“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The archeologists merrily continue to date the remains of “past” civilizations, never asking themselves what the past means — or saying: “This is the past relative (underlined) to my point of perception.”

[...] You search your experience and study official histories of the past, hoping to find there clues as to the nature of your own reality.

[...] Children’s games are always “in the present” — that is, they are immediately experienced, though the play events may involve the future or the past. [...] If you want to sense the motion of your psyche, it is perhaps easiest to imagine a situation either in the past or the future, for this automatically moves your mental sense-perceptions in a new way.

[...] Just before you sleep, see yourself as you are, but living in a past or future century — or simply pretend that you were born 10 or 20 years earlier or later. [...]

[...] As you fall to sleep, imagine that you are in the same place, exactly in the same spot, but at some point in the distant past or future. [...]

Dictation: Now: Again, as in your terms the species has a physical past, so it has a psychological past. [...]

I am explaining this for now in terms of past, present, and future. [...]

[...] Dreams serve to dull the impact of the day’s events just past, while the meaning of those activities sifts through the various levels of the personality, settling into compartments of intent and belief. [...]

[...] Instead, the fetus experiences another level: physical life at a different scale, that in your terms would apply to the distant past.

[...] In certain terms this gives the consciousness a look at particular portions of the species’ “past.” [...]

[...] In your terms the fetus lives in primeval conditions, reminiscent of periods in the species’ past. [...]

[...] Its history is in the future, which always creates the past.

[...] As you know, the past itself is constantly changed as your own attitude toward it changes. Therefore you see, even dealing with the past, cellular consciousness does not involve knowledge of a closed and finished time of existence. [...]

Such dreams do not basically imply a return to a distant past, for to the cells all things are present. [...]

[...] Cellular consciousness is usually considered as simply a repository for past knowledge having to do with personal or racial existence. [...]

[...] You recognize elements from the past, since your ego is familiar with them. [...]

[...] To look backward into the past, speaking on my terms now and not yours, to look backward into the past entails looking forward into the future, and there is no firm ground, you see; there is no present in a basic manner, no firm ground that is the present, from which to view the future or the past. [...]

Even in our discussions we use the terms past, present and future, but I have told you that your future can influence your past, and that the spacious present is the only time reality.

And time does not exist as a past, present and future in your terms. [...]

[...] There is indeed a complication arising in part from past-life connections, but also in the early background of the woman involved. [...]

[...] They know me and they have known me well in past lives, you see, so I was not the stranger to them that they thought I was. [...]

[...] I see each of you now with Ruburt’s eyes closed as you have been in past reincarnations and as you will be. [...]

[...] In dreams you communicate with your own past lives. [...]

[...] In the experience the kitten was in the hospital room, and there seemed to be adjoining rooms, as at 458 (the address of the apartment house we’d lived in on W. Water Street). This signified that Ruburt was building up similarities between present and past experience, so that the kitten, appearing in the dream’s present and past also, would indeed appear in the future.

(In all the sessions Jane has given, this is but the third time that Seth has referred to past-life connections involving historical figures. [...]

There were connections in past lives that united mother and son, of which they are both unconsciously aware. [...]

[...] Without that pause — in which man can remember past in the present, and envisage a future — natural guilt would have no meaning. Man would not be able to recall past acts, judge them against the present situation, or imagine the future sense of guilt that might result.

Natural guilt is also highly connected with memory, and arose hand in hand with mankind’s excursion into the experience of past, present and future. [...]

“The ego maintains much of its stability by looking backward into a ‘past’ and finding something of itself there. The portions of the self that deal in probabilities do not have experience with a ‘past’ to give them a sense of identity or continuity. [...]

[...] At the time of the session, we didn’t know what probable selves were, though Seth had used the term once or twice in the past. [...]

[...] In other statements in the past, Seth told us that any far-ranging space travel within our own system would also involve mental rather than physical journeys.

[...] Past, present, and future are realities only to your ego.

[...] Remember however that there were also reasons having to do with past life experience, and that all of you chose these conditions.

[...] Your own knowledge of Joseph is, for example, from both past and future.

In dreams and reverie you may recall past existences. [...]

(“But it hasn’t come out as the artist and the writer in these past lives?”)

[...] As I knew of your York Beach experience, I also knew of other occurrences through the past few years.

In the past you did not understand properly this relationship. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s seemingly impractical suggestions in the past have been much more practical than some of your intellectual so-called practical conclusions. [...]

[...] Through your past life, that is the life before this one, you progressed along these lines. [...]

[...] Ruburt would do that, while closing off reincarnational aspects because of possible past emotional content.

Now this is because Ruburt did not want to encounter his own past emotional history in this life. [...]

Emotionally you saw this as the death of your mother’s hopes, and felt on the one hand that it was up to you now, so that this reactivated older feelings from the past that you had pretty well handled.

[...] I’ve especially begun to think this within the past year.”)

[...] Children also know that the present is the point of power, and that precept is a biological truth, for the physical body in your terms cannot act in the future or in the past, but only in its contact with the present moment.

[...] And above all, remember what I have said in the past about self-approval, for when you allow yourselves to disapprove of yourselves, you automatically darken your day and its accomplishments.

[...] Seth told us that he had been a Catholic in two past lives. In another past life, Seth said he had been a member of a religion that no longer existed in our terms; that he would tell Jane and me about it some time, and that we would find it very interesting.

[...] It is a past life portrait, though the clothing is interpretive on your part. [...]

[...] Basically, ego fears both the past and the present. It fears the past because it has already lost control of the past. [...]

In his art we have the nostalgia of the ego for past time, and for lost control of a self that has already vanished, and changed into something new. [...]

I will, Joseph, discuss some past-life material here, when I finish with this. [...]

The stubborn part of his nature has been a characteristic of most of his past lives. [...]

You see during Ruburt’s past period of adjustment, our sessions were not cut off. [...]

[...] She had a military background in two past lives.

The next chapter will deal with my past in your terms, and some of those personalities that I have been and have known. At the same time I will make it clear that there is no past, present or future, and explain that there is no contradiction even though I may speak in terms of past existences. [...]

[...] Seth talked about two men connected with me in the past in various ways; I would meet these men at the party. [...]