“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The affair allows him to make comparisons, to compare and evaluate present events with past ones. [...]

This is the adult’s chance to understand and emotionally exorcise parental ghosts from the child’s past. [...]

[...] On Ruburt’s part he is finding himself able to handle a parental situation with you, along with you, even though the crisis evokes long repressed, highly charged emotions from his own past.

[...] She is expressing a rage that she would not express in the past, and it will purify her and leave her free. [...]

[...] And so as all things that have come and gone already begun and in their beginning they change and alter, creativity once more arises and you play your part in it and you find yourselves embarked in a new world, in new sensations, in new encounters with self, even though the sense even now passes away and you know where the future is behind you and the past that is yet to come for the past is forever as new as the future and in all things are there beginnings without endings and even your ideas of endings rouse themselves and can never pass away. [...] You are bony structures momentarily looking out through eyes and seeing through pulses, yet you form the eyes and the pulses and the worlds that make them possible and the dramas that so intrigue you from the past and the present and the future, and yet in all of these there are doorways, there are beginnings. [...]

[...] Symbolic indeed of an absence in the past and a journey of which you are all aware. [...]

[...] In the past, however, those methods seemed to make sense: if you believe that the self is sinful or deceptive, then you must indeed set up barriers so that you allow expression while monitoring it very carefully at the same time. [...]

[...] It is not particularly necessary that Ruburt dig back into the past on purpose to discover those old feelings. [...]

[...] At times during it I’d felt somewhat overwhelmed, thinking of what we still had to learn and accomplish, as well as about what we hadn’t learned in the past: Why was it all taking so long? [...]

[...] As one individual you serve now in the place of the congregation that was necessary to help you in the past.

You and Ruburt had of course been in close relationships in past life existences in the physical system. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There were past-life circumstances operating. [...]

[...] Persons that they have known in past lives. [...]

[...] Now, in your case, you have had four past lives. [...]

[...] You have been rather pedantic in several past lives and given in one particularized in Spain, as a priest, to severe attitudes and ideas that lead you, alternately, toward violence and peace. [...]

[...] The psychological time experiences should involve you with some very legitimate information from that one past life that was mentioned earlier. [...]

[...] When man first developed the pause of reflection, as mentioned earlier in this book (see sessions 635–36 in Chapter Nine), he did undergo initial disorientation before he learned to distinguish a vividly remembered event of the past from a presently experienced one. [...]

Now you can alter your present through altering your past, or you can change your present from the future. [...]

[...] That focused self operates from its present, however, and some day in your own future you may find yourself thinking nostalgically of a moment back in your own past, when you were indecisive and irresolute, but took the proper course.

[...] And in that moment you are the future self that “once” spoke encouragingly to the person of the past. [...]

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(She wasn’t too clear as to what she was panicky about, but as we talked I began to understand that she was re-experiencing the same round of fears that she had many times in the past, and that many of these private sessions have been devoted to over the years: her mother, her need for love, her fears of abandonment, the conflicts involving success and the psychic work, our relationship, and so forth, if anything’s left. [...]

[...] No one is at the mercy of past negative events. [...]

[...] That is, the expression of love automatically reassures the sinful self that it is indeed not sinful (a statement that at once I found hard to believe, considering its past and recent actions). [...]

[...] I knew that as they had in the past, the feelings would moderate, and that we’d continue to struggle along. [...]

[...] First of all, I mentioned in our last class session that you are not tied to a neurosis from a past life, or because you set certain challenges for yourself in this life this does not mean that you cannot conquer them. [...]

([Nadine:] “How can we tell these from past reincarnational selves?”)

[...] Not that in a past life you overused psychic abilities but that in this one you are intrigued by them but frightened also, and afraid that in using them you would be lead too far away from the intellect. [...]

[...] An inquiring mind, but also, because of past experience, can also latch upon an idea and never give it up. [...]

It is true that some native populations — particularly in the past — were free of many of the childhood diseases that are considered natural by western medicine. [...]

In the distant past some ancient civilizations did indeed use animals in such a fashion, but in a far different framework. [...]

[...] This is not an original statement, but the past only has the power that you give it.

[...] You must not focus your attention upon past failures. [...]

[...] There, you are not impeded by the past.

If your beliefs in Framework 1 make you assign great power to the past, then you impede your progress. [...]

[...] In the past you put into Framework 2 your intent, individually and jointly. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I do not want you to blame yourselves for the following, but I do want to point out that in the past, when Ruburt began to show improvements of a significant nature, you fell back into old habits. [...]

As I will tell you, these goals have strong connections in past lives, and in this life you each gave yourselves powerful psychological charges to insure that these goals would be followed through. [...]

The magnetism is both from past life experiences, and set up ahead of time in this life, so that the both of you would be drawn together and held together, despite the fact of no personal family, no children as a common interest.

[...] For those reasons you felt most threatened when Ruburt broke in upon your painting time for intimate relations in the past. [...]

This is the meaning of the dreams he had in the past about divorce. [...]

[...] This electric charge can propel the thought, as an electrical action, through the apparent dimensions of your physical time in such a manner that it can exist simultaneously within your past and your present. Because a thought, as electric action, may exist both within your past and your present, this is not to say that it becomes two electric actions, one existing in the past and one existing in the future. [...]

[...] If no lessons have been learned, then on some occasions there may be a psychic reliving of past experience for the individual involved. [...]

[...] These may belong to the past, present or future, in your terms.

[...] This is in the past.

When you brooded about past errors, criticizing Prentice in your mind for past and future errors, you were reacting to implied threats of a kind. [...]

[...] You did not really exert yourselves fully, except upon a few occasions in the past when improvements did definitely appear to be coming to a hopeful conclusion of the difficulty.

[...] The pendulum told me yesterday that it was because I was concerned that our finishing Psyche this year would give us more money, which in turn would mean that our taxes next April would be higher —a ridiculous worry, I agree, and quite in keeping with my past attitudes about money and taxes. [...]

He has, particularly in the past, been almost contemptuous of those with regular habits, regular ways. [...]

He has the same feelings toward authority, which is connected to past feelings about his father. [...]

My own “previous” personalities are not dissolved into me any more than your “past” personalities. [...] Your “future” personalities are as real as your past ones. [...]

[...] It will get deeper into the areas of the self than you have been willing to go in the past and therefore, help clear up the basic reasons for your physical difficulties in the past. [...]

Now, the deliberation with which you speak, in class and to those with whom you work, has to do with the fact that in the past, as I mentioned earlier, you memorized a code of ethics, and you had to be deliberate as you recalled this code and then told it to others. [...]

[...] This is a friend you have known in the past, and you can trust him, and I know him well. [...]

[...] Now, this has to do in some regard to work you did in the past when it was highly dangerous to speak of your beliefs or to remember this code of ethics. [...]

[...] The skin itself became less responsive in the past, as it did not ripple, say, with ordinary muscular motion. [...]