“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The mind as opposed to the brain, perceives time in terms of the spacious present. [...]

[...] It cannot be clearly understood simply because at present psychologists believe that association works only in connection with past events.

They also underestimate dream events, for many associations in your present are the result of events which have occurred in the dream state. [...]

Two other people in the room, I believe a woman and a man, and another man has been present but is now out of the room. [...]

[...] There, the spacious present is operative. [...]

Now, the future is also present in cellular consciousness. [...] Because of the spacious present however, cellular consciousness also contains blueprints of the future.

Such dreams do not basically imply a return to a distant past, for to the cells all things are present. (Long pause.) This reality is a basic part of your present existence, and simply represents a dimension of actuality that the ego cannot, by its nature, admit.

In your dreams, in other words, you are familiar with images like the mammals and reptiles, that would seem not to belong to the present. [...]

[...] The two studio settings—the studio I worked in with Wendell Crowley in 1941-3, and my present studio, are separated by as much as 23 years.

I have wanted to cover this because I can prove the existence of this dream world to you, and its continuity, always within the spacious present. [...]

Nevertheless in his case an excess, fervent nature has always been in existence, and even now his enthusiasms are extremely fervent, and although a humorous exterior personality now shows its face, nevertheless the extremely authoritative and sometimes too rigid nature holds the personality presently in bounds.

There religious interests, therefore, are repeated in the present personality, but efforts are made to tie these ideas into the world of so-called reality. [...]

I have also said that space travel, so-called, will of necessity deviate from its present concern with vehicles. [...]

The spacious present and the inverted time system deal with the insides of the sphere.

But the dreaming state presents any experimenter with original and varied material, and the opportunities involved are tremendous. [...]

(Then, in the 44th session for April 15, 1964, Seth explained that in the inner universe, “Energy transformation and value fulfillment, both existing within the spacious present [or at once], add up to a durability that is at the same time spontaneous … and simultaneous.” [...]

7. Because I think they contain some of Seth’s most basic information, I also presented these quotations from the 14th session in my Introductory Notes for Volume 1. Additional material from the 14th session can be found in Appendix 13 (in Volume 2), and its Note 4.

You forget that in the spacious present you already are not only what you will be, but what you have been. [...]

In other words, a dream allows the inner self to view itself within the spacious present. [...]

[...] It is therefore able to view the self as a whole, with its past and present life. [...]

Without dreams the whole self would have no way of holding its various manifestations together, and the so-called conscious present personality would soon falter. [...]

[...] Father was wearing a familiar brown hat, and a long brown topcoat, incongruously enough, and he was his present age. [...]

[...] “Besides,” I said to Rob, “Seth says that we live in the ‘Spacious Present,’ and that there really isn’t any past, present, and future. [...]

[...] At one time, he was his present father’s uncle.

Seth went on to give an analysis of Jim’s present personality as it was connected with events from past lives, and to give him some advice about the future. [...]

[...] In passing he spoke of several episodes in Sally’s present life, some that Jon corroborated in his next letter, and one in particular that he did not know about until Seth mentioned it. [...]

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

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

The gradations of intensities are so minute that it would be impossible to measure them, and yet each field contains in coded form the actual living reality of endless eons; contains what you would call the past, present, and future of unnumbered universes; contains the coded data of any and every consciousness that has been or will be, in any universe; those that have appeared to vanish, and those which, seemingly, do not yet exist. [...]

[...] You cannot bring them back into the limited perspectives of your present physical field and are left with but glimpses and flimsy glimmerings of images that are as actual, vivid and more mobile than normal physical ones.

[...] He was shown a multidimensional diagram of reality as it exists in terms of the spacious present, and in terms of qualities that represent dimensional points.

[...] There seems to be some connection with the Midwest here, or at least further west than his present location. [...]

[...] Still, such a house does have form, and does exist within the Spacious Present.

[...] According to Seth, some dreams are simple enough, dealing with unresolved present problems or events. [...]

[...] A dream involving reincarnational information, for example, may also serve to help us face a present-day problem by reminding us of other unused abilities inherent in our personalities. [...]

The Turkish life was the only colorful past life I’ve had to my present knowledge. [...]

[...] In the Spacious Present we both exist.

“Some material he can present to you more clearly than I.” [...]

[...] It is only because your own viewpoint is presently so limited that it seems to you that physical reality is the rule and mode of existence.

“The source and power of your present consciousness has never been physical, and where I am, many are not even aware that such a physical system exists. [...]

You understand the concept of the spacious present. [...]

[...] Our spacious present of which I have spoken contains all times, but it is not a thing apart from them, nor precisely their sum. [...]

(In the 44th session, Seth began a list of qualities and attributes which are included in the spacious present. [...]

(Seth’s statements are presented in full from each session, with the comments from Peggy and Bill just below each statement in italic type. [...]

(As in the Puerto Rico experiments, Seth’s material is presented line by line, in regular type, with Peggy’s answers below. [...]

[...] The objections of many will be offset only when the reincarnational data is seen in the light of a full understanding of the spacious present and the inverted time system.

[...] In this way you would be presenting an overall picture that would later be filled in.

[...] I would like, you see, the overall picture presented as much as possible. [...]