“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Also while on this walk, Jane had the thought that death approaches a personality when the personality becomes less and less able to focus his energies fully on this plane, when he can no longer control his physical image as well as in the past. [...]

You may refer here to past sessions dealing with the mechanisms involved. [...]

Yet on a deeper level he still retains hold upon other existences, so much so that he even yearns subconsciously for those past realities, which mean safety, since their problems have already been solved. [...]

(October 26, Monday: I saw a large scrapbook filled with pasted-in newspaper articles, then an envelope in the book. [...]

[...] Of itself, it will not give you insight into past lives or future existences. [...]

[...] In the past the ego has been overexaggerated. [...]

[...] As indicated by the pencil line on the object, the object was assembled from two pieces of white paper, with the inside piece pasted in position. [...]

(Jane also said the embossed data is legitimate, and stemmed from two things on the object: the “squiggly" frame I indicated in the drawing, and the fact that the center portion of the object had added dimension or thickness because of the two pieces of paper—actually one-ply drawing paper—being pasted together.

I have given much material concerning past lives.

GENE ASKS ABOUT PAST LIVES

[...] In a large manner in the past, he went along with your ideas involving the overall atmosphere—underline overall—of the apartment, feeling you would find contrasting elements irritants. [...]

[...] Some guilt here, since in the past if he slept four hours he would have known that he slept through his mother’s call. [...]

[...] Then, however, he stops to make sure that the danger is past, and to make certain it is safe to go ahead. [...]

[...] In the past you have reinforced each other’s beliefs in an unsafe universe. [...]

It is as if you could consciously come to terms with each of your own cells and become aware, in your terms, of their future and their past. [...]

[...] In your terms it would be as if you experienced a future event, then a distant past event, then a moment from the present. [...]

[...] The information given in past sessions applies.

[...] The self that you are, in a basic sense, is the self that you were in past instances within this existence, the self or series of selves that you were in previous existences within the physical field, and also the myriad selves that you are now, in various perception experiences unknown to the ego.

[...] We have spoken in the past of capsule comprehension. [...]

You understand that when I speak I am not saying that continuity, in terms of past and present, exists. [...]

The personality in the past, in past existences that is, had a history of hitting out at the organs of the various physical bodies that were its home, as other personalities sometimes have histories that include turning destructiveness outward against others. [...]

[...] The need for the ulcer was aggravated in the fairly recent past, but the personality is basically flexible enough so that adjustments can be made.

As a side benefit, ultimately, recall of past lives may be achieved, and a synthesization, by yourself, of your past personalities.

The action performed within the dream; the location; the lack of specific location; the time in which the dream appears to occur; the apparent movements through time within any given dream; the emotional content; the surface psychological content; the work done within the dream; the familiar persons spoken to; the unfamiliar persons spoken to; the relation of the dream to past events and to events immediately preceding sleep; the dream events in relation to future events; messages that are given or sent in sleep.

[...] You would not have felt free enough to do it in the past, for you did not realize what it represented, or rather, you did not see the implications.

[...] He could have read his old poetry over 50 times in the past two years, without realizing what he has finally realized now.

[...] The ego feared that the abilities could sweep Ruburt away in the past even before our sessions, sensing the great but as yet unfocused energy. [...]

[...] Into his inner mind come pictures or symbols of material objects, people or events, from perhaps the past as well as present and future imaginings, the joy now being expressed with greater freedom mentally, but with symbols.

The joy stretches out, so to speak, into the future, sheds also its light into the past, and may cover greater areas of expansion than could be shown in physical terms at that moment. [...]

[...] Therefore your past, present and future exist within it, but only as portions of that interior environment. [...]

I am leaving your past, that is immediate-past lives, for future reference because I’ll have such fun with you when the time comes. [...]

[...] In the past he has more or less translated this data automatically into a new camouflage pattern, in other words into a painting, without realizing that he had received any vision at all. [...]

[...] I have in the past suggested he resume painting. [...]

Now in portrait work, looking at a subject easily for example, try to see him as he was in past lives. [...]

When you paint the land, do so thinking in terms having to do with its past as well as present and future. [...]

[...] In the past each of you to some extent made “unconscious” decisions based upon fears.

It must have occurred to you that you have writing abilities, and no time, it seemed, in the past to exercise, develop, or use them. [...]

In many ways history is your built-in past, the obvious events that are significant. All of the different variations that can be played upon human consciousness, all of the racial probabilities, are in one way occurring in ages past — but they are also happening in what you think of as your present. [...]

[...] We will be discussing it in terms of the “past” of your species.

[...] Joseph only remembered his mother speaking of this gentleman in the past. [...]

[...] The “past” races of men live to that extent within your Now, as do those who will seemingly come after. [...]

[...] His first practice element grew out of Jane’s projection into a probable past in her hometown of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

So you look back through the historical past. All of the counterparts alive as contemporaries then form, together, a musical composition in what you think of as a present; and once that multidimensional song is struck then its past ripples out behind it, so to speak, and its future sings “ahead.” [...]

(Again forcefully:) In terms that I admit are difficult to describe, the creative solutions will change the course of history in the past, so that variations are taken, and technology does not progress in the same way that it “has” in your experience.

I have said before that personally you can change your past from the present.¹¹ The same applies to civilizations.

11. See the 657th session for Chapter 15 of Personal Reality; Seth talked about how to “repattern your past from the present.”

I do admit that in recent years I’ve wondered more and more why artists don’t deal with at least their own past-life images. [...] I also believe that opening up past-life fields would enrich us all. [...] My own projected portfolio of art will include at least several past-life images of me. [...] Recently I finished a past-life portrait from my vision of a friend Jane and I had known years ago. [...] Why did that past-life image of him come to me in 2002? [...]

Actually, Laurel and I drive past 458 often, without paying much attention to it on our way from Sayre to the hill house. [...] Already, as I pushed open the heavy front door for the six of us, I felt like an intruder, that my footsteps were stirring up the past. [...] Past that, we were in the narrow hall that led to a similar door guarding a stairwell at the back of the building. [...]

[...] I also showed our visitors several of my portraits from my own past lives, both male and female, that Seth had mentioned long ago, or that I’d tuned into through dreams. [...] But then, I asked, what more literal odyssey would there be than to investigate one’s own past lives, male and female? [...]

[...] Not only because of Jane’s intense early fears in this lifetime, I felt, but also because of past lives, as Frank Watts had indicated. [...]