“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] These were connected with the past, but only in so far as the distrust grew there. [...]

[...] As Ruburt knows from his reading today (Psycho-Cybernetics) when the dawn suddenly burst, any discouragements should be accepted as part of the learning process with which he is involved—and the failures, particularly of the past, forgotten. [...]

In the past he often used the image of himself, in his terms “before I got sick,” as a basis of comparison. [...]

He wants to be a healthy present self, not a healthy past self. [...]

Aside from the information given in that chapter, there have been distortions in some past material concerning that life. [...]

[...] You insist upon them to add to the validity of past life narratives, yet these are precisely those things that are forgotten first, and that have least value psychologically.

[...] The past life is (smile) like a crossword puzzle that must be put together, but at its center is the emotional reality from which the puzzle springs.

You will be more strongly drawn to those “past lives” that somehow reinforce your own at this time. [...]

When reactions seem emotionally out of proportion to one event then it is usually because of inadequate reactions to the same kind of event in the past. [...]

Always ask yourself “Am I reacting to this present event only, as I should, or am I reacting to this event and five others in the past to which I did not react?” Soon you will find yourself with responses in proportion to present events, and will be free from old habits.

[...] When you are beginning to learn you may find yourself overreacting initially, simply because of the accumulated, unrecognized charge of past repression.

[...] You projected negative attitudes upon her because you had not reacted adequately in the past. [...]

If you believe that the point of power is in the past in certain areas, then you lose out on a very fine advantage. [...]

[...] In that one area you grant the power to the past.

You look at the time involved that the symptoms have continued, and you grant more power to that past than you do to the present.

[...] Your own seriousness about work in the past, your own attitudes, linger on in his. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s exercise today however represented exactly what I spoke of, and in that way should be avoided—the paper that you read this afternoon, that he wrote—and when each of you review your joint past, do so looking for your accomplishments. [...] Otherwise the past will seem like ashes.

[...] I merely mean that in past lives there were certain portions of reality in which you did not have experience. [...]

[...] It is a strange relationship you had, for he was an uncle of yours in a past life. [...]

For many reasons having to do with your own past existence, and with your mother in this life, there was a basic insecurity and a feeling that you were not strong enough to survive on your own. [...]

[...] For one thing, this still involves you with problems from a past life. [...]

[...] Worrying about future events, or dwelling upon past unfavorable situations, only confuses the body’s mechanisms, and undermines their precise activity in the present moment.

(4:20.) I am not saying that anyone should pretend that unfavorable circumstances do not sometimes exist, or that they may not be encountered in the past, present, or future. [...]

[...] Above all, do not concentrate upon past unfavorable events, or imagined future ones.

[...] She said she’s going to start with Day One tomorrow, and take it from there, trusting the body, not dwelling upon the past, and leaving the future open. [...]

[...] He gives his past self his current knowledge. The two selves momentarily become merged in a psychological synthesis, and the past self, no longer at that point momentarily immobilized by fear, instead follows through and performs adequately.

(10:44.) Now: in certain terms, past, present, and future are all compressed in any given moment of your experience.

[...] In Ruburt’s case it actually reassures the past self of any doubts or fears—doubts and fears that are also reflected, but that it has already chosen a framework or a given frame of existence that emphasizes certain kinds of experience over others. [...]

A history major or deep interest in the past, a hobby of the past.

[...] Shirley’s husband past.

A history major or deep interest in the past, a hobby of the past. [...]

[...] Sally’s husband past. [...]

[...] It is one that would be most beneficial to politicians and statesmen, and it also can be used to probe into probable pasts as well. Here it would be of benefit in learning of old ruins for example, and vanished civilizations, but only if the specific probable past were probed in which these existed.

[...] This state can be used to explore the past in your terms of reference, within the probable system that you know.

Reincarnational pasts are known to you here, and if some personal malady cannot be solved from A-1, you may have to go to A-2 discovering that it originated from another existence. [...]

[...] Without necessarily following the methods given in A-1, the mental, physical and feeling aspects of past personalities will appear.

[...] I didn’t understand how their appearance could mean that improvements were taking place, even though Jane said they’d felt much better the past two days. [...]

[...] In the past two days the following events have occurred. [...]

[...] In the body’s reality, for example, today’s improvements are quite momentous—but your joint attitudes in the past put the body’s efforts down.

[...] You constantly say “In the light of the past, these improvements will come to nothing—and indeed are worse than none, for they only lead into false hopes.”

They would not help you get a raise but act to the contrary, and they have done so in the past. [...]

In the past Ruburt helped you generate such negative ideas, but he has been making an attempt to combat them. [...]

Part of your attitude is a result of your family situation and of identification with the past.

[...] He does indeed have the ability to attract money, though in the past he was not able to use this ability. [...]

[...] There are no reasons from the past that would more or less necessitate the relationship. If the relationship is not carried through, then with the probabilities as I see them now, another strong one will develop close to the end of three years from now, involving a woman with whom you will get along very well, although she was merely a third grand-nephew in the past.

There has been in past existences, in your terms, some experience with what is termed occult knowledge, though it is not my term. [...]

[...] On the other hand it has always been natural for the personality to turn outward in an easy manner, and with exuberance, so that in past lives we find two lives strongly devoted to the nurture of others. [...]

[...] We will fill in our outline of past events as our time permits.

[...] If he succeeded as a writer, it seemed he was less the loyal wife, and sometimes in the past—the distant past—you felt the same when you tried to be “the male provider,” and take a job to satisfy that narrow role. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It became, however, a supercharged symbol itself of churchly opulence, and this applies also, for example, in the past to architecture. [...]

[...] It may not have been much, but a yeoman’s son in the past would always be a yeoman’s son. [...]

(10:12.) If men were considered equal, however, the ideas of Darwin and Freud came along to alter the meaning of equality, for men were not equal in honor and integrity and creativity—or heroism: —they were equal in dishonor (louder), selfishness, greed, and equally endowed with a killer instinct that now was seen to be a natural characteristic from man’s biological past. [...]

Now Joseph (pause), neither of you should overlook the fact that in one way or another, and regardless of the psychic development, such a crisis point (Jane’s symptoms) would have appeared in Ruburt’s life as a result of personal characteristics, present-life background, and past-life characteristics.

[...] The spontaneous self, relegated to the underground, then used all of its strength and forced the issue through opening up the psychic channels, which are very legitimate, and in the past had been an unsuspected deep portion of Ruburt’s personality. [...]

It goes without saying that all of this was fueled by past symbols and associations that then emerged. [...]

[...] Past lives have involved him with personalities either strongly intuitive or strongly intelligent, highly overbalanced in one category or the other. [...]

[...] Therefore if the individual can change his own past, then it must follow that a people can change its past, that a nation can change past events, that the future can influence the past historically, and even you see that a death can alter a birth.

Past, present, and future, as you know, exist at once in the spacious present. We have been speaking in terms of the personal past, present and future, as it exists for the individual. [...]

[...] When we drove past a house with a swimming pool Betts remarked that she was too old for such things. [...]

[...] It is too late to go into the various reasons for the condition, though we have mentioned some in the past, and these still apply.

Like the fossilized layers within the physical earth, so do the subconscious layers hold intact the traces of an individual’s past lives. And as your physical eras of time may be deduced through studying the physical fossilized layers of rock, so can the time and place of past lives be deduced through studying the layers of the subconscious.

Such personalities, that is such secondary personalities, do not represent past incarnations therefore, although some of the qualities may originate in a past life.

[...] What psychologists do not understand, however, is that in deep levels of subconscious activity associations may spring from the inner self’s latent knowledge and experience of past lives.

[...] It may happen spontaneously, as when a severe emotional reaction is set off; through external circumstances, and what Ruburt has read in the past along these lines is partially correct.

This is an excellent way for him to handle many issues which in the past have caused problems, such as the financial aspect. [...]

Any momentary slippages (laugh) will be of much less duration than any slippages from his past high plateaus, you see.

(“In view of your past statements about old patterns being set, is it possible for these symptoms to return sometime, say, in the distant future?”)

[...] In the past he was still afraid to touch those beliefs with any but the slightest of hands.

[...] To go fully ahead he had to cease cowering before the beliefs of the past, and this meant he had to examine those beliefs. [...]