“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She remembered how, in early sessions, Seth had talked about a minimum of three reincarnational existences for most entities — and how “scandalized” she’d been later when she began to realize that Seth had lived many lives. Now, she finds that the idea of simultaneity of “reincarnational” lives is quite acceptable; this fits her emotional and intellectual temperament. [...]

[...] We lived wherever we could, squatting in doorways and, finally, all begging. [...] A crust of bread was far more delicious to me than any piece of cake, however well-frosted, had ever been in lives before.

In the gestalt of my personality, as in your terms I lived later richer lives, that woman was alive again in me — as, for example, the child is alive in the adult, and filled with gratitude comparing later circumstances to the earlier existences. [...]

[...] I chose that life deliberately, as each of you choose each of yours, and I did so because my previous lives had left me too blasé. [...]

[...] There are more “coincidences” involved than those Seth described tonight, none of them consciously known to Jane and me before the Sayre adventure: Mr. Markle is in a nursing home but a few miles from where we live in Elmira, and my mother spent her last days in a similar home less than 15 miles away; one of Mr. Markle’s children lives in Elmira, and is connected with a store Jane and I have visited; Mr. Johnson, of the real estate couple that conducted us about in Sayre, did sign painting and truck lettering as a younger man, as I did; he and I had several mutual acquaintances in Sayre, among them an older artist of some reputation — and now deceased — that we had known in our high school days; and so forth.

New paragraph: Even in your private lives, however, there are clues as to other kinds of sequences in which events can occur — and do. [...]

She often dreamed of living in it. [...]

[...] Joseph and Ruburt were also shown a second house in Sayre — one a good deal cheaper, but generally much like the one in which Joseph’s mother lived in this life. [...]

[...] At our ages (52 and 62, Jane and I, respectively), why have we created lives with such nightmarish connotations? [...] Why can’t we be left alone to live lives of peace and creativity? [...] Why are our lives ending like this, when we feel that simply getting through each day is an accomplishment?

[...] Since we’ve always wanted to make sure that our “psychic work” is given within the context of our daily living, I’ve undertaken to present in these essays intensely personal material relevant to the creation of Dreams. (The mechanics of Jane’s still-fascinating trance phenomenon have been described in some detail in the six previous Seth books she’s produced—with my help—and they’ll also be referred to, if briefly, in Dreams.)

[...] Instead, we want all of this preliminary material to show how we live daily—regardless of how well we may or may not do—with a generalized knowledge of, and belief in, the Seth material.

[...] Our lives have been irrevocably changed—by choice—and not for the worse, either. [...]

(9:04.) Again, the environment as you think of it is composed of living consciousness. [...] The creative thrust of the physical world must rise from that living structure.

(With emphasis:) In a matter of speaking (underlined), the birds and the insects are indeed living portions of the earth flying, even as, again in a matter of speaking (in parentheses) (with a smile and again with an emphasis upon the word “matter”), bears and wolves and cows and cats represent the earth turning itself into creatures that live upon its own surface. [...]

[...] Along with Dreams, Jane is back working on If We Live Again and God of Jane. [...]

(9:53.) To some extent both of you, and by your own choices, have established your own laboratory of the mind, in which you live your lives and examine them at the same time—and in which you try to view any maladies and dissatisfactions by different standards; and in a light that requires more of you, so that you do not rely as others do upon the comforts of conventionalized knowledge in any field.

[...] I was now simply trying to live each day, painting, working on the files, or in the yard, doing errands, and so forth. [...]

[...] You are throwing out, to some extent, now, much of the accumulated nonsense of the centuries (emphatically), upon which people have often tragically built their lives and cultures. [...]

The same applies to you, and I expect both of you, in the last halves of your lives, to demonstrate the bursts of creativity and new wisdom that should ideally appear in each life. [...]

[...] These are not written within the chromosomes as words might be written upon paper, but the information and the chromosomes are a living unit. [...] This is indeed knowledge in biological form, and biologically (underlined) making its clearest living statement.

[...] I have said before that in one way or another each living cell is united with each other living cell through a system of inner communication. [...]

[...] Following such a course would actually be most difficult, so pervasive in our society are the results flowing from animal research: I even think it might be necessary to live as a hermit in the wild to get away from them. [...] Jane and I live in one of those homes. [...]

[...] These remarkable physical changes stem from a genetic “defect” carried by a common ancestor who lived more than a century ago. [...]

[...] In that context, two lives in one century, overlapping, seem contradictory, but I tell you all along that you live many lives at once.

[...] At the risk of repeating myself, you live in a safe universe (loudly). [...] You cannot live in a safe universe and an unsafe one at the same time. [...]

All of this is occurring because he is beginning to understand that you do indeed live in a safe universe. [...]

(10:15.) Your body reacts to the feelings of insecurity by retreating to whatever degree, slight or occasional, or with determined persistence—your body or anyone else’s—as long as you really believe you live in a state of threat.

[...] I must explain again that all lives are lived at once — but in different kinds of focuses. [...]

(3:34.) The species is filled with a powerful sense of curiosity and wonder, and the need for exploration and discovery, so that even a man born as a king through several lives would find himself bored and determined to seek out a different or opposite experience.

In some lives, then, you are born in fortunate circumstances, and in others you may find an environment of poverty and want. [...]

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.

(1. About reincarnations Why do people say they remember past lives, but very seldom refer to future lives? If Seth’s ideas on the subject are correct, people should remember both past and future lives.

[...] When people form even dreams about other lives, they often draw upon the picture books of history, and there is no such heritage of a cultural nature with which they can flesh out any dreams of future lives.

[...] They are the result of body language, smiles or frowns, muscular attitudes—but you live surrounded by a psychological environment of suggestion. [...]

[...] They feel that other lives are past.

[...] You have lived many lives. Some of you will live more lives in this reality. [...]

Since you set yourselves such a course, then you obviously have a certain responsibility to both lives. [...] For most people do not try that hard to preserve the living moment, or to understand it, while they are still involved with time’s physical package. [...]

[...] If the two of you stick together, there will be no problem, and particularly if you view this not as a schedule but as a way in which you want to mix time and timelessness, and merge the “two lives” that each of you try to live in the one life. [...]

[...] On the one hand, they are living, these distractions. [...]

[...] You both tried to find a framework in which you could have two lives at once in that regard—and putting those two together is taking some doing.

[...] But that does not mean there are not future lives in earthly terms for you. If all of your lives are looked at like a Ferris wheel, then this is the seat you are in when you get off, though some of the other boxes or seats may be labeled future or past.

In certain terms then, and following a given line of probabilities, in future lives you know the outcome of your work now, and you can also ask for advice from your future selves, who are very actively interested, since their reality is so involved with your own. [...] Whenever you come into difficulties, it is because you are still relying upon Framework 1’s authority, in which normal cause and effect operates, in which problems are solved by exaggerating them, and in which magical changes or alterations are considered out of context to normal living. [...]

[...] Most people settle for following authority—particularly in the professional aspects of their lives, the community affiliations, and so forth, while here and there insisting upon a kind of private creativity that does not threaten the larger beliefs of the structure.

[...] You began before our sessions even, in your private lives before you met. [...]

Again, however, this represents the male lives with which the self has been involved — the young boy, the priest, the aggressive “jungle man,” and the wise old man. These are types, representing generally and symbolically past male lives lived by present women. [...]

As I mentioned earlier, each person lives both male and female lives. [...]

[...] The priestess, the mother, the young witch, the wife, and the old wise woman — these general types are archetypes, simply because they are “root elements” representing, symbolically, the various kinds of so-called female qualities and the various kinds of female lives that have been lived by males.

They have also been lived by females, of course. [...]

[...] He was particularly frightened at the idea of living to an old age. [...] Now in the two lives immediately previous he stayed with the body at one time until he was 87 and at another to the age of 92 and at a time when such age was quite unusual. [...]

You also, however, had connections in past lives, very strong ones. [...] Now I am concerned with your state of mind, not with the state in which you lived. [...]

[...] The two of you, together in three lives, lived together until old age. [...]

[...] Now though it seems to you perhaps at this point tragic, the facts are that the real tragedy would have occurred had the cat lived, in your terms, and had you curled up in it, in your house on the corner, and turned your love inward to the animal rather than outward, for there are people who need it. [...]

[...] Think of your breaths as lives, and you the entity through which they have passed and are passing. [...] None of this negates the supreme and utter integrity of your individuality, for you are as well the individual entity through whom the lives flow, and the unique lives that are expressed through you.

[...] So the lives you have lived are not you, while they are of you.

[...] You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. [...]

Man became aware of his state of grace when he lived within the dimensions of his consciousness as it was turned toward his new world of freedom. [...]

[...] We’d lost our car, but we had a place to live and had all of our paintings, manuscripts and records, including the fifty-three volumes of the Seth material, intact. Since we occupy two apartments in order to have enough living and working space, we had room to take in a couple who had been flooded out. [...]

Within this framework you have full freedom to create your experience, your personal life in all of its aspects, the living picture of the world. Your personal life, and to some extent your individual living experience, help create the world as it is known in your time.

[...] The Chemung River passes less than a block from our apartment house on its way through the center of the city, but since we lived on the second floor we thought we’d be secure. [...]

[...] Exterior events, circumstances and conditions are meant as a kind of living feedback. [...]

[...] Many of these personalities live comparatively short lives, but very intense ones, and they experience more lives than most other individuals. [...]

[...] We’ve received little information on our past lives, preferring to wait on this endeavor for various personal reasons. [...] Jane and I ended up unsure, though, as to whether I lived two short lives, or one longer life divided into two spheres of activity.

[...] If you looked at these lives as a series of progressions in usual terms, then you would be left with many questions unanswered. [...]

[...] They will help keep all the strands of personality working at once, so to speak, and even meet again and again people they have known in other lives. [...]

[...] In other words, in one way or another the events of one living experience are reflected in each other living experience.

[...] All the lives are actually occurring at the same time, as the hypothetical youngster’s merry-go-round experiences happened all in one day.

[...] Yet those lives will be connected. [...]

[...] They “throw their lives to the Fates,” so to speak, saying not as they did before: “I will live,” but: “I will live or die as the Fates decide.”

[...] It appears that there is living matter and nonliving matter, leading to such questions as: “How does nonliving matter become living?”

They may use other terms than Fate, of course, but the vital, personal, direct, affirmative intent to live is not there. [...]

[...] There is simply a point that you recognize as having the characteristics that you have ascribed to life, or living conditions — a point that meets the requirements that you have arbitrarily set.

[...] Each living being possesses it, and the living world consists of a spontaneous cooperation that exists between the smallest and the highest, the greatest and the lowly, between the atoms and the molecules and the conscious, reasoning mind.

THE LIVING PICTURE OF THE WORLD

[...] The first chapter is entitled: “The Living Picture of the World.”

The living picture of the world grows within the mind. [...]