“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It seems also that your subjectivity has a mysterious unknown quality about it, and that even your mental life has a sort of insidious dropping-off point, a subjective cliff over which thoughts and memories fall, to disappear into nothingness. [...]

[...] Otherwise you feel as if your consciousness is enclosed within your skull, immobile and constricted, and every lost thought or forgotten memory at least symbolically seems like a small death. [...]

(The following material is taken from notes I made at the time, and memory. [...]

[...] It served to make me think anew that when such memories are recalled consciously, then those involved are compelled to deal with them. [...]

Her trend of memory will go back to the last time that she was in charge of consciousness, and she will have — or may not have — any idea of the existence of Norma A at all. [...]

People may actually carry on such existences for years, until some event or another shows that something is amiss: one of Norma A’s friends might meet a friend of Norma B, for example, or the gaps in memory might finally become so frequent that it is obvious something is wrong.

[...] Few people have conscious memory of it.

[...] You are sometimes willing to concede that perhaps an element of racial memory might enter in. Racial memory is of course a conglomeration of camouflage data. [...]

[...] However tonight my memory is good. [...]

Physical tools may be used to force the imagination to move along in terms of its owner’s personal memories, but it cannot be forced to move along the lines of conceptual thought, because the imagination is in reality a connective fiber between the physical individual and the nonphysical entity.

“Usual memory is as much a sifting process as it is anything else, in which experience’s intensity varies — sometimes ‘alive’ neurologically and sometimes not — just to focus our consciousness in one probable action or series. [...]

“In these side pockets, memory, so-called, is not so structured. [...]

[...] An action may be recalled in terms of memory, but it cannot be taken back, or denied or undone.

[...] Is it any wonder that the conscious mind does not retain in one life memory of its other existences?

Memory is there, within the inner self. [...]

The second dream was brought on by the memories subconsciously released in the first dream, and the whole memory block, oddly enough, was released by the fact that Ruburt had in the present some difficulty with his monthly periods. [...]

He threw this thought back to his personal subconscious, but by association it triggered memory of a previous death by cancer, which was then played back through the dream. [...]

[...] I have childhood memories of them, of course. [...]

(Jane of course has no memories of Emma Martin as a young person. [...]

[...] My parents have told me often that I displayed hay fever symptoms by the age of 3 or so, so evidently the first cod liver oil episode was earlier than this, and before my conscious memory. [...]

(I have no conscious memory of such an episode.)

[...] You share some general joint memories with Jane, even before your acquaintanceship and despite the difference in your physical ages. [...] This does not mean because you have some general common memories, that you and Jane are one individual.

[...] Now we as portions of one entity, have certain memories that could be compared to the general cultural ones that you and Jane share, even before you met. [...]

Any current emotion contains within itself memory patterns, interconnections and interpretations, that are far more dazzling in their meaning and content than any, for example, highly precise mathematical data. Particularly are memories enclosed within, gathered together from in quotes “previous” experience, all cunningly collected with utmost attention and high selectivity.

“My memories of those dream events are just as real as the memories of anything else I’ve done lately,” I said. [...]

It is as if the physical elements themselves retain, in your terms, the memory of all the images that they have ever been a part of; and this is a simplified explanation of what indeed does occur. [...]

[...] You might call it an earth-memory image. [...]

I lit the cigarette, again with no memory of any of this, and Seth continued:

[...] In the past, he has more or less translated this data automatically, without realizing it, into paintings, with no memory of any vision at all. [...]

While I sleep and lie stretched out,
Eyelids closed and pupils dark,
Who walks wide-eyed downstairs
Through the door in the cold night air,
And travels where I have never been?
Who leaves clear memories in my head
Of people I have never met?
Who takes these trips while I
Never lift one inch from bed?
Who dreams?

[...] There was quite a bit more to the session but I didn’t think my memory of it was clear enough for accurate notes.)

[...] He also gave some unrecorded material during a freer exchange between the two of us; I described this to Jane after the session while it was fresh in my memory. [...]

[...] You may give yourself appropriate suggestions each night, only to awaken again with no memory of them. [...]

[...] Using the analogy of adulthood again, it is as if the child within you is a part of your own memory and experience, and yet in another way has left you, gone apart from you as if you are only one adult that the child “turned into.” [...]

I am alive in Seth Two’s memory, as a self from which he sprang. [...]

[...] Such “memory” would necessarily acquaint you with experiences most difficult to correlate with your current sexual roles. [...] In so specifically identifying with your sex, therefore, you also inhibit memories that might limit or destroy that identification.

[...] I am sure that I mentioned this before, but I wanted to refresh your memory, and this applies, generally speaking, to all individuals. [...]

[...] This in turn triggered her own memories that she’d had several dreams last night that she couldn’t recall either.

[...] Ancient religions, for example, speak of nature’s spirits, and such terms represent memories dating from prehistory. [...]