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The air has memories

Each life influences each other life, and some portion of the personality retains memory not only of past lives, but of future lives also.

When reincarnational studies are embarked upon, on occasion people remember some instance of past-life experience, but conventional ideas of time are so strong that so-called future memory is blacked out.

[...] And his discomfort will only be a memory in a few days.

There can be in your terms some loss of memory, complications that confuse the knowledge of origin. [...] These watch, keeping their memories and knowledge intact, and acting as directors, against whose memories the new models are formed. [...]

[...] I seem to have a vague memory about this. [...]

[...] Jane doesn’t create a reality in which the event is absent from her memory, or never happened, that I know of.

[...] Memory, which Jane and I treat cautiously, also enters into it, but the hard facts are noted where we are sure.

[...] If memory serves me correctly Ray Van Over said some of the effects she described were effects experienced by other mediums also.

[...] Physically the human fetus bears a memory of its “past.”¹ In your terms, it travels through the stages of evolution before attaining its human form. [...]

To a future self no more illuminated than you are, you appear dead and lifeless — a dim memory. [...]

2. See the 683rd session in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality. As Seth told us: “All kinds of time — backward and forward — emerge from the basic unpredictable nature of consciousness, and are due to ‘series’ of significances … Memory operates backward and forward in time.”

One of the Roman soldiers, Maumee, and Nebene are mentioned in Appendix 21; see the excerpts there from the private session for November 18, 1974, as well as Note 1. Then see the comments Seth made the next evening in ESP class: “There are, of course, future memories as well as past ones … As Joseph often says: ‘When you think of reincarnation, you do so in terms of past lives.’ You are afraid to consider future lives because then you have to face the death that must be met first, in your terms. [...]

[...] Since Sue herself is a Sumari, like Jane and me, I asked her to write an account of her feelings, thinking it would furnish a good example of one person’s emotional and intellectual involvement with a family of consciousness other than their own — and yes, of their reincarnational memories of those activities.

7. In Session 692 for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality see the material on Sue’s double dreams in the opening notes and in Note 2. Personally, at least, I see strong connections between the idea of double dreams and the kind of conscious reincarnational memory — or knowledge — detailed by Sue in this appendix.

[...] Little by little, using it as a guide, other memories came back to me — all trivial in comparison to real tragedy and yet, to me, bitterly depressing. [...]

I suppose that the “Idea Construction” experience could have gradually faded from memory, losing much of its vitality if the manuscript did not exist as a constant reminder; but this is difficult to imagine. [...]

[...] Apparently, in my case at that time, the “intrusive” unconscious material had to be propelled through to my consciousness during my waking state, since I never regained memory of the initial dream in which the information was originally given.

[...] When in historic terms mankind became aware of memory, and recalled his past as a past in your terms, it was possible for him to confuse past and present. Vivid memories, out of context but given immediate neurological validity, could compete with the brilliant focus necessary in his present.¹

When man, speaking in your terms of history, began to experiment with memory, there were innumerable instances where the emerging ego consciousness did not distinguish clearly enough between the past and present, as you understand them.

[...] With memory, however, mental projections into the future were of course also possible so that man could plan his activities in time, and foresee probable results: “Ghost images” of the future probabilities always acted as mental stimuli for physical explorations in all areas, and of all kinds.

[...] He had no conscious memories of the store’s interior, yet it was instantly apparent to him — the dark oiled floor, spread with sawdust. [...]

[...] You are in other terms, the memory of us, yet we are also the memory of you. [...]

It takes effort to inhibit your memory of your dreams. [...] So you no longer need to use the effort to inhibit the memory of your dream. [...]

(“Can you tell us anything about racial memory?”)

[...] Many memories, say of a room whose door once opened is now closed. [...]

There can be, in your terms, some loss of memory—complications that confuse the knowledge of origin. [...] These watch, keeping their memories and knowledge intact, and acting as directors against whose memories the new models are formed. [...]

[...] This account is written the next evening from memory, since I took no notes at the time.

(Seth also agreed with me concerning my memory of earlier sessions in which he stated she would live to old age. [...]

[...] I was going to record some memories that suddenly came to me yesterday morning. [...]

[...] I really don’t know if it’s such a good idea to go over such memories or not, but since they came to mind I decided finally to have Rob write them down for me. [...]

[...] These connections must pass from its memory as it matures. The memories can be retained, but the primary focus of activity and the intensity must deal with this personality, and with this existence as you think of it. [...]

[...] It is bound to carry within it only those memories however of which even you are unaware (pointing to Sue and Carl), that belong to your species and to your kind.

It will manipulate those memories in its own way, and alter them, and add to the pool of energy from which it has emerged. [...]

[...] They are a part of the planet’s biological heritage and memory. [...] They exist in the earth’s memory, to be recreated, as they were before, whenever the need arises.

[...] They have extensive memory patterns, biologically imprinted. [...]

[...] The cat exists as itself in the greater living memory of its own ‘larger’ selfhood. [...]

[...] As I have mentioned, you can indeed change the present to some extent by purposefully altering a memory event. At least twice a week, I would like Ruburt to alter the memory of that playground in Rochester, so that he successfully climbs down the jungle gym.

[...] We think the cellular memory that Seth describes was also involved, as witness these excerpts from her account:

[...] She also recalled details she had omitted from her written record — usually the memory of these was triggered by ordinary events in our daily lives.

(1. Seth deals with cellular memory to some extent in the 638th session in Chapter Ten; also see the 632nd and 637th sessions. [...]