“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

That which was is constantly taken into what you call the present. [...] It may reject various reactions as a part of the past, for it is the ego alone who is concerned with past, present and future. [...]

[...] All is experienced as present. [...]

Concentrate upon the present moment — but more, concentrate upon the most pleasant aspects of the present moment. [...]

[...] This imaginary personage may say that it is God, or a famous hero from the present or the past, or Jesus Christ, or Mohammed, and the personality involved will be quite certain that such is the case.

[...] These too, however, are a secondary series of activities, riding beneath your present primary concern. They are as unconsciously a part of your present, and as connected with it, as yesterday is.

Imagine vividly what you will do tomorrow, and in detail plan a probable day that will rise naturally from your present experience, behavior, and purposes. [...] Your “future” life exists in the same manner, and in your terms grows as much out of your present as tomorrow grows out of your today.

All of the probabilities practically possible in human development are therefore present to some extent or another in each individual. [...]

[...] This does not mean that man in the present has fallen from some higher spiritual achievement to his current state.

[...] This he transmits to B. But B can’t receive the thought in its present condition, for the act of receiving a thought also changes it. [...]

[...] Some action is always present. [...]

[...] Action also takes place within the spacious present. [...]

[...] On the one hand action is indeed simultaneous, yet in it all action is contained, for it occurs within the unlimited spacious present. [...]

[...] In your present circumstances, it was more or less inevitable, generally speaking, that when he began to release that desire, the fears that had earlier impeded its release would also come to the fore.

He began to creatively consider what he would do, and then out of habit projected, at times, his present circumstances, so that they seemed to contradict his hopes. [...]

The worry about the time element is the result of your present concern over whether or not you are affecting Framework 2 properly. [...]

[...] Driving downtown is stimulating to Ruburt, but he should not feel out of it at such times, or concentrate upon the comparison between his present and the desired state. [...]

[...] She had done some yoga this afternoon, but she didn’t think this had anything to do with the present state.

[...] But both of you are overanxious, and even you concentrate too much upon what seems to be the enormity of the difficulty, or Ruburt’s present predicament.

It is exactly what you must avoid, and what you tell Ruburt he must avoid, for it does reinforce the present condition. [...]

[...] No matter what improvements may have taken place, as Seth states, during such times it is very difficult to be aware of anything but the present.)

[...] So it is futile to become angry at a symptom, or to deride the body for its condition when it is presenting you with the corporeal replica of your own thought, as it was meant to do.

It often seems, when such ideas as these are presented, that the ideal results in your terms would be perfection — “heaven on earth” — a state in which everyone would be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

[...] Such a course would not, in physical reality, present you with anything like a balanced picture of perfection.

[...] The interior workings of the body, to be conscious, would have to deal with time sequences that would present the physically attuned consciousness with “mathematical” deductions and calculations far too numerous for it to handle. [...]

[...] There will be a particular conversation of an evening, with I believe six people present, and during the conversation a project will be born, spontaneously, and it will to some extent change your lives.

[...] There is an H—Helena comes to mind, but it is probable that this Helena is merely connected to one of the women present.

[...] I believe three of you—wait—you will know three, I believe, of those present, having met them at least once before this particular evening. [...]

In one of the homes of those present there is a statue immediately within a front door, and perhaps a hallway. [...]

The next chapter will describe what you may call my present environment; my present “characteristics,” and my associates. [...]

Proofreading involved work on Rob’s notes mainly, as he made them more presentable. In some cases, material not a part of the book was included if it seemed relevant, cast sidelights on the method of presentation, or gave insights into Seth himself. [...]

[...] Two weeks after it was finished, however, Seth dictated the outline for this present manuscript, in which he would be free to state his ideas in his own way, in book form.

[...] These names represent our entire personalities as distinguished from our present physically oriented selves.

Elements from past, present and future may be indiscriminately available to you. [...] Yet you may be straddling time in such an instance, perceiving, say, the room as it was in the 1700’s and the street as it appears in your present. [...]

[...] If none is present, you will know you are out of the system. The dream universe is obviously closely connected with your own, since pseudo-objects are present. [...]

7. The spacious present is here more available to the senses.

[...] You have completely forgotten the chaos and unpredictable nature it presented before learning processes were channeled into its specific directions. [...]

[...] Quite interesting, but as I told Jane, it reminded me of just what a task it is to start at the beginning and present an explanation of the Seth material. [...]

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

[...] I told her that Seth didn’t go into our questions about his material in yesterday’s session, concerning changing the past from the present, nor did he comment on Carol Steiner’s Ph.D. thesis on the Seth material. [...]

[...] All of these exercises should be followed by a return to the present: You focus your attention outward in the present moment as clearly as possible, letting the sounds and sights of the physical situation come into your attention.

[...] Sometimes when you are awake, and it is convenient, imagine that your present experience of the moment is a dream, and is highly symbolic. [...]

[...] They are quite native, again, in dream states, and are always present as alternatives beneath usual awareness.

[...] What information do you have, for example, presently unknown to yourself? [...]

[...] Present were Janet Clifton and Candice. [...]

[...] I am at present at odds with my aunt, a female relative, and I know I should be handling this situation better. [...]

[...] At any given “time,” depending on whatever information he’s given previously, Jane could just as easily quote Seth as placing Atlantis in our historic past, or in a probable past, present, or future — or all four “places” at once, for that matter. Any or all of these views would simply be repatterning other dimensions of time from our “present point of power.”

Much in these passages fits in with material I’ve presented in Appendix 12, on the reasons behind the pain and suffering in the world. [...]

[...] Actually, however, we’re using the word “new” to indicate our present physical and psychological states. [...]

10. In Volume 1, quotations from Seth’s material just given on Atlantis are presented in Note 3 for Session 702.

[...] My present concern is that if there are young birds in the fireplace they may be trapped, not having room enough to learn to fly. [...]

[...] (Pause.) From the beginning Ruburt has questioned whether or not our material gave a true explanation of reality—or at least presented one that was as approximately true as possible. [...]

[...] They can present dramatizations. [...]

[...] In that way, Ruburt’s own current experience can reach back to comfort the child in the present. [...]

(Before the session this evening I spent some time blowing off steam about a variety of large issues that we see reflected in our daily news media—such things as corruption, pollution, inflation, the destiny of the race if it persists in its present ways, etc. [...]

[...] Regardless of what you may think of their present performance at any given “time” in quotes, it is from this system that the greatest potentials emerge; for having dealt with it, consciousness undergoes one of the severest tests in learning to handle its own energy.

[...] They go on and learn from other realities, granted, but yours is the hardest to manage, and those who accept it go off into a certain line of development where the potentials are beyond anything of which you can presently conceive.

[...] In his desire to help others Aerofranz then can demand too much of Adam under present circumstances.

[...] Though it seems to you that reincarnational existences involve past and future events, they are existences parallel or adjacent to your own present life and consciousness. [...]

The answers to the nature of reality, the intimate knowledge of All That Is that you all seek, is within your present experience. [...]

[...] In the terms of which I am speaking for your benefit, their present might, for example, include the life and death of your planet in a moment of their “time.” [...]

I am almost always present as a translator at such times. [...]

The loving acknowledgement of their own uniqueness would in itself show them how to begin to use their own abilities in their own way, and to trust their present situation. [...] But that direction can only be found by using what you have in the now that you know, and by acquiescing to your own opportunities and abilities, and using those through the power of the present.

You will accept your present position, whatever it is, as being a part of that direction, and realize that from it can come all the creative elements that you need. [...]

The Point of Power Is in the Present.

[...] We perceive your present room, understanding that you consider it this indivisible reality and yet our presence was sensed. [...]

[...] It is only at your present point of comprehension that you judge reality according to the number of people who perceive the same thing. [...]

[...] But it is good for you to understand that personality can have other characteristics than those you presently ascribe to it. [...]

The volumes automatically unite the material, present it within certain frameworks of discipline. [...]

[...] When this occurs the perceptions have already altered it, so that it is very difficult to perceive at the same time the present physical location and the past one. [...]

[...] If all of those functions must be beneath present consciousness, you can see that no single ego-consciousness could easily grapple with several environments, times, or life experiences. [...]