“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Remember that reincarnation does not contradict the theory of the spacious present, for such lives within the spacious present are simultaneous. In dreams you journey through inner realities as actually as you walk physically through the matter of the physical world. It is true that the experiences you encounter may not be encountered by another in precisely (underline precisely) the same way, but physical experience is never the same for any two given individuals either.

Seven: The spacious present is here more available to the perceptions.

Elements from past, present and future may be indiscriminately available to you. There is the tendency to judge such inner experience in terms of reliable physical assumptions, this being an error. You may conclude that a given experience is the result merely of subconscious fabrications, simply because the time elements are obviously intermixed, or physical coherence or sequence is not maintained.

Yet you may be straddling time in such an instance, perceiving, say, the room as it existed in the 1700’s, and the street as it exists in your present. These elements may appear side by side. The car may disappear before your eyes, to be replaced by an animal, or the whole street may suddenly turn into a field. This is how dreams work, you may think. This cannot be a legitimate projection anywhere. Yet you may be suddenly perceiving the street, and the field that existed before it, and the images may be transposed one upon the other.

You have completely forgotten the chaos and unpredictable nature it presented to you before learning processes were channeled into specific directions. You learned to perceive reality in a highly specialized fashion.

The unity, you see, is different. Basically perception of the spacious present is naturally available. It is your nervous and physical mechanism which acts as a limiting device, and also as a focusing device. By limiting many otherwise available perceptions it forces you to focus upon what you can perceive with greater intensity.

(Jane said that when Seth talked about our living room and the spacious present, she had some kind of “weird” feeling that involved a concept of the thought. But she couldn’t put it into words.)