“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now some individuals, some personalities, prefer a life organization bound about past, present, and future in a seemingly logical structure, and these persons usually choose reincarnation. Others naively prefer to experience events in an extraordinarily intuitive manner, with the organization being provided by the associative processes. These will choose a system of probabilities for their next main endeavor.

You may decide upon another reincarnation. You may decide to focus instead upon your past life, using it as the stuff of new experience, as mentioned previously creating variations of events as you have known them, making corrections as you choose. Or you may enter another system of probability entirely; and this is quite apart from a reincarnational existence. You will be leaving all thoughts of continuity of time behind you in such a case.

Some, finished with reincarnation, may choose to reenter the cycle acting as teachers, and in such cases some recognition of higher identity is always present. Now there is an in-between stage of relative indecision, a midplane of existence; a rest area, comparatively speaking, and it is from this area that most communication from relatives occurs. This is usually the level that is visited by the living in projections from the dream state.

Before the time of choosing, however, there is a period of self-examination, and your full “history” becomes available to you. You understand the nature of the entity, and you are advised by other portions of that entity, more “advanced” than yourself.

[...] The time of choosing may happen almost immediately, in your terms, or it may be put off for a much longer period while training is carried on. The main impediments standing in the way of the time of choosing are, of course, the faulty ideas harbored by any given individual.

The time of choosing is dependent upon the condition and circumstances of the individual following transition from physical life. [...]

Then they are ready for the time of choosing. [...]

Either state, however, puts off the time of choosing and the next existence. [...]

(8:45.) Some, for example, choose to isolate various characteristics in a given life, and work on these almost exclusively, basing a given existence upon, say, one main theme. [...]

[...] Nevertheless the development does occur, but the individuals choose the way in which they prefer this development to take place.

[...] So in the time of choosing, personalities decide upon the ways in which they will develop in the following incarnation.

Some will choose progression at an easier rate and in a more balanced manner. [...]

[...] Yet in all instances not only do children choose their parents ahead of time, but parents choose their children, of course.

Someone else may choose to focus upon intellectual achievement to such a degree that he shuts out all true closeness, and though he can accept a permanent relationship, he will not experience the emotional richness that others may derive from a much briefer encounter. Therefore each of you choose — ahead of time, in your terms — the kind of framework through which you will contend with this life situation. [...]

[...] From the outside it seems impossible that anyone would choose such a background, such a highly restricted or even painful situation in which to live. [...]

[...] This is done for many different reasons (just as people choose to be ill in this life, regardless of the duration involved). [...]

[...] The awakening mentioned earlier, then, found man rousing from his initial “dreaming condition,” faced suddenly with the need for action in a world of space and time, a world in which choices became inevitable, a world in which he must choose among probable actions—and from an infinite variety of those choose which events he would physically actualize. [...]

[...] This immediately brought about the importance of choosing between one action and another, and made acts of decision highly important.

[...] He can only move, and he can only choose therefore to move, physically speaking, in certain directions in space and time. [...]

[...] You choose to use the freedom of your time in certain ways, and you are always free to choose. [...]

[...] It certainly seems to you, or to many of you, that most people would always choose to be born healthy and whole, in an excellent environment, of parents with loving natures and genetic excellence — and in other words to grow up healthy, wealthy, and wise.

This is not an uncaring universe or nature operating, but portions of consciousness who choose at whatever levels certain experiences that nourish the living environment, and bring satisfactions that may never show on life’s surface.

I am not advising that malformed infants be killed, but I do want to point out that even in those most severe cases there is meaning in such conditions, and the consciousness involved then chooses another kind of experience.

[...] In most instances they choose quick deaths.

In each case, however, the point of power is the present, and from that moment you choose which you, and which world. The experience of a country is the cumulative result of the choice of each individual in it, so as you choose your own circumstances you affect each other person within your country and your world.

[...] From a given field of action, then, you choose those happenings that will be physically materialized.

[...] You will choose from your previous experience all of those events that reinforce your conscious beliefs, and so ignore those that do not; the latter may even seem to be nonexistent.

If you learn to get hold of this feeling of power now, you can use it most effectively to alter your life situation in whatever way you choose — again, within those limitations set by your creaturehood. [...]

What neither of you realized is the acuteness with which you choose the situations. [...] Granted there are other reasons for it, nevertheless you choose to begin with a situation in which dancing is not the norm, where it requires on anyone’s part particular effort, and a spotlighted situation.

[...] Ruburt knows how much he could make if he wanted to through classes; and even in choosing to have only one per week, a choice is involved that earlier did not exist. [...]

In this book I will try to tell you what goes on behind the scenes — to show you the ways in which you choose your daily physical programs, and to describe how those personal choices mix and merge to form a mass reality. [...] You can choose to buy or not buy a product whose virtues are being praised. [...]

[...] Second, if one keeps in mind Seth’s ideas about simultaneous time, that basically all happens at once [even considering Seth’s own acknowledgment that time “…is therefore still a reality of some kind to me”], then it hardly matters how long a break transpires between particular sessions; there is no real separation; dictation on any subject or project can be resumed whenever all involved — Jane, Seth, and myself — choose, and it will be as though the break never existed. [...]

[...] I have used television as an analogy at various times, and I would like to do so again, to show the ways in which physical events are formed, and to try to describe the many methods used by individuals in choosing those particular events that will be personally encountered.

[...] Your job is simply to choose the programs of your choice on any evening. [...]

[...] To do so it chooses between actions, for the very choice, or act of choosing, and ability to do so, represents the nature of identity. [...]

[...] The whole personality must be led to choose those actions which are of the most benefit to itself as a whole, and its integrity as a unit is determined by its choices in this matter.

[...] The very effectiveness and nature of the personality, and health of the personality, is dependent upon the manner in which it handles its ability to choose between various kinds of action.

[...] The exaltations and triumphs of the personality are as much a result of this ability to choose between actions, as are its illnesses and disasters. [...]

[...] It is as if you choose to work for a day in the slums. It would be ridiculous for you to choose to do this, and then say to yourself, “Why did I choose to work in the slums? [...]

[...] There are banks of activity from which you can draw or choose not to draw.

[...] The time of choosing is somewhat more complicated if the last reincarnational cycle, in your terms, is completed.

When the time of choosing comes, therefore, the choices available are far more diverse than those offered or possible to personalities who must still reincarnate. [...]

There are also those who choose to be healers, and of course this involves far more than healing as you are familiar with it. [...]

[...] Others choose lines of development that are particularly suited to their own characteristics.

[...] Now you are also the receiver of other such signals coming from other probabilities that are connected with your own, but you choose which of those probable actions you want to make real or physical in your system, as others also have the freedom of choice in their systems.

[...] The event that you choose will automatically be a probable event, which did in fact happen, though it is not the event you chose to perceive in your given probable past.

(10:24.) Telepathically, if the process is done correctly, your idea will also affect any people who were connected with the original event, though they can choose to reject as well as accept your version.

[...] The nature of the thoughts and feelings you originate and those that you habitually or characteristically receive set a pattern, so you will choose from those probable futures those events that will physically become your experience. [...]

[...] It is therefore filled with impatience as far as existence upon other planes are concerned; and therefore if it developed upon your plane initially, it will not choose to initiate anew there, but will choose other planes of activity.

[...] It can choose to remain what it is, one ego. [...]

Most egos do indeed choose this course for a while. [...]

It may choose to return to the same plane as a great originator, using knowledge that it receives from the inner self to make lasting and original innovations upon that plane, according to its interests, abilities and capacity. [...]

[...] You choose. [...] This presupposes inner knowledge and calculations, for you must be aware of the probabilities in order to choose from them. [...]

[...] It is you who choose among the probabilities, and from these you form the given collection that compose any particular event.

[...] On other existences however you choose other probabilities. [...]

[...] It cannot choose to read. The plant cannot choose to walk down the street. The chicken and the plant can choose to live or die, however — rather important issues in the existence of any entity. They can choose to like or dislike their environment, and to change it according to their individual circumstances. [...] They cooperatively choose the forms that they take.

[...] If you want to speak in terms of God, then from that infinite gestalt you receive the energy to create, but because you have free will, you create what you choose and you learn through experience. [...]

([Kyle:] “Then we choose our lows and our lows are necessary?”)

[...] Sometimes you choose them for purposes of growth. [...]

I do it for several reasons because that is the way I am, in the guise that I choose to use in my communication and also to get everyone over the idea that so-called spirits must be sweet-faced, quiet, sober and dignified. [...]

That probable self can become a whole entity if it so chooses. Now some selves do not choose to become entities. [...]

[...] It is according to when you come into the picture, and what you choose to observe, and what part of the play you decide to observe. [...]

([Ned:] “That might be a reason why there are more entities around now, more are choosing to reincarnate?”)

Only those who choose to take on the responsibility of teaching will return. [...]

[...] Notwithstanding I can speak through her if I so choose. [...]

You may call me whatever you choose. [...]

(“If you choose, can you use any healing powers in regard to us?”)