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On the other hand as I have told you, your past continually changes. [...] The question of clairvoyance however is not at issue with information given concerning your past. Your future changes as your past changes. [...]

[...] I have access to your so-called past. [...] To me your past, present and future merge into one.

[...] You change it, in the same manner that you have changed the past. [...] And the choice is dependent upon your choices in both past and present.

[...] Jane spent much time going over past envelope experiment results. [...] He has also said in the past that this kind of work on Jane’s part can lower the level of her results.

[...] I am myself … You are death and you are life … Ruburt can do many things that surprise me — that I did not do in my past, for remember that fresh creativity emerges from the past also, as in [Ruburt’s novel] Oversoul Seven. My memory does not include a predetermined past in which Ruburt exists. [...]

(4. Seth also said that it would be “not practical” and “boring” for him to relive his life as a pope, then added: “In those terms, many people do choose to reexperience what you would think of as a past existence in order to change it as they go along.” [...] Again in Seth Speaks, see Seth’s material at 10:07 in the 539th session for Chapter 10: “You may perfect [that past life], in other words, but you cannot again enter into that frame of reference as a completely participating consciousness — following — say, the historic trends of the time, joining into the mass-hallucinated existence that resulted from the applied consciousness of your self and your ‘contemporaries.’”

[...] He surprises me, and his reactions alter my past. [...] You can say then that I am altering my own past, but Ruburt’s present experience also changes my present experience — and so there is an unending interchange.⁵

[...] You were not your past “self,” therefore, though you shared a certain relationship. [...]

An individual who has survived physical death can if he wishes recreate any portion of his own past as it was. He can recreate any portion of his own past in any way he wishes, changing his own actions within it if he so chooses, combining and reforming the entire composition. [...]

[...] I am more solidly here in our sessions now (smile, eyes open) than I was permitted to be in the past. [...]

Those who struggled and did not achieve fame for example, will sometimes recreate their past, manipulate hallucinatory relationships and events and achieve it within that counterfeit environment. [...]

He is acting out the past so vividly and with such a frenzy that electromagnetic patterns are momentarily disrupted. [...]

Take any remembered scene from your own past. [...] It is not a part of the past that you know, but an intersection point where that past served as an offshoot into a series of probabilities that you did not follow.

[...] (Pause.) This method is even more effective if you choose from your past a scene in which a choice was involved that was important to you.

[...] Your cellular knowledge of past and future probabilities alone would teach you a spiritual and corporal courtesy.

In centuries past they saw your present, though through their own vision, and so it was only partially the present as you know it. [...]

The past, and every moment of the past, are being constantly changed from the operation point of the present. In your terms, the present becomes the past, which is again changed at every considerable point from the latest-present — you may put a hyphen between the last two words, so that the meaning is clear. [...]

When you change the past from each point of the latest-present, you are also changing events at the most microscopic levels. [...]

[...] (Long pause, one of many.) She does “return to the past,” remaking it more to her liking. [...]

[...] At the time I’d wondered if she was on the downgrade, for I didn’t remember her calling out so steadily in weeks past. [...]

Think of the present as a pool of experience drawn from many sources, fed, in your terms, by tributaries from both the past and the future. [...] For example: If you constantly focus on the belief that your early background was damaging and negative, then only such experiences will flow into your present life from the past. [...] (See the 644th session in Chapter Eleven.) From the present you have hypnotized yourself, viewing the past not as it was to your experience, but as it appears now in the light of your current beliefs.

[...] If you truly understand your power of action and decision in the present, then you will not be hypnotized by past events.

[...] So when I tell you to restructure your past, I am not telling you to do something that you have not already done. [...]

[...] It is a perfect example of the instantaneous results possible ideally — but not usually seen practically — as present beliefs negate past ones.

In the past at times you did get various symptoms when Ruburt began to improve, and because of his lack of confidence and the state of his beliefs, he backtracked. [...]

[...] In the past week, also, though you may not realize it, the two of you have cleared some important underlying communications.

Events that each of you might have “misinterpreted” in the past were handled quite differently. [...]

You made some comments very important to him—further illuminating how his past beliefs colors his thoughts, so that he looked at the worst side of the given picture. [...]

[...] You react to others, not only because of their position and relationship to you in this place and in this time, but because of memories from the past and, in your terms, because of memories from the future. For what you do today affects not only the future, in your terms, but also the past. And the words that you spoke now affect the past as you think of it, for time has open ends. [...]

[...] So you are affected, again only in your terms, by your future reincarnations as well as your past ones. You can, therefore, in your present say something that will change the past. [...]

There are, indeed then, connections between you that you would call past connections but connections that also reach into the future as you conceive of it. [...]

[...] So when I tell you that time has open ends I will presently be satisfied if you understand that you can affect both the past and the future from your present viewpoint, and that is extremely simple. [...]

from the past’s sweet moments,

to save a portion of the past

[...] You can change the past, and in doing so change the present and the future. You can change the present, and in doing so change the past and the future. You can change the future, and in doing so change the present and the past.

I have told you that you can change the past. In doing so you change the self, by choosing from past experience those elements to which you shall and shall not react. [...]

This projected image will of itself already alter the past and the present. You will change the past, your reaction to it, by vividly imagining happy hours that you refused to focus upon. [...]

(Long pause.) Ruburt has been adding to the strength of the negative influences of his past. [...]

[...] Lessons learned in the past are drawn upon. You would indeed be laden with relatives if you were aware of such past relationships.

[...] There is also a bewilderment, since in the past communication was easy. [...]

There is now an earnest desire to travel inward, but in the past the personality was involved with outward communication. [...]

In the past lives, again, desire for communication was strong. [...]

[...] The center contains condensed knowledge, not only of seemingly past lives, but also of the future. [...]

[...] Although you are not consciously aware of the past familiarity, nevertheless you use the knowledge to your conscious advantage.

[...] You will see the face behind that face, the image of the person as it was in a past life.

[...] And so the landscape, not one but many landscapes in one, for while it is unique in a given moment, still it is a composite in your terms of the pasts that have formed it, and the futures that act upon it even now.

Now the past images also represented not only the past in the historical context of civilization, but the past as it applies to your own personal subconscious. The past of memories in this life. The feeling also in your early past you had thought of escaping, looked in that direction and found structures. [...]

(To Arnold.) The dream was an exquisite creative production, you see, and in a way a commentary from other layers of yourself, not only on the present state of civilization as you see it, but a commentary upon civilizations in the past so that both past and present images were transposed, one upon the other. [...]

[...] They represented culture and civilization, both as it has existed in the past, and as you see it in the future. [...]

[...] As our past sessions show in class, you also have a strong sense of responsibility. [...]

[...] Certain incidents, trivial in themselves, will at times carry a tremendous charge, not necessarily because he is repressing thoughts about the particular incident, but because the incident recalls unresolved past issues that he has psychically associated with it.

[...] They automatically sweep his consciousness into other areas of activity, away from issues to which he may have been sensitized in the past, and serve to give him a breathing spell and refreshment.

It may seem that response to a particular episode is out of all proportion in intensity, but attached to it may be past material which does carry a heavy charge. [...]

[...] Conceivably he could make contact with you in the past, and you would have forgotten, but this is not the case. [...]

[...] The future appears as clearly as the past. Even this is highly complicated, however, for there is not just one past. [...] There are also probable pasts therefore, that exist quite outside your comprehension. You choose one particular group of these, and latch upon this group of events as the only ones possible, not realizing that you have selected from an infinite variety of past events.

You can know what happened in the past and have histories, because according to the rules of the game that you accepted, you believe that the past, but not the future, can be perceived. [...]

[...] I am trying to discuss this in your terms, since basically, you must understand, the words “past,” “present,” and “future” are no more meaningful as far as true experience is concerned than are the words “ego,” “conscious,” or “unconscious.”

It is this basic feeling about the book and Saratoga that suddenly activated past associations and brought on some identification with his mother. [...] It shocked him to know that people of the past were reading the book in his present, and seemed to draw him closer to those original associations that caused him to leave Saratoga.

[...] Those whom he relegated to the past are brought into the present. [...]

[...] His mother was superstitiously afraid of cats and in the incident in his bedroom an immediate identification was set up, under emotional stress and because of past feelings.

The sensitivity to sneakers was activated because of these connections with the mother, the children’s work hung upon the wall—this is another connection with his own past, you see, with early grades, and so is the colored girl, Dagmar, as Edward Briscoe was the only colored boy in his early grades.

The past is, then, continually changed. [...] The energy that composes them is not the same, and the past is constantly altered. Nothing can stand still, including the past, and any such appearance of stability is an illusion.

It is as much an illusion to believe that the past has vanished, as it is to believe that the future does not exist. The past does not vanish, for there was no past to vanish, in those terms.

You no longer perceive the past, therefore you think that it has vanished, and the self that you were has gone. But that particular moment, any particular moment, that you think of as the past, existed before your egotistical perception of it, and is constantly being changed by you, even when you no longer consciously perceive it.

[...] The child does not stay in a neat psychological package, enclosed in the past and insulated from the present or the future. [...]

Today is tomorrow, and present, past,
Nothing exists and everything will last.
There is no beginning, there was no end,
No depth to fall, no height to ascend.
There is only this moment, this flicker of light,
That illuminates nothing, but oh! so bright!
For we are the spark that flutters in space,
Consuming an eternity of a moment’s grace,
For today is tomorrow, and present, past.
Nothing exists, and everything will last.

[...] Both of these come from past experiences in other lives. The inner portions of your personality know the details of your past lives. The abilities that you have now have been developed in past lives. [...]

[...] The past, the present and the future as you know them are illusion, and yet they exist now. You can influence the past today; you can have memory of the future.

[...] The physical mechanism has chromosomes indeed, but the physical chromosomes have a psychic counterpart, and the psychic counterpart is the original; and within you is the codified information containing all your past lives and all your knowledge, and it is hidden so deep within you that the subconscious as you know it does not realize the truth, for the subconscious as you know it is, indeed, a very shallow affair containing only those hidden memories from this life.

[...] There is no past, present or future.

Now, you also have the memory of your future existences, for time does not exist as it seems to you now, and a portion of you is aware of your future as it is aware of your past. [...] And so your legends are not only made of your past but they are also weaved from your future, in your terms, and all of these are interwoven even with your flesh. So that if all physical knowledge were taken from you, all the knowledge that you have learned since birth in this life, and that is impossible, but if it were possible still within you would always be the inner knowledge not only of your own private past and future, but of the private past and future of your kind and of your species. [...]

[...] And yet no knowledge can be removed from you and no sense of your identity, past, present or future, can be divided from you and as you yourself do the dividing. And so in your dreams you remember the past in which you have been involved and so it seemed to you these had been forced out of a garden. [...]

([Lex:] “As we have nothing to really tangibly worry about on the ironic level from the past, then, so too, am I correct then that we don’t have to fear demons?”)

And someone (to Joanne) over here will play a greater part, not looking at anyone in particular, than you have in the past, particularly in later years. [...]