“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“3. Our experience of the present is enriched by our memory of past perceptions. In some systems it works the other way: Inhabitants are aware of the future as we are of the past. On the other hand their ‘memory’ of the past fades almost at once.

Seth treats his own reincarnational background both generally and specifically, if rather briefly on both counts, in Chapter 22 of Seth Speaks. For the names of three of his past personalities as given in that chapter, see sessions 588–89. [...]

[...] During the early morning hours of the 6th she had a very vivid and joyful reincarnational dream involving herself, and a dream in which she returned to her own past in this life. [...]

[...] I saw only the end of the program, but it involved, Jane told me, a persons traveling from a present life into a past life. [...]

[...] (Pause.) They may become activated, however, by certain associations made in your present, and therefore draw into your present time some glimpses either from the future or the past. [...]

[...] There are certain points where such events are closer to you than others, in which mental associations at any given time may put you in correspondence²⁰ with other events of a similar nature in some future or past incarnation, however. [...]

[...] You will be forming new gestalts of experience, using past, present and future as a painter chooses his colors, combining them into various paintings.

[...] In the past any such experiences have been accidental on your parts. [...]

[...] The object was part of my experience, in the immediate past. [...]

[...] Your father has now strong feminine traits because in Boston in an immediately past life there was a woman—give us a moment—the first name was also Lillian. [...]

[...] There is some past life that operated in your case that has caused a block, and we hope that we can help you remove it. [...]

[...] The portrait is a portrait of Ruburt as a woman in one of the past lives mentioned—and in that particular instance, as a grandmother of twelve children. [...]

He is in a state of frozen waiting, and all of the elements given in the past have applied. [...]

In the past many of you here were of the same age group. [...]

[...] In the past you felt surrounded at least by relative good will... [...]

[...] Members of your species are at various stages, and if you ignore stereotypes, historical connotations, then you can see traces of all of the areas of man’s so-called past development now in the present, and also examples of future development. Because of your time concepts and beliefs, the examples from the future even in this exercise will not appear as clearly as those of the past. [...]

(A quick, and probably partial answer: I do not know how much I may have counted upon Jane’s symptoms in the past to furnish a private world in which I could work. [...]

The people represent those who still have past and future lives in your terms. [...]

[...] It has data from its own past lives that will also have a part in its psychic structure, and that is entirely independent of any information you have given it as parents. [...]

It is aware of you both as psychic entities, and retains strong and unclouded perceptions of your past relationship. [...]

[...] The physical improvements are greater in this past week than you realize. [...]

[...] This may involve a lengthy journey for some of you, with your belief systems, for many of your impulses now are the result of the pressure caused by perfectly normal unacknowledged ones in the past. [...]

[...] “I have sessions now at times when I wouldn’t have bothered to in the past. [...]

[...] Like maintenance sessions, but usually by discussing past material — connecting it with the present [‘connective sessions’ is more like it] — while not necessarily adding new thrust. [...]

(Long pause.) You have settled upon a system that seems to be naturally based, the exclusive results of your historic past, one in which your main activities are daytime ones. [...]

[...] The very sentence structure has time built in, you see, so you are bound to think that I am speaking of an almost indescribable past. Also, I use time terms, since you are so used yourselves to that kind of categorizing, so here we will certainly run into our first seeming contradiction (see the last session) — when I say that in the higher order of events all universes, including your own, have their original creations occurring now, with all of their pasts and futures built in, and with all of their scales of time winding ever outward, and all of their appearances of space, galaxies and nebulae, and all of their seeming changes, being instantly and originally created in what you think of as this moment.

A point now that I want you to heed in advance: In the past, because of joint negative attitudes, I have given the reasons for some of these. [...]

[...] The basic “problem” (in quotes) again therefore has festered, gone underground, in the past. [...]

[...] Rooney, our black cat, had been injured somehow in the left front leg, so that for the past four days he had been moving about on three legs. [...]

It moved twice in the past two years however, for added space. [...]

[...] I am speaking in very simple terms now, and yet those involved in a flood, for example, want the past washed away, or want to be flooded by bursts of vital emotions such as disasters often bring. [...]

[...] In the same way, entering life, you often assure yourselves that past friends or relatives are there before you.

[...] The bottom represents the underground connections of your own past lives. [...]

[...] His need of you on the other hand also keeps him from plunging, as he did in his past life, too deeply and emotionally into other realities without the brakes that the intellect usually applies. [...]

[...] In the past Ruburt fought to trust in his own authority, while still holding the belief that the world’s authorities must know what they were doing. [...]

[...] These “infinities” would reach of course into both an infinite past and future. Yet true infinity reaches far beyond past or future, and into all probabilities — not simply straightforward into time, or backward.

[...] She paused, then resumed in the past tense: “It came up fairly close to me. [...]

[...] In the 686th session he discussed our cells’ comprehension of the past, present, and future, as well as our cellular responses to a variety of neurological pulses besides that certain range we’re egotistically focused upon. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Some is difficult to explain clearly, because Ruburt wanted to make sure of the validity of the sessions from the start, and because of other material given in the past, he did not fully accept the sessions or his own psychic abilities as an integral part of his personality—since they appeared relatively late in life, where the poetry, for example, had always more or less been apparent. [...]

[...] Fears, however, have prevented him from fully trusting—or consistently trying—such avenues, not only fears, but the batteries of past beliefs, both on his part and yours, with their unfortunate patterns of behavior and conditioned responses. [...]

[...] “I’ve seen the same situation come up many times in the past, and let it go, but we can’t do that now....” [...]

[...] I felt it might possibly remind her of a past life, or a past-life location. [...]

[...] In the past you have been afraid of what you considered, but no longer consider, the chaos of inwardness. [...]

In the past you often railed against Saturday chores while he was quite happily enjoying them. [...]

Part of the reaction had to do with past conditioning, and was all interwoven. [...]

[...] Again, you both in the past found any endeavor disconnected from your work as a distraction. [...]