“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Otherwise his physical dilemmas, individually and worldwide, would have ended in sure catastrophe centuries ago. [...]

[...] The notion of one life at a time, in any time period, is bullshit—the psyche is so rich that it can have more than one life at a time—like your Nabene and Roman lives together, in the first century A.D. But if you tell people that you’ll get them all confused....”

The practical nature of his own dreams was also more apparent, for again, his dreams sent him precise visions as to where food might be located, for example, and for some centuries there were human migrations of a kind that now you see the geese make. [...]

(Long pause at 10:47.) The greater creative drama involved occurred for centuries. [...]

[...] This imagined god has therefore changed throughout your centuries, mirroring man’s shifting ideas of himself.

While the civilization of the Lumanians was highly concentrated, in that they made no attempt to conquer others or to spread out to any great extent in area, they did set out, over the centuries, outposts from which they could emerge and keep track of the other native peoples.

[...] It has taken you centuries to reach your point of technological achievement. [...]

There is an enchanting suggestion, solemnly repeated many times, particularly after the turn of the century: “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”¹

[...] Through the centuries, in your terms, there have been different personalities, some physical and some not, with whom the species identified. [...]

[...] (As one correspondent wrote us: “Seth is also a Hebrew name meaning ‘appointed’ — i.e., the appointed one.”) However, some very early priestly genealogies omit Cain and Abel, and consider Seth as the oldest son of Adam; in the second century A.D., for instance, the Sethites, who were members of a little-known Gnostic sect, thought of Seth, the son of Adam, as the Messiah. [...]

(See Note 1 for descriptions of the [two] unusual mental events I experienced Sunday and today: I may have seen myself as a Roman military officer in the first century A.D.

[...] In the episode of interest here, I saw myself back in the first century A.D.: I was an officer of rather high rank in a Roman legion, and I was aboard a small galley in the Mediterranean Sea. [...]

Could one return to that 12th-century life, even as an observer, what would the traveler find? [...] Interesting question: How would our 20th-century individual react when told by a visitor from the year 2355 (for example) that he or she represented one of our futurian’s “past” lives?

[...] For it’s also contradictory to say, for example, that “I was a serf in the 12th-century Germanic state of Bavaria.” [...]

[...] What a concept, I thought, speculating briefly about the untold damage it must have done to millions of people over the centuries. [...]

[...] The physical sciences pretend that the centuries exist one after the other, while the physicists realize that time is not only relative to the perceiver, but that all events are simultaneous. [...]

[...] Just before you sleep, see yourself as you are, but living in a past or future century — or simply pretend that you were born 10 or 20 years earlier or later. [...]

[...] Yet, strangely, I can consciously accept that my grandmother passed away more than half a century ago easier than I can the fact that my own father and mother have already been dead for seven and five years, respectively.

Christianity for many centuries served as an amazingly creative organizational framework, that expressed the vast complexity of the soul’s reality. [...]

[...] The progression through the centuries would be far more noticeable if you knew all the facts. [...]

[...] Some, had they lived in your century, would have been able to outperform computers (just as some are outperforming computers these days!). In most cases where such accomplishments show themselves, they do so in a child far too young to have learned scientific mathematical procedures to begin with, and often such feats are displayed by people who are otherwise classified as idiots (idiot savants), and who are incapable of intellectual reasoning.

[...] Even without all of the distortions, that formula worked for centuries in large measure. [...]

[...] In reincarnational terms, the Speakers are teaching personalities who reach across the centuries. [...]