“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you are poor, you chose that reality from many probable ones that did not involve poverty — and that are still open. If you chose illness, again there is a probable reality ready for initiation in which you choose health. If you are lonely there are probable friends you refused to meet in the past, but who are readily available.

These represent the varied probable characteristics from which you have chosen to activate your particular main interest. Out of these attributes, therefore, you chose what you now consider to be your hard-bed reality.

[...] He chose. No one chose for him.

[...] He chose both the time, in your terms, and the method, for reasons of his own.

(Bernice M.: “Regardless of who chose, it was destined that he die.”)

[...] You chose to concentrate on artistic endeavors as you grew and learned through various areas and periods — that is, you tried and enjoyed sports, and writing; and after a while you decided upon the painting self as the particular focus upon which you would build a life.

[...] The childhood camping background served as a rich source material, to be used in any way you chose. [...]

Give us a moment … Your father’s inventiveness would also be used in the same manner, as source material, by whichever self you chose to become. [...]

[...] He chose to stay here to tell you. [...]

He chose to leave when he did, when you would miss him most and question most. [...]

You did not want Ruburt sick, but you did want brakes applied, and he chose the method. He chose the method for various reasons, from his experience. He had seen you drag your feet, applying brakes to a situation; and identifying with you, and not with his mother, his chose the same means.

[...] I have said little about astrology, yet he chose to be born under that earth sign. [...]

[...] He chose to stay here to tell you. [...]

[...] He chose to leave when he did when you would miss him most and question most. [...]

In this life Ruburt chose poverty as a background, a mother who was not physically fit, a broken family. You chose parents who in their way were culturally deprived, ignorant of fine music or literature, and temperamentally poles apart. Then you chose a prime ability, not overly valued by society. [...]

[...] And in particular you chose the conditions of the flood and took part in a joint history.

I will at some time go into the reasons why all of you chose that house and the flood situation, for it fit into your joint and private purposes. [...]

[...] If will and power meant relative immobility but purpose—and purpose was what he had—then in the past he chose that above what he thought of as laxness, relaxation, and physical freedom that might mean frittering away ability, a relaxation in which nothing was accomplished.

Ruburt chose the parents to see the contrast and learn the best way for him in which purpose could be combined with spontaneity, the will with the spirit. [...]

The Christian-Science background with the father was also important, for it was this inner belief of the father that did sustain him, and that inclination of the father and his mother (Mattie) that Ruburt chose in his background to temper his own mother’s beliefs and lead him in our direction. [...]

[...] Because of your past-life connections—and I will see to it that you get this material—he chose to put all his eggs in one basket, so to speak, as you did. But he also chose to divest himself of any distracting family references in later life, as far as his own parents were concerned.

[...] You chose parental circumstances therefore that would presuppose you toward those directions that you had already decided upon.

You chose ahead of time therefore to be driven along certain directions. [...]

It was not predestined, he chose. No one chose for him. [...]

[...] He chose both the time, in your terms, and the method for reasons of his own. [...]

([Florence:] “Regardless of who chose, it was destined that he die.”)

[...] The independence which you have been learning you chose as a challenge and he chose it out of love for you. [...]

[...] You knew this was to happen and you chose the means. [...]

In this life, or rather before incarnating in it, the personality then chose to purposely minimize the intellectual area; not, now, to punish himself, but to understand in and through an exaggerated form, the experience of those far less mentally gifted than himself.

[...] He did not choose to probe lightly or delicately, for example, various areas of experience, but chose instead to intensify each life.

His mother chose a reality that seems incredibly tragic and painful from the outside looking in. [...]

She also helped provide a background that Ruburt wanted and chose. [...]

To some extent or another you chose abilities ahead of time that would at least partially meet conflict with the society in which you were born. [...]

[...] You chose challenges, then, because despite it all your personalities are the kind that set up such life situations to begin with. [...]

[...] You chose to grow, to experiment, and to face whatever issues were involved. [...]

[...] You chose your environments, your interests, your families, friends, and associates forming bit by bit the details that would become the pictures of your lives.

[...] To mix your purposes with the conventional family life would have been most difficult, so you chose situations that left you free until you met—that is, of property, children, or important ties.

[...] You examined a probability, in other words, and chose another.

[...] Some of these people you also know in the life that you chose.

[...] Therefore you are aware subconsciously of your own future, since you chose it.

(“You chose your father in this life because in many ways you were like him as Nebene. And I chose my mother, who turned out crippled, for similar reasons, I guess. [...]

[...] The two of you, now, chose that aspect of your lives together in this life, to help you understand the meaningful relationship between spontaneity as connected with the emotions and creativity, and discipline as connected with the intellectual: to feel and understand the creative tension that connects them both, to learn the personal aspects of emotional relationships as they affect others, and the reflection of the emotions into creative endeavor. [...]

[...] If he so chose, he would also feel the past amd future essence of each living thing within his range.”

(“His personality chose this background, didn’t it?”)

The overall self chose the background. [...]

[...] He cannot resent the environment nor his parent, since he chose both. [...]

In this existence however the personality of its own free will chose to understand in a different context, and work out problems faced so poorly in the earlier life. [...]

His wife chose to solve several problems this time, rather than string them out. [...]

[...] They chose different ways because of their backgrounds. [...]