“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The further you are removed from so-called historical fact, the greater the fabrication, of course. The true story of identity is vastly complicated. In your terms you do exist in the past, present and future simultaneously. You do have an identity of your own that is never annihilated. On the other hand there are no boundaries to that identity, so that each self is not like a definite unit, always the same. And to some extent one self or identity cannot be equated with any other.

(9:54.) When I use the word “equal,” however, I am not speaking of superiority or inferiority at all. In basic terms, however, you cannot equate one self with another self—or for that matter one life with another life, for the subjective realities of people involve dimensions that do not show physically.

This does not mean that those other lives are subordinate. Other entities might spread their creativity and focus more equally over many lives. But in all cases the entity is simply the part of the self that cannot fit into one life alone. It is not, for example, an alien superself. When you go on a journey you cannot take your home with you—only certain luggage. In physical life, you cannot take your entire entity with you—only the part of it that you call yourself. And you are well-equipped with the proper passports, and inoculated with certain root assumptions.

Most people could not handle a knowledge of future lives in the present. They would always be looking for greener pastures, so to speak, and life would lose that necessary clear focus. You can try to contact future selves, however, simply by trying to do so. It is better to concentrate on the subjective reality involved—that is easier, for if successful you will automatically tune into the future self that “emerged” from your present reality. You can receive quite beneficial advice in such a manner.

The past not only still exists, vital and alive, but it constantly gives forth multitudinous futures, as does your present. Yet each self is couched in an infinite cocoon of being from which it cannot fall, but ever emerge in changing form. If you want a better knowledge of your father’s existence, then try to think of him as a being who happened to be your father, and that will free your concepts of him.

You deal in this area, as in all areas, with probabilities. Ruburt’s body is changing into a more or less normally flexible one. He is pulling that probability toward him. When he is beginning a book, however, he does not think “This is a probable book.” It becomes his book, period. That is because he does not dwell upon possible impediments, and is relatively self-confident.

This simply means that his self-confidence is greater than any doubts he has. In the past his doubts about his body have greatly outweighed his self-confidence, and that is the reason for this material and that given in our last session.