“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The boy is using daydreams concerning Australia to avoid facing present problems. [...]

[...] Present were Florence and Harvey and their son Daniel, and Rose and Archie Cafford.)

[...] You must step out of your present perspective in order to see your world clearly. [...]

[...] We have always been here, in your terms, as you have always been in other places and other times, and there is a great familiarity and wonder on our part that you are still involved in these endeavors which were begun in your terms so many centuries ago, and in ways that you cannot now presently comprehend. [...]

[...] I said that once again Jane had been presented with extremes of behavior in the family. [...]

(On the TV program, In Search Of, we watched a presentation of Cleve Backster and his work with plants reacting — or not, as the case was sometimes — to human emotions. [...]

[...] Those whom he relegated to the past are brought into the present. [...]

[...] It shocked him to know that people of the past were reading the book in his present, and seemed to draw him closer to those original associations that caused him to leave Saratoga.

[...] But know that I am present and approachable. [...]

[...] I don’t want to change our present situation here in the hospital when we’re getting results, so I don’t really know what to do....”)

[...] In your terms they would be the psyche’s present. [...]

[...] Under your present system, however, drugs are usually administered, in which case pain is somewhat minimized, but prolonged — not triggering the natural release mechanisms.

I am working from the present backward—so you will have to bear with me. [...]

[...] I told you we are working from the present backward. [...]

[...] In your present condition, however, a certain portion of you is still pleased that you have held out—that you are the rebel to the last, and that you have not given in.

[...] Simply deciding on a conscious level to reenter that arena, in his present state, shows in itself a change of belief, for before he did not want to try, and considered it a threat to his work.

(10:10.) You are both asking me for help, so I insist upon that list, and I also insist that each of you make an honest effort to stop structuring your present experience according to Ruburt’s symptoms, and as much as possible leave them out of your plans.

[...] The morning stiffness has to do now with subsidiary beliefs and expectations, and also with the natural condition of the body in its present shape.

[...] Seth’s information on the Foster Avenue place, and our present and potential relationships with it, was very illuminating. [...] Some of those present and potential relationships, incidentally, actually stem from our childhood days.

(Here’s one point brought out in that deleted material: Since Seth had told Jane and me long ago that the three of us belong to the Sumari family of consciousness,⁴ we were more than curious now when he declared that the woman who presently owns the house on Foster Street is also a Sumari: “[She] added Sumari characteristics of expansiveness.” [...]

Rob’s notes provide the necessary exterior orientation for this present volume, as they do for the previous Seth books, and hint at the framework of normal life in which Seth so gallantly “appears” twice weekly, tossing off my glasses and thereby signaling the beginning of my trance. [...]

[...] I was just presented with an excellent example of the ideas I’ve been discussing. [...]

[...] If it hadn’t been for his encouragement and active participation, I doubt that the Seth sessions would exist in their present form.

[...] It is that indeed which contains the memories and experiences, in codified units, of the present individual. [...]

It can change the individual’s present reaction to the past event, and alter the original implications and meanings that were once connected with such an event. [...]

(“A connection with music” can result from the fact that Bill played jazz on a phonograph at his gallery during the exhibition in which I participated last winter; he plays music also at each exhibition he presents.

[...] Her material is presented, with the appropriate selection of poetry from Dialogues, in the notes at next break. [...]

[...] The knowledge is present that the “old self” did not make it — so what assurance does the so-called new self have? [...]

[...] Know that later you will still operate through another form, but that the body and the material world are your present modes of expression.

[...] In a strong drug experience you take physical demonstration out of its natural framework, presenting it in such a way that its usual reactions make no sense. [...]

Even if she’s to remain in something like her present impaired state, Jane said as I wrote the above paragraph, still it seems we’re better off for having the Seth material than not: “I’d sure as hell rather take my chances with it than without!” she exclaimed, if somewhat ruefully.

[...] However, I do think I’m accurate concerning the connections between Jane’s early psychological conditioning and her present challenges.)

[...] Additionally, Jane could have chosen the present relationship to eventually help her temper her reception of and reaction to the Seth material, making her extra-cautious; this, even though she’d seen to it ahead of time that she would be born with that certain combination of fortitude and innocence necessary for her to press on with her chosen abilities. [...]

In all of this I’ve barely hinted at the complicated relationships involving other family members from the past, present, and future. [...]

[...] The particular purposes of your present personality can only be met in the present circumstances in the way that is best overall. [...]

[...] We played a sort of game: I liked her, but I wasn’t going to be besieged by a barrage of negative thoughts and pessimism for an hour, no matter how wittily presented—and she knew it. [...]

[...] Now in this new moment, this new present, I am already beginning to feel better.’ Then immediately turn your attention away from the physical condition. [...]

[...] for the illness could still serve by giving the personality a sense of security, being kept on hand as an ever-present emergency device in case the new unifying system should fail.

[...] What I am is difficult to explain because of the limits set not only by your own knowledge but by the present method of our communications.

[...] This is because of your present habit of thinking in word patterns rather than energy transferral complexes.

The Kennedy material was not distorted in these sessions, though some parts of the Oswald material had small unimportant distortions due to Ruburt’s tendency to compare Oswald’s mother with his own present mother. [...]

If and when the time presents itself I will attempt to clear any distortions, though I do not consider this a necessity. [...]

[...] This electric charge can propel the thought, as an electrical action, through the apparent dimensions of your physical time in such a manner that it can exist simultaneously within your past and your present. Because a thought, as electric action, may exist both within your past and your present, this is not to say that it becomes two electric actions, one existing in the past and one existing in the future. [...]

Again here, when I speak in terms of before and after, I speak only for your convenience, for there is no before or after, only all action within the spacious present, occurring out of itself, spontaneously, into all directions, and forming of itself all the infinite fields and systems of actuality.

[...] Seth introduced the spacious present in the 41st session. [...]

[...] In answer to a question, Jane said that although reincarnational data would remain buried in many cases, it would still have to be dealt with, worked out in the present life in present terms.