“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The present within which you seem to experience the dream is not, however, the present in physical time, the present in which your body lies upon the bed. [...]

[...] While sleeping in your present time, you may have a dream that concerns your personal past, while the dream is concerned with events that you know to have occurred many years ago. Nevertheless you may experience these events as happening within the present.

It should be obvious to you also that within your dreams a spatial location that belongs in present physical time can be experienced in the past or in the future within the dream framework, and there is much more here than meets the eye; and you must be careful so that you catch it. [...]

[...] When such changes occur in an obvious manner, we shall see that you both are present.

Now returning briefly, I would like again to mention our spacious present, in which all things have their existence. When the spacious present is understood, with its attributes of spontaneity, then the cause and effect theory will fall. [...] Basically, the spacious present as you know does have durability, because of the existence of value fulfillment.

[...] 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.

The capacity and mechanism necessary to project idea into physical matter is, therefore, present in the individual atom and molecule. [...]

[...] You are simply blocked in the pursuit of knowledge beyond a certain point as long as your scientists persist in the lines of their present development.

(The last session we presented in Mass Events, the 841st, was held on March 14. [...]

[...] It would hardly be a coincidence, I added, that the mass events at Jonestown and Three Mile Island took place within less than six months of each other, and that they represented the two poles, or extremes, of mankind’s present main belief systems: religion and science.

[...] Some of the more generalized dream material is presented below; some of the more individualized portions [which, in fact, came at the start of the session] are given in Note 2.

[...] He was still working on The “Unknown” Reality when Seth finished this present book. [...]

I say: “In our terms,” because the sessions themselves seem ever-present, despite all I’ve just said. [...]

[...] And yet I feel that only a portion of his consciousness is here during sessions — the part expressed through me — so that whatever the nature of Seth’s native experience, his performance in our world only hints of a psychological complexity quite beyond our present understanding.

[...] For this manuscript not only presented a fascinating picture of a genius at work, but gave specialized knowledge of a field — art — in which I am at best an amateur. [...]

There is also another member of this particular family who is presently a woman, and there is also another member who is presently a man. [...]

You draw upon your own entity’s hidden abilities and knowledge, and therefore transcend the limits of your own present personality. You are not only your present personality, you are the sum of all your personalities. [...]

[...] Mark needs to wait and listen longer when such experiences present themselves. [...]

His present mother was a wife to him when he was overly aggressive, and he chose to be born as her son in this existence in order to pay an old debt. [...]

[...] Their effects may have surrounded you, or you may have switched beliefs in one particular area of your life; but each can be changed if you utilize the power of action in the present. [...]

[...] You give yourselves post-hypnotic suggestions all the time, particularly when you project present conditions into the future. [...]

(11:40.) During the period, however, do remember that you are using the present as a moment of power to insert new beliefs, and that these will indeed be materialized. [...]

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. [...]

[...] One child now the present husband, and one a very distant relative. [...]

([Rob:] “I just wanted you to explain it to the people present.”)

[...] They present reality to you in their own way. [...]

[...] And at the present time you are not willing to give that much attention to these other portions of your personality that you recognize do exist. [...] And I tell you this honestly—you can afford yourself more freedom than you are presently allowing yourself. [...]

[...] Methods will be given that will allow the present ego, to some extent, to become aware of its own greater reality. [...]

[...] And the theories are not yet fully presented by any means. [...]

I wanted to know that I was present here this evening and that I have been listening to your conversation. [...]

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 need and the yearning to love and to know are both biologically present within you. They are present within the animals, and within a blade of grass.

[...] Whether or not you have any great success, the exercise will begin a neurological reorientation that will be most important if you hope to glimpse realities that are outside of your present neurologically accepted sense-reality.

You have put yourselves in a position where your consciousness must now become aware of the probable pasts and probable futures, in order to form for yourselves a sane, fulfilling, and creative present.

[...] A photograph lives in the present of your psyche, and a fossil in the living vitality of your cells (spelled).

1. Immediately begin to live in the present as much as possible. Try to become as aware as you can of present sense-data — all of it. [...]

[...] Tell yourself you can worry all you want tomorrow, or on some other occasion — but resolve not to worry in the present moment.

3. When your thoughts do touch upon your particular problem in that present moment, imagine the best possible solution to the dilemma. [...]

The physical body can only react in the present moment. Worrying about future events, or dwelling upon past unfavorable situations, only confuses the body’s mechanisms, and undermines their precise activity in the present moment.

(4:20.) I am not saying that anyone should pretend that unfavorable circumstances do not sometimes exist, or that they may not be encountered in the past, present, or future. [...]

[...] I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms of which I speak — but know that I am present and approachable.

[...] In midlife you were presented with our sessions — or [the two of] you presented yourselves with them, if you prefer. [...] You did not realize that you were being presented, not merely with an alternate view of reality, but with the closest approximation you could get of what reality was, and how it worked, and what it meant.

[...] Toward the end of our present book (Dreams), we will be discussing how our ideas can be applied by the individual in terms of value fulfillment, so that individuals can begin to reclaim those dimensions of experience that are indeed your rightful heritage.

(10:44.) Now: in certain terms, past, present, and future are all compressed in any given moment of your experience.

[...] As I have mentioned, you can indeed change the present to some extent by purposefully altering a memory event. [...]

Using emotion from the present, let him now imagine the event only defiantly, saying to hell with the feelings he had at that time about the dumb psychologist. [...]

[...] The point of power is in the present. [...]

[...] We’re presenting the statement below, and a few examples from the outline, in order to show some of her other activities while producing “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] In reverse order, therefore, I’ll present first the statement she wrote describing that process of reception once it was completed, then return to the outline itself.)

[...] Its private idea of history as alive in cellular memory, upon which the body’s current present is based. [...]

The Present Development of Ego Consciousness, and Why We’re at This State
The connections with health and illness.

Now I am giving all of this material here because it will help you understand and use your present abilities. [...]

[...] Learning processes are definitely hampered through your present habits, for there are certain periods when consciousness is attuned to learning, and yet you try to force learning during unrecognized minimal periods. [...]

If the stages of waking consciousness were examined as sleep stages are presently being examined, for example, you would find a much greater range of activity than is suspected. [...]

[...] And even in future years such past instances can be experienced as vividly as any present experience. In other words, to some large extent such a strong emotion unites experience and knocks down the artificial barrier of past, present and future.

[...] An intensive emotion will represent the present in time, a particular instant of now.

[...] The immediate emotion of any moment, therefore, forms the framework of your present time within the waking state. [...]

[...] When you reach this imaginary physical experience, and if you are emotionally involved in it, then it becomes the PRESENT, in capital letters.

[...] You form these anew, however, adding to them the knowledge and vitality of your present self.

(Smile.) You need not paint one neck with ten heads, but the one portrait can be made to suggest previous structures and characteristics that have merged to produce the present head. [...]

It is after all the you from which you spring, and the impetus within the present self. [...]

[...] As I told you, I was present, though in the background; Ruburt’s tutor—and it was I—who showed him how to return when he felt it desirable. [...]

[...] Hints of those abilities are always present in the dream state, and in the arts, in the religions, and even in the sciences. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Your present technological advances can almost be dated from the [invention of] the printing press, to Edison’s inventions, which were flashes of intuition, dream-inspired. [...]

[...] Originally I’d planned to present excerpts here from our joint material—but I see now that I have no space in which to do so.

[...] Although she didn’t reach the peaks of soaring eloquence she’d touched upon in that last session, elements of that state were present tonight.)

[...] It would be backtracking to repeat that long discussion, but as the inner universe has as its attributes spontaneity and durability, and as the spacious present is simultaneous while containing within it all pasts and all presents and all futures, and as Philip understands the meaning of expansion in terms not of time or of space but of value fulfillment, so will he intuitively then grasp that no contradiction occurs with actual reality when I say that there is no beginning and no end.

[...] But they will not end, and as we have known each other in the past and in the future and in the present, so these sessions exist in the spacious present, where time as such has no meaning.

Also I mentioned that the spacious present knows no beginning or end, and that energy, of which everything is composed, can never be withdrawn. [...]

[...] In your terms, you are obligated because of certain present self-imposed limitations, and necessary ones, to think in terms of beginning and end.

[...] To look backward into the past, speaking on my terms now and not yours, to look backward into the past entails looking forward into the future, and there is no firm ground, you see; there is no present in a basic manner, no firm ground that is the present, from which to view the future or the past. For they are all one, and you are a part of the spacious present.

Even in our discussions we use the terms past, present and future, but I have told you that your future can influence your past, and that the spacious present is the only time reality.

[...] It is true enough within the present framework of your knowledge, and the idea will work in the same way that the cause and effect theory works, which is only up to a certain point.

And time does not exist as a past, present and future in your terms. [...]