“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(3:23.) As I said before, the reasons for most physical, mental, spiritual, or emotional problems can be found in this one lifetime, and because of the nature of simultaneous time, new beliefs in the present can also affect those in the past.

In a basic way, it is possible for present beliefs to actually modify the beliefs of a life that is seemingly a past one. [...]

Again, no one is punished for crimes committed in a past life, and in each life you are unique. [...]

[...] He has taken definite steps, and made positive gestures that he would not have made in the past.

[...] I believe these relate to the past. [...]

[...] I also believe he has another child from his past. [...]

(“Can Jane’s poems be likened to experiences or conclusions on her part of past events, lives, or dreams?”)

[...] She saw the future but she could only live in the past. [...]

[...] Joseph is your whole self more or less, the image of the sum of your various personalities in the past and in the future.

[...] Such tendencies are highly colored by previous existences, by past lives, and this prehistory, existing as the electromagnetic property of the whole self, is the blueprint which is followed by the structure of the chromosomes.

[...] If such past memories are consciously recovered, as they have been, the closed mind of the academic psychologist will not see what he has, but will suppose the overworked imagination responsible. [...]

The study of dreams has been held back immeasurably because past-life memories have been stubbornly ignored. [...]

[...] Therefore only past lives are ever recalled. [...]

[...] In the past you felt and believed that this was not possible, and so your attempts failed, largely because you were afraid—overly afraid —of hurting other peoples’ feelings, and somewhat afraid that your desire for solitude would cut you off too much from others.

[...] In the past several days his body has responded remarkably well, with vitally important loosening taking place. [...]

I do not want to overemphasize such processes of the past, however, but only what is being done now as the healing processes continue. [...]

[...] Past and future exist at once.

The ego maintains much of its stability by looking backwards, so to speak, into its experience of its past, and finding something of itself there. Now the past may be an illusion, but it is not illusion to the ego. The portions of the self that deal in probabilities do not have such an experience with a past, to give them their feeling of identity or continuity.

[...] However past, present and future has reality only to the ego. [...]

[...] We suppose other designs is a reference to the various signs shown on the leaflet; in the past Seth has referred to lettering or type as designs, also.

[...] I also think that you will find his attitude from now on an improvement over his past attitude, as far as our experiments are concerned, and this will be of benefit to all of us.

(Here of course Seth refers to Bill and Ida, having given some information on their past lives in various sessions, many sessions ago.)

The other man was not involved with any of you in past lives, nor do I see him indeed at all in England in any era. [...]

[...] In his immediately past life he plagued himself through a useless arm; right arm, you see, so he could not point out again. [...]

It is the present personality’s desire to express himself, opposed by the subconscious memories of that past life, with its fear of the effects of eloquence used without discretion, that now cause his difficulty.

Persons displaying such abilities have had to be strong personalities in order to hold up under a barrage of varying disreputable distortions thrown upon them by science, or religion, and particularly in the past, even by governments. [...]

Let us look—once again—back into the past. [...]

[...] And from that probable future in your past, your creative abilities were accelerated. [...]

[...] Some get through easier or quicker than others, and a belief in the need for protection has been the most stubborn lingering belief from Ruburt’s past in this life. [...]

An association could trigger the clear memory of a past agony in the bewildered new mind. [...] Man’s mind then struggled to contain many images — past, present, and future imagined ones — and was forced to correlate these in any given moment of time. [...]

Now: This new kind of consciousness brought with it the open mirror of memory in which past joy and pain could be recalled, and so the realization of mortal death became more immediate than it was with the animals.

[...] You may have changed your ideas to such an extent that you can see little similarity between your current ones and those of the past. [...]

[...] Because you are only now learning to verbalize your feelings, this means that he felt, particularly in the past, that you dealt with him opaquely in an area in which he did not know how to cope.

[...] In the past, not too distant, you often met his advances coldly whenever he did decide to try again. [...]

[...] Yet you yourself often said in the past that suggestion could not be that important. [...]

The reasons for the intensified difficulty for the past two months are not as important this evening as the material I am giving you. [...]

[...] I’d hoped we were past that stage. [...]

I wanted to remind Ruburt of some material given several times in the past.

[...] In the dream you are quite angry simply because those beliefs did, in a fashion, take the vehicle of your life out of your own hands, since you did not recognize those beliefs as your own in the past. [...]

[...] While it is not now specifically related to particular past events, it is still related to past training where he was led to believe that he must keep a tight rein upon himself; not go ahead full blast, and restrain the spontaneous parts of the personality, unless they showed themselves in “acceptable” fashion.

Now Ruburt’s weight gain is a prerequisite for continuing improvement, and happened also once in the past before the more recent negative aspects. [...]

(Seth had given instructions on relating to our past and present selves. [...]

[...] “It must stay in the past.”

[...] And you will indeed work out dramas in what you think of as this room, and by working out these dramas, you change events both in your past and in your future, for time is open-ended. [...]

[...] You are not, therefore, at the mercy of any neuroses from a past life any more than you are at the mercy of any neuroses from this life. [...] You cannot be threatened in this life by fears from your early childhood in this life or by so-called past existences unless you believe so thoroughly in the nature of fear that you allow yourselves to be conquered by fear. [...]

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

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

[...] In your terms you alter the past and the future. [...]

[...] You might be angry at him, in which case there was a definite emotional response, or disgusted; he thought in the past, the dim past, disgusted enough to leave him—but you could not ignore him.

[...] She hasn’t been smoking as much when near me this past week because the smoke irritates. [...]

[...] I had the idea she would rather I didn’t interfere with the gestation of her books—at least this is the way my reading of them seems to have worked out in the past.)

[...] He was used to more frequent creative challenges, lesser ones in a way, rather than long-term projects, and he was not capable in the past of the planning for example that is now a part of his creative endeavors.

[...] I say for example that I am aware of their past and future actions and thoughts; and yet what I am aware of, actually, are ever-shifting and changing patterns, both in the future and in the past.

[...] These can take place in either the waking or dream state, and they serve to open up the reservoirs of knowledge and make past training available.

[...] Have we known them in past lives, etc.? [...]

I perceive people in a room in a far different manner than they perceive themselves; their various past and future reincarnated personalities, but not their probable selves, are perceivable to me.

[...] You use, in your terms now only, the past as source material. [...] As records are lost, you do not even realize that you have rewritten the past.

“I am the voice of your world in its past and its future, and because of that I am your own voice in its past and future. [...]

“And I show to you the castles of your past and your future, and the mental civilizations that are your heritage and your birthright. [...]

[...] At the same time, it seemed obvious that these memories surfacing represented a therapeutic instance of what Seth had said would happen: memories bubbling to the surface where they could be examined and defused, instead of being kept repressed in the past. [...]

[...] That kind of response means that there is communication between, say, the present and past areas of the psyche. [...]

[...] You are bringing contemporary information into the past, freeing blockages and clearing the way for natural healing. [...]

[...] In the past it has been ignored—another good question. [...]

There have been in the past some improvements of note, but no overall straightening of the legs, for example. [...] Muscles have been relaxed in the past, while still not lengthening. [...]

[...] While there is a lag, therefore, the overall picture is as I have given it in the past. [...]

What can appear as disquieting, as for example his behavior on occasion at the garageway, is instead the body’s abandonment of past dependable but limited action, and its attempt to initiate new response. [...]

His idea of changing the present through altering pictures in the past is also pertinent and good. Have him continue the practice as he began it—it aids in understanding beliefs, and it does alter the past and therefore the present.

(During the past week Jane has made a spectacular improvement in the use of her right arm, with lesser but steady improvement in the left. [...]

Now: all of Ruburt’s presently-past beliefs added up to his physical condition—his beliefs in the nature of time, work, the body, his particular nature—they all tied in together perfectly.