“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(1. In the 556th session, Seth said that many writers of historical pieces are writing out of direct past-life experience. My question concerned a hypothetical experiment in which, say, a hundred such writers would be hypnotized without being told what the purpose of the experiment was; once under, they would be queried about past-life memories. [...]

[...] It is particularly dependent upon emotional characteristics — not necessarily of the last incarnated self, but the emotional tensions present as a result of a group of past existences.

In these circumstances, when the personality attaches itself at conception, there is almost without exception strong past-life connections between parents and child, or there is an unceasing and almost obsessional desire to return to the earthly situation — either for a specific purpose, or because the reincarnating personality is presently obsessed with earthly existence. [...]

[...] In these terms, the ghosts of the future are as real in your homes as the ghosts of the past.

Ruburt read it, and is reading it, looking for those feelings that allowed vast improvements to occur at the time—and for once he did not look into the past with his usual self-disapproval. [...]

[...] You do not compare the present situation with a past one in a detrimental manner. [...]

[...] Do not identify with what you think of as past failures. [...]

[...] Personal association, therefore, is highly involved with your personal bank of symbols, and it operates in the dream states precisely as in waking life — but with greater freedom, and drawing from the future, in your terms, as well as from the past.

Therefore, you have greater use of symbolism in the dream state, for you are aware of past and future symbols. [...]

[...] It contained the symbols of your past existences in your terms (and in your terms, you add to it in this life). [...]

[...] You think before you learn language, as I mentioned earlier in this book, but you already have at your psychic fingertips past experiences from other lifetimes to guide you.

[...] She then tied this in with an unpleasant episode in the past where there was trouble with another sister-in-law, and this brother-in-law, and thought that the money would now make this sister-in-law sit up and wonder about her own actions in the past.)

[...] To you this might mean that it has memory of its past, and indeed to you memory itself is dependent upon the existence of a past, or it is meaningless.

Again past, present and future are definite realities only to the ego. Memory to the ego presupposes the existence of a past that no longer exists within physical reality. [...]

Learning to some extent is indeed passed on through the genes, bio-chemically, but this is a physical materialization of inner knowledge achieved and retained from past lives. Human beings learn mainly through experience, and the experience is derived from past experience in other existences.

To the dreaming self however, past, present and future as such do not exist, and yet it has what you term memory. [...]

[...] The cells’ practically felt “Now” includes, then, what you would think of as past and future, as simple conditions of Nowness. [...] There is a constant give-and-take of communication between the cell as you know it in present time, and the cell as it “was” in the past, or “will be.”

Jane dealt with some of her own concepts of time — one of them being, for instance, that the past has its own past, present, and future — in her novel, The Education of Oversoul Seven, published by Prentice-Hall, in 1973.

In thinking in terms of consecutive time, however, evolution does not march from the past into the future. [...]

[...] The reality, the physical reality of a given cell, is the focused result of its existence before and after itself in time; and from its knowledge of past and future it receives its present structure.

Each life influences each other life, and some portion of the personality retains memory not only of past lives, but of future lives also.

When reincarnational studies are embarked upon, on occasion people remember some instance of past-life experience, but conventional ideas of time are so strong that so-called future memory is blacked out.

[...] It does mean, however, that you are innately aware of all of your existences, and that the knowledge gained in one life is automatically transferred to another, whether that life be present, past, or future.

[...] Some believe that suffering is a punishment sent by God for past or present sins, or even omissions, while other religious schools insist that suffering is sent by God as evidence of his particular love for the individual involved: “God must love you very much, because he sent you so much suffering.” [...]

Your child, in a past life, this child was an uncle and in an accident you killed him. [...]

[...] While there was a past family connection, you were not the closest of friends, and there was no need or desire on either of your parts for a family connection of any duration in this life.

[...] In a past life you had no use for women, and therefore chose an existence in which you were feminine; not only feminine but endowed with those qualities that you had particularly disliked; because you feared those qualities you therefore lived with them, and to some extent learned to understand them, though you are still left with some impatience when you see them in others.

[...] The fascination was an expression of a past fascination of a different kind, though you were pleased that this time you were older.

[...] His impulsive nature is actually somewhat more restrained in this life than it was in the previously past life. [...]

[...] He is now extremely kind to make up for past cruelties. [...]

[...] The choice in the past life of a woman’s personality represented a somewhat understandable weakness on his part, and yet it also represented bravery in a sense.

His present mother, remembering subconsciously past transgressions of his, now counts upon his impulsive nature and sensitivity to pay him back, this of course representing a mistake on her part, for which she will have to suffer the consequences in still another existence.

There have been changes in the past month, extremely important in his mental and spiritual condition, and along with this the release of mental and psychic energies, and healthy concentration in all areas of his work, with reasonable and optimistic plans for the future. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Now we are able to speak much more clearly than we could in the past on these matters. [...]

Some of this has already taken place on its own in the past month (as Jane has noticed), but I thought it better not to mention this, and I believe I was correct. [...]

[...] (To me:) You have been operating far more than in the past, and you should shortly now gain conscious awareness. [...]

For some time you have all been searching, and I hope to show you how to ask the proper questions; for in the questions you will find the answers, and in the answers you shall be yourselves; and knowing yourselves fulfill your purpose, and expand the limitations of your own consciousness until you can search out the past and the present and see yourselves as you are, and know that you are more than you think you are, and fulfill those abilities which you have partially developed in past lives.

[...] You are ready to learn about your past lives, and to prepare for your future ones. [...]

(Now Jane speaking as Seth, pointed to Connie.) One I have known vaguely in my own past. [...]

[...] The personality in the past used psychic abilities for the wrong purposes. [...]

[...] At other layers of course your civilization is already in the past, as in others your civilization does not yet exist. The bleed-throughs however mean that each people according to their characteristic, interests and activities, attract certain ideas both from the future and the past, and there is constant interaction. Because of this even the past as you think of it, as I told you, is never done and completed, but constantly changed by your present and future.

In your terms the bleed-through can occur in both past and present, an idea from today bleeding into the past or the other way around. [...]

Some of the most sophisticated art is from the past. [...]

(Long pause from 9:49—9:50.) Nabene then is changed by your present actions, even as you are by his seemingly past ones. [...]

Now in the past, in your distant past, when I spoke through others, or portions of my entity did so, then such personal connections also existed with those through whom we communicated. [...]

[...] The material need not be presented in one way only, as I have told you in the past.

[...] It took me long enough in your terms to set up our communications, and our relationships in the past helped in this behalf. [...]

There is also something else that he seems to have forgotten—that your own relationships, yours and Ruburt’s and the relationships between us in the past, do much to make our communication possible. [...]

[...] As in some cases humans have quite accidentally blundered through the apparent curtain between your present and your past, so have beings blundered into the apparent division between one plane and another. Usually when they have done so they were invisible on your plane, as the few of you who fell into the past, or the apparent past, were invisible to the people of the past.

In the past, farmers used dreams to plant their crops, and weather dreams were very popular—that is, people actually dreamed about the weather in the past because of their concern and their more intimate relationship with the natural environment. [...]

[...] Only from legends do you receive any knowledge of the way in which past civilizations received their news broadcasts (quietly). [...]

[...] In ages past, the most proficient dreamers picked up ahead of time the news, and passed it on to others. [...]

In the past, again, poetry was an important method of communication, but the “rationally” tuned mind suspects it. [...]

[...] You may find after death a much stronger relationship emotionally with a personality from a past life. If you are married, for example, and have no true rapport with your mate, you may instead find a past wife or husband waiting for you.

[...] You must remember also that abilities from past lives are at your disposal for your present use. [...] Information concerning these is often given to you in the sleep state, and there is a kind of gestalt type of dream, a root dream, by which those who have known each other in past lives now communicate.

[...] Any successes in this life, any abilities, have been worked out through past experience. [...]

[...] Remembering what I said about families, realize also that towns and villages may also be composed of the past inhabitants of other such towns and villages, transposed with new experiences and backgrounds, as the group tries different experiments.

Hopefully the memories will later become memories of the future as well as the past. [...] This will make it possible for some to obtain a clear vision of their timelessness of the self, existing in future as well as past terms.

[...] They reminded man of his past. [...]

Ruburt never would have been free enough in the past for such a development to occur, and it was of course, again, no coincidence that you attended class the night the chanting began in earnest.

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

[...] The choice is dependent upon your choices in both past and present. These choices, however, are based upon your changing perceptions of past and present. [...]

Any given personal association may originate from a dream event, as well as from a past waking one. [...] Therefore, it draws its associations not only from your present and past but also from your future.

I couldn’t have known about the attack through any normal information, of course, and there was no talk around the base about rockets or anything in the past to suggest the dream — except that such a possibility existed. [...]

[...] Past events do not intrude in this manner unless they are beckoned by the conscious expectations and thoughts that exist within your mind. [...] You will be replenished and renewed as your thoughts motivate joyful body sensations and physical events, or you will be depressed as you bring into your awareness unpleasant past body happenings.

[...] Each cell remembers its past though all of its parts have been and are being continually replaced.³

[...] Within your physical being then each joyful, expanding, traumatic and tragic “past” event lies indelibly written. [...]

[...] In your terms this means that each cell operates with an innate picture of the body’s entire history — past, present, and future.

[...] It is true that in the past he would often block personal comments, but he had simply not developed enough to overcome his own nervousness, his own emotional state.

(Miss Callahan, with whom some of the early sessions were concerned, died this past week. [...]

[...] At birth the past reincarnated self may in some cases refuse or be unable to let go control over physical matter. [...]

Your mother is facing realities she would not face in the past, and seeing in physical terms the results of her own inner actions. [...]