The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.

You would learn the instrument far quicker, you see, if the impulse was originating with a probable self. It goes without saying then that probable selves exist in your “future” as well as your past. It is very poor policy to dwell negatively on unpleasant aspects of the past that you know, because some portions of the probable self may still be involved in that past. The concentration can allow greater bleed-through and adverse identification, because that part will be one background that you have in common with any probable selves who sprang from that particular source.

(10:30.) So can a child then in a dream receive such communications from a probable future self, of such a nature that its life is completely changed. The entire identity is being now. All divisions are merely illusions, so one probable self can hold out a helping hand to another, and through these inner communications the various probable selves in your terms begin to understand the nature of their identity.

(10:12.) To dwell upon the possibility of illness or disaster is equally poor policy, for you set up negative webs of probabilities that need not occur. You can theoretically alter your own past as you have known it, for time is no more something divorced from you than probabilities are.

(Pause.) It is not as easy for the ordinary individual to enter, and it deals with group presents, with mass probabilities, racial matters, the movement of civilization. It is one that would be most beneficial to politicians and statesmen, and it also can be used to probe into probable pasts as well. Here it would be of benefit in learning of old ruins for example, and vanished civilizations, but only if the specific probable past were probed in which these existed.

These probabilities are realities, regardless of which decision you make. [...] Having made it the present is changed, and quite clearly you perceive exactly the way it is changed and what actions and events will flow from the change into the future that belongs to that particular alternate present.

[...] This state can be used to explore the past in your terms of reference, within the probable system that you know.

[...] This can be used to discover the origin of an idea in the past, or to find anything that has been lost there, as long as it is within your probability system.

[...] The question cannot be answered simply for there are many ramifications, but from this instant of reality you form and change not only the future, but the past. In the operation of probabilities this has great significance, for this means that you change and affect all events, and that your books are a delightful fiction that tell you only your current ideas about the past.

[...] There is a constant interchange going on between what you think of as your present self, and your past and future selves. If this were not the case, then I would not be speaking here, for I am not Ruburt’s past self. [...] Time has open ends in all directions or such a thing as probabilities would not exist. Therefore, actions that you make now can help a so-called past personality; and a so-called future personality may step in and help you along your weary way.

(This session followed a class discussion on reincarnation and probabilities. [...]

[...] You not only form the future, as you think of it, but you also form the past. [...]

[...] Ideas of probable realities and probable men and gods may strike some of you as quite absurd, and yet as you read this book, you are but one of the probable you’s. Other probable you’s would not consider you real, of course, and some might indignantly question your existence. Nevertheless, the probable system of reality is not just a philosophical question. [...]

(During the past few weeks Jane has had but a few sessions for her ESP class and a couple of personal ones for us. [...] Many things caused us to lay it aside: other work, the holidays, the plain need for a change of pace, travel, and the approaching death of my father….

As the various qualities of the Lumanians are still present in your psychic atmosphere, as their cities still coexist in land areas now called your own, so other probable identities coexist with the identities you now call your own. In the following chapter we will discuss you and your probable selves.

Because of the nature of probabilities there is also, of course, a system of reality in which the Lumanians succeeded in their experiment with nonviolence, and in which a completely different type of human being emerged.

(Long pause at 11:11.) In other levels of reality, the rules of the game change. [...] The future appears as clearly as the past. Even this is highly complicated, however, for there is not just one past. [...] There are also probable pasts therefore, that exist quite outside your comprehension. You choose one particular group of these, and latch upon this group of events as the only ones possible, not realizing that you have selected from an infinite variety of past events.

There are then, obviously, probable futures and probable presents. I am trying to discuss this in your terms, since basically, you must understand, the words “past,” “present,” and “future” are no more meaningful as far as true experience is concerned than are the words “ego,” “conscious,” or “unconscious.”

You can know what happened in the past and have histories, because according to the rules of the game that you accepted, you believe that the past, but not the future, can be perceived. [...]

[...] In this probable evening (humorously) I select that probable alternative. [...]

[...] These patterns of activity, however, are also constantly changing. I say for example that I am aware of their past and future actions and thoughts; and yet what I am aware of, actually, are ever-shifting and changing patterns, both in the future and in the past.

I perceive people in a room in a far different manner than they perceive themselves; their various past and future reincarnated personalities, but not their probable selves, are perceivable to me.

[...] They exist as probabilities, as potentials, actualized in thoughts but not turned into definite physical form. [...] I would have to tune into a future date, in your terms, and probe it with all of its ramifications in order to ascertain which of the probable actions I saw in your earlier would be actualized in your later.

[...] These can take place in either the waking or dream state, and they serve to open up the reservoirs of knowledge and make past training available.

Any of these changing characteristics of symbols should alert you to the altered state of your consciousness. If you let yourself drift off into sleep here, you would most probably manufacture two or three dreams that symbolized the fear, dreams in which you consider and try out possible solutions within the dream context. [...]

[...] If those reasons change, or if inner psychic developments occur, (pause) then the physical eyes will be healed and the inner mechanism activated. [...] You think before you learn language, as I mentioned earlier in this book, but you already have at your psychic fingertips past experiences from other lifetimes to guide you.

[...] Others will be simply shapes that change swiftly and seem to flow one into the other. As a rule, even the images that are recognizable will quickly be replaced by others in a kaleidoscope of constantly changing forms.

[...] The form of symbols is changed as the states of consciousness change.

The probable system, therefore, is as complicated as the reincarnational one. [...] Another portion focuses in probabilities and handles developments there.

In parentheses: (There is also a probable system, of course, in which no reincarnational cycles exist, and a cycle of reincarnations in which no probabilities exist.) The openness and flexibility of the personality is highly important. [...]

[...] Jane and I were both ready for the session ahead of time, for a change.)

[...] There are others who like to return when their contemporaries from some particular past historical time return again, and therefore there are group patterns that involve reincarnational cycles in which many, but not all, are involved.

[...] You are not, therefore, at the mercy of any neurosis from a past life, nor are there any fears from your present lives that you cannot conquer. [...]

[...] You cannot be threatened in this life by fears from your early childhood, or by so-called past existences, unless you so thoroughly believe in the nature of fear that you allow yourselves to be conquered by it. [...]

[...] Now you set these challenges for yourself in a so-called past life. [...]

[...] You have in the past, collectively and individually, blamed a god or a fate for the nature of your personal realities — those aspects, indeed that you did not like.

[...] To change your world you must change your thoughts. [...]

(To the member): You have, indeed, been performing a useful service in class, but I expect to see it changed. [...]

[...] Jim explained his ideas and emotions concerning the incident, and wanted to know how he could change them.)

You can indeed change them, but do not deny the part of you that wanted to wring the other man’s neck. [...]

[...] Here, within the moment point, the smallest thought is brought to fruition, the slightest possibility explored, the probabilities thoroughly examined, the least or the most forceful feeling entertained. [...] In so doing I immediately experience — and fully — your past, present, and future (in your terms), and all of those strong or determining emotions and motivations that have ruled you. [...]

My environment, as I told you, changes constantly, but then, so does your own. [...] For example, if a room suddenly appears small and cramped to you, you take it for granted that this change of dimension is imaginative, and that the room has not changed regardless of your feelings.

You can learn to change your physical environment, therefore, by learning to change and manipulate your dream environment. You can also suggest specific dreams in which a desired change is seen, and under certain conditions these will then appear in your physical reality. [...]

You are constantly changing the form, the shape, the contour, and the meaning of your physical body and most intimate environment, although you do your best to ignore these constant alterations. On the other hand, we allow them full rein, knowing that we are motivated by an inner stability that can well afford spontaneity and creation, and realizing that spiritual and psychological identity are dependent upon creative change.

[...] It does not belong, for example, to your past. [...] It is the probable God-drama that you choose to perceive. [...]

There are many probable systems of reality, therefore, in which physical data predominates, but such physical probabilities represent but one small portion. [...]

God, therefore, is first of all a creator, not of one physical universe but of an infinite variety of probable existences, far more vast than those aspects of the physical universe with which your scientists are familiar. [...] He is a part of all probabilities.

[...] This imagined god has therefore changed throughout your centuries, mirroring man’s shifting ideas of himself.

[...] You may or may not have your own encounters with past reincarnational selves or probable selves. You may or may not catch yourselves in the act of changing levels of consciousness.

[...] I can feel — I know — that Seth’s going to end his book soon now, probably tonight, and I don’t want it to happen, I guess.” [...]

Christ knew however, clairvoyantly, that these events in one way or another would occur, and the probable dramas that could result. [...]

[...] Christ then changed his mode of behavior, appearing quite often in out-of-body states to his followers. [...]

[...] This involves communicating not only with past personalities in your terms, but future ones. [...] It is a meeting ground in which personalities from any time or place or probable system can communicate with each other in clear terms understood by all.

The material available, however, represents building blocks for many probable systems. [...]

Since past, present, and future do not exist, this is a level of crystal clear communication of consciousness. [...]

[...] The future speaks to the past. [...]

[...] The probable system of reality opens up the nature of the soul to you. It should change current religion’s ideas considerably. [...]

[...] Now the same thing applies to each of your great religions, though as I have said in the past, the Buddhists come closer, generally speaking, to a description of the nature of reality. [...] Not only of your own physical reality, but your own probable physical reality.

PROBABILITIES, THE NATURE OF GOOD AND
EVIL, AND RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM

The chapter heading: “Probabilities, the Nature of Good and Evil, and Religious Symbolism.”

In larger terms, my soul includes my reincarnational personalities, Seth Two, and probable selves. I am as aware of my probable selves, incidentally, as I am of my reincarnational existences. [...]

(We were ready for the session early this evening, for a change. [...]

(9:18.) My own reincarnational personalities, probable selves, and even Seth Two exist within me now, as I exist within them. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] It is a field of concentrated action when you consider it in this light — a powerhouse of probabilities or probable actions, seeking to be expressed; a grouping of nonphysical consciousnesses that nevertheless knows itself as an identity. [...]

[...] Portions of it are retained as “past” physical sense data, but the whole experience returns to its initial direct state.

[...] The soul, in other words, has created a world for you to inhabit, to change — a complete sphere of activity in which new developments and indeed new forms of consciousness can emerge.

As these changes come about, new areas will be activated in the brain to physically take care of them. Physically then, brain mappings will be possible in which past-life memories are evoked. All of these alterations are spiritual changes in which the meaning of religion will escape organizational bounds, become a living part of individual existence, and where psychic frameworks rather than physical ones form the foundations for civilization. [...]

[...] In any given historic religious drama, therefore, the actors may have already appeared on the historic scene in your past, the prophet of today being the traitor of the past drama.

[...] Slayers and victims will change roles as reincarnational memories rise to the surface of consciousness. [...]

[...] That militant quality in man will completely change its nature, and be dispensed with as you know it, when the next Christ personality emerges. [...]

REINCARNATIONAL CIVILIZATIONS,
PROBABILITIES, AND MORE
ON THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL GOD

[...] It will be called: “Reincarnational Civilizations, Probabilities, and More on the Multidimensional God.”

[...] The reincarnational structure is but one facet in the whole picture of probabilities. [...]

[...] There were changes in the physical mechanism. [...]

The next chapter will deal with my past in your terms, and some of those personalities that I have been and have known. At the same time I will make it clear that there is no past, present, or future, and explain that there is no contradiction even though I may speak in terms of past existences. [...]

There will be a chapter on probable gods and probable systems.

[...] We call it the Seth material, and it deals with such topics as the nature of physical matter, time, and reality, the god concept, probable universes, health, and reincarnation. [...]

[...] This source contains past, present, and future information; only the ego experiencing time as we know it. [...]