“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(And those strange feelings of Jane’s are precisely why we’re presenting this session in Mass Events, even though it isn’t book dictation. [...]

[...] Our encounters initially take place, then, beyond the sphere that deals exclusively with either your physical world or the inner mental and psychic realm from which your present experience springs.

[...] But [this was] then carried over so that you wanted to keep your Roman (reincarnational) world and this [present] one separate and not merge them through association — as you did — so that it was difficult to know this when you did your sketches. [...]

(11:13.) There is more, but it will have to wait simply because it is not presently translatable. [...]

2. Seth emphatically says: THE PRESENT IS THE POINT OF POWER. [...] From our current present we project, for better or worse, those choices, plus any new ones we may decide upon, into each of the presents we’ll be creating throughout the rest of our lives. [...]

[...] He has projected upon the present event the picture of his fears, rather than the picture of his original intent. [...]

As Seth suggests, through even a five-minute exercise, in which we sit quietly and look about, we can become aware that the present is the point of power. [...]

They represent a present unique beyond telling, alive in each consciousness, more important than you recognize. There are no real rules to be followed that will bring you into such an encounter with the present moment of reality — only a trust in the nature of your being. And that trust is within you whether or not you recognize it, for it gives you your present experience; and no matter how your mind questions, it rides securely in the great creativity of the soul.

[...] Your physical body alone is equipped to perceive far more than you presently allow it to. [...]

Those sessions, 426–28, were held in August 1964, and Jane presented excerpts from them in Chapter 18 of The Seth Material.

In greater terms, the past is definitely created from the present. [...] “Subatomic particles,” however, appear in your present, rippling into your system’s dimensions, creating their own “tracks,” which scientists then try to observe. [...]

Psychologically, then, while you are living your memories follow a pattern of past into present. It seems, therefore, quite inconceivable that in certain terms any present event can bring about a memory of a similar event that occurred before, while instead each actually occurs at once.

[...] Even in the dream state, any present expands into its own version of past and future; so in those terms the dream possesses its own background, its own kind (underlined) of historic past, the moment you construct it.

[...] If you can think of your present idea of identity as if it were but one shape or one motion of a moving particle, a shape or a motion that never loses its imprint or meaning, then you could also see how you could follow it forward or backward to the shape or motion taken “before or afterward.”

[...] It appears to you that your present consciousness wanders backward into the past, until finally you can remember no longer—and on a conscious level, at least, you must take the very event of your birth under secondhanded evidence. [...]

[...] I hope that in other portions of this book certain mental exercises will allow you to leap over the tradition of time’s framework and sense with the united intellect and intuitions your own individual part in a spacious present that is large enough to contain all of time’s segments.

[...] They are spiritual, mental, emotional and biological beliefs that are innately present in the birth of each creature. [...]

Again, because of the simultaneous nature of time, beliefs can be changed in the present moment.

[...] Making a change in the present of a certain kind will automatically alter all beliefs “across the board,” so to speak. [...]

(“A presentation.” In the letter used as object, I offer to present my paintings for the doctor’s inspection. A presentation could also refer to the Mount Savior Arts and Crafts Exhibit, which is mentioned in the letter. [...]

[...] Here you experience the spacious present directly. [...]

[...] A presentation. [...]

[...] Having to do with the past rather than immediate present.

[...] Returning yourself to the present moment, and responding only to what is within your present environment, returns your body to a state of stability, where it is not crowded by imaginary fears of the future. [...]

[...] If there is a large body of beliefs, however, that dampen those bodily purposes, that encourage timidity rather than courage, promote fear rather than faith, then you run into difficulty—particularly if the grounds for those beliefs are not present in any given moment. [...]

[...] It experiences your projected negative pictures as present, for your fear is immediate. [...]

[...] Sue told us a little about the death of her father, and left presents for us, which we decided to open tomorrow. [...]

[...] Then I opened the presents Sue had left us. [...]

(I’d say a valuable clue as to the workings of mind and body is presented here: The dream state activity prepares the body for its subsequent activity on a larger scale. [...]

Now I bid you a fond good afternoon, but know that I am present and approachable. [...]

The dreams are often a synthesis of past, present, and future, where one main event is used as a focus point around which “present” events will be collected.

(Pause at 10:23.) All of the elements of physical experience at any given time are present in the dream state. [...]

[...] This proper placement is quite dependent upon an inner knowledge of probable future events, and your present time would be an impossible achievement were it not for this unconscious knowledge of the “future.”

[...] There are opportunities here, then, to be gained from your technology that you are not presently taking advantage of. To sleep all day and work all night is hardly the answer; it is simply the inversion of your present habits. [...]

There are many variations, in fact, that would be better than your present system. [...]

(10:39.) Some cases of strong neurotic behavior result from your present sleeping habits. [...]

[...] Small amounts of food much more frequently taken would be much more beneficial than your present practice in physical, mental, and psychic terms.

We find in the present personality knots, whereby action is not allowed freedom, particularly in terms of expansion. [...]

The situation here can be eased, and it is within the ability of the present personality to do so. [...]

Were the personality content between the two doors, there would for the present be little problems. [...]

In general in the present, the personality should relate firmly with outer reality, and also come to grips with the whole self. [...]

[...] As we have said, the moment point for you is actually composed of the amount of action which you are capable of assimilating within your present framework, for the moment point is indeed a portion of the spacious present.

[...] For while there is no real past or present or future within the spacious present, there is indeed an infinity of inward and outward; and again, of actions within actions, and there is no end to these actions for they are self-generating. [...]

There is much to be explained along many lines which we have only begun to touch upon, for all things are correlated; and there is indeed a correlation between our moment points of which we have spoken, the spacious present, and that portion of the whole self which you call the subconscious.

This should lead you to understand why physical time is basically meaningless to the subconscious, and why the inner self has at its command a knowledge of past lives and past endeavors; for the inner self, dear friends, these lives are not in the past, nor is the life of the ego necessarily present to the whole self.

Inevitably, however, much had to be omitted from The Way Toward Health as it’s presented here — not Seth’s material, but from Jane’s and my work and notes. [...] This presented a dilemma for me.

[...] They’re united now, and in larger terms also meeting with many others they know from the “past,” “present,” and “future.” [...]

[...] Self-consciousness presents a larger barrier, therefore the sense of time is greater. [...]

[...] If you will remember again our imaginary experience through the inner senses as we looked down at the street, you will remember that I spoke of sensing not only the present essence of the living consciousnesses within a certain scope, but I also mentioned sensing their past and futures.

This sensing would have been done by the third inner sense, in conjunction of course with other senses, and this perception of past, present and future would not take any clock time, at least not theoretically. [...]

[...] This experiencing of past, present and future would seem to be unwilled, almost automatic. [...]

Often the material I present will initially be given without any sign of my presence, seemingly as a startling revelation. For no matter how carefully I present the material, it is still bound to change past ideas that are strongly a part of the pupil’s personality. [...]

[...] As you will see, this analogy is a rather simple one that will do only for now, because past, present, and future do not really exist in those terms.

[...] My material must be presented in such a way that it makes sense in the context in which the pupil understands reality, particularly in the early stages. [...]

[...] Seth does refer to the first question Jane had noted, and that material is also presented as the 849th session, as well as being included here.

[...] It was allowed to leap beyond the boundaries of painting or writing, to escape even the temporal frames of your present personalities, and to form an original psychic or psychological structure—a new psychological art, if you prefer—that could be contained in none of the arts as they are known. [...]

(To me:)Your body wanted relaxation, but you believed that relaxation was, under the circumstances, wrong, and often when your body began to relax in the past you automatically tightened it, as another might straighten his tie to be more presentable. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) A very brief note in terms of significant but small connections with Framework 2: Ruburt’s attempts to get the Yale prize, Tam’s schooling at Yale, and your present experience with the papers—these simply hint at connecting clues involved with probabilities, an interesting subject that I will get into at some time.

[...] The appearance of energy in one form could be said to end in that form were it not for the existence of the spacious present, in which all realities are simultaneous.

A personality in the primary gestalt is indeed focused upon your present plane of reality, but to suppose that the whole primary gestalt is so focused represents mankind’s ego playing with one of its most preposterous proposals.

The expansion resulted from a contraction of energy, but because of the unique attributes inherent in both value fulfillment and in the spacious present, there simply was not an initial or first contraction or expansion.

[...] But again, there are infinite realities, as vivid, and some indescribably more vivid than your own, but presently you are not focused upon them.

I am not speaking of usual, but fairly unusual events, when, in one fashion or another, reincarnational memory seems to bleed through to the present life. [...]

[...] They may be lonely, and then quite surprisingly find themselves casting about for different kinds of experience — experience seemingly most difficult to achieve in the physical world under their present circumstances.

[...] Your knowing also changes the picture, and sometimes could bring into the present elements that would be accepted wholeheartedly months hence, after the development, but not at the point of your knowing ahead of time.

[...] But Ruburt’s knowing and your knowing alters your experience, changing the present as I see it—which leads, as it is, to those events.