“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In ordinary terms, however, the dead are not concerned with the living except perhaps in the very earliest phases, when their emotional feelings are connected with those they have left. After that, you see, there are many other personalities for them to meet again. Persons that they have known in past lives. Do you want to add to your question?

Give us a moment. First of all there are not levels, per se. You develop the abilities that are yours, the best you can, within physical reality. You may, therefore, for example, choose to be an intellectual giant in one life and an emotional idiot in order that you can concentrate upon intellectual abilities. Or you may emotionally be extremely mature, and decide not to use your intellect to any great degree so that you can concentrate on emotional reality. Now, in your case, you have had four past lives. Two as a woman and two as a male. There is not time to go into them deeply this evening.

One, however, was as a merchant in Germany in approximately 1830, the area now around Austria. You have been rather pedantic in several past lives and given in one particularized in Spain, as a priest, to severe attitudes and ideas that lead you, alternately, toward violence and peace. You believed so strongly in principle, for example, that you would do anything to uphold it and there was little leeway in your personality. You were not able to give and take and, to some extent, that rigidity is still present in your personality. However, you are learning now to mitigate to some extent. You are, in other words, opening up in those areas. You were involved in the Inquisition. Your ideas of good and evil were highly polarized. You are making strides in this existence although you have also encountered some difficulties along these lines for it is not easy for you to be flexible, psychically or spiritually. And you are learning to do this despite the difficulties that have been involved.

(To Arnold.) The African God. The psychological time experiences should involve you with some very legitimate information from that one past life that was mentioned earlier. The African God episode. You should remember some of the things that you have forgotten.

You have a very significant reincarnational past, and you will either discover it for yourself, or I will give you some hints involving it in later sessions. You are doing well, however, and you are progressing in inner experiments. Certain ideas of yours that you have been harboring for some time will be coming to fruition, and you can trust them.