“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you recall, we mentioned the fact that the dreaming self has its own memories. It has memories of all of its dream experiences. To you this might mean that it has memory of its past, and indeed to you memory itself is dependent upon the existence of a past, or it is meaningless.

To the dreaming self however, past, present and future as such do not exist, and yet it has what you term memory. How can this be?

Again past, present and future are definite realities only to the ego. Memory to the ego presupposes the existence of a past that no longer exists within physical reality. When I say that the dreaming self has memory, therefore, of its dream experiences, I mean that it scans its present existence. It is a simultaneous self.

It must be recognized also that these portions of the self exist in each incarnation. In the materialization of personality through various incarnations, only the ego and the layers of the personal subconscious adopt new characteristics. The other layers of the self retain their past experiences, identity and knowledge.

The ego receives, in fact, much of its stability because of this subconscious retention. Were it not for past experiences in other lives on the part of deeper layers of the self, the ego would find it almost impossible to relate to other individuals, and the cohesiveness of society would not exist.

Learning to some extent is indeed passed on through the genes, bio-chemically, but this is a physical materialization of inner knowledge achieved and retained from past lives. Human beings learn mainly through experience, and the experience is derived from past experience in other existences.

This was simply to lead me up, or to lead Ruburt up, to the number six. I saw the number six twice, which led me to think it was significant. With numbers I use this device, and have in the past, counting aloud to the number that I want.

(The term made me wonder if Seth referred to another physical life for Jane; in the past he has reiterated that our present physical lives are the last for both of us.