“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In time as you know it, there simply is no point of first origin, since in the spacious present the past does not exist, as the future does not exist in those terms. The dream world is more closely connected with uncamouflaged experience in the spacious present, but it still is in a camouflage perspective, dealing with recognizable projections of material reality.

The barrier, if it may be so called, is not so much in the nature of the two dimensions themselves, but in your own limitations, since presently you are focused mainly in one of these. [...]

[...] And I have protected him from a vulnerability to experiences that would be, or that would present, a danger to the overall balance of the personality.

The spacious present does not contradict the existence of a future as you conceive it. [...] The spacious present, while existing spontaneously, while happening simultaneously, still contains within it qualities of duration.

[...] Our third law is spontaneity, and despite all appearances of beginning and end, of death and decay, all consciousnesses exist in the spacious present, in a spontaneous manner, in simultaneous harmony; and yet within the spacious present there is also durability.

[...] Durability within the framework of the spacious present would not exist were it not for the laws of value fulfillment and energy transformation. These make duration within the spacious present not only possible but necessary….

[...] They simply represent realities with which you are not consciously familiar, and they span the distortions of your time elements so that larger portions of the spacious present become apparent.

You can within them often perceive both your past and present simultaneously, but this has always been a characteristic of the whole self in any case. [...]

[...] It is, of course, aware of your reincarnations on the individual’s part, but these are not present nor future to the self.

[...] Because the Spacious Present exists as it is, the recognition has already been made. [...]

[...] However in the Spacious Present, All That Is does exist. [...]

[...] It can contact that whole self which in your terms does not yet exist, but which is of course always present. [...]

[...] What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. [...]

[...] See page 35 for material and notes concerning the present status of this question of sepia and Van Elver.)

Now the image analogy is in some respects distortive, but good enough for our present purposes. [...]

7. The spacious present is here more available to the senses.

[...] Basically, perception of the spacious present is naturally available. [...]

If a certain intensity is reached, however — a peak of intensity — then you could perceive the spacious present as it exists within your native system. [...]

[...] To look backward into the past, speaking on my terms now and not yours, to look backward into the past entails looking forward into the future, and there is no firm ground, you see; there is no present in a basic manner, no firm ground that is the present, from which to view the future or the past. For they are all one, and you are a part of the spacious present.

Even in our discussions we use the terms past, present and future, but I have told you that your future can influence your past, and that the spacious present is the only time reality.

[...] It is true enough within the present framework of your knowledge, and the idea will work in the same way that the cause and effect theory works, which is only up to a certain point.

[...] A small portion of the spacious present appears in your cube but you see it in camouflage terms of continuity, in camouflage waves of past, present and future.

[...] The vehicle of so-called space travel is mental and psychic mobility, in terms of psychic transformation of energy, enabling spontaneous and instantaneous mobility through the spacious present.

[...] The spacious present enfolds but does not enclose you, and my words will lead you on. [...]

I could not have explained moment points to you, for example, until I had clearly given the idea of the spacious present. [...]

[...] He began on the spacious present in session 44 in Volume 2.

I am interested mainly in education, and with Ruburt’s training by me through our present methods, the processes themselves are more clearly seen and understood. [...]

Our next law of the inner universe is the capacity for infinite mobility, this occurring within the spacious present, which is an infinite spacious present.

[...] And another small but interesting point: On your own plane, there is a subconscious storehouse of knowledge, whereby it is known in a condensed fashion, by all molecules and atoms, exactly which variant or evolutionary attempts have been made, with what results—and always with an eye out, so to speak, for circumstances that might fit forms once adopted with failure, or to attempt other forms for which present circumstances may not be right. [...]

Now if you wish, quality-depth operates within the value climate of psychological reality, and gives truly amazing dimension to the spacious present, which is contained within the value climate of psychological reality.

You may if you wish consider the quality-depth principle as blowing like a wind through the spacious present, it indeed being like a wind in that it is known by its effects; and if you must think of it visually it would, perhaps, have a funnel shape. [...]

[...] I did not attempt any measurements this time, being satisfied now that when this feeling of enlargement is present, there is a definite physical difference. [...]

The spacious present is much more a vivid reality to those outside of your system. [...]

[...] Your past, present and future does not concern them. They also have memory of the past and future, but always experienced within the context of the present; and this is quite at variance with your own experience.

It is very difficult for them to understand your ideas of past, present and future. [...]

Now, the time in which the inner ego exists is, as you know, the spacious present. The spacious present is the basic time in which the whole self has its existence, but the various portions of that self have their experience in their own time systems, which are the results of their characteristic methods of perception.

[...] However past, present and future has reality only to the ego. [...]

On very few occasions you may, if you are lucky, travel or project so effectively that you are aware of the spacious present, in which case you will sense the reality of all systems simultaneously. [...]

[...] For what you see will influence what you do in the present. [...]

[...] It is as real as your present environment indeed, you understand this.

“Now the inner ego, as you know, exists in the Spacious Present. 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.

[...] Mono One could be compared to your present ego.

[...] Past, present, and future are realities only to your ego.

[...] That being exists in a psychological dimension (long pause), a spacious present, in which everything that was or is or will be (in your terms) is kept in immediate attention, poised in a divine context that is characterized (long pause, eyes closed) by such a brilliant concentration that the grandest and the lowliest, the largest and the smallest, are equally held in a multiloving constant focus.

The [universe] is, as I explained, always coming into existence, and each present moment brings its own built-in past along with it. [...] As a result, for example, your archeological evidence usually presents a picture quite in keeping with your ideas of history, geological eras, and so forth.

[...] I just wish I could present those sessions here, for in them Seth gave us much valuable information—not only about ourselves [including Jane’s somewhat impaired physical condition, her “stiffness”], but about the myriad interchanges occurring constantly between our inner and outer realities, or Frameworks 1 and 2, as he calls them. [...]

(At this time also, while trying to visualize a method of diagramming the spacious present, I saw an animated graph consisting of long black jointed sticks thrusting up from a common base, at various angles. [...]

There is always a time scramble, for the inner senses deal with basic data in the spacious present. [...]

[...] Had another emotionally-oriented person been present the balance would have been upset, and nothing would have happened. Had another passive person been present, the same would apply.

[...] You will already have learned to recognize the spacious present for what it is, and the conscious ego will not be so bewildered and confused by the sudden perception that is involved.

Just before the experience of death, timelessness, or the spacious present, begins to be perceived. [...]

[...] Infinity contains all that will ever be known, and, of course, all that will ever be known is known within the spacious present.

That is, not only would they be aware of what seems to you to be past, present and future within your system, but they would be aware of several other systems and be able to function within them simultaneously, gaining and creating experience within all of these systems, even while maintaining overall identity. [...] This is as far as we can carry this at present.