“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The weather was very hot, humid and sticky. Often on such occasions Jane doesn’t feel much like having a session, being quite sensitive to weather changes. Tonight she not only did feel like a session, but shortly before it told me that she believed the larger Seth personality, the Seth entity as we call it, would speak.

The various ego structures therefore exist simultaneously. They are entirely outside of any such framework. They are aware of your perception of time, but it means nothing to them. The various egos of any personality do not think of themselves as having existed one before the other.

Even in reincarnation for example, an ego who experienced a Civil War life is now aware of another ego who may have experienced life in the year three thousand. Within the earthly cycle, such knowledge is not transmitted to the physical brain, but it is always known.

It follows then that I am aware of the other Seth personality, and he of me. Because of your time misconceptions you make serious errors whenever you attempt any predictions into life after death, or life within other systems than your own. It is most difficult for you to conceive of an ego who experiences events not in serial form. When any contact is attempted in so-called mediumistic situations, then it is expected that the survival personality will “remember,” in quotes, events as you do; but events no longer exist in that way.

The associative processes determine not only which events have meaning, but also the “order,” in quotes. An event happening say in 1948, of great importance to the sitter, may no longer have any meaning to the survival personality.

(9:01. Jane’s trance had been a good one but she came out fairly easily. She thought the trance had been deeper than usual to cover many distractions: the weather and new rain, traffic noise, a party going on downstairs, etc.

You must understand that in any way your situation, and any that you know of physical reality, is highly artificial. It is the mass creation formed by your inner ideas. The time concept is but one example, and it is responsible for many of your most cherished misconceptions. You must form ideas into physical materialization in order to recognize the force behind the ideas you are learning to use and understand. However such materializations are only necessary at certain levels. The time scheme appears valid only within that framework.

For our friend here (Jane pointed to Emolene), an existence in the land called Greece before it had that name. An existence in 14th-century Belgium. (Pause.) A life in a Spanish environment, with Spanish speaking people but in South America. This in the 1200’s. The personality has often been in a position to work with building, and in their construction, and was instrumental in working out the principles behind the arc (Jane gestured), arch, form.

At one time the personality’s sister was a father to the present personality. Since many of the building plans involved the construction of various kinds of temples, the personality has always been interested in acquiring knowledge concerning the nature of reality. There has been little concern with commerce. There is a need on the present personality’s part to understand its own nature, and to use its abilities constructively. The personality has not come to grips with itself truly, but has the inner persistence and intuitiveness to do so.

(9:43. Jane was again in a very good trance, and took a bit to leave it. Emolene Frazer now left, but before she did she described her present home to us in some detail, since Jane and I have not seen it. The grounds surrounding the house are very elaborate, well and profusely decorated, and reaching for several hundred feet from the road in front to the back border of the property as it meets the Chemung River.

...but they limit the intuitional leaps that can be made otherwise. There will be a general overall organization in any case in our material, but let us not treat subject matter like a fence, with everything put into neat categories. Do you have any comment?

Here I am merely using your terms to make the point. There are such natural things as apples, you see. There are no natural things such as minutes or hours. These are concepts imposed upon reality, but this does not make them real in themselves.