“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(In all the sessions Jane has given, this is but the third time that Seth has referred to past-life connections involving historical figures. In each case the connections were rather tenuous.

In this life, or rather before incarnating in it, the personality then chose to purposely minimize the intellectual area; not, now, to punish himself, but to understand in and through an exaggerated form, the experience of those far less mentally gifted than himself.

He is able to give his emotional abilities far greater freedom. In all of his existences he has been of an extravagant nature, impetuous, choosing extravagantly-opposite experiences. He did not choose to probe lightly or delicately, for example, various areas of experience, but chose instead to intensify each life.

He is not unhappy, particularly if no one reminds him of what they think he is missing. She must have faith that the life was chosen for a reason, and then the reasons will become at least understandable to her.