“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The punishment as an event, and the event for which you were being punished, exist at once; and since there is no past, present and future, you could just as well say that the punishment came first.

[...] You are still happening — but both present and future selves; and your past self is still undergoing what you think is done. [...]

[...] While youth can be physically “prolonged” far beyond its present duration, that is not what I am saying.

[...] She felt this way because of our rather long rest, and the recent developments in the presentation of the sessions themselves. [...]

[...] There are many stations, so to speak, to tune into, and at present you touch the dials rather indiscriminately. [...]

[...] These planes of actuality, of course, all operate within the spacious present, and with a value climate. [...]

Now some night for a small demonstration I will have Ruburt come up from his present state through the various stages of consciousness so you can see them. [...]

[...] You can use it to understand your present reality now and to understand your fellow being as in the communication that took place here. [...]

[...] The child is presently caught in a dilemma of divided loyalties. [...]

If the cells did not die and were not replenished, the physical image would not continue to exist, so now in the present, as you know it, your consciousness flickers about your ever-changing corporeal image.

Now: In your present situation you arbitrarily consider yourselves to be dependent upon one given physical image: You identify yourself with your body.

[...] Overall, you may be far more interested in people that you have known in past lives than those close to you in the present one, for example.

[...] This does not mean that for their own purposes they have not joined in psychic mergers that you cannot presently understand. [...]

You have already traveled the way individuals like your present mother and father have traveled. [...]

I suggest you speak his name, his present name, three times, and touch him. [...]

[...] Presently, I have no body with which to manipulate in your physical system. [...]

[...] However, you are at present imprisoned within this false conception of yourself—and within this prison, you do not think of others except as they are related to yourself. [...]

[...] It is my present currency with you all; the picture that I now portray. [...]

(Present: Theodore, Sally, Laurie, Brad.)

Some of this is difficult to explain, but as the world of appearances presents its own evidence, on the level of sense, so your inner reality presents as strong evidence of its reality. [...]

[...] In the usual awake state, in the terms now of this discussion, you deal with the available physical evidence of the world as it appears to present perception, that is, or with what you can see or feel or touch, either immediately or through physical instruments. [...]

[...] You recognize the absence in the present of the physical painting you want to produce, and your creativity brings that painting into reality. [...]

[...] These are to be expected, but all seem trivial now, given our present situation.

[...] Both of us had been upset at the poor-looking, cheap, double-novel presentation.

[...] Seth replied that he saw no operation for Bill, should present trends continue, and that Bill should surmount the ulcer problem eventually. [...]

[...] Jane’s eyes had remained closed while the Gallaghers were present. [...]

[...] To see my wonderful, lovely wife so reduced to her present near-helpless state was almost more than I could bear. [...] We were living in Sayre, Pennsylvania, a middle-class railroad town in which I’d grown up, which lies only 18 miles southeast of our present home in Elmira, New York. [...]

Now: this is the present state of Ruburt’s body. [...]

[...] At its basic heart there is the assurance that despite all appearances, say, to the contrary with any given issue, the present can suddenly be changed for the better in a remarkable fashion. [...]

[...] Some of the data on body consciousness has not been presented in just this way by Seth during regular sessions.

(A note added 33 years later: This session will be presented with the eventual publication of the ESP class sessions by New Awareness Network, Inc.)

[...] In Note 1 for Appendix 18, I wrote that I wanted to at least briefly discuss Seth Two in another appendix for this Volume 2, “the idea being that that material can be taken as an extension of the Jane-Ruburt-Seth study presented here.” [...]

[...] From the 681st session:) In your terms — the phrase is necessary — the moment point, the present, is the point of intersection between all existences and reality. [...]

(Finally, the excerpt to follow from the 612th session is presented just as received, but I’ve updated some of the notes for it [beginning with Note 4] in order to take advantage of later material, including some published in Volume 1.)

[...] In certain terms, dead holes connect past and present; also future. [...]

[...] You may for example see in the past, present and future, objects that in your time will take up any given space. Often such a dream will be considered meaningless because at your “fact level,” past, present and future objects cannot appear at once in the same space.

[...] just this afternoon in her own theoretical work, Aspect Psychology; she had also written about ideas very much like those Seth presented at 9:15.

[...] Seth dictated his letter in April 1975, just after finishing his part of the work for Volume 2 of “Unknown,” and I presented it while introducing Volume 1. Jane still handles most of the mail herself, and she continues to send people Seth’s letter because we still think he presented excellent ideas in it.

[...] It’ll probably end up in God of Jane, but I’d like to present it here, too:

[...] She had said earlier they would merely give indications that vasculitis might be present or might not be present—they wouldn’t say yes or no. [...]

[...] Even discounting for the present the more tricky drugs, drugs with many side effects, quite severe sometimes, there was a drug less dangerous. [...]

[...] This should help you do so, by present, current action. Often you are so involved with feelings you had in the past that you do not know what you are feeling in the present. [...]

[...] She said Seth was present now really strongly, very immediate, etc. [...]

Give us a moment … You are presently little aware of the dimensions of consciousness — your own or those seemingly “beneath” your own. [...]

[...] There is, in certain terms, a continuum of consciousness there of which your present physical life is a part. [...]

Now it’s suspected that, in many cases at least, some of the fundamental laws of nature aren’t directly available to us — that often our world presents to us only an approximate representation of its basic qualities. [...]

[...] You can visit other planets only in your present (underlined). Your present may be the past or the future as far as inhabitants of a given planet are concerned. Your physical senses will only operate in their and your present.

My consciousness does not normally operate at the same speeds as yours, either (see Note 9), so in my terms what I am saying has long ago been said, while in your present it is new, or just reaching you.

At the beginning of Appendix 12, see the longer presentation from the 44th session for Seth’s discussion of “the value climate of psychological reality” — the “medium” that spontaneously contains within it all of our camouflage constructions of space, time, growth, and durability. [...]

9. With some wonder I can write that our average-sized living room had been more than crowded last night: Well over 30 people were present for ESP class. [...]