“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Then try to trace its emergence from the thread of your own past life as you understand it, and project outward in your mind what other events might emerge from that one to become action in your probable future. [...]

[...] The picture can be from the past or the present, but try to see it as a snapshot of a self poised in perfect focus, emerging from an underneath dimension in which other probable pictures could have been taken. [...]

[...] As you have your recognized, official personal past, so in your system of actuality you have more or less accepted an official mass history (see Note 2). Under examination, however, that history of the species shows many gaps and discrepancies, and it leaves many questions to be answered.

[...] In some cases, your people have blundered through the apparent curtain between your past and present, and so have others blundered into the apparent division between one plane and another. Usually, they have been invisible to your plane, as the few who fell into the apparent past were invisible to the people of the past.

[...] In your past life [in Boston] you would have known better.

[...] Because of our past alliances, the three of us are closely bound together …

[...] This is a means of acquainting the present personality with its ‘past’ and also of reminding it of its goals, without disturbing the blatant awake ego.

[...] Last evening our TV set was acting up, and Jane wished aloud that Jim would visit us and fix the set, as he has done in the past.

[...] (Yma Sumac.) Any connection with past periods of productivity or joy have immediate reference to the present. [...]

Give us a moment here… I am searching for a connection for you, concerning the past. [...]

A distant connection in the past, with a gathering that was formal, I believe… not certain here… With dancing (gesture, eyes closed) as at a wedding reception perhaps.

[...] I wanted to go over some of the past sessions in this group with her, but we never did get to it, what with cigarettes, people coming in, my reading her letters from a fan and Steve Blumenthal, and so forth. We didn’t go over past sessions yesterday, either. [...]

[...] You wanted to rule as you had in the past. [...]

[...] Because of some circumstances and conflicts with your husband in this life in the past, you did not want to hear what he had to say. [...]

[...] The “habit” was set in the past when you “shut out” noise that you did not want to hear. [...]

[...] To some extent you punish him for his past attitudes by not appearing as attractively as you could. [...]

[...] As in some cases human beings have quite accidentally blundered through the apparent curtain between your present and your past, so have beings blundered into the apparent division between one plane and another. Usually when they have done so they were invisible to your plane, as the few who fell into the past or the apparent past were invisible to the people of the past.

[...] You are both experiencing at this point, and have experienced in the past, the distorted time element, or so-called foreshortened time that you read about in your books on hypnotism. [...]

[...] He was a makeup personality—that is, through Frank Watts I had to make up for past errors. [...]

[...] She is not related to us in any way in a past life, just was available. [...]

In the past, it had been at least acceptable to him, because he felt it a temporary means. [...]

[...] This was when the mother identification was at its peak—now long past.

[...] Symbolically Ruburt came to grips with the whole Saratoga problem with his mother and the past.

[...] He concentrated upon proofs of the body’s “lack of dependability” in the past, and now is beginning to build up his faith in its dependability. [...] He can use it more constructively than in the past.

[...] He purposely chose shoes that did not fit, in line with his past belief that he should not be physically active. [...]

(Tam Mossman and his fiancée Eve had been our guests over the past weekend, May 2—4; he had heartily approved the work Jane has completed on the Seth book and we thought that this belief might have something to do with Jane’s very relaxed state. [...]

He has overemphasized limitations in the past, of all kinds, and this has led him to deny many of his own positive characteristics—this concentration upon the negative. [...]

[...] In the past the reaction would have lasted much longer however, and considering that he had it at all, he did not succumb to anything like the same extent.

[...] I knew that in the past Seth had insisted that she did not. [...]

[...] I have told you many times in the past that Ruburt did not have arthritis—and I still take that stand. [...]

[...] Remind yourself that the future is indeed there if you want it, and that you can grow into that future as easily as you grew from the past into the present.

[...] Those are indeed worthy and stirring causes, as noble as any that faced any generation in the past. [...]

[...] He misused such abilities in a past life, and this time he is having to work for them.

(“How much of a part is Jane’s past-life misuse of her psychic abilities playing in this life?”)

[...] It is similar to the fourth sense in that it is free from past, present, and future, and involves an intimate becoming, or transformation of self into something else.

[...] I think they were in the past from my viewpoint. [...]

[...] Seth as you know him, is distant in my own past, a reality that I scarcely remember. [...] Yet to me, all that is past. [...] We sent him to you in your terms in some indescribably distant past. [...]

[...] Now, in answer to a question that you asked earlier, I have spoken of this in the past—for a moment... [...]

[...] He felt that when he had initiated action in the past that it had not worked, and he was then afraid of initiating new action, so he kept waiting for you to do so. [...]

[...] He felt also, in the past, that if he told you to leave the job, and it did not work out as you wanted, that you would blame him, as he thought (underlined) you blamed him for the move from Sayre.

[...] Together you should have seen that under the circumstances they were “natural extensions” (in quotes) of past habit. [...]

[...] Then it means that you do not waste time and energy in apathy, or in crying over the past, but that you see yourself at last beginning upon a course of action that is highly important. [...]

[...] For if past, present and future exist together (and continue to develop), then I see nostalgia as expressing a legitimate searching by the conscious mind as it seeks to grasp that the past exists now, and is not “dead.” The quest for nostalgia is one way to bring the living past up-to-date. The yearning I feel each time I drive past the apartment house Jane and I lived in for 15 years, just west of the business section of Elmira, represents my conscious reunification of the past with the present, and even a projection of both into the future in ordinary terms.

[...] They reinforce the past, for example, when you dream of past situations. They also seem to undermine the integrity of the past by showing it to you in an unfamiliar light, mixing it with present and future tints.

The other part, / dispassionate, / flows together /
with the waves / past world and rock / dispersed as mist, /
beyond impediments / uncaring / while my heart /
in the fragile shell / calls out, / “Come back /
dear counterpart. [...]

[...] In addition, Jane’s impetus is to continue driving forward; that’s her way, even though each project grows—as it must—out of the past. [...]

[...] To you it would appear that the life was a past one, finished. You may believe that your current existence, with all of its abilities and challenges, is the result of that past life, yet both exist at once. [...]

[...] Each of your “presents” becomes charged, filled with potentiality; and your entity, itself conscious energy, is also enriched by your various experiences, by the combined and magnified power of its own “past.”

[...] His loyalty to you is unswerving, as unfortunately many of his bitter attitudes toward those in his past are unswerving.

This will result in complete belief on his part, and this belief will enable us to achieve results denied us in the past. [...]

[...] The vacation will break up any lingering patterns of habit, and serve to disconnect him from negative elements of the past. [...]

In the past a whole series of counterimpressions would have occurred. [...]

[...] I told you that in the past a week might have gone on with yesterday’s conditions, plus the fact that I would not have been permitted to give you information, or feedback—and certainly a day such as today would not have followed.

He did not, in the past now, feel nourished. [...]