“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] A portion of you has lived many lives upon this planet, but the “you” that you know is freshly here, and will never again encounter space and time in precisely the same way. The same applies to each life lived either before or after. [...]

[...] They have their own lives. [...]

[...] The identity of each living person is always “brand new.” [...]

[...] But the four-fronted counterpart self’s own sense of continuity is not broken up; it persists outside of space and time, while its parts — the individual selves, or counterparts — live in space and time….”⁶

It’s often been claimed that Darwin’s natural selection, while ruling out any question of design or a planner — God, say — behind living matter, leaves unexplained the same question relative to the structure of nonliving matter, which in those terms obviously preceded life. [...] How is it that as living creatures we’re made up of ingredients — atoms of iron, molecules of water, for instance — from a supposedly dead world? [...] The study of design as one of the links between “living” and “nonliving” systems would certainly be a difficult challenge — but a most rewarding one, I think — for science. [...]

[...] For Darwin and his followers — even those of today, then — nature’s effects gave the appearance of design or plan in the universe without necessitating a belief in a designer or a god; although, as I wrote in Note 7, from the scientific standpoint this belief leaves untouched the question of design in nonliving matter, which is vastly more abundant in the “objective” universe than is living matter, and had to precede that living matter.

[...] You recognize this, but your mental lives are often built around concepts that, until recently, have been considered very modern and very “in,” such as the idea of evolution … In actuality, life bursts apart in all directions as consciousness does. [...]

[...] Disbelievers say that neurological evidence contradicts this theory; that from the neurological standpoint the events in our lives and within our bodies depend upon interpretation by the brain, that we can know nothing directly, but only experience transmitted through — and so “colored” by — the central nervous system. [...]

[...] They do not just help you paint a picture, or write a poem, but they help you form the living picture of your lives. [...]

[...] Some people died in those years because they did not want to live in that kind of world. [...]

(10:25.) A note: the two of you—for you are both involved since 1964—have not only initiated a new framework from which others, as well as yourselves, can view the nature of reality more clearly, but you also had to start from scratch, so to speak, to get the material, learn to trust it, and then to apply it to your own lives—even while “the facts were not all in yet.” [...]

(I said I’d been wondering about the apparent conflicts I’d come up with concerning those two lives; if my intuitions, or recall or whatever, were correct, I’d set two lives simultaneously for myself, one in Italy and one in the Mideast. [...]

[...] In our casual conversation I happened to remark that I now had three things going reincarnationally: The Nabene thing, the Roman thing, and the Jamaica thing, toward my chronological “list” of “past” lives.

[...] The notion of one life at a time, in any time period, is bullshit—the psyche is so rich that it can have more than one life at a time—like your Nabene and Roman lives together, in the first century A.D. But if you tell people that you’ll get them all confused....”

[...] She’s been working on “I Am Alive Again,” her longest poem for If We Live Again. [...]

[...] In that early experience it seemed, surely, that the snake was a living portion of the earth, rising from the bowels of the earth, rising from the hidden source of all earth gods. [...]

[...] He does not naturally seek to destroy his own life or [the lives of] others. [...]

Man does have an instinct and a desire to live, and he has an instinct and a desire to die. [...]

[...] Jane however lived in Baltimore for almost a year and ate quite a few times at Anne’s house, in 1951-52. Blanche did not live in Baltimore then but visited fairly often.

[...] Neither Blanche or Anne lived in Baltimore in 1938. [...]

Now for many reasons your success, both yours and Ruburt’s, will come later in your lives than those who achieve it in their young adult years. [...]

[...] Your creative abilities, coming into full flower, will maintain you mightily however until the end of your lives, and serve as the same kind of impetus that usually spurs the very young onward.

[...] When Ruburt’s symptoms are a thing of the past you will see how insignificant they were in the overall scheme of your lives. [...]

[...] Reading my sessions on the subject will help—but you must above all realize that we are speaking here of truth itself, and if you do that then you will begin to see remarkable beneficial events in your lives as all levels (more intently). [...]

(9:01.) I will help you initiate a time of new dedication, so that these feelings and ideas become focused even more effectively in your lives. [...]

[...] Framework 1 and 2 relationships will almost instantly become again more prominent, and many aspects of your lives that now seem so troublesome will seem to have magically drifted away—that is, you will suddenly be aware that the change has occurred. [...]

[...] You live in the present. [...]

[...] In Personal Reality I stressed many of these points for our readers, but you yourselves forget to apply them in that one important area of your lives. [...]

As I will tell you, these goals have strong connections in past lives, and in this life you each gave yourselves powerful psychological charges to insure that these goals would be followed through. [...]

[...] Both of you decided that you would give your lives to creative work. [...]

You both felt that the most innocent of caresses could destroy the foundation of your lives. [...]

[...] (The living room.)

[...] Before this, in those terms, he has chosen lives of great contrast and extravagance, with one or two characteristics relatively predominating, either for example extremely intellectual—genius—or idiocy. [...]

[...] There were two Turkish lives, one after another. [...]

[...] He lived for the cause. [...]

In the first of those two lives, both of you to some extent tried to enforce your ideas of truth through force, physically. [...]

However, the Sumari are practical in that they bring creative visions into physical reality, and try to live their lives accordingly. [...] They are given to art, but in its broadest sense also, trying to make an “art” of living, for example. [...]

(1. Granting Seth’s concept of time: Does the reincarnating personality usually choose to experience its simultaneous lives through various families of consciousness, or is it more likely to remain “loyal” to one such family in all of them? [...]

Although in this note I’ve stressed the “what-might-have-been” aspects of that second question, the same thinking can apply to the first one also, in which I wanted to know how many families of consciousness might be chosen by the reincarnating personality during its “cycle” of simultaneous lives. [...]

[...] Both rooms are to the rear of the apartment and more private than the living room. [...]

Now, like then, we close the living room door so we won’t hear the phone or be interrupted by visitors. [...]

[...] Now it seems to me that any lively exploration into reality should lead to exuberence and greater understanding, not sadness and alienation. [...]

[...] Such a museum has a reality as valid as the house in which you live.

I have said before that you have lived many lives and that you can know these existences within yourself. [...]

[...] The portrait is a portrait of Ruburt as a woman in one of the past lives mentioned—and in that particular instance, as a grandmother of twelve children. [...]

Bega has had many lives—do not limit yourself in your thinking—do not limit yourself in your feelings—and do not retreat in the summertime from your inner self. [...]

[...] How can you then be less lively? [...]

A child who says, “I gave up my life for my parents and devoted myself to their care,” means, “I was afraid to live my own life, and afraid to let them live theirs. [...]

[...] True humility is based upon this affectionate regard for yourself, plus the recognition that you live in a universe in which all other beings also possess this undeniable individuality and self-worth.

[...] Those who fear to affirm their own being also fear to let others live for themselves. [...]

[...] Discovering that she’d used her last book match, she pointed to our living room table.)

[...] Bill is in the process, incidentally, of moving out of his parents’ home and into a studio and apartment in downtown Elmira, where he is going to live and at the same time maintain an art gallery. It will also be recalled that in several different sessions Bill was counseled by Seth to live alone, lest he suffer a recurrence of his lung trouble.)

I have given much material concerning past lives.

You must be free enough to explore the nature and experience of every living thing within your own system knowing that it is yourself and then leave your system. [...]

GENE ASKS ABOUT PAST LIVES

[...] There are advantages and disadvantages in living in a house alone. [...]

[...] He feels he is not living where he is. [...]

[...] I had suspected some points, but most was very revealing, especially my subconscious reasons re land ownership, Jane’s very excellent way of personifying wherever she lived, etc., and her unknown ability for real estate dealing, etc.

(Very rapidly:) “Earth is a nice place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.” A twist on an old quote, I believe—but the fact is, you are physical creatures because you do like to live on earth, you do like the conditions, you do enjoy overall the particular kind of challenge and the particular kind of perception, knowledge and understanding that the earthly environment provides.

[...] That is the self that lives the life of the body.

First, though, they’re to visit still another member from class who lives in a nearby town: He has tapes of some early class sessions that Jane had forgotten about; copies of the tapes will be made. [...]

[...] No matter what happened to you, you lived in a kind of rarefied psychic air, in which your being was charged and glowing. [...]

[...] You live in one particular area on the face of your planet, and you can only see so much of it at any given time — yet you take it for granted that the ocean exists even when you cannot feel its spray, or see the tides.

And even if you live in a desert, you take it on faith that there are indeed great cultivated fields and torrents of rain. [...]

[...] A one-minute pause.) As you dwell in one particular city or town or village, you presently “live” in one small area of the psyche’s inner planet. [...]