“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Even in our discussions we use the terms past, present and future, but I have told you that your future can influence your past, and that the spacious present is the only time reality.

[...] To look backward into the past, speaking on my terms now and not yours, to look backward into the past entails looking forward into the future, and there is no firm ground, you see; there is no present in a basic manner, no firm ground that is the present, from which to view the future or the past. [...]

And time does not exist as a past, present and future in your terms. [...]

[...] You will perceive the existence of these realities with various instruments in the future, but only their existence. [...]

[...] John will do this on tape; Jane and I will transcribe the notes and insert them into the record for future use.

[...] There are two triangles which have merged into one, for one is involved with the present, and one with the future. [...]

[...] But both of these triangles lead to a future triangle in which you will be intimately involved if you continue your bulldog tactics.

Now this is sometime in the future and you will jockey from fourth to third position in the higher echelons of the company. [...]

[...] Do not project the problem as it exists, accelerated by future negative developments, for you only add to the difficulties.

For many reasons at various periods in your time there has been particular work to be done requiring numbers, a broad stratum, a physical pool, that would serve as a basis for future generations. [...]

[...] Philip has either been offered another job in the immediate past or will be in the very immediate future. [...]

One dream object may represent simultaneously a simple daily and familiar portion of conscious life, a strong feared or desired portion of the immediately subconscious layer, an event or object from a past life, and a feared or desired future event or future possibility, as the case may be.

[...] One dream object has reality then in four or five different levels of reality simultaneously, the one object being more than itself, and equal to realities that have existed or will exist in your past or future; the past and future being therefore contained simultaneously within the dream object, by virtue of a quite real psychic contraction and expansion.

[...] They, such dream objects, may be the method or means with which the inner self warns the personality of future possible disappointments or disasters.

(Long pause.) I am not simply saying that genetic activity can be changed, for example, through something like a nuclear accident, but that highly beneficial alterations can also take place in genetic behavior, as in your terms the genetic structure not only prepares the species for any contingency, but also prepares it by triggering those characteristics and abilities that are needed by the species at any given time, and also by making allowances for such future developments (all quite forcefully).

[...] In your terms, it contains the physical history of the species in context with the probable future capabilities of the species. [...]

However, if given a choice, Jane and I now would forgo the “benefits” stemming from animal experimentation, even if our own future welfares were to suffer because of a subsequent lack of knowledge—and providing that at a time of crisis we didn’t weaken in our joint resolve! [...]

Nor do I think that establishment science will soon be interested in Seth’s ideas that exchanges take place involving our genetic systems, the environment, and cultural events like politics and economics; or that our genetic systems react to our thoughts and emotions—let alone that there’s any genetic planning for future probabilities! [...]

[...] You deal directly with future probabilities in the dream state in any case. [...]

[...] Your cellular knowledge of past and future probabilities alone would teach you a spiritual and corporal courtesy.

[...] A few great men have glimpsed those abilities, comma, and their love of the race and their integrity had caused them to trigger the unused portions of the brain.² In their way they sensed the great probable future and its ramifications.

You have put yourselves in a position where your consciousness must now become aware of the probable pasts and probable futures, in order to form for yourselves a sane, fulfilling, and creative present.

[...] Your future changes as your past changes. But clairvoyant information deals with the future, that is, precognitive clairvoyant information, and it is here that the issue shows itself.

In most cases however it is the future in which you are interested. The future changes. [...]

[...] To me your past, present and future merge into one.

[...] Unless he narrows his focus and concentration to concentrate upon the present individual during a session, Seth told us he sees a composite image, an energy reality that is composed of past personalities, and in many cases also of future personalities that will be adopted by the inner self.)

An idea is not itself aware of past, present and future for example, and yet having no experience with present, past and future, it still endures. [...]

If cause and effect were an absolute law, then continuity would also have to be an absolute law, and all or any evidences of clairvoyance, or viewing the future, would be absolutely impossible, even in your universe, and this simply is not so. It is only because there is basically no cause and effect, but merely apparent cause and effect, and no past, present and future, that clairvoyance is possible in your universe.

The spacious present does not contradict the existence of durability, but durability does not imply the existence of a future as you conceive it. [...]

We will go into these laws, and outline others in future sessions. [...]

[...] I asked her to rest her legs at times, for I didn’t want her to develop soreness that might bother in future days. [...]

[...] I will have more to say about that in the near future —but the new utilization and arousal of energy is excellent, and under the circumstances will continue and accelerate. [...]

[...] In dreams you can experience the past or future. Physical events are actually formed now, in your terms, because of the interactions between past and future, which are not separate in actuality, but only in your perception.

[...] The news affects “future” events. [...]

[...] The dreams of those about to die often involve dream structures that already prepare them for future existence. [...]

In future sessions, in the immediate future, we will deal with the dream universe in relation to many new aspects which we have not considered in the past.

[...] I will for Joseph’s benefit here state that the material itself will in the future be closely studied. [...]

[...] I am most sympathetic, Joseph, to the predicament in which you found yourself last weekend, and when we are alone we will discuss efforts that may be taken in the future. [...]

He began to take steps that will serve us well in the future, and you will learn when to question him and when to remain silent.

In the future perhaps we can give you some other details concerning your friend’s existence, and daily environment. [...]

[...] They seem to contain an energy that comes alive in Seth’s words, so that they belong to the future as well as to the past. [...]

[...] The minds of the past and future are open to us, or at least their contents are, not in a parasitic relationship but in a lively give-and-take, in which knowledge from each time period enriches every other historical era. [...]

[...] Sometimes this happens in dreams or as inspiration: Inventors, for example, might be receiving a given idea from the future, or an archaeologist might make a discovery as the result of receiving information from the past.

It follows, then, that precognition would be involved in evolutionary alterations, so that the various species would prepare themselves in the present to take on those changes that would be necessary in the future.

[...] I will have more to say concerning the class and the future of such work shortly. [...]

There are several matters that I will discuss with you in the near future however. [...]

[...] I spent a little time explaining to her how a car operates, in the hope that this more specific knowledge would help her relay Seth’s data re the Ford in a future session.)

[...] I asked if the feelings stemmed from the past, or represented a projection into the future.

[...] Into the future, in other words. [...]

[...] These experiments however are for the future. [...]

The action performed within the dream; the location; the lack of specific location; the time in which the dream appears to occur; the apparent movements through time within any given dream; the emotional content; the surface psychological content; the work done within the dream; the familiar persons spoken to; the unfamiliar persons spoken to; the relation of the dream to past events and to events immediately preceding sleep; the dream events in relation to future events; messages that are given or sent in sleep.

Your psychological-time experiments will serve you well in the future in relation with these endeavors. [...]

This idea is not fully developed however, and is in the future, but we should work out a definite plan along these lines. [...]

[...] They are physical landmarks of psychic and artistic inner journeys, but what you do with your consciousness, how you extend it, is even more important, for as physical play is meant to lead to a future physical body that is mature and fulfilled, so the creative nature of that kind of inner play leads to future extended consciousness, an inner being that is the mature version of an earlier self. [...]

[...] You can sense by watching a child’s play the future shape that his or her life can most productively take. [...]

All children exercise, though relatively few end up, say, as specialists in sports, so the end result of such physical play is the future development of a healthy, strong body. [...]

Between lives an individual may see flashes of the future existence, not necessarily of particular events, but experience the essence of the new relationship and in expectation remind himself of the challenge he has set. In these terms, the ghosts of the future are as real in your homes as the ghosts of the past.

On occasion, long before conception takes place, the personality who will end up as the future child will visit that environment of both parents-to-be, drawn again. [...]

[...] Decisions as to future lives may be made not only in between-life conditions but also in dream states in any given life.

[...] This state can be extremely advantageous when you are trying to solve problems having to do with future arrangements, decisions that will affect the future, and any matters, in fact, in which important decisions for the future must be made. [...]

[...] Having made it the present is changed, and quite clearly you perceive exactly the way it is changed and what actions and events will flow from the change into the future that belongs to that particular alternate present.

You should be able to tune in, so to speak, on some future probable events, I believe in image form, after a few attempts. Do this as if you were starting out to paint a picture, requesting to see the images of certain persons at a given time or situation in the future, and let your abilities then fill in on the imaginative pattern. [...]

If you are seeking future information, then you should mentally state this. [...]

[...] Pick a day in your future and simply request that you see that painting you will be working on at that time. [...]