“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Through the centuries, however, even while people gained valuable knowledge through experience, they also unfortunately began to lose—or distort—important elements of the inner knowledge that was their heritage. [...]

[...] The changing physical scene throughout the centuries, as you know them, represents the inner images that have flickered through the minds of the individuals who lived within the world through the various ages.

1. In Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality Seth began developing his theory of counterparts — that the larger psychological self, or entity, of each of us manifests not just one physical life in any given century, say, but several, so as to gain that much more experience in a variety of roles involving different ages, nationalities and languages, sexual orientations, family roles, and so forth. [...]

[...] (Pause.) All of the most morbid of nationalistic fantasies that had been growing for centuries, all of the most grandiose celebrations of war as a nation’s inalienable right to seek domination, focused finally in Hitler’s Germany.

[...] We may have known each other, for example, as entirely different people in the fourteenth century, and we may communicate very nicely by discussing those experiences, much as you and your hypothetical childhood friend established rapport by remembering your past.

[...] You had experienced centuries, yet only an hour of your time had passed. [...]

[...] All probabilities flow through it, though one of your moment points may be experienced as centuries, or as a breath, in other probable realities of which you are a part.

Long centuries pass

You have been taught for centuries in one way or another that repression, generally speaking, now, was all in all a natural, good, social and moral requirement, that expression was dangerous and must be harnessed and channeled because it was believed so thoroughly that man’s natural capacities led him toward destructive rather than positive behavior. [...]

Now again, theoretically, it is possible to travel under such circumstances and perceive experiences that would ordinarily take you centuries, physically speaking, and in only a flash of your time.

[...] Many times before Seth has told us he lived a life in Denmark in the sixteenth century.)

[...] The strength behind them would form the world as you know it and sustain it for centuries. [...]

In those terms, the great religions of your civilizations rise from myths that change their character through the centuries, even as mountain ranges rise and fall. [...]

[...] I am indeed an imaginative gentleman, and have been for centuries. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking they had the earth to themselves for many centuries, in that modern man did not compete with them.

Now, you have quite literally put in your time, for centuries. [...]

Carter was a cardinal in the 13th or 15th centuries—offhand, I am not sure which—then creatively unprincipled, comfortably lecherous, but he knew how to deal with politicians. [...]

[...] In certain terms, now, some natural diets of five centuries ago could kill you today, though they lacked any technologically produced chemicals. [...]

[...] An existence in 14th-century Belgium. [...]

[...] I called my version of it my “fourth Roman,” and presented an account of it in Appendix 22; through internal pictures I saw, in Jerusalem in the first century A.D., the violent death of my traitorous Roman-soldier counterpart.

“An idea came to me a few days ago, when I was thinking about my fascination with the time of Henry VIII (in 16th-century England). [...]

(9:27.) For centuries that is the main way in which man dealt with the events of his life or tribe or village.³ Your modern methods of communication are in fact modeled after your inner ones. [...]