“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Present actions can change future events that would otherwise occur. But when this is admitted, then we must admit also that present events can alter the past, for there is no element in the past that has a different structure or composition or characteristic, that is not present in the future.

Time does not have certain characteristics when you view it as past, or when you view it as future, or when you view it as present. Any seeming difference between the past and the future is simply due to your own perception. [...]

[...] You think of a steady progression into the future. [...]

In an inverted time system the momentum is recognized and it is also taken advantage of, in that it is utilized by individual consciousness, so that your so-called present, past and future can be viewed as existing in a spacious now. [...]

[...] Without that pause — in which man can remember past in the present, and envisage a future — natural guilt would have no meaning. Man would not be able to recall past acts, judge them against the present situation, or imagine the future sense of guilt that might result.

Natural guilt is also highly connected with memory, and arose hand in hand with mankind’s excursion into the experience of past, present and future. [...]

Any previous acts that had aroused feelings of natural guilt were to be avoided in the future. [...]

[...] Any violation against nature would bring about a feeling of guilt so that when a like situation was encountered in the future, man would, in that moment of reflection, not repeat the same action.

[...] If you say that the future is dependent upon the past, therefore, you must also say that the past is dependent upon the future. [...]

[...] Remembering what you now know about the nature of time, you should know that the apparent boundaries between past, present and future are only illusions, caused by the amount of action you can physically perceive. Therefore, it is more than possible to react in the past to an event that has not yet occurred, to be influenced by your own future.

[...] You perceived this portion of the probable future in that present, reacted to it; and the probable transformation of yourselves into those images did not occur. Because the past, present and future exist simultaneously however, there is no reason why you cannot react to an event whether or not it happens to fall within the small field of reality which you usually observe and participate in.

[...] You take it for granted that present action can alter the future, but present actions can also alter the past.

[...] Your future changes as the past does. Since precognition deals with future events, it is here that the issue [of changing time] shows itself.

[...] On another layer, it represented the knowledge that a future endeavor would at first seem to be two separate ones — two accomplishments, but on later examination, it will be seen that they are unified. [...]

[...] It didn’t occur to me that these two manuscripts could have anything to do with the dream interpretation because they were in the present rather than in the future. [...]

[...] Was it a warning of a future event? [...]

I have explained how at certain times a definite future may be seen, and how at other times a probable future. [...] These tend to form a more or less definite future, all psychic forces rushing toward it. [...]

[...] Live every day to its fullest, and do not be a slave to your hopes for the future. If you do not learn to enjoy today you will not enjoy the future no matter what it may bring.

[...] Important to his health and future well-being.

[...] I believe there may be a change in the future for you, involving your area of employment. [...]

[...] (Smile, lighting cigarette.) Was there something your future self had forgotten? Did the future self request information, and did this request cause the present self, you see, to make an actual and legitimate projection into the future?

[...] It is possible in form two to project to a future event (eyes now open wide and steady, very dark) in which you will be involved, and by an act that you make in the projection, alter the course that this future will take. [...]

Such an action would therefore appear to happen twice—once in your present, and once in your future, you see. But in the future (smile)you would be the one whose course is altered by this traveling self from the past.

(Eyes open.) In any case this future self of yours heeds what you say. Now, in the actual future you are the self who one way or another, you see, hears the voice of his past self. [...]

Now, you also have the memory of your future existences, for time does not exist as it seems to you now, and a portion of you is aware of your future as it is aware of your past. [...] And so your legends are not only made of your past but they are also weaved from your future, in your terms, and all of these are interwoven even with your flesh. So that if all physical knowledge were taken from you, all the knowledge that you have learned since birth in this life, and that is impossible, but if it were possible still within you would always be the inner knowledge not only of your own private past and future, but of the private past and future of your kind and of your species. [...]

[...] And yet no knowledge can be removed from you and no sense of your identity, past, present or future, can be divided from you and as you yourself do the dividing. [...]

([Joel:] “We are continuing to make them now and in the future as well?”)

It was you who projected them into the future. [...]

Now your time, your past, present and future, as you conceive of them, would be experienced entirely as present to many of these other personality structures. However your past, present and future would be experienced entirely and completely as past, to still other personality structures.

[...] Past, present and future appear highly convincing and logical when there must be a lapse of time between each perceived experience.

You may consider past, present and future then as a single-line delineation of experience in your terms, the line however continuing indefinitely. [...]

[...] Self A, now on thread A, would not be aware in his present, of the quote “future” selves on the other threads. [...]

The future — the probable future — is being altered in the same way, of course. [...]

[...] Since basically past and future exist at once, you are at the same time dangerously constructing your future along the same lines.

[...] Imagine your future from the power point of the present. In such a way at least you are not using the past to reinforce your limitations, or projecting them into the future. [...]

The question, “What is wrong with me?” will only lead you to create further limitations, and to reinforce those that you do have, through exaggerating such activities in the present and projecting them into the future.

[...] An action of the present in your terms cannot be based or caused by an action in the past, and neither action can be the cause of a future action in a basic reality where neither past nor future exist.

[...] In actuality there is only a spacious present, so spacious that it cannot be explored all at once in your terms, hence your arbitrary division of it into larger rooms of past, present and future.

[...] This gives you also the illusion of past and future, and to you it appears that the present is a fleeting, almost ashen illusion in itself, beyond any true remembrance and beyond the reach of any but nostalgic recall. [...]

[...] But as the walls of your house are experienced by your outer senses, and serve to protect you against other camouflage materializations, even those of wind and rain and cold, so do the walls of past, present and future, erected by you as a different kind of camouflage pattern, protect you from inner forces and realities with which you are not as yet equipped to deal.

[...] Project yourself into a satisfying future. Remind yourself that the future is indeed there if you want it, and that you can grow into that future as easily as you grew from the past into the present.

[...] They remind themselves that the planet is overpopulated, and project into the future the most dire of disasters, man-made and natural.

[...] If they were isolated in spatial terms, they extended their imaginations and to some extent their lives and emotions both backward into the past and ahead into the future in ways that modern psychology has made most difficult. [...]

[...] The ordinary person, for example, in the western world cannot relate to a Darwinian past in that same fashion, and psychology robs him of any personal extension in the future after death, so in practical life most modern people have freedom of extension in space but less in time. [...]

[...] A lifetime, of whatever length, seemed longer then than it does now, for it was psychologically lengthened by that rich extension into both the future and the past. [...]

[...] Your life seems to have no past behind it or future ahead of it, so identity itself seems foreshortened. [...]

[...] The future was blocked, practically speaking (long pause), to preserve freedom of action and to encourage physical exploration, curiosity, and creativity. With memory, however, mental projections into the future were of course also possible so that man could plan his activities in time, and foresee probable results: “Ghost images” of the future probabilities always acted as mental stimuli for physical explorations in all areas, and of all kinds.

[...] Basically, the neurological structure responds to both past and future data. [...]

[...] The cells still reacted to these otherwise neglected pulses, as they needed data from both the past and future to maintain the body’s balance in “the present.” [...]

While the cells required future and past data, and used it to form from that invisible tension the body’s present corporal reality, the same kind of information could be a threat then to the ego consciousness, which could be overwhelmed. [...]

You can know what happened in the past and have histories, because according to the rules of the game that you accepted, you believe that the past, but not the future, can be perceived. You could have histories of the future in the present, if the rules of the game were different. [...]

There are then, obviously, probable futures and probable presents. I am trying to discuss this in your terms, since basically, you must understand, the words “past,” “present,” and “future” are no more meaningful as far as true experience is concerned than are the words “ego,” “conscious,” or “unconscious.”

Though this thought-image usually is not seen by others, it is quite possible that in the future scientific instruments may perceive it. [...]

[...] The future appears as clearly as the past. [...]

[...] Children’s games are always “in the present” — that is, they are immediately experienced, though the play events may involve the future or the past. [...] If you want to sense the motion of your psyche, it is perhaps easiest to imagine a situation either in the past or the future, for this automatically moves your mental sense-perceptions in a new way.

A certain amount of leeway in space and time lingers, for even biologically the child is innately equipped with a “forevision” that allows it some “unconscious” view of immediate future events that forewarn it, say, of danger. [...]

[...] That imagination allows him to plan in the present for what might occur in the future.

[...] 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. [...]

As I have mentioned many times, cellular comprehension deals with probabilities and encompasses future and past, so at that level of activity time as you understand it does not exist. [...] You might wonder if your aunt will take an anticipated journey to Europe next year, and that thought might give birth to images of an imagined future. [...]

(11:17.) While your future can on occasion be correctly perceived ahead of time by a gifted psychic, the future is too plastic for any kind of systematized framework. [...]

[...] Pretend that the future one came before the past one.

[...] Try your hand at predicting future events. [...]

[...] It has absolutely nothing to do with whatever future choice you may make. It is aware of such future choices simply because the camouflage future does not exist for it.

[...] Also, the inner ego is aware of so-called future decisions not because he forces such decisions upon the outer ego but simply because the future as such does not exist to the inner ego, and therefore he can perceive where the outer ego cannot.

[...] It is regrettable, and yet I can give you a checking method that should be used in the future, to check any material in which you find distortions of any kind.

[...] If there is any doubt in the future, for one thing check the portion of the material in which the doubtful statement is made. [...]

There are in your terms, then, unlimited probable future events for which you are now setting groundworks. 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 goes without saying then that probable selves exist in your “future” as well as your past. [...]

Because there are bleed-throughs and interconnections, it is possible for you to tune into a “future event,” say of an unfortunate nature, an event for which you are headed if you continue on your present course. [...]

(10:30.) So can a child then in a dream receive such communications from a probable future self, of such a nature that its life is completely changed. [...]

It is possible for you to project to a future event in which you will be involved and by an act that you make in the projection, alter the course that this future will take. Such an action would therefore appear to happen twice, once in your present and once in your future. But in the future, you would be the one whose course is altered from this traveling self from the past.

[...] In any case, your future self heeds what you say. Now in the actual future you are the self who hears the voice of a past self, perhaps in a dream, or perhaps in a projection into the past.

In the first form, it is possible to perceive the past, present or future on a limited basis. [...]

[...] In it, it is possible to travel beyond your solar system, and to perceive the past, present and futures of other systems as well as your own. [...]

[...] This does not mean that he will be consciously aware of future events, for if you remember these events can be changed by him at any time. [...] He is constantly forming the events of the past, even as he forms the events of the present and future.

[...] Now basically it is not true to say that an individual’s decisions must be based upon concrete events within his own past, nor that he is largely imprisoned by his past, nor that his future actions are predetermined by his past experience. For as you now understand the past is as real as the future, no more and no less. [...]

(Seth had the interesting comment to make that he had looked out at us from Jane’s eyes during the evening, along with Jane, and that he saw us as individuals instead of composite electromagnetic images embodying our pasts, presents, and futures. [...]

[...] He is not therefore at the mercy of future events, for he changes these also, not only before but also after their occurrence. [...]