“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you begin trusting yourselves, you start by taking it for granted that to some extent at least you have not trusted yourself or your impulses in the past: You have thought that impulses were dangerous, disruptive, or even evil. [...]

Even the c-e-l-l-s (spelled) are free enough of time and space to hold an intimate framework of being within the present, while being surrounded by this greater knowledge of what you think of as the earth’s past. [...]

[...] In past cultures, diseases have been wiped out through the intercession of good spirits. [...]

[...] When women had too many children in the past, many did not live to adulthood. [...]

[...] You both managed at the end to not fall into the kind of situation that in the past you might have, considering the conditions.

[...] Last night’s experience could, and in the past would, have severely set you back, because then your self-disapproval simply would have been deepened. [...]

[...] Events from past, present, and future can be safely experienced, as can events that would be termed probable from your usual viewpoint, since the body, again, is not required to act upon them.

[...] But other cultures in your past have experienced reality quite differently as a result of encouraging different neural patterns, and putting experience together through other focuses.

A fragment from the past, pertaining to a child. [...]

[...] It will help also at times if, when hearing various voices that have annoyed you in the past, you try to think of them in terms of images and colors. [...]

(By now Jane was pacing around the room at a fast rate, back and forth past the recorder. [...]

[...] If he considers a native in Africa, for example, as a superstitious rather imbecilic, almost prehistoric creature from the past, then he will learn nothing of that man’s ability. [...]

I have avoided in the past going into the event of death, as you know it on your plane. [...]

[...] In the past as you think of it historically, several groups experimented along those lines. [...]

[...] My mother didn’t speak to me or look directly at me; like the others, she faced just past my left shoulder.

[...] My mother was obviously in control of her faculties, even though she appeared to be a little distraught … The fact that she looked past me speaks of some sort of barrier, or distance, between us even in the dream state. [...]

[...] The ritual of the dressings and so forth, and the general concentration upon those portions of his body have, in the past, helped prolong the condition. [...]

[...] Those are the ideas you are combating—not simply Freudian or Darwinian concepts from your lifetimes, but the accumulated misinformation from that historic past. [...]

Now, our friend seldom attempts to block during a session as he did in the past. [...]

[...] You have in the past not fully realized the abundance of energy personally open and available to you, the overflow that makes everything easy. [...]

[...] No single historic past could explain what you are now as an individual or as a member of a species. [...]

New sentence: In your historical past, when man identified his identity with the soul, he actually gave himself greater leeway in terms of psychological mobility, but eventually the concept of the soul as held resulted in a distrust of the intellect. [...] Part of man’s latest over-identification with the intellect is, of course, an overreaction to those past historical events. [...]

[...] Yet the statement: “The universe began in some distant past,” is, in basic terms, just as meaningless.

[...] Whenever science or religion seeks the origin of the universe, they search for it in the past. [...]

In the picture of reality he has been accepting, for the reasons given in past sessions, he did not believe he could move capably. [...]

These feelings, this extra vitality, enriches then paintings that you did in the past earlier. [...]

[...] (To Jim H.): In one of your past lives you not only heartily believed this, but taught it.

(To Art O.): Even our African god over there can remember his past lives if he will only allow himself to do so.

I was walking past the world
one day,
half deciding not to stay,
when I saw you standing there,
ten years ahead of me in time
but so close in space
that I reached out
and touched your arm.

[...] This is merely a beginning of courses in which you will become involved and you will meet your selves in those other levels of actuality as on several occasions you seem to meet yourselves in reincarnational situations in this room, so that you will be able to relate not only to the physical individual in this space and in this time and in this room, but also able to relate to other portions of your personality, in your terms, that existed in the past or will exist in the future. [...]

[...] As long as you persist in thinking in terms of past, present and future, then the cause and effect theory is a logical and seemingly infallible result. When you develop your time theory and realize that present, past and future are merely effects and distortions caused by your own perspective, then your scientists will realize that cause and effect is a passé and antiquated theory, useful only for a short time—I hope you appreciate the pun with the word time—and should be discarded.

[...] Your camouflage physical universe does, necessarily, lead you to suppose that time exists in terms of past, present and future, simply because the idea or energy constructed into physical reality therefore operates under physical properties.

[...] The first of these would be Jane’s nearly extreme physical changes over the past few months, her ups and downs as far as mobility, feelings, aches, restless sleep, etc., are concerned. [...]

[...] This present session represents, then, our latest attempt to come to terms with all of our personal, public, and creative aspects involved with the Seth material—not just those we’d chosen to deal with in past years.

[...] And I for one wonder about disclaimers for future books—or even having them added to past works. [...]

[...] No way to get away from those fifteen books of the past, I said, so to that extent we have to live with the results they engender. [...]