“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Existence is wise and compassionate, so in certain terms consciousness, knowing itself as man, sent future extensions of itself out into the time scheme that man would know, and lovingly planted signposts for itself to follow “later.”

“Frank Withers, can we refer back to you on any specific question in the future?”

[...] JOSEPH IS YOUR WHOLE SELF, MORE OR LESS, THE IMAGE OF THE SUM OF YOUR VARIOUS PERSONALITIES IN THE PAST AND FUTURE.

[...] Barbara does a lot of sewing, and Jane has seen drawers of various kinds of material that Barbara has bought on sale, saving it for whatever use the future brings. [...]

We will take some time in the future with Ruburt and health connections. [...]

[...] Such a feeling, recognized, can also serve—as it did serve the woman’s mother—as a critical point of recognition that the desire to die was triggered not so much (long pause) by the feeling of life’s completion as by the fact that the individual had set up too many restrictions in life itself—restrictions that were severely cutting back its own possibilities of value fulfillment, or future effective action. [...]

[...] Jane said she would try to avoid this pitfall in the future.

I found New York a dizzy encounter indeed, and I wish that in the future you would seek more quiet environments. [...]

[...] There is no reason, however, why in the future you cannot freely take a month off from sessions in order to quicken your work on “Unknown”. [...]

[...] I probably won’t call Dr. Kardon or the hospital tomorrow, but will simply wait for nature to take its course, since except for the movement in the knees—which hasn’t increased—it’s been all bad, so the general outcome for the future is all but inevitable. [...]

To some extent he still projects his illness into the future. [...]

One reason, you see, that I suggest the running is that any running at all prevents him from projecting into the future a nonrunning self. [...]

[...] I want you to realize that you are getting glimpses of a reality that exists now, in your terms, that existed in the past and, in your terms, it will exist in the future. [...]

You, as you think of yourself, may have trouble following such concepts, just as you would have trouble trying to follow the “future” reality of the cells within your body at this moment. [...]

[...] For I glimpsed Robert Butts, Sr. as he decided to disperse “himself” into a series of other personalities in both the past and the near future, so that I wondered how — in that mélange of identities — my father could possibly know himself. [...]

Having read Priestley’s ideas about Dunne, Ruburt now wonders if I am not a future self of his own, according to Dunne’s ideas; that is, if I am not one of those future selves of which Dunne speaks, or if I am not consciousness number two, or three even, of Priestley’s concept.

It is a mistake to assume that any future or inevitable merging with a life force is ahead of you, in those terms. [...]

[...] There is a merging of selves into what you may call a superconsciousness, a synthesis; and from then on, dear friends, there is a beginning toward something new, and a something of which I am not prepared to speak this evening, but of which I shall speak in the near future.

[...] As a matter of fact, I am in one way, and in one way only, a future self—this is extremely simplified—of Ruburt’s; that could be compared I suppose to a theoretical number twelve self, according to Dunne.

[...] But in some session in the near future we will have a less formal and more friendly time. [...]

[...] From within the room inhabitants watching would be able, through mathematical deductions, to deduce exactly how long the ball would keep its continuous bouncing activities, at what rate the motion of the ball would lessen, and at what future time the motion would cease entirely.

[...] There may be mail from Wisconsin that will have a bearing on some future plans. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The dreams of the species are highly important to its survival — not just because dreaming is a biological necessity, but because in dreams the species is immersed in deeper levels of creativity, so that those actions, inventions, ideas that will be needed in the future will appear in their proper times and places. [...]

[...] You can imagine past and future events. [...]

Ruburt’s idea for the future is a good one—seeing those who officiate at such groups (Seth classes). [...]

[...] The sharpness of the encounter made Ruburt come to the decision then and there that he would not use drugs to combat ahead of time conditions that may or may not appear at some future time. [...]