“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We are discussing a model of the universe in which creation is continuous, spontaneously occurring everywhere, and everywhere simultaneously, in a kind of spacious present, from which all experiences with time emerge. [...]

[...] Billy One had been, obviously, the predecessor to the Billy we have now; the present Billy is remarkably similar to him in looks and temperament. [...]

[...] Inward, individualized, aware energy existed before the conception of your time, your time obviously being an interpretation of the spacious present, from which all creation not only originally began but continues in terms of value fulfillment. [...]

[...] In the spacious present there simply is no past. [...]

Clairvoyance exists and is possible because of its basis within the spacious present, and this is not known because man will not accept the available data. [...]

[...] Due to mankind’s present general insistence upon recognizing no other fields of actuality but his own, the advance of knowledge is curtailed. [...]

[...] For the species this present period is transitory, but the length of this period, if drawn out, could bring about results most unfortunate.

For again, the medium is the message in the spacious present, and when- ever the time for the program arrives I am here in your present, regardless of where I am in what you would term my present.

You know the nature of personality now to some degree, and I am always to some degree present at your sessions. [...]

(To me:) I have told you that your own presence is also involved here to some extent, and whether or not you are present at any given session.

For in my present in your terms, I am also the personality who is not speaking this evening, the Seth who does not have those characteristics with which you are so familiar. [...]

[...] That “spacious present” holds all events side by side, ready to be interpreted in cause-and-effect fashion by the organizational abilities of our more limited physical senses. [...]

You are aware through your newspapers and magazines of the dramas, news broadcasts, or other programs that are presently being offered. In the same way you are aware, generally speaking, of the “programs” being physically presented in your own nation and throughout the world. [...]

Not only does television actually serve as a mass means of communal meditation, but it also presents you with highly detailed, manufactured dreams, in which each viewer shares to some extent. [...]

[...] Television presents you with a mirror of your society. [...]

These so-called layers of the subconscious, however, are not really layers at all, but part of the spacious present.

When I speak of levels of the subconscious, I do so only for simplicity’s sake, since there is after all no top or bottom to the mind, but only a present point of focus from which viewpoints may be taken, and new perspectives formed. It is theoretically possible, for example, to change the focus, to delve downward as it were two lives back, and look upward from that perspective to the present.

The personal present subconscious could be compared, using this analogy, with the topmost layer of soil dealing with the present seasons. [...]

There are of course peculiar sets of associations that have been collected in this existence only, but even among associations that seem to be from this existence there are those associations, usually key associations, from previous existences which merge with those of the present.

[...] An emotional acceptance, distasteful as this may seem to Ruburt, is the answer here, and again a sensual immersion in the spacious present and in nature will refresh you here.

An idea contains in itself an energy that you cannot presently distinguish or measure, an energy transformed into a form unperceived by the outer senses. [...]

[...] These planes of actuality, of course, all operate within the spacious present, and with a value climate. [...]

[...] She felt this way because of our rather long rest, and the recent developments in the presentation of the sessions themselves. [...]

[...] There are many stations, so to speak, to tune into, and at present you touch the dials rather indiscriminately. [...]

Now because the spacious present exists, in other terms, these selves are actually in all places at one time. [...]

Now it is important that you realize that we have used analogies rather freely in our last two sessions, for there was no other way to give you any clear concept of the material I wished to present.

[...] All actions occur basically within the spacious present, but all action cannot be aware of itself except as it attempts further action, i.e., materializations.

In the spacious present there are no such terms. [...]

[...] On the other hand that which is, is always present as the basis for any perception. [...]

[...] A thorough understanding of reincarnated existences are of benefit to the conscious present self. [...]

Now that you know something about the nature of matter, you will see that all matter is objectified mental action, and that basically such action happens simultaneously in the spacious present, formed by individualized energy through the formation of mental enclosures.

[...] (Smile.) In the spacious present you see, we both exist.

Some material he can present to you more clearly than I. This was particularly true up to this present point. [...]

This communication, while taking place in your time, and in your present, is nevertheless partially responsible in other dimensions for what you would call future developments in your own personalities, which you can now in turn contact. [...]

[...] Such a house however does have form, and does exist within the spacious present.

[...] You will be forming new gestalts of experience, using past, present and future as a painter chooses his colors, combining them into various paintings.

[...] The ego is not present. [...]

[...] I do not get the feeling that the object has to do with the immediate present, in that it was not a part of your experience, directly.

[...] The dream world exists more closely in that spacious present of which the inner self is so aware. [...]

[...] If for example his present expectations are faulty, when the ego rests he may recreate a time when expectations were high. [...]

(Seth began to talk about the simultaneity of basic reality in the 41st session, which dealt with the spacious present. [...]

Again past, present and future are definite realities only to the ego. [...] When I say that the dreaming self has memory, therefore, of its dream experiences, I mean that it scans its present existence. [...]

To the dreaming self however, past, present and future as such do not exist, and yet it has what you term memory. [...]

[...] A connection with three people, and a fourth who is not present. [...]

[...] Here you experience the spacious present directly. [...]

(“A presentation.” In the letter used as object, I offer to present my paintings for the doctor’s inspection. A presentation could also refer to the Mount Savior Arts and Crafts Exhibit, which is mentioned in the letter. [...]

[...] A presentation. [...]

[...] Having to do with the past rather than immediate present.

[...] For now this moment point which appears within your physical universe is but a small materialization of larger portions of the spacious present. [...]

[...] Details will be presented in the body of the session, as they developed. [...]

[...] This moment point, as you know, refers to any given present instant. [...]

[...] Value fulfillment, or the value climate of psychological reality, is the first basic law of the inner universe; Seth presented it in the 45th session in some detail. [...]

[...] As you break down the spacious present into moments, which you then experience, so also you break down psychic identity, gestalts, into small self-structures.

[...] The mind, as opposed to the brain, perceives in terms of a spacious present. Therefore, it draws its associations not only from your present and past but also from your future.

[...] The choice is dependent upon your choices in both past and present. These choices, however, are based upon your changing perceptions of past and present. [...]

[...] This particular book is a case in point: even before it existed in its present form, I was kept informed of publisher’s decisions toward it. [...]

[...] It didn’t occur to me that these two manuscripts could have anything to do with the dream interpretation because they were in the present rather than in the future. [...]