“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

An idea is not itself aware of past, present and future for example, and yet having no experience with present, past and future, it still endures. [...]

[...] It is only because there is basically no cause and effect, but merely apparent cause and effect, and no past, present and future, that clairvoyance is possible in your universe.

[...] You look at him on some (underlined) occasions—far less than in the past—with great impatience and disapproval, as far as his physical condition is concerned, so that he feels he would have greater dignity alone on his knees than trying to walk with you with that look in your eyes.

[...] In the same way, if he could count on you in the exercises for a while, this would relieve him of the fear that the project, begun unsuccessfully in the past, and not continued, would follow the same pattern. [...]

No man can look in his son’s face,
What was done to him he does in turn,
For he carries the hate in his blood.
Ghosts of days forgotten,
Tragedies unseen, unspoken,
Wait in the past’s proud flesh,
And nothing can shake them off.

Mountains and hillsides cut through my arm.
Rivers fly past my pulse
Generations of ghosts laugh at my talk
While my tissues burn and go up in smoke.

All of this had to do with past conscious decisions and responses to situations that, in your terms, no longer existed at the time of the flood. [...]

[...] Their past involved camping out, and, at least once, in very primitive surroundings (in Baja California).

[...] To that degree and in the light of this discussion, you end up with what I will call —and have in the past called—the overly conscientious self, which attempts to deal with the attitudes of the Sinful Self by checking and double-checking all the time, by being, in other words, overly conscientious: is Ruburt dealing with “the truth,” and so forth? [...]

[...] An overconcern (underlined) about the mechanics of publication, or the necessity of publication, or the wheres and hows of publication, or a sense of responsibility about the work, can indeed cause difficulty, but the basic creative expression—which has been impeded in the past by fears—should still be encouraged. [...]

[...] You give constructions their appearance of continuity by continually creating them in line with your expectations, based upon among other things, previous constructions in the apparent past; and these expectations are the result of psychic communication between yourselves and others, particularly from parents, who give the child his first conceptions of the environment which, indeed, his parents have created.

(For the following, 73rd session, we had as guests Dr. and Mrs. Piper, with whom we have become acquainted in the past year or so. [...]

[...] Although you are both doing ever so much better, nevertheless you have expended much subconscious energy in the recent past, and not in constructive ways. This loss is much less than the same situation would have caused you in the past.

[...] There is no need blaming yourself that in the past you allowed the weeds to grow, sometimes in your ignorance imagining them to be flowers. [...]

Now tell him he has learned, for in the past he would have allowed this to continue, and he did not. [...]

[...] In the same way the past or the future is closed out. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, at a conscious level they can provide you with valuable information about your future and your past.

[...] It is why the few sudden releases, as with the Prentice letter, have in the past been followed by poorer days for a while.

[...] In the past he did not want to accept his spontaneous nature because he felt he was not sufficiently disciplined or strong enough to control it, and he did not want to accept the responsibility for it.

(From the ESP class session for January 7, 1975:) 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.²⁹

(To me, later in the session and with much humor:) You had no problems with parents in the past — and, my dear Yo-Yo, you were an excellent father to me at one time, and if I may say so, at one time I was an excellent father to you. [...]

[...] Only after such a basis [is established] will the idea of reincarnation achieve its natural validity, and only when it is understood that the subconscious, certain layers of it, is a link between the present personality and past ones, will the theory of reincarnation be accepted as fact.

[...] Therefore, I do not need to adopt a past ego [of my own]. [...]

[...] They belong to the past, and again they escape the questioning and examination that are usually given to new ideas. [...]

[...] Objects or events known to you in your past still exert their pressures upon you even as your own effect still changes them. [...]

[...] Using the power point of the present, you seek backward into the past, reorganizing data to those ends, and project them into the future. [...]

[...] You try to hide what you think of as negative feelings in the closet of your mind, as in the past they closeted insane relatives. [...]

We have in the past discussed in full the manner in which physical matter is formed. [...]

(Traffic noise had been increasing past the front of our house. [...]

But this illness is not so accepted by the whole self, or by the deeper layers of the personality, although certain general tendencies from past lives have aided the personality to strike out physically against his own organism in such a manner.

[...] A connection with the past, and with your parents.

[...] There was of course no photo involved, or a house or any connection with my parents, or the past.

[...] She does believe that this knowledge has in itself prevented her from being led astray from Seth’s data a few times in the past, and that her ability in separating Seth’s data from her own will grow.

Ruburt, in the past, has given you some good advice. [...] But your inner problem does not have to do with work, but why you did not find work in the past. [...]

[...] You have allowed her, in the past, to take full control of your life and destiny, and this no individual can do. [...]

In the past I saw no reason to dominate these sessions with any particular effects. [...]

[...] I have not pushed in the past for any kind of arrangement where proofs can be obtained....

[...] We have not had to deal with this in the past. [...]