different in each case.

In some cases of spiritual healing, belief is not necessary. In Ruburt’s case belief and unbelief were part of the problem itself. Belief therefore was necessary, for unbelief of spontaneity, fear of spontaneity, was a basic cause of the difficulty.

The recent and highly significant release in a certain area is a sign of improvement more significant than you realize. The letter should be mailed however. It will lead Ruburt to further contacts, and its results will strengthen certain inner feelings that have and are emerging. (Long pause.) If your hand is tired you may take a break.

(“Okay.” (9:50. The trance had been a deep one but Jane emerged easily. During break she still felt partially “under.” Resume at 10:01.)

The initial poor reaction the morning following our little chat was simply the result of a temporary fear of letting go. It was of short duration, however. Ruburt did experience a sense of freedom in your hiking activities as a result, that was highly beneficial; and such activities are good for they increase his confidence. Of course, it was more difficult going down the hills—the significance of letting go is more apparent.

(Jane did do very well on our hiking trips. One mountain we climbed from the stream bed to its summit was several hundred feet high, and steep, etc.)

Water itself, natural water, such as the pool, has healing qualities also that he was able to use. The change that he perceives in your apartment is, of course, the result of inner change for the better.

The freedom will also show in our sessions, and rather obviously, within a very brief time. It is already apparent. To become aware of other individuals who are not within your system will be good for him. It will also help him to understand and appreciate my own unique reality, and this now-growing belief should result in a greater familiarity. He should be able to perceive me to some degree before too long.

For all of these reasons I suggest the letter be mailed. The fact of the letter shows that he had reached a certain level of acceptance and understanding. These people can and will help him, and add their mental and psychic energy to his own in a strongly supportive manner. They will be able to activate other layers of his consciousness, and they are indeed professionally suited to do so, as I am to teach.

In his daily life however, as I have told him in the past, the yoga exercises should be continued. He agrees with me but then he lets them slide. They are psychic, spiritual and physical exercises that will let him handle energy more effectively, and release his abilities smoothly. As a part of his daily life they will facilitate the development of his abilities, and therefore help in our sessions.

With this present condition completely banished, proper attitudes and proper use of the yoga exercises will allow him to stay in excellent health. There will be no reoccurrence of symptoms once they are banished, therefore. The yoga exercises simply include rather painlessly, and in one package, techniques that are of greatest benefit in the maintenance of spiritual, mental and physical health.

The healing will show that the causes are eliminated. Other causes must not be allowed to spring up, you see. Proper attention to work and the exercises mentioned will keep the system in balance, and insure continued health.

Spontaneity will rise up during the hours given to work, and outside those hours, but he must continue those habits upon which his well-being depends. The energy that will be released will show itself most beneficially, being directed into your other affairs. Our sessions will now be held with normal regularity, and very shortly I will begin my own book. I have been working on it, you see. (Amused and confidential.)

Now I am through with what I intended to say. You may end the session or ask any questions that you have. First give me one moment here. (Pause.) This is for you. (To me.) We will try to get it clear. Do not use sepia with too heavy a hand.

(“Yes.” I agreed while thinking this remark over, though I at once thought of a recent instance where this could have happened in a portrait.)

Now I await your pleasure as always.

(On page 6, see my notes in the third paragraph before Session 423.

(“About Jane’s flash from you before the 423rd session. Does that have to do with her dream about you while we were on vacation? The flash told her something beneficial of an inner nature would happen to her while we were away.”)

This had to do with our chat, that he recalls as a dream. It resulted in your mountain-tumbling, which was very important to him . Some rather important changes crystallized, which seems something of a contradiction, as far as his own thoughts were concerned. He hinted at this when he told you that he was concentrating upon recovery.

(Earlier this evening Jane emphatically told me there was a difference in her attitudes now. She was concentrating on recovery instead of on the symptoms.)

The affirmations are of help, and his overall attitude has definitely and significantly changed.

Now, he was able to soak up energy in your natural surroundings, and to use it. Of course, he was ready to do so. The physical activity diverted his conscious mind so that the inner self could progress, without being watched at every moment.

(“How about Gene Bernard’s letter? What did the people at Prentice-Hall think of that? I mean really?” (Just before we left on vacation on July 19, we received a copy of a letter from Dr. Bernard that he’d mailed to our publishers at Prentice-Hall.)

They were highly impressed. They did not, however, see through Bernard’s real meaning. Van Over did sense it. He has some abilities of his own, incidentally, of which he is not aware. When Ruburt is completely healed his health will be exuberant—not a halfway thing. It is his way. (Amused.

(“Why the comment on sepia?”)

This was given to me. I picked it up during the session, and it is a message to you from your other friend.

(The painter, 14th-century Belgian artist Van Elver, a survival personality whose portrait I have painted. See the 401st, 402nd and 414th sessions among others.)

I hope I received it correctly. I was sure of the color but was not positive as to whether you were using it too heavily or not heavily enough. It was simply meant as friendly advice. Give us a moment.

(Pause.) I do not have our friend directly. This is something like a mental message meant for me. (Pause.) There is some reaction with sepia, that can lead to an unpleasantly or undesired purpling effect.

(“Yes. I’ve already noticed that and have worked away from it.” (This effect appeared shortly before vacation, on an experimental head in oil I was working on. Brown was one of the colors used, and could have contributed to the undesirable purplish undertone in the flesh. The effect cropped up before I was aware of it. I cannot be positive the sepia caused the effect without trying some deliberate experiments to see, but certainly it contributed.

(The oil head in question sits in my studio, still unfinished and has been seen by Jane often. One note of interest; technically speaking the oil colors I use contain no color named sepia, specifically, though, of course, a range of earth reds and browns are included. Sepia is a brown. The specific word sepia is more often attached to watercolors, as far as I know, than to oils. Jane also has used both watercolor and oil, as I have; and my watercolors do contain sepia.

(Smile.) Then I did not deliver the message early enough.

(“That’s all right... I guess that’s it for the moment, then.”)

Some further here with sepia—to achieve something different now, a sunny clear effect, a newness, a way of applying sepia with white; thin-layered, with a particular kind of varnish... (Pause.

(“What kind of varnish?”)

We seem to have in answer to your question, strong A sounds... Acqua—but this is not right—Acramont? (Jane looked at me.

(“No.” I shook my head.)

A kind of varnish made near Akron, Ohio.

(“Yes.” (Pause.) It has a tendency to bring out the light tones of the sepia over the dark ones. Subdue the brown and bring out the light.

(This would be admirable technique. As far as I know, Jane doesn’t think about painting in such terms.

(“Do you mean damar varnish?” (Pause.) I will have to check.

(“I can name other kinds of varnish.” (Jane nodded.) Go ahead.

(“Mastic?” I paused.)

List them.

(“Well, there’s damar, mastic, copal, and some of the new synthetic polymer varnishes.”)

I believe it is a new synthetic varnish. Is there an acrylic varnish?

(“Yes, there are several kinds, made by Permanent Pigments in Cincinnati—”)

Ohio. (Cincinnati is in Ohio.

(“Yes.”)

Now we are onto it. Can you name those?

(“There’s a matte acrylic varnish, and a glossy. Also a picture varnish by Grumbacher that contains some synthetic resin—”)

I will have to check with our friend, and he is not at this moment available.

(“Okay.”)

He will make an artist’s helper out of me yet.

(“Yes.”)

In any case, I hope the information was helpful.

(“Yes. I wouldn’t think Van Elver would know much about brand new varnishes—or would he?”)

We are still having difficulties with the name. He is indeed aware of new techniques, for he looks in on you now and then. (Pause.) If you have further questions ask them, or end the session as you prefer.

(“I guess we’ll have to end it.”)

Obviously I was with you occasionally during your vacation. I wish you a hearty good evening.