“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“All I know,” Jane said tonight at 8:50, “is that I want to get back to the sessions again. I don’t care whether we get stuff on “Unknown” Reality, or personal material, or what. Just so we get going — I’m always nervous about starting things up again after a layoff….”¹

However, it seems to you that all action in the past is fixed and done, while behavior in the future alone is open to change — so the word “prediction” assumes future action. Basically, the past is as open to change as the future is. When you are dealing with historic events you believe that no prediction is involved. Personally and as a species, you are convinced that there is a one-line series of finished events behind you.

In The Nature of Personal Reality I stated that the point of action occurs in the present.¹⁰ In Adventures in Consciousness Ruburt said, quite properly, that time experience actually splashed out from the present to form an apparent past and future.¹¹

You do this personally in your intimate lives to some degree also, as you view your earlier days. You blot out events that do not fit your present concept of yourself. They literally become nonexistent as far as you are concerned. In such fashion you block out aspects of your own reality — and consciously, at least, cut down on your choices.

(Still in full trance, her eyes very dark Jane stared at me. Then I watched the Seth personality begin to recede, to fade. Jane blinked a few times, and Seth was gone. 11:26 P.M.)

6. For material on the death — and life — of Rooney, see these sources: in Personal Reality, sessions 638–39 in chapters 9 and 10, respectively; in Dialogues, Part 3.

8. In Chapter 10 for Personal Reality, see the 675th session from 11:51. In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, see the 686th session from 10:37.

10. Among the sessions for Personal Reality in which Seth stressed that “the present is the point of power,” see the 657th in Chapter 15.

12. For one of the ways in which Seth explicates the idea that we’re blind to information — or beliefs — that we don’t agree with, see the 617th session for Chapter 3 of Personal Reality.