“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I finally decided that the best way to present the variety of material desired, whether from Seth, Jane, or myself, was in chronological order, letting a composite picture emerge as the work progresses. This system automatically makes room for any references in Volume 1. In actuality the chronology begins long before “Unknown” Reality was started, and continues well beyond the date of its ending, in April 1975. Since the excerpts are still more representative than complete, however, due to the accumulated mass of information available, my own choices enter in: ESP class data are quoted a number of times; included is material summarizing Jane’s own theories about the Seth phenomena, as she worked them out in her recently completed Adventures in Consciousness; but reincarnation, while mentioned often, isn’t stressed in terms of particulars — that is, I refer to Seth’s statements that he, Jane and I led closely involved lives in Denmark in the 1600’s, but those lives aren’t studied per se. Within our ordinary context of linear time I think of reincarnation, even though in Seth’s terms it’s really a simultaneous phenomenon, as being further away, or more removed, from us physical creatures than the more “immediate” psychic connections and mechanics I want to show as linking Seth, Jane, and myself. And also because of that sense of removal, Seth Two¹ is hardly mentioned at all.

(Perhaps I put this appendix together as I did partly because Jane herself isn’t much turned on by reincarnational concepts, although she does like the way Seth insists upon the unlimited attributes of each personality; and within such a “simultaneous” framework there’s plenty of room for probable selves, reincarnational selves, and [added later] counterpart selves.²

(From the 82nd session for August 27, 1964:) When man realizes that he creates his own image now, he will not find it so startling to believe that he creates other images in other times. Only after such a basis [is established] will the idea of reincarnation achieve its natural validity, and only when it is understood that the subconscious, certain layers of it, is a link between the present personality and past ones, will the theory of reincarnation be accepted as fact.

(Jane and I would rather explore specific reincarnational information in an outright book on the subject, and then only after we’d acquired much more personal [and theoretical] material. We do think that in detail, reincarnation, whether it’s seen in ordinary terms or within the “simultaneous” framework espoused by Seth, can be an endless subject.²⁷

[...] Reincarnation had been mentioned by the 2nd session, but since the concept meant little to us we hardly considered the many names that would be involved. [...]

Seth treats his own reincarnational background both generally and specifically, if rather briefly on both counts, in Chapter 22 of Seth Speaks. For the names of three of his past personalities as given in that chapter, see sessions 588–89. [...]