“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the past the crucifix was to you a symbol of the Roman Catholic church, and distasteful. [...] You did not have, in the past life, any idea of joy connected with religion, however, the cross being then a symbol of death, leading to a Puritan afterlife.

(This material had been on her mind for the past few days, to the extent that some physical symptoms of her [Jane’s] own had shown themselves. [...]

[...] The religious connotation from your past life, given a modern interpretation. [...]

This sculp represents more, literally, than your past life’s feeling, since it is, now, a mobile cross. [...]

[...] Ruburt knew he could gain sufficient-enough prestige by using his abilities in other directions; by being, say, a director of a gallery, or by accepting any of a number of positions, such as teaching, that had been offered him in the past.

And in the past, he toyed with some of those ideas and positions. [...]

The fact that you have been of such help shows how much you have learned, for in the past you did sometimes sabotage his efforts—not at all lately —because of your own distrust of impulses, and because the situation to some extent served you also. [...]

[...] You forgot the mistakes you had made in the past. [...]

[...] Whenever you catch yourself disapproving of yourself for past mistakes, read these passages. [...]

[...] His past indispositions, from an overall viewpoint, have been most necessary and beneficial. [...]

Your hay fever situation will be greatly benefited if you particularly suggest that you be free of past (underlined) negative influences and suggestions. [...]

The animal hair is not an irritant in your case, though there are some associations of the past concerning your mother that may lead you to think so. [...]

[...] You will not break down the acids in them properly, judging from past performance. [...]

Now your time, your past, present and future, as you conceive of them, would be experienced entirely as present to many of these other personality structures. However your past, present and future would be experienced entirely and completely as past, to still other personality structures.

[...] Past, present and future appear highly convincing and logical when there must be a lapse of time between each perceived experience.

You may consider past, present and future then as a single-line delineation of experience in your terms, the line however continuing indefinitely. [...]

[...] You are not, therefore, at the mercy of any neurosis from a past life, nor are there any fears from your present lives that you cannot conquer. [...]

[...] You cannot be threatened in this life by fears from your early childhood, or by so-called past existences, unless you so thoroughly believe in the nature of fear that you allow yourselves to be conquered by it. [...]

[...] Now you set these challenges for yourself in a so-called past life. [...]

[...] You have in the past, collectively and individually, blamed a god or a fate for the nature of your personal realities — those aspects, indeed that you did not like.

The fabric of the present self is interwoven with these reincarnational “pasts,” and from them the present self draws unconsciously from its own bank of personality characteristics, activities, and insights. Often past-life memories come to the surface but are not recognized as such, since they appear in fantasy form, or are projected into art creations.

[...] Your mother, if you have known her in the past, will find at your birth an upsurge of dreams involving other existences in which the two of you were together.

[...] Her own past male lives will help her relate to you as her son. [...]

[...] with the boy, having to do with a past life.... You were afraid to accept him for what he was because of some references in your past lives together.

[...] As his uncle, the father was also involved with him in two past lives in the same relationship, and as priests they were also interested in the inner workings of the universe.

The father however had a particularly unpleasant life in 14th Century France, and (to Dave) if you will refuse what you had learned in the past, he could not force you to remember. [...]

[...] He went before you as he has gone before you in the past.

Since all is simultaneous, your present beliefs can alter your past ones, whether from this life or a “previous” one. [...] Yet within the abilities of your creaturehood, your current beliefs can change your experience; you can restructure your “reincarnational past” in the same way that you can restructure the past in this present life (as explained in sessions 657-58 in Chapter Fifteen.

[...] If you are severely ill and believe that the reasons for your symptoms exist in a past life, that you must “put up with it,” then you will not realize that your point of power is in the present, and you will not believe in the possibility of recovery.

Those who believe in reincarnation will ask, “What about past-life beliefs? [...]

[...] The psychic explosions that have been fairly regular with him in the past, have been minimized to some considerable degree since our sessions began. [...]

Joseph is now facing the fact of his own aggressions, as he never really did to any strong extent in the past. [...]

Again, you Joseph feared aggression in the past so strongly that you would not allow yourself to even recall such dreams a year ago. [...]

These feelings of discouragement, however, though much deeper in the past, should be dissipated as quickly as possible in all cases, and then the energy used in a new plunge into work. [...]

[...] In the past such interruptions have been physically painful for Jane. [...]

We will here encounter no such difficulties as were encountered in the past. [...]

In future sessions, in the immediate future, we will deal with the dream universe in relation to many new aspects which we have not considered in the past.

[...] Some of you have known each other in past lives. [...]

[...] You not only worried about the present, but you dwelled upon the “past mistakes.” [...]

[...] You also together solved the other problems mentioned, where he did not panic, as he might have in the past, but continued his own improvement.

[...] As Ruburt definitely recovers, certain muscles not adequately used in the past must regain not only agility but strength, and begin to stretch to their natural capacity. [...]

[...] Problems that existed in the past will not be encountered in the future to anything like the same degree when Ruburt begins his encounter with the world again—for his and your feelings and beliefs have changed enough.

[...] Now in the actual future you are the self who hears the voice of a past self, perhaps in a dream, or perhaps in a projection into the past.

[...] The next thing I knew I seemed to be in a lovely garden that I had planted myself in some undisclosed past. [...] Was I really awake, or was this a “false awakening as described by both Seth and Fox, and which I had experienced in the past? [...]

In the first form, it is possible to perceive the past, present or future on a limited basis. [...]

[...] In it, it is possible to travel beyond your solar system, and to perceive the past, present and futures of other systems as well as your own. [...]

In dreams even the past is in present tense. [...] You make and remake the past as well as the future. [...]

[...] I am speaking in your terms of experience, for in each word spoken in your present, you evoke that past time, or you stimulate it into existence so that its reality and yours are coexistent.

[...] Were it not for past existences the personality as you know it would not exist.

Elements from past, present and future may be indiscriminately available to you. [...]

In a given dream projection for example you may experience an episode that is obviously in the physical past, yet within it there may be elements that do not fit. [...]

You are basically capable of seeing this particular location as it existed a thousand years in your past, or as it will exist a thousand years in your future. [...]

[...] Now it seems that we should bring you up to date, and so we have two questions, or rather assignments, for you that other members of the class have already gotten past in their own way some with valor, some by the skin of their teeth. [...]

[...] And the secret when it is said, you see, releases that energy, particularly as you begin to understand that in that past there was nothing shameful. [...]

[...] I certainly know that, like any of you in the past, I have not always been charitable. [...]

[...] We move through systems such as yours faster than the speed of light, and so what I am saying is already a translation and, in your terms, a message left in the past of your time. [...]

The forward motion brings you into the future, out of the past from which it seems you are emerging. [...] Each present moment of your experience is dependent upon the future as well as the past, your death as well as your birth. [...]

[...] Past, present, and future merge in a seemingly bizarre alliance in which, were you waking, you would lose all mental footing. [...]

[...] In your terms they emerge from the future and form the past, and are given vitality because of creative tension that exists between what you think of as your birth and your death.

[...] You can remember last year, and to some extent recall the past years of your lives. It appears to you that your present consciousness wanders backward into the past, until finally you can remember no longer—and on a conscious level, at least, you must take the very event of your birth under secondhanded evidence. [...]

[...] Some generic images will have strong personal significance because of past life experiences. [...]

[...] Almost (underlined) without exception, there are male and female lives either in your past or future. [...]

[...] (Long pause) They seem to lead into your past, but these lifelines are spirals, and only the limitations of physical perception lead you to think of them in that manner.

[...] Any serious difficulty here can automatically set forth old time bombs, that have, in the past, been denied energy, you see. When he is enthusiastically and exuberantly working, the past becomes comparatively insignificant for him as far as harmful elements are concerned.

[...] Some of it is a result of incidents from the past. [...]