“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The test object was among other papers that we cleaned up at the house, with the intention of mailing them to Mr. Birch’s new address in North Carolina; later we learned this wasn’t necessary and the papers lay forgotten in my file until I came across them the other day. As far as I know Jane never did see this specific item among the papers. I sealed it in the usual double envelope after placing it between two pieces of board.

The past exists as a series of electromagnetic connections, held in the physical brain on the one hand, but it also consists of the same sort of realities retained in the nonphysical mind. These electromagnetic connections can be changed. The present exists as a series of electromagnetic connections in both the brain and the mind, and this is the only reality which you are justified in giving to your present.

And you are more free than you imagine to completely alter many aspects of your own past. If you say that the future is dependent upon the past, therefore, you must also say that the past is dependent upon the future. Once more, the past was never an independent, concrete object existing apart from the perceiving participator; for he made his past, and its only reality exists in the electromagnetic connections within his own organic and psychic structure.

We are not getting involved here in the free will or predestination question, though we have spoken about it, and we shall discuss it thoroughly in connection with time in general. Suffice it to say that it is more than possible for an individual to react in the past to an event in the future which may never occur.

Now. The inner self exists in quite a different fashion than that seen by Dunne. For the inner self can indeed perceive events that will occur after physical death. It is not, and never was, imprisoned by ego time. Its perceptions of other times are merely inhibited by the ego. The inner self can perceive events that will occur to itself after physical death, and it also can see events that will occur in which it is not involved.

I seem to have the impression of the word Avon as being part of the location, or as indicating the location, and perhaps Stratsford. Perhaps the ring came from a shop somewhere about this location, or events began here at this affair which would end up with the giving of the ring. (Long pause.)

Tumult, meaning noise. In parenthesis now for Ruburt’s impression: (the interior of a trailer, and the country.)

(“Tumult, meaning noise.” referred, Jane said, to the traffic noise we became sharply aware of while working about the Birch house. Although situated on a hillside, the traffic noise seemed to roll up at us, and we used this as a reason for not buying the house. Seth said this was rationalization on our parts. See the sessions referred to on page 212.

I will shortly end our session.

Unless you have any questions for me I will end the session.

(End at 10:51. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed. Her pace had been rather slower than usual. She said Seth had been quite prepared to continue on inverted time.)