“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are beginning to form this psychological bridge. Now when you form it you do so with the inner realization that it reaches from you outward and you expect something to be on the other side, or the bridge would be useless. Do not, however, identify the bridge with what waits on the other side. The bridge is a living psychological bridge because in this type of communication feelings and emotions are involved. A steel bridge would get you nowhere. You are weaving threads of psychic energy, insights, and realizations, and also certain personality characteristics to form this bridge outward. Now you are beginning at your end and in doing so you form the initial version of your Adam. As this, Adam is highly legitimate and an aid.

However, at the other end there is something else, and there is no point in continuing to construct the bridge unless you intend to get on the other side. When you begin to get to the other side, continuing our analogy, and with good luck and perseverance there will be someone else on the other side constructing their own bridge to meet yours. This personality will form a bridge in the same way that you do. However the two will meet and merge. You will have a strong structure; you then can communicate. But the structure is not the other personality.

Now taking our analogy of a long bridge, you are now here. (Seth-Jane gestures indicating Tam’s end of the imaginary bridge.) So with your Adam you must either take him and form the rest of your bridge, with the joy of adventure, not always knowing who may be at the other end, forming their own structure; or play around with the Adam version in which case you will get no further than you are. I am not telling you to do one thing or the other. I am merely pointing out the possibilities.

(9:50.) This subject leads to what I will call bridge beliefs, and again Ruburt received some information on this topic ahead of time for his own benefit. (See the notes prefacing the last session.) As you examine your ideas you will discover that even some apparently contradictory ones have similarities, and these resemblances may be used to bridge the gaps between beliefs — even those that seem to be the most diverse. [...] These aspects will themselves emerge as bridge beliefs. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 10:05.) Bridge beliefs may become available to you in the dream state. [...] When such dreams are remembered, however, individual symbols, such as crossing a river safely, or an ocean, or bridging a gap or an abyss, are often involved.

(Long pause.) The emotions connected with these bridge beliefs may indeed surprise you, but standing upon such unifying structures you are also free to let the emotional flow sweep past, feeling it, but aware for the first time, perhaps, of the origin of those feelings in your beliefs, and no longer afraid of being swept away by them.

It is senseless to ask whether or not a bridge is true. [...] A bridge is a valid reality, regardless of its architecture or the type of symbols that may be written upon it, or its color, or the material from which it is made.

[...] Steps and bridges will be provided.

The Sumari language is a bridge, and valid in those terms. [...]

[...] You know about the psychological bridge that is necessary for communications. [...] Work is needed on both of their parts in that he is himself pushing for predictions, —whether he realizes this or not, and trying to bring more “across” in quotes, than the bridge can carry. [...]

[...] He is no threat to Aerofranz’s own personality but Aerofranz should not call upon him to help others until the psychological bridge of which I have spoken has a stronger foundation. [...]

[...] It is that the communicating bridge between them must be completed. [...]

(To Joel.) You are forming, with the help of another personality, a psychological bridge over the chasms that exist between realities. Give yourselves time so that that bridge can be a firm and secure one, before you start saying, prove to me the bridge exists. [...]

(During break Sue told of diving off the high bridge at Cornell after a boy appeared at her side urging her on and of his disappearance. [...]

([Joel:] “Does that have anything to do with the psy-time image I saw of a bridge coming together but not completely formed?”)

[...] And since past, present and future exist now in your terms you need bridges, because you do not really understand the nature of time, so you think you need a bridge to get from past to present or from past to future or from one kind of reality to another. This is not the case, of course, but while you think you need the bridges they are provided, and the Sumari are voices that call to you though they do not have sound. [...]

[...] And we will indeed, with your permission and consent, lead you into other areas where you need not rely only upon the communication that you now take for granted, and we must begin by building bridges and so we shall. [...]

[...] We do not want you to think that you are taking a gay step across the abyss of reality and the universe with nothing, no bridge, to hold you there. [...]

[...] In our case a gestalt personality or a psychological bridge

(Jane and I were at once very intrigued by Seth’s term, “psychological bridge”—one most natural and evocative, it seemed to us.)

Bridge perhaps is better. [...]

[...] He tried today to imagine himself on the old Walnut Street Bridge, walking across it as he used to, carrying a sketchpad. [...]

[...] Jane hadn’t mentioned her imagery involving the bridge, or her feelings during the prayer. [...]

[...] You must make an emotional bridge, for she will not understand an intellectual one. But the emotional bridge must not be of a violent nature.

[...] I got up to look out the living room window, to try my mental experience of traveling across the Walnut St. bridge again, to “feel” myself doing it as before.

[...] It was very noisy; a neighbor clipping a hedge and machinery of some kind grinding away at the new bridge site. [...]

“It is as if there were two portions of a bridge, like a drawbridge, and these two portions must meet. [Earlier Seth had explained that this “psychological bridge” was constructed by both of us.] When you wish to contact me at other than [the] usual appointed times, I may or may not be easily available. [...]

[...] The psychological bridge of which I have spoken serves us well, however, and this exists on Ruburt’s part as well as my own.

[...] I do think that some kind of blending must take place in sessions between his personality and mine, and that this “psychological bridge”’ itself is a legitimate structure that must take place in any such communication. [...]

[...] My psychological awareness bridges worlds of which you are consciously aware, and others that seem, at least, to escape your notice. [...]

[...] They give notice of psychic bridges connecting the known and “unknown” realities in which you dwell.

(Seth then went on to say that the bridge personality would be dispensed with eventually, because it would no longer be needed. [...]

[...] Myths as you know them represent bridges of psychological activity, and point quite clearly to patterns of perception and behavior through which, in your terms, the race passed as it traveled to its present state. Mythology bridges the gap between instinctive knowledge and the individualization of idea.

[...] “Not apes as we think of them, but a bridge between animals and human beings. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, the mind sends out electromagnetic patterns that are used almost like aerial bridges, upon which the signals of consciousness travel invisibly through your world. [...] These “invisible electromagnetic bridges” exist in networks that twine and intertwine, inclining reality to appear in certain fashions.

The preparation of the bridges, again, is an unconscious process, done in sleeping, though some “maintenance” is also carried on beneath usual consciousness, even in the waking members of the species. [...]

[...] These are not so much bridge beliefs as bridge intents.

[...] You have made no attempt to form bridges out to others. [...]

(Seth continued:) He also began to see two poles in society one highly conventional and closed, in which he would appear as a charlatan; and another, yearning but gullible, willing to believe anything if only it offered hope, in which his activities would be misinterpreted, and to him [would be] fraudulent … There was a middle ground that he would have to make for himself … to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end. [...]

[...] At 8:55, moving closer to that familiar dissociated state, approaching that psychological bridge which serves as a common meeting ground for Seth and herself she announced that she felt “a rather generalized idea of what Seth will say on the book stuff.” [...]

[...] We could hear the automobiles swooshing across the new Walnut Street Bridge that lifted gracefully over the Chemung River, less than a quarter of a block from our apartment house; it had been raining earlier this evening and the traffic noise was softened. [...]

[...] The body that you have now is not the one that you had 10 years ago; its physical composition has died completely many times since your birth, but, again, your consciousness bridges those gaps (with gestures). They could be accepted instead, in which case it would seem to you that you were, say, a reincarnated self at age 7 (intently), or 14 or 21. [...]

[...] Theoretically, if you can bridge the gap between various reincarnations, then you can bridge the gap between your system and another.