“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The next chapter will describe what you may call my present environment; my present “characteristics,” and my associates. By this I mean those others with whom I come in contact.

Proofreading involved work on Rob’s notes mainly, as he made them more presentable. In some cases, material not a part of the book was included if it seemed relevant, cast sidelights on the method of presentation, or gave insights into Seth himself. As Rob’s notes also show, Seth began dictating the Appendix as soon as the book was finished. Rather amusingly, I didn’t realize that Seth had already begun the Appendix, and I spent several days wondering just who was supposed to take care of it — and if Seth was, when he would begin.

It was extremely difficult to choose a few excerpts on any given topic from Seth’s growing body of work. As a result, The Seth Material necessarily left many questions unanswered and many topics unexplored. Two weeks after it was finished, however, Seth dictated the outline for this present manuscript, in which he would be free to state his ideas in his own way, in book form.

Here is a copy of that outline, which was given to us in Session 510, January 19, 1970. As you’ll see here, Seth calls me Ruburt, and Rob, Joseph. These names represent our entire personalities as distinguished from our present physically oriented selves.

[...] The aspects of your personality as you presently understand them will be retained. [...]

(10:50.) If you think, however, that the self as you know it is the end or summation of yourself, then you also imagine your soul to be a limited entity bounded by its present ventures in one life alone, to be judged accordingly after death on the performance of a few paltry years.

[...] Such a consciousness is present within all living beings, and in all forms.

[...] Though it seems to you that reincarnational existences involve past and future events, they are existences parallel or adjacent to your own present life and consciousness. [...]

The answers to the nature of reality, the intimate knowledge of All That Is that you all seek, is within your present experience. [...]

[...] In the terms of which I am speaking for your benefit, their present might, for example, include the life and death of your planet in a moment of their “time.” [...]

I am almost always present as a translator at such times. [...]

[...] Only by looking quietly within the self that you know can your own reality be experienced, with those connections that exist between the present or immediate self and the inner identity that is multidimensional.

[...] Imagine the experience present in one moment of time over the globe, then try to appreciate the subjective experience of your own that exists in the moment and yet escapes it — and this multiplied by each living individual.

[...] Out of compassion she was present. [...]

[...] Some eighteen people were present. [...]

[...] I had a firm background in physical existence, therefore, as a prerequisite for my present “work.”