“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I want each of you to examine the feeling, hold the feeling while you listen to me but remember to hold the feeling for they are the connections, these feelings, with parallel selves. Now the feeling should come from the center of the back of your head and extend backward. Do not let my voice take you away from the feeling, but connect you with the feeling.

Now retain the feeling and follow the feeling backward for the feeling itself has smooth sides. Follow it as far as you can and keep your attention clear as to your sensations. Notice particularly whether there is a distant end to this path, and whether there is someone else there, or if it is lighted. If you find others on the path, greet them simply. If you find corridors opening from the path, go down them or not as you feel suited but hold to the feeling that you have.

Now I want you to follow that same path backward entering again through the back of your own skull in which ever way you choose. Use the cricket as a sign, and let it indeed become louder. It belongs to the room in which you will now open your eyes.

(9:34.) As you approached the boundaries of certain psychic lands, the wristwatch would run backwards. [...] Now, if time suddenly ran backward you would notice it. [...] If time ran backward very slowly, and according to the conditions, you might not be aware of the difference, because it would take so much “time” to get from the present moment to the one “before” it that you might be struck, instead, simply with the feeling that something was familiar, as if it had happened before.

(Pause at 9:51.) The psyche, your psyche, can record and experience time backward, forward, dash — or sideways through systems of alternate presents (intently) — or it can maintain its own integrity in a no-time environment. [...]

[...] It was not going backward. The backward motion referred to time, and how much time you felt existed between the book’s dictation and the delivery of Volume 2.

(I asked Seth for his interpretation of my dream on Sunday morning, June 25, in which I was highly upset to see my father careening backward in a truck, down Pinnacle Road. [...]

[...] You were afraid that you were doing everything backward—specifically with “Unknown” Reality, and that the affair would be a disaster—or the car would crash.

backward into yesterdays,

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Looking from your planet, outward as you think, at the quasars, your scientists believe that they look backward in space, in your terms. [...]

[...] If you can look backward from your planetary viewpoint with your physical instruments, and using your own terms and definitions, then from some point you see within the same framework, your scientists should be able to look forward, and they cannot.

2. See the 683rd session in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality. As Seth told us: “All kinds of time — backward and forward — emerge from the basic unpredictable nature of consciousness, and are due to ‘series’ of significances … Memory operates backward and forward in time.”

[...] In the same way, when you look “backward” into the psyche the life you may indistinctly view — the past life — is already vanished. [...]

[...] Much of his material in that session applies here: “It is truer to say that heredity operates from the future backward into the past….”

[...] Ruburt has his own creative abilities, and uses them well, and it is to a large extent because of those abilities that our contact first took place (in December 1963). Scientists like to say that if you look outward at the universe, you look backward in time. [...] When you move inward through the psyche, however, you do begin to thrust, in your terms, “backward” toward the origins of existence. [...]

[...] (More intently now:) Or how many fish flopped backward to the water, finding themselves in such an in-between stage that they could no longer live in the water nor breathe the air?

[...] Looking backward in time, Plato heard the story of Atlantis from his maternal uncle, Critias the Younger, who was told about it by his father, Critias the Elder, who heard about it through the works of the Athenian statesman and lawgiver, Solon, who had lived two centuries earlier [c. 640–559 B.C.]; and Solon got the story of Atlantis from Egyptian priests, who got it from ———? [...]

Do not try to back over backwards over the tax issue—hence your back problem (today). [...]

[...] (Jane shook her head, her eyes closed.) As they fall backward through themselves — I’m getting this — I don’t know how to say it — the faster-than-light particles collapse in on top. The dead hole seems to swallow itself, with the real fast particles like a lid that gradually diminishes … From our point of view the hole is closed, say, once the faster-than-light particles follow the slower core backward into beginnings.”

[...] You can call it a dead hole” (Pause.) “Its motion in our terms is so slow as not to be observable, but in terms of time it’s a backward motion.”⁹

[...] The slower center portions of the dead holes themselves move backward into beginnings becoming heavier and heavier.”

[...] Now it is this that may carry you to other systems, though the word carry seems to imply a motion backward or forward. The motion may feel backward or forward, but instead there is an immersion into various depths.

[...] It can roll backward as well, but in your intentness you have a forward direction in mind, and to go backward would seem to divert you from your purpose.

[...] It appears to you that your present consciousness wanders backward into the past, until finally you can remember no longer—and on a conscious level, at least, you must take the very event of your birth under secondhanded evidence. [...]

Since they are often frightened and unsure of the future, they are more apt to cast their thoughts backwards into their early childhoods, reaching for their earliest memories, and mentally try to gain comfort from the remembered sounds of beloved voices, only to mentally glimpse other images than they expected, or to hear other voices than those for which they yearned.

[...] Within your terms then they may be said even now to be traveling as far backward as they are forward, simultaneously.

[...] This will undoubtedly be difficult to consider, nevertheless there are countless beginnings, even of your own universe, occurring at different reference points in various perspectives; and it is impossible to trace backward your own thin line, since it is interwoven and actually a part of so many others.

[...] That energy from which you seem to get no work physically, that energy which seems to diminish in value, is plowed backward into inwardness, regenerated and used to form universes without which you could not exist even as physical beings.

[...] Physicists and parapsychologists have suggested various sorts of minute and undiscovered entities (mindons, psychons, psitrons, and so forth) that can move backward in time relative to our conscious conception of what time is, or that are at least free of our idea of a time that flows inevitably forward. Or consider the positron, which is a positively charged electron, a bit of antimatter that’s said to be temporarily moving backward in time. [...]

[...] In your terms these units can move forward or backward in time, but they can also move into thresholds of time with which you are not familiar.⁴

[...] If they were isolated in spatial terms, they extended their imaginations and to some extent their lives and emotions both backward into the past and ahead into the future in ways that modern psychology has made most difficult. [...]

[...] People lived in houses shared by their elders that had earlier been shared by their elders backward through family lines, so that daily experience and family incident was not nearly as restrained to the present in your terms. [...]

[...] Using the power point of the present, you seek backward into the past, reorganizing data to those ends, and project them into the future. [...]

6. Reading backward is something I’ve casually indulged in for many years. [...] I developed the habit as a teenager, reading signs and automobile license plates aloud and backward when my father would take my mother, my two younger brothers, and myself for Sunday rides in his 1932 Chevrolet. [...] In later years, working with others on a daily basis, I’d occasionally talk backward in a joking manner (ekil siht). [...]

[...] Such individuals may try “to get ahead” on the one hand, in society or business or in the arts or sciences, only to find themselves taking two steps backward for every step they take forward. [...]