[...] In notime is the energy that provides the basis for time as you presently experience it. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s psychic climate has indeed changed for the better, but in periods of physical symptoms beyond his present norm, you can greatly assist in such a manner, for these are simply—or not so simply—miniature pitfalls. [...]

If a different picture entirely presents itself then by all means note it. [...]

[...] You can then use it in this present. [...]

[...] Yet she said she felt better than usual, and this was true with a witness present also. [...]

You find difficulty in escaping from time, as a rule, and therefore you are also imprisoned by past, present and future, in such a way that they appear to be walls which never can be climbed. [...]

The third inner sense, as I have told you, will enable you to some extent to free yourselves from the constructions of past, present and future, and will permit in theory instant cognition. [...]

[...] This is why I have said that the inner senses present their own evidence.

[...] “Besides,” I said to Rob, “Seth says that we live in the ‘Spacious Present,’ and that there really isn’t any past, present, and future. [...]

[...] At one time, he was his present father’s uncle.

Seth went on to give an analysis of Jim’s present personality as it was connected with events from past lives, and to give him some advice about the future. [...]

[...] In passing he spoke of several episodes in Sally’s present life, some that Jon corroborated in his next letter, and one in particular that he did not know about until Seth mentioned it. [...]

[...] For what you see will influence what you do in the present. [...]

[...] It is as real as your present environment indeed, you understand this.

On very few occasions you may, if you are lucky, travel or project so effectively that you are aware of the spacious present, in which case you will sense the reality of all systems simultaneously. [...]

6. My ever-present concern for Jane would certainly have turned into outright fear had I seen at once the long, untitled poem she wrote on August 26, concurrently with her work on the second chapter for Magical Approach. She didn’t put the poem into its final form, and she didn’t show it to me. [...] Neither of us may tell or show the other everything—I just hadn’t been present when she wrote the poem, and she let it lie in her 1981 journal, where I “accidentally” came across it some time later. [...]

[...] For if past, present and future exist together (and continue to develop), then I see nostalgia as expressing a legitimate searching by the conscious mind as it seeks to grasp that the past exists now, and is not “dead.” [...] The yearning I feel each time I drive past the apartment house Jane and I lived in for 15 years, just west of the business section of Elmira, represents my conscious reunification of the past with the present, and even a projection of both into the future in ordinary terms.

[...] I’ve presented this cluster of material in the frontmatter for Volume 1 of Dreams. [...]

[...] They also seem to undermine the integrity of the past by showing it to you in an unfamiliar light, mixing it with present and future tints.

PARALLEL MAN, ALTERNATE MAN, AND PROBABLE MAN: THE REFLECTION OF THESE IN THE PRESENT, PRIVATE PSYCHE.

(12:01.) Now: Section 2: “Parallel Man, Alternate Man, and Probable Man,” colon: “The Reflection of These in the Present, Private Psyche.” [...]

With the present heating system, high expectations would have increased its efficiency. [...] You have both steadily doubted your practical efficiency in a material universe, and you will continue to do so, for with your present attitudes you will not test your efficiency. [...]

Present methods cannot investigate this type of expansion any more than they can investigate the validity, development, and rate of expansion of an idea.

[...] Present scientific methods will not discover such laws, however.

[...] When it finally manages to change constructions, bringing them into line with present alterations, the individual realizes that something has happened.

[...] You cannot stand apart from a reality and do any more than present diagrams of it. [...]

[...] If there was one time when we didn’t need an interruption, I thought, it was while Jane was dealing with the present kind of material. [...]

[...] The author explains the various theories for the origin of our observable universe of planets, galaxies, quasars, and so forth, presenting the evidence for and against each theory. [...]

4. In the 40th session for April 1, 1964, Seth had something to say about the challenges space travel will present to our own civilization: “… you are severely hampered as far as space travel is concerned, by the time elements involved … In your terms it will simply take you too long to get where you want to go. [...]

[...] Again we come to the importance of that period of reflection, in which the self, with the use of memory, glimpses its own past experience in the present and projects its results into the future.

[...] Ruburt was presented with—or presented himself with—a situation in which large portions of his creative life appeared in books that were written in another state of consciousness entirely. [...]

(Long pause.) He felt it his duty to examine his psychic material with supercritical force, since it seemed to come from the other side of consciousness, so to speak, and since it presented such a different picture of all aspects of reality. [...]

[...] In a way the symptoms were almost a method of presentation that in another fashion completely paralleled your own notes (an excellent point). [...]

[...] As I heard those deep resonant tones of his, I knew that Seth was present.

People have often asked me how I know when Seth is present, and I have had some difficulty in answering. [...]

[...] While this presents a rather hilarious image, it is actually unfair. [...]

[...] One thing I know: Seth does not have his present basic existence in the three-dimensional world, and I do. [...]

[...] Your notes were a way of presenting the material. The symptoms were a way of presenting the material. [...]

[...] Perhaps for that reason Debbie herself was not present (in the dream). [...]

[...] Had another emotionally-oriented person been present the balance would have been upset, and nothing would have happened. Had another passive person been present, the same would apply.

There is always a time scramble, for the inner senses deal with basic data in the spacious present. [...]

[...] After the party was over Jane and I gave each other our own presents. [...]

Now: In our book, I will be doing my best to explain the origin of your universe, and in such a way that most of the pertinent questions are answered, but man’s present concept of reality is so limited that I must often resort to analogies.

[...] It is virgin territory, planted by my feelings and thoughts in the present. [...]

Knowing your reincarnational background, but not knowing the true nature of your present self, is useless. You cannot justify or rationalize present circumstances by saying, “This is because of something I did in a past life,” for within yourself now is the ability to change negative influences. [...]

The point I want to make is that the opportunity for development and knowledge is as present at this moment, in this life, as it will ever be. [...]

[...] On Friday, however, while in an altered state of consciousness, she tuned into some material on Seth, dreams, and other species of consciousness; she calls it The Wonderworks, and excerpts from it are presented as Appendix 11.

[...] Most of his material is deleted here, but I can write that her situation was tied in to her work with the challenges presented by her physical symptoms [as described in Note 8 for the 679th session, in Section 1]. [...]

1. See Note l for the 687th session, in Section 1. In the next paragraph I’d like to review from a slightly different angle some of the information presented there.

[...] This time her involvement was so vivid and insistent that the next morning I asked her to write her own account of it for a verbatim presentation in this appendix. [...]

[...] But first the material: She regards its method of reception, as well as its content, as representing breakthroughs of a kind for her, and because both that reception and content are related to “Unknown” Reality we’re presenting considerable portions of the statement here:)

[...] Its ever-present living elements are apparent; and its growth. [...]

The idea of being at peace in the present is vital. [...]

[...] You will be forming new gestalts of experience, using past, present and future as a painter chooses his colors, combining them into various paintings.

[...] Such a house however does have form, and does exist within the spacious present.

[...] The ego is not present. [...]

[...] I do not get the feeling that the object has to do with the immediate present, in that it was not a part of your experience, directly.

“Wrong” answers can fit together, however, to present a perfect picture, an excellent construct of its own—and why not? [...] The picture we will end up presenting, then, will certainly not fit that of established science.

[...] [Some of them are on reincarnation, and I plan to present them when Seth gets into that subject in Dreams.] On October 7, a Sunday, Jane saw for the first time the work Sue Watkins has done on Conversations With Seth, the book she’s writing about the ESP classes Jane used to hold. [...]

[...] The story sprang out of the hilarious way she’s taken to addressing Mitzi in regard to that cat’s gifts from heaven; I’ve been telling her that the affair would make a great children’s book.³ In the several pages she wrote this evening Jane presented her material quite humorously, in a manner reminiscent of, yet different from, her second Seven novel, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, and her Emir.⁴

[...] I’d like to frame some of those little pieces, for visually they present the same qualities her poetry does verbally. [...]