“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Again we come to the importance of that period of reflection, in which the self, with the use of memory, glimpses its own past experience in the present and projects its results into the future.

[...] Ruburt has been extremely cautious in the past, wanting to make sure, as mentioned, that he was not leading others down the proverbial garden path. [...]

[...] He received some ideas of that nature from you in the past. [...]

He has had such glimmerings briefly in the past, but was not able to separate himself far enough from his physical situation to understand that issue clearly. [...]

[...] They are not destined to apply, but there is a give-and-take between the future and the past. [...]

[...] Ruburt, and Joseph also, have known me in past lives, and our overall psychological structures have very significant similarities that make our communications possible.

(To Pete:) You did not know Ruburt nor Joseph in a past life. [...]

[...] In three-dimensional existence you must speak of reincarnation in terms of continuous lives, for it seems to you as if there is indeed a past, present and future. [...]

[...] The personality that you have now is simply the flower of the moment, not realizing that it has the knowledge of its own past histories; and all of this would be but one cosmic flower. [...]

Your child, in a past life, this child was an uncle, and in an accident you killed him. [...]

[...] While there was a past family connection, you were not the closest of friends, and there was no need or desire on either of your parts for a family connection of any duration in this life.

[...] In a past life you had no use for women, and therefore chose an existence in which you were feminine; not only feminine but endowed with those qualities that you had particularly disliked; because you feared those qualities you therefore lived with them and to some extent learned to understand them, though you are still left with some impatience when you see them in others.

[...] The fascination was an expression of a past fascination of a different kind, though you were pleased that this time you were older.

“Your time—past, present, and future—as you conceive it, would be experienced entirely as present to many of these personalities. However, your past, present, and future would be experienced entirely as past to still other personality structures.

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

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

[...] So I will speak, for your benefit, of some indescribably distant past in which these events occurred.

We come here also to one of the other causes of the dreaming state, beside those of which we have spoken in the past. [...]

If you will remember the three creative dilemmas discussed in our past session, you will see that we have here the reason for our self-perpetuating universe, the reason for termination within it, and the inherent necessity for change. [...]

[...] She said she no longer fears running past regular break time every half-hour, as she once did, especially when she began to deliver the material sitting down.

[...] The dream involving the old granary is of the same nature as the bookstore (Sayre) dream (as Jane said tonight)—another version of it, reminding you of the kind of nourishment generations of the past received. [...]

(Long pause.) The desk is also another symbol for man’s knowledge of the past. [...]

[...] Ruburt was not involved with Debbie in the past, however. [...]

It provides for the deepest spontaneous expression of the subconscious, gives the ego a directive and sense of purpose, and develops the overall abilities of the personality, which in the past were completely denied, for lack of training and out of fear. [...]

To some extent this was indeed a spiteful reaction, but do not forget it had been a good protector in the past, developed during Ruburt’s years with his mother into a strong armor. [...]

[...] Ruburt blames himself for running from difficulties in the past. [...]

[...] In the past he drained his reserves. [...]

(“I mean consistently over the past few years.”)

[...] We have gone very lightly into such material, because of the interpretation that can be, and has been, given to it in the past. [...]

These are beliefs of Ruburt’s. He felt in the past that you did not consistently keep with him in any program of improvement, except for badminton. [...]

[...] She’s had a lot of difficulty with it for the past few days, and has been blue and quite uncomfortable while trying to lay on her back.

(My own pendulum sessions lately have told me that I was feeling my own guilt because I thought I should have helped her more in the past. [...]

[...] Personal Experience as It Is Related to “Past” and “Future” Civilizations of Man.

Section 6: Reincarnation and Counterparts: The “Past” Seen Through the Mosaics of Consciousness.

[...] Because, Philip, you are such a good witness, and I must admit because I too have known you in the past, I consider you an old friend, and we shall to some extent renew acquaintance.

[...] In your case, Joseph, and I have said this many times, you overcompensate now for past, shall I say fleshiness, by a most unnecessary esthetic and self-punishing attitude. [...]

[...] He requested a copy of the session, with the thought of possibly trying to verify the data given by Seth concerning his past lives. [...]

[...] I do not want to hurt Ruburt’s feelings, and I have avoided making this statement thus far; however, for purely personal reasons I have been emotionally more involved with you in past instances. [...]

[...] In far-past historical times, different kinds of orientation were experimented with (as by the “sleepwalkers” described in the last session, for instance). Your own present private experience can give hints and clues about such other cultures, for those abilities reside within the natural framework, now, but are underdeveloped.

[...] Using the same kind of reasoning, you are apt to judge the historic past of your species in very limited terms, and to overlook great dues in your history because they seem to make no sense.

(Long pause, eyes closed.) While you believe, for example, that technology as you understand it (underlined) alone means progress, and that progress necessarily requires overriding physical manipulation of the environment that must forever continue, you will judge past civilizations in that light. [...]

[...] They have also journeyed into the past and the future as you think of them. [...]

[...] In past I wouldn’t have granted those feelings that expression—

You knew him in a past life in Germany, and you have all been males and females so it is quite easily for you to relate in either direction. [...]

([Ned:] “Was there some connection between us in a past life that I have this feeling?”)

([Gert:] “Do my tendencies have to do with a past French existence?”)

It has to do simply with the fact that you related as a male rather than as a female for some time because of past-life experiences. [...]

In the past we have spoken briefly concerning a tricky subject, the relationship of intensity and the nature of distance. The electromagnetic identity of any given individual contains the past identity systems, again in coded form. In other words, the previous personalities of past lives.

[...] Also, the chemical nature of certain emotional experiences may cause a freak electrical storm within the identity system, so that a past life may suddenly be recalled.

[...] It is quite simplistic, for example, to say, as some people do, that any given particular event from a past life leads inevitably to a particularly matching effect in a present one. [...]

[...] Because of the true nature of time, and the interrelationships of consciousness, a future life affects a past one, for in actuality all of these existences happen simultaneously. [...]

[...] The very fact that you have me here is the result of past experience and development

[...] The degree of your understanding and development is the result of past endeavors in other lives. [...]

[...] I thought it an excellent summary of the problems we have been facing for the past year. [...]

[...] I would like to make one point here, however — that often psychoanalysis is simply a game of hide-and-seek, in which you continue to relinquish responsibility for your actions and reality and assign the basic cause to some area of the psyche, hidden in a dark forest of the past. [...]

When and if you manage to change your beliefs in that self-deceptive framework, then any suitable “forgotten” event from the past will be used as a catalyst. [...]

[...] A “future” life, then, can affect a “past” one, so karma as it is usually considered does not apply.