“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For one thing, you are not dealing with one linear self. The self is indeed multidimensional, and the driving force behind the self does not reside in the ego or in what you refer to as the subconscious.

Now I mean this literally. Reality is on the one hand the product of perception. On the other hand that which is, is always present as the basis for any perception. That which is perceives itself, you see. The unitary self is basically an illusions and yet individuality is no illusion.

The study of dreams has been held back immeasurably because past-life memories have been stubbornly ignored. Reincarnational material usually discusses various existences as occurring one before the other. I emphasize strongly once more that the concept of continuity in terms of time is highly erroneous.

In the spacious present there are no such terms. Other selves, reincarnated within the physical system as physical creatures, experienced time as you do, as a series of moments strung out one before the other. Memories in dreams and in the trance state are usually already censored. As physical creatures alone you cannot remember the future. Therefore only past lives are ever recalled. In the dream state however what would appear to you as future lives are already familiar. To the inner senses all of these existences are simultaneous.

I told you at one time that birth was a greater shock than death. Some personalities react strongly against the enforced dependency. Others embrace it gladly.

Writing on one side. The back, I believe, and something relating to images on the front. On the back I mean handwriting. Steps. Ruburt thinks of an old photograph of himself, with his dog. And connects this with his father.

(Break at 9:55. Jane had spoken rapidly, her eyes closed, the envelope held up to her face practically the whole time. She had one image which will be mentioned in place. Seth returned and helped us out on a few connections, but in the meantime we made our own.

(“Writing on one side. The back, I believe, and something relating to images on the front. On the back I mean handwriting. Steps. Ruburt thinks of an old photograph of himself, with his dog. And connects this with his father.” Again Seth helps out here after break. We think this data stems partly from the image Jane had of herself earlier, and that two ideas are mixed up here. There is a Baltimore connection, in that Baltimore is mentioned on the pepper can, as explained; also, Jane has a photo of herself taken on a set of the typical white Baltimore stone steps, with her dog, Mischa, now dead.

(This would be a different photo, it seems, than the one of Jane and her dog in Baltimore.)

One note here. We shall be continuing our discussion of human personality and its composition, along with that which is, for they are inseparable.