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[...] There was a Spanish life in the 13th century, and one in what is now the state of California in the very early 1800’s. You have been twice a woman, three times a man.

[...] There was a Spanish life in the 13th century and one in what is now the state of California in the very early 1800’s. You have been twice a woman, three times a man. [...]

What I am telling you has been told throughout the centuries and the people have not listened. [...]

[...] although in my terms, more than fifty centuries of your time has elapsed since your seemingly present existence.

For some time, in your terms, the sleepwalkers remained more or less at that level of activity, and for many centuries they used the surface of the earth as a kind of background for other activity.Their real life was what you would now call the dreaming one. [...]

[...] After forms were fully physical, however, all species operated as sleepwalkers for many centuries, though on the scale that existed then the passage of time was not considered in the same fashion. [...]

[...] When I speak of time, I do not merely refer to other centuries as you think of them. [...]

Between each ticking of the clock
Long centuries pass
In universes hidden from our own.

[...] I have also, however, been one of the ignorant masses, in your terms, who listened to the ringing through the centuries. I have been taken in by every kind of con game that the centuries have known and what you have forgotten is that so have you. [...]

(Pause.) In your terms, the rhythm of some kinds of consciousness would seem exceedingly slow, so that a century might pass between one perception and the next. [...]

[...] With your theories of guilt and punishment you often imagine that you are hampered in this existence by guilts collected in the last life — or worse, accumulated through the centuries.

[...] You cannot confine a personality that you “were” to a particular century that is finished and deny it other fulfillments, for even now it exists and has fresh experience. [...]

[...] You have been in this room for centuries and while you sit here civilizations have grown together and blown apart. [...] The selves are new but you have sat here for centuries, and in your aliveness springs the creativity from which all things are born and the joy and vitality that gives life to all worlds. [...]

[...] In this century several issues came to the forefront of American culture: the exteriorization of organized religion, which became more of a social rather than a spiritual entity, and the joining of science with technology and moneyed interests. [...]

[...] Usually such people were joined by common interests, a sense of honor, and there was no retaliation to be feared in this century.

[...] Jane was a woman medium in Boston a century or so ago, according to Seth, and possessed clairvoyant knowledge of her own death, at 82 or 83, from cancer.

Now I bid you good evening, and when you realize that you have been many people and that you are many people, then you will realize that you need not think so in terms of age, for you are as much now the young woman that you were back in Naples in the 14th century as the man that you now think you are, and you are not bounded by what you think of as your present age. [...]

Now in the 14th century in what is now called Spain there was a family unit and this was the father (Lawrence) and this was the wife (Ron) and this was the child (Mark) and they have met, in your terms, after many years. [...]

[...] Mass religious movements have for centuries fulfilled that purpose, in giving man some plan to be followed. [...]

(The Crusades consisted of a series of military expeditions sent out by the Christian powers in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, to recover the Holy Land from the Moslems. [...]

Scientific truths have always been rewritten through the centuries. [...]

[...] The ego is not what it was centuries ago, and it will not be the same centuries from now. [...]

[...] In man’s very early history, however, and in your terms for centuries after the “awakening,” as described in our book, people lived in good health for much longer periods of time—and in certain cases they lived for several centuries.¹ No one had yet told them that this was impossible, for one thing. [...]

[...] That was my first thought when Seth told us that in ancient times certain people had “lived for several centuries.” [...]

[...] This is also the reason why the plays of Shakespeare have endured the centuries. [...]

The man was an acquaintance of yours in a life many centuries ago. [...]

(In the 3rd session, December 6,1963, Frank Watts told Jane and me that we had lived lives in Mesopotamia, our first, in the 4th century BC. [...]

12. And added two weeks or so later: I see connections between the “centuries of inactivity” that Seth describes in this (708th) session, and certain unique psychic abilities of Jane’s — namely, those involving “massiveness” and “long sound.” In Volume 1, see not only Session 681 between 10:22 and 11:47 for data on one of her massive experiences, but that session’s accompanying Appendix 3. Then in this section of Volume 2, see both Note 9 and Appendix 19 for the 712th session, concerning material on Jane’s long-sound trances; during one of these it could theoretically take her a week — or a century — of our time to pronounce just one syllable of one word.

[...] Generally, those alive in this century chose a particular kind of orientation. [...]

[...] In systems different from your own, there are realities in which physical organisms are activated after what would seem to you to be centuries of inactivity¹² — again, when the conditions are right. [...]

[...] When I wondered if I was right in thinking it likely that Seth’s papal incarnation took place in the fourth century, Jane said she “got” the year A.D. 325. [...]