“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We seem to come from darkness, taking our parents’ memories on faith for proof that there was time before our birth. [...]

“I believe a great memory must be involved here, one that on deeper levels is coupled with a shortening of time as we think of it. [...]

[...] I am thinking in particular of some cases of amnesia where the victim ends up suddenly in a different town with another name, occupation, and no memory of his own past. [...]

(“Rob has no memory of this or of Thursday exercises either. [...]

[...] I retained conscious memory of one of them for just a moment before it irrevocably faded. [...]

[...] Nor did she know the paper chain existed; she is quite sure I did not tell her of this, and I have no memory of doing so.

[...] The memories that are yours now are electromagnetically a part of you; and when your physical form is gone, this remains and you build upon it. [...]

[...] There is no basic unifying factor to give them consistency, and no unifying subconscious memories to give them true inner identity. [...]

(It will be remembered that my first sensation episode, of February 8/64 [See page 172], jogged my memory so that I was able to recall a previous such experience of perhaps a year ago. [...]

(At first the envelope test data left us at a loss, until memory began to work. [...]

[...] Nor can we check with Miss Callahan, who has suffered a considerable loss of memory as a result of a series of strokes since 1964.

[...] The symptoms are these: Poor memory, or none, of his dreams; no poetry; a consistent lower-than-usual level of exuberance. [...]

This involves on the part of the entity the use of personalities, which are in a manner capsules of itself or even compartments—part of the whole entity but neatly divided as far as memory and so forth is concerned. [...]

(Miss Callahan is an elderly retired school teacher who lives in the front apartment.Her memory has been affected by a series of small strokes. [...]

[...] Indeed, the daughter has only one conscious memory of seeing her mother on her feet. [...]

[...] You will realize that you are more than you realize that you are now, but you will not lose the state of which you are now aware, and regardless of the fact of reincarnation and regardless of probable selves the unique self that you now call yourself has eternal validity even though the memories that you cannot now consciously recall will be yours in their entirety. [...]

[...] The affair is one that is held yearly, I believe—at least in the minds of those who attend there is the memory of previous such affairs, held for the same purpose, and approximately at the same time of the year.

[...] Jane possessed strong emotional memories regarding the funeral, and clairvoyant knowledge of the envelope object in some form; evidently Seth responded to, or deliberately chose, what he perceived as the stronger intensities pertaining to Aunt Ella’s funeral over the object itself.

[...] I tried hard to remember it, and recall repeating it to myself several times in an effort to impress it upon my memory.

The personal emotions and memories loosened, freed him; but the journey was necessarily destined by the particular emotions that powered it, and the destination was one, incidentally, familiar to the ego, and to some extent at least one to which both ego and subconscious were nostalgically connected.

[...] As long as memory of a particular individual is alive, that particular personality still exists upon your plane. [...]