“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Free choice is always involved. The purpose is always knowledge and development, rather than punishment, self-punishment. The woman, in a past life, was once a man (pause), Italian, in a hill village. We will try to fill you in on times and dates and locations later.

This father had a later life, and a very successful one also in Italy, in a town badly bombed in the Second World War. Here he was a woman of some artistic ability, the mother of two sons, one who had been connected with him in the past.

This time he plays that part and is completely immersed in it. There are connections. (Long pause.) John was the man with whom the daughter left. (Pause.) Now. (Pause.) John’s wife loves him, and has been made subconsciously to see the good points in his personality. In the past he hated the man who took away the daughter.

Through the change of roles, Peg now gains insight on the past failures, and also helps her present husband, indeed, to become more contemplative, and to seek for answers to questions that he would not have asked otherwise. She is adding to his development, and working out very grievous flaws that existed in her own personality in the past.

The problem is a challenge set up by the entity for one of its personalities, but the outcome is left up to the individual. This was the major stumbling block, the last major one for this personality. Other lives had been fulfilling, but the personality had never set for itself (pause) any position in the past that was not one of strength.

The illness itself was secondary. One does not choose illness, per se, for a life situation. In order for the personality to see its own past activities clearly, it felt that it had to adopt a position of dependency this time.

It should be mentioned that in such cases the inner self, as divorced from the more accessible subconscious, is aware of the situation, and finds release in very valid terms (pause), through frequent inner communications, whereby past successes are remembered, and to some extent reexperienced. The dream state becomes an extremely vivid time for these activities, and they are not imaginary.

We will give you some information concerning his past lives at another session. But both of them have set themselves to learn compassion, patience, and forbearing. They chose different ways because of their backgrounds. In one way he has been too precise, and in another too impetuous. They are both learning from each other.