“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Aside from the information given in that chapter, there have been distortions in some past material concerning that life. These were not caused by Ruburt’s feeling about reincarnation. They were simply a result of correlating many details into the correct specific pattern.

Some of the names given, for example, applied to friends rather than to yourselves. The overall picture, the validity of the existence, carried through the distortions, however. I was a spice merchant. You were originally an artist, who turned rather dramatically into a landowner, and against your youthful ways.

The general itinerary of my journeys as given in that session by Ruburt was correct. There were some distortions in other portions of that session, however.

(Long pause at 10:15.) The details that so concern you now are, of course, important, and yet in a larger way it is the deep emotional experience of your life that is “later” remembered. Basically the names and dates are meaningless to the inner self. Therefore in reincarnational data the emotional values will come through more vividly, and with much less distortion.

Now: The reincarnational structure is a psychological one. It cannot be understood in any other terms. The distortions and interpretations that have built up about it are natural enough, considering what seems to be your practical experience with the nature of time.