“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I would like to compliment your fantastic memories. [...] Our cousin of Richelieu over here, however, did, and the message was repeated the following evening with a noted lack of success as far as memory was concerned. [...]

[...] The memories that he thinks are the child’s memories are not memories of a particular event that happened to the child. [...] Each incident is recreated when the memory of it arises, but the memory is changed with each recreation, and subtly changed.

We mentioned that the dreaming self has its own memories. It has memory of all dream experience. To you, this might mean that it has memory of its past, and, indeed, to you, memory itself is dependent upon a past or the term seems meaningless. [...] How can it be said to have memory?

‘You have their early memories.’ They seem to believe me. [...]

[...] Nor are the memories or emotions of an individual ever taken from him. [...]

[...] Again we come to the importance of that period of reflection, in which the self, with the use of memory, glimpses its own past experience in the present and projects its results into the future.

What you call racial memory exists as inner emotional memory experience. [...]

[...] Here you find of course the repository for personal memories, and not of personal egobound conscious memories either, but also of psychological experiences that the ego itself prefers to forget.

If we must speak of layers, and with your propensity for divisions I suppose we must, beneath this you have the racial memories of the species; and contained within is all the evolutionary data. [...]

[...] That is why you find personal memories at the outermost portion, but the subconscious also reaches to the entity itself.

[...] Her memory in that regard, now, was not defective: It was the memory of the probable woman that she became.²

2. Here Seth referred to the striking way in which my mother, Stella Butts, had recreated for the better her “memories” of her husband (my father). [...]

[...] Your memory, it seems, is your own — yet I have told you that you have a history of other existences. You remember other faces, even though the mind you call the conscious one may not recognize the images from that deep inner memory. [...]

[...] Instead you share certain patterns of development, images, memories, and desires. [...]

[...] Often as I spoke to her I told her she would have full memory of what transpired when the session was over. When it was over, she told me her memory of parts of the session was somewhat hazy— reinforcing the idea that she was hypnotized, if somewhat imperfectly, and that my control was not all it will be in future sessions.

[...] The notes are a summary, written from memory; later a tape recorder may be used.

(One thing I would like to explore in these sessions is what effect past-life memories can play in present personality patterns, and my attempt to get Jane to regress a couple of years was a first halting step in this direction, that was not successful. [...]

[...] Certain events in the present will remind you of past ones, for example, and sometimes your memory of the past will color present events.

[...] My shoes seemed to be low-heeled, at least in memory of the dream. [...]

[...] As you know in the case of man, memory, experience and value fulfillment is not lost as the inwardness disregards one form. [...]

The entities, like master memory cells, store knowledge of its, or their, gestalt personalities; and even these entities are often split in many pieces, and each segment retains the complete data that belonged to the original entity.

As within your universe, as a personality reincarnates into different form, you have the retention of the original personality, intact, with its memories in the subconscious; and you have the additional formation of a completely new personality time after time.

There is a splitting away from the original psychic branch, but with memory of previous individual existence.

(These notes are written on April 4 from memory.

[...] The last time she was a female she was childless; Seth stressed quite often that this subconscious memory had much to do with her strong desire for children in this life.)

[...] Now, often in your dreams you are able to perceive such other situations, but you often wind them into dream paraphernalia of your own, in which case upon awakening you have little clear memory.

[...] Again, there are exceptions where memory is retained, but as a rule ghosts and apparitions are not any more aware of their effect upon others than you are when you appear quite unconsciously as ghosts in worlds that would be quite strange to you.

[...] My memory does not include a predetermined past in which Ruburt exists. He can do things that did not happen in my memory of that existence, and did not, in fact, occur.” [...]

[...] Ruburt’s life as he knows it is not in my memory — because I did different things when I was Ruburt. [...]

(Leaning forward, speaking intently but half-humorously:) I have memories of being Ruburt — but the Ruburt I was is not the Ruburt that Ruburt is in his reality. [...]

Now: All of your so-called pasts exist within you now, and you can recapture your memories and discover what they are. [...]

[...] Because consciousness fluctuates however, other portions of your self have memory of those times when it is not focused in “physical reality,” and this is also a portion of your entire existence.

[...] When you realize that you form it you come into the memory of your whole self.

It seems to you that any personality worth its salt must have a series of memories, of events that existed in the past and progressed to a present and a future. [...]

Therefore you are hampered in your attempt to understand personalities who do not exist within your system, for identity is not therefore structured in any kind of a time sequence, and what you call memory flies out the window.

[...] The time concept leads then to a limited idea, for you cannot conceive of an identity without memory of the past in your (underlined) terms.

[...] Early this morning I awakened, quite sore, and with the vague memory of a dream. [...]

[...] Getting up and down from the floor, as I knew it would, reawakened muscular memory, you see, and this in turn knocked at the door of his consciousness, jarring him into new recognitions. [...]

[...] It reassures muscular memory, and again, he can no longer accept himself as someone who cannot perform a certain motion.

In the same way, however, your consciousness fluctuates—it is here and then it is not here—but the physical self focuses upon only those moments when consciousness is focused in physical reality so your conscious self only has memory of the physical moments that it has known. But because consciousness fluctuates, other portions of yourself have memory of those times “when it is not focused in physical reality” and this is also a portion of your entire existence. [...]

Now, all of your so-called pasts exist within you now, and you can discover what they are and recapture your own memories, but you are not imprisoned in time unless you believe that you are, and there is nothing more important than belief. [...]

[...] In one context, what you call physical reality, is a dream, but in a larger context, it is a dream that you have created and when you realize that you form it, then you come into the memory of your whole self. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Since your brains are composed of cells with their atoms and molecules, and since these are themselves made of certain invisible particles,² then your memories are already structured by the biological mechanisms that make them possible in your terms. (In parentheses: After death, for example, you still possess a memory, though it does not operate through the physical organism as you understand it.)

Psychologically, then, while you are living your memories follow a pattern of past into present. It seems, therefore, quite inconceivable that in certain terms any present event can bring about a memory of a similar event that occurred before, while instead each actually occurs at once.