“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

One of the main root assumptions of your popular world has been that the future does not exist in the present. Religion deals with the idea of an afterlife, again, a future event. Even those who accept reincarnation, again, usually believe that the past is finished and the future yet to come. In a way, the idea of past reincarnations often gives a feeling of support of past lives accomplished.

The idea of future lives brings into consideration certain emotions—man’s fear of the future, for he is often afraid of what tomorrow will bring. Again, a future life presupposes death in the present one. That idea of death usually serves as an effective block against such future explorations.

As a matter of fact, as mentioned many times, the past itself is not finished. In a manner of speaking, future lives are not “there” as completed entities to be grasped, either. It is most difficult to explain, since all lives are being creatively formed simultaneously. You do have “future selves.” In your terms those selves often give you information, advice, and inspiration, planting in their own pasts the events that “will” bring about their present. Period.

Any life is a future one according to your framework, or any life is a past one according to your framework. It is, therefore, the focus of your attention that delineates your time period, and provides a psychological stance from which you will then view all other selves, or all other experiences of your entity. Your world is presently based so upon the ideas of cause and effect that precognition is frowned upon. The idea of a knowledge of future lives becomes even more threatening from a cultural, religious, and scientific viewpoint.

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.

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.

(10:50.) When I constantly say the same things, they are important. Therefore, whenever Ruburt is upset, I want him to return to the present natural data. This particularly applies to times when he is worrying about what might happen, or how he might perform in the future.