“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That includes Ruburt’s as well — and that also includes of course books not yet written, in your terms, so that the future books also influence what you think of as the past ones. [...]

[...] When an artist is painting a landscape, he might unconsciously compare hundreds of landscapes viewed in the past in multitudinous, seemingly forgotten hues that splashed upon the grass or trees, or as he seeks for a new creative combination. [...]

[...] The new individual has a deeply buried memory of its past lives, but the personal consciousness of the last reincarnated self must not be superimposed upon this new identity. [...]

[...] You led her through the woods past the symptoms represented by the man, to the ascent.

[...] And because you are such a good witness, I must admit that I knew you in the past. [...]

[...] In your case, as I have told you, you overcompensate now for past fleshiness by a most unnecessary self-punishing attitude. [...]

[...] Whether or not he and Seth were friends in a past life, they became good friends in this one. [...]

[...] I do not want to hurt Ruburt’s feelings, and I have avoided making this statement thus far, but I have been emotionally more involved with you in past existences [than with Ruburt]. [...]

[...] In any given historic religious drama, therefore, the actors may have already appeared on the historic scene in your past, the prophet of today being the traitor of the past drama.

[...] The child will be aware of many of its past existences, and will be able to identify with the old man or woman that in your terms it will become.

[...] Physically then, brain mappings will be possible in which past-life memories are evoked. [...]

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. [...]

[...] This source contains past, present, and future information; only the ego experiencing time as we know it. [...]

[...] As dust particles, we may have blown past Greek doorways. [...]

[...] This division is bringing up memories subconsciously, in this past life where there was this division between you and your brother.

[...] It was indeed a dreamlike world, but a highly charming and vital one, in which dreaming imaginations played rambunctiously with all the probabilities entailed in this new venture: imagining the various forms of language and communication possible, spinning great dream tales of future civilizations replete with their own built-in histories—building, because they were now allied with time, mental edifices that automatically created pasts as well as futures.

(Pause.) In a fashion those ancient dreamers, through their immense creativity, dreamed all of life’s creatures in all of their pasts, presents, and futures—that is, their dreams opened up the doors of space and time to entities that otherwise would not have been released into actualization, even as, for example, the units of consciousness were once released from the mind of All That Is.

[...] With sirens screeching several cars and trucks sped past on Walnut Street, two doors away. [...]

[...] They use the immediately-past life as a canvas, and with the same “canvas,” they attempt a better picture. [...]

[...] Now this is something she has taken upon herself and in her way, and I am not necessarily agreeing with this you understand, in her way she is trying to pay back errors that she feels that she made in the past. [...]

[...] Now Miss Grant could, instead, you see, be full of the joy that exists in all personalities and in all pasts, and she could be as much help to the individuals involved but working from an entirely different level. [...]

[...] And then you will meet these in exterior circumstances and recognize them in others for they have been offered to you, both kindness and love and trust, in the past, and you did not recognize them. [...]

(To Sally.) I can show you the children you have had in the past, and those you will have in the present and in the future. For the present, past and the future are all present, but not when you hit the panic button when I come as you have done in the past. [...]

[...] The great — the greatest creative force — that force that is the origin for all physical life — did not suddenly appear once in some distant past, sparking the birth of your reality, endowing it with an energy that could only then run down, or dissipate. [...]

In the past some religious groups have also promoted beliefs that illness is a sign of God’s punishment, or vengeance for sins committed against his “goodness.”

[...] The other brother was battling for what the organization wanted, and served the organization well—you are now battling the things the organization wants and you feel the division—this division is bringing up memories subconsciously, in this past life where there was this division between you and your brother. [...]

[...] If reincarnation is to be considered, their disturbed relationship this time might reflect past connections of a different yet analogous nature, and may also have important effects upon any future ones. [...]

In all of this I’ve barely hinted at the complicated relationships involving other family members from the past, present, and future. [...]

Whatever the initial course of action agreed to in just this probable reality by everyone involved, from whatever point in the “past,” in Framework 1 the participants have subjected it to an almost infinite variety of choices and modifications through the years: but always—always—within nature’s great structure, and accompanied by the utter freedom of each person concerned to accept, reject, abort, or change the whole affair from their individual perspective at any moment….

[...] This may be true whether or not we believe in past and future lives, and/or counterparts, yet I can see no way such postulated manifestations can be “proven” at this time.

You find difficulty in escaping from time, as a rule, and therefore you are also imprisoned by past, present and future, in such a way that they appear to be walls which never can be climbed. [...]

The third inner sense, as I have told you, will enable you to some extent to free yourselves from the constructions of past, present and future, and will permit in theory instant cognition. [...]

[...] However, I held up much material the past few sessions, as I dealt with fluttery Ruburt’s ego. [...]

[...] You would be handy with electrical apparatus, having dealt with these ideas in the past. [...]

[...] He said that the green jacket represented a new ability that had been mine in a past life but which I misused, this new ability was now waiting for me to claim. The people were all persons with who I’d had past life connections. [...]

[...] Then it seemed to me that I had known about it in some dim past and forgotten. [...]

[...] I recalled that the people here were friends of mine from that same remembered past and that I had visited them before in this same manner. [...]

[...] At the same time, it occured to me that I had lain down at 10:30, and, surely, it was past the half-hour I had given myself. [...]

[...] Then she reminded me that several times during the past week she’d felt that Borledim, the next family of consciousness on Seth’s list, is strongly concerned with parenthood and related roles.)

[...] In your time they may be diplomats, as they were also in the past. [...]

In the past some (Ilda) have been great courtesans, and even though they were not able to travel physically, they were at the heart of communication — that is, a part of court life, or involved with diplomats who did travel.

[...] Some members of this family served as initiators of new orders in the (Catholic) church in the past — the worldly Jesuits, for example, and some of the more sophisticated popes⁵ (amused), who had a fine eye out for commerce and wealth. [...]

[...] The emotional charge connected with an item may lead me into both your past and present, but I must then distinguish for you between what has happened and what will happen, although for me no such difference exists.

[...] Past life dreams are root dreams. [...]

[...] She said little at first, though I could tell she was recalling material from that past relationship. [...] Whenever I mention a “past life,” this is what I actually mean. [...]