“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your ego gains assurance from what seems to be the memory of its immediate past. A man who loses memory of past events feels insecure and lost, but other types of personality gestalts operate far differently. Instead of a time sequence that governs or seems to govern thought, mental activity of any kind, and overt action, you have associative processes, offshoots, and possibilities. To some extent you can gain an idea of this through an examination of your own stream of consciousness. But the comparison is highly superficial, for here too continuity reigns, even though associations are given greater play.

The point is that as something that comes and goes and passes, that brings into existence and destroys, has no such reality outside of your own system. Now your own system includes not only your physical universe as you know it, but also any personalities, living or dead in your terms, who are physically oriented.

The spacious present is much more a vivid reality to those outside of your system. Your time seems marked, individually, by birth and death. When these are known for what they are, when the personality can change form at will, such quote “timing” is meaningless.

As a personality learns to use its abilities it becomes more aware of complexity, and able to operate as an identity within it. Since I have known your time it is meaningful for me, though it no longer hampers me. I merely understand its reality for you. Other psychological structures have not been initially aware of this peculiar relationship between your physical framework and your time concept.

It is very difficult for them to understand your ideas of past, present and future. Now give us a moment. (No real pause.) In other dimensions, or if you prefer at other stages of development, the multidimensional personality is aware of its prime identity, and is also aware simultaneously of personality offshoots that it has sent into many realities, into probable systems, as it pursues all of the probable acts and creations inherent in its nature.

Then you will move on to other systems. Before we take our break, tell Ruburt that I will look in on your Boston friend telepathically, and on another level I will give what help I can. I have, for that matter, already been there once this evening. You may take your break.

Now he knows what I know, though some experiences that are uniquely mine, he can never know as I know them. When I know all he knows, then symbolically speaking I will be where he is—but then also symbolically speaking, he will be gone.

From what I have told you it is obvious that there can be memory of the future as well as memory of the past.

They also emerge within realities, and can attain consciousness superior, in further developments, than that presently known by man.

(10:35. Jane’s trance had been good; she retained little memory of what she had said since first break.)