“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Far richer, and it turns inward and outward and backward and forward upon itself.

[...] If you can think of your present idea of identity as if it were but one shape or one motion of a moving particle, a shape or a motion that never loses its imprint or meaning, then you could also see how you could follow it forward or backward to the shape or motion taken “before or afterward.”

[...] Not that scientifically the concept of a far more flexible time — even a backward flow of time — is all that new. [...]

Then see the 688th session for Seth’s discussion of closed systems and the backward and forward, inward and outward motions of time.

9. Seth prepared the way for these statements by declaring in the 684th session, in Volume 1: “It is truer to say that heredity operates from the future backward into the past, than it is to say that it operates from the past into the present. [...]

And Seth, in Session 683: “All kinds of time — backward and forward — emerge from the basic unpredictable nature of consciousness, and are due to ‘series’ of significances.”

[...] You must make an emotional and psychic leap, and then you can look backward and see your connective bridges.

You are bending over backward not to make money, both of you, though this is somewhat more understandable on Ruburt’s part, at least since his training is not as specific. [...]

The ego maintains much of its stability by looking backwards, so to speak, into its experience of its past, and finding something of itself there. [...]

He takes prissy tiptoeing steps, always looking backward with worried caution. [...]

[...] You are not to look backward, but forward for the very fulfillment of your own abilities—and I am speaking to you both—will come as a direct result of your acquaintanceship with your son.

[...] Negative habits of thought, and withheld feelings and emotions got you into this, and the same, backwards, can get you out. [...]

[...] In other words, I said, we’d been approaching the problem backwards: Jane wasn’t sick so much because of her past as she was because of what we were doing every day in present reality—reinforcing and/or perpetuating the symptoms because they served a number of beliefs about present-day reality. [...]

[...] Imagine this transformation including also the addition of distance, reaching ever further backward while not disturbing the back side of the canvas.

“The ego maintains much of its stability by looking backward into a ‘past’ and finding something of itself there. [...]

[...] Your understanding, stretched somewhat by earlier ideas, would have fallen backward, so that you ever strained against it. [...]

[...] Is that, then, psychosomatic working backward? [...]

[...] I bend over backward to understand. I bend over backward, and this is most difficult for me. [...]

The associative processes work both backwards and forwards. [...]

A succession of numbers in a row, backwards, as of 10, 9, et cetera.

[...] We have noticed this curious time jump before in the envelope experiments, backwards as it were. [...]

As usual, this is putting things backward. [...]

If you follow them backwards as it were, they will lead you to the inner senses as such, while being at the same time the same thing. [...]