“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This time, though, I have the translation of a whole composition to present. [...] And that present clarity of voice, almost free of tremor, showed how much Jane has improved since returning home. [...]

It is not that I am holding back so much as that, in your terms, what follows is dependent upon an understanding of concepts presented earlier. [...] Probabilities have been mentioned in such a way that alternate realities are presented, showing such people that choices are available.

It is not so much a matter of Ruburt’s vocabulary, incidentally, since even a specialized scientific one would only present these ideas in its own distorted fashion. [...]

(Slowly:) I told you once that there were pulses of activity in which you blinked off and on — this applying even to atomic and subatomic particles.¹ “You” assign as real — present here and now — only that activity that is your signal. [...]

[...] However, because you are presented with a fairly cohesive picture, in which certain laws seem to apply, you think that the laws come first and physical reality follows. [...]

It is self-defeating, therefore, to blame yourself for mistakes, so-called, simply because in the light of your present development they are seen as less-developed acts than those to which you now aspire. [...]

[...] In the meantime, try to live in the present as much as possible. [...]

[...] And our friend, Ned, for all his troubles with your draft board, is quite well aware of the nature of existence and joy, but it is because you are so well aware of it that you become so desperate in the field of reality in which you are presently focused, and you must find a way to give that joy and freedom a release in the reality in which you are presently focused. [...]

[...] In the vocabulary of the present time you know, you can always cop out. [...]

[...] At the present point he identifies with the name that he has given you. [...]

[...] And your present personality will have to learn to deal with these abilities. [...]

[...] Some of those present were members of Jane’s ESP class; all had heard Seth speak at one time or another.

[...] This unexpected kind of session rarely develops these days, but, as Jane said later, the subjects under discussion were “emotionally charged” for her — and for others present, too, I might add. [...]

[...] In the discussion of “primitive” and “civilized” man that followed, Warren presented his opinion that some civilizations, such as those of Babylonia, Egypt, the Incas, and so forth, had been founded by initiate groups from Atlantis⁴ … that while “primitive” man may have had a kind of gestalt consciousness, he had no individual consciousness. [...]

I return you, as always, to the vitality of your present being, and to the authenticity of yourself. [...]

[...] Those sensed, additional improvements have to wait for the next effort: A creative tension between the present and the future is set up, then—one that I’ve often felt, an impatience to leap ahead to the next step even while I’m still working out the current one. [...]

[...] What actually happens, however, is that in the dreaming state you are presented with certain kinds of immediate knowledge. [...]

I have not touched upon some of these subjects before, since I wanted to present them in that larger context of man’s origins and historic appearance as a species. [...]

[...] It seems to the reasoning mind that it must look outside of itself for information, for it operates in concert with the physical senses, which present it with only a limited amount of information about the environment at any given time. [...]

All of the ages of Earth, in your terms both past and present, exist, as do future ages. [...] Some life forms are being developed in what you think of as present time. [...]

[...] You only choose to focus your attention upon a highly specific field of space-time coordinates, accepting these as present reality, and closing yourselves off from all others. [...]

(Pause at 9:42.) Since you do not perceive the future and do not understand that life goes out in all directions, then it seems only logical to suppose that present forms must be based upon past ones. [...]

[...] I believe now that they are among those usually present at unconscious levels; but in order to expand the potentials for the creative act as much as possible, I would like to see others learn to cultivate such visions and perceptions on a deliberate, conscious basis. [...]

(“My present brother Loren was traveling? [...]

[...] You understand that generalized material on the fifth dimension and other matters in no way jeopardizes her present personality, or causes strain or panic. [...]

At later times with your present rate of development, the distortions themselves will be held to a minimum. [...]

[...] Since feeling is a cohesive, to change it completely would hardly be of any advantage since your world of present existence would fall apart.

[...] Now all portions of the personality, of the present personality, belong to this inner ego. [...] It contains, and is, the psychological blueprint containing the full potential of the present personality within any given incarnation.

It is the director of all the subsidiary psychological subpersonalities that form the acting-present primary personality. [...]

It is the prime identity of the whole present personality. [...]

Your home station¹ does not simply present programming for you to view. [...]

[...] They will present a sound equivalent of the emotion or object perceived, an equivalent that is very direct and immediate, and that bears legitimate correspondence with the object or emotion.

[...] There is nothing “wrong” with your present habitual kind of consciousness, any more than there is anything wrong with speaking only one language. [...]

4. This material reminds me of Seth in the 681st session in Volume 1: “The deeper explanations, however [in this case of probabilities], demand a further expansion of ideas of consciousness … It is not so much a matter of Ruburt’s vocabulary, incidentally, since even a specialized scientific one would only present these ideas in its own distorted fashion. [...]

[...] That is a kind of qualitative event that in its own way cannot be judged or ascertained, and it presents a certain kind of emotional evidence—a living knowledge—that is transmitted to others, and is in its way more valuable than any scientific treatise that might validate our work.

4. The next way is to make a definite attempt, again, to live in the present, or at least to live one day at a time. [...]

[...] Planned distractions (with amusement) of short duration, but more numerous than your present habit allows. [...]

[...] Otherwise they would vie for your attention, and interfere with the present decisions that are so important. [...]

If you tried to hold all of those subconscious memories uppermost in your mind all of the time, then you would literally be unable to think or act in the present moment at all. [...]

[...] So when I tell you that time has open ends I will presently be satisfied if you understand that you can affect both the past and the future from your present viewpoint, and that is extremely simple. [...]

[...] You can, therefore, in your present say something that will change the past. And 5000 years from now you can speak to your present selves and carry a message which you will now, in this moment, understand. [...]

[...] As you continue, your information will prove more and more checkable in the physical reality to which you presently ascribe, and if you are interested in that area then, indeed, it must to some extent bear a strong relationship to the reality that you know if you request it. [...]

[...] It is a portion of the self that acts, you might say, as a messenger between the soul and the present personality. You must also realize that while I use terms like “soul” or “entity,” “inner self,” and “present personality,” I do so only for the sake of convenience, for one is a part of the other; there is no point where one begins and another ends.

There is however an inner communication, and the knowledge of one is available to any — not after physical death, but now in your present moment. [...]

I tell you this, and at the same time remind you that your present personality is never lost. [...]

Now: This discussion is not meant to be an esoteric presentation with little practical meaning in your daily lives. [...]

4. Seth’s material here reminded me of a remark he made in the 504th session, which is presented in the Appendix of The Seth Material; he was discussing the perceptions of the fetus as mediated by electromagnetic energy (EE) units: “Cells are not just responsive to light because this is the order of things, but because an emotional desire to perceive light is present.”

[...] I’ve deleted certain portions of his material about us while leaving other parts for presentation here, since they do extend his recent work for “Unknown” Reality.)

[...] You are also presented, whether you know it or not, with certain artistic challenges that the landscape itself will provide, and that you have chosen.

[...] Obvious, but intriguing: We’ll be joining the present residents of the hill neighborhood in forming a newer psychic and psychological entity than the one that existed before we arrived. [...]

[...] There was a chance that Peggy Gallagher would be present with a press camera, to take some pictures of Jane while she was in trance. [...]

(For the session Jane and I looked more presentable than usual, but by 8:30 Peggy had not appeared. [...]

When you sleep the ego becomes unfocused, but still present, and its goals and attitudes to some extent do color dream experiences. [...]

These levels of the self have known self-consciousness in other existences, before the present one. [...]

Now some individuals, some personalities, prefer a life organization bound about past, present, and future in a seemingly logical structure, and these persons usually choose reincarnation. [...]

Some, finished with reincarnation, may choose to reenter the cycle acting as teachers, and in such cases some recognition of higher identity is always present. [...]

[...] You perceive them stuck like living specimens on the glass of present time, with no comprehension of their multitudinous expression elsewhere.

There are no presents or pasts to these minds, only simultaneous experience, and a creativity that constantly of itself and its existence creates more. [...]

[...] Probable selves can be viewed by myself and others like me, for we see your reality in all of its dimensions, and you view it from the small present forms that you know. [...]

[...] You want to leave your present position and you are afraid to leave your present position; and so you have symbolized the dilemma through the condition in your foot. [...]

[...] And so as a New Year’s present I will tell you what they are. [...]

[...] It clearly illuminated his material in this session, as can be seen in the excerpt I’ve put together for this presentation. [...]

[...] The reason has more to do with the flexibility of consciousness than you presently understand. [...]

[...] There is more in what I am saying than you presently realize. [...]