“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] (Pause.) When you set your longing against a present belief there is always conflict. [...] If you want to be healthy and continually contrast what you want with the present conviction in your poor health, then the belief itself, set up against the desire, will cause added difficulties. [...]

(10:10.) Even in primitive societies, witch doctors and other natural therapists have understood that the point of power is in the present, and they have utilized natural hypnosis as a method of helping other individuals to concentrate their own energy. All of the gestures, dances, and other procedures are shock treatments, startling the subject out of habitual reactions so that he or she is forced to focus upon the present moment. [...]

Data or stimuli that does not agree is a side issue, not personally applicable but present, he realizes, as fact for others. [...]

[...] This will then appear to be the cause of the present difficulty. [...]

[...] Some may seem relatively genuine in terms of presenting a fairly well-rounded representation of a normal personality. [...] Usually you are presented with, say, semi-personalities, or even with lesser versions (dash)—fragmentary expressions of impulses and desires that are dramatically presented only in snatches, heard by the person as a voice, or perceived as a presence.

[...] However, I certainly don’t mean that supposed reincarnational relationships can or should be used to justify present-life behavior. [...]

[...] They present a kind of chain of command—one that is not usually permanent for any long period, however.

In many situations, the main personifications are instead of a ritual nature, taking advantage of psychological patterns already present in the culture’s art or religion or science. [...]

Dictation then: Probabilities are an ever-present portion of your invisible psychological environment. [...] To some extent it is like a sea in which you have your present being. [...]

As you sit reading this book in your present moment of time, you are positioned in the center of a cosmic web of probabilities that is affected by your slightest mental or emotional act.

(Pause at 9:36.) Your thoughts and emotions, therefore, go forth from you not only in all physical directions but in directions that are quite invisible to you, appearing in dimensions that you would not presently understand. [...]

[...] By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.

[...] “At any given time,” all of its tenses are present tense. In other words, it has multitudinous tenses, all in the present, or it has multitudinous present tenses. [...]

[...] In direct contact, however, you encounter not only the spoken language of another, but you are presented with the communicator’s person as well. [...]

[...] Since past, present, and future have no basic reality, this sense allows us to see through the apparent time barriers. [...]

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[...] I have given some material like this in the past—but on such occasions try to return to the moment, to the present. Perceive it as clearly as you can from the standpoint of the stimuli present before you. Mentally say “This is my present experience now.” Then, if you find yourself exaggerating any unpleasantness within that moment, and projecting it into the future, you stop and say “That is not a part of this present moment. [...] My body can only respond to the present. I will not overload that present by borrowing trouble that in this moment has no reality” (all very emphatically). [...]

Your body consciousness is like the consciousness of any animal—alert, above all optimistic, focused in the present, as you understand it, glorifying in motion and in rest, in excitement and in quietude. [...]

He understands the nature of death, as in their way all animals do, but he does not understand frightening pictures of imagined illnesses that do not exist in his present, or worries about death that is not as yet to be encountered. [...]

[...] As a result I’m working on a book called Aspect Psychology, which I hope will present a theory of personality large enough to contain man’s psychic nature and activities. Seth refers to Aspects, as we call it, in this present book, and it should be published sometime in 1975.

[...] Their reality can’t be contained in the framework of our creaturehood, though it is being constantly translated through our present individuality.

But beside this, as Seth was dictating this present book, I also found myself suddenly writing a novel, The Education of Oversoul 7, which was produced more or less automatically. [...]

[...] I agree wholeheartedly with the concepts Seth presents here, while realizing that they run counter to many accepted religious, social, and scientific dogmas. [...]

“Since all events occur at once in actuality, there is little to be gained by saying that a past event causes a present one. Past experience does not cause present experience. You are forming past, present, and future—simultaneously. [...]

So while Seth often explains present life problems as the result of past life difficulties, he makes it clear to those that can understand that the lives really exist simultaneously, just as three personalities can exist in one body at one time. [...] In one case, a friend’s hang-ups in the present originated right in this life, though her boyfriend’s were left over from the past.

[...] She has already begun a new life, therefore [Seth does not mean another physical life here, of course], though presently her experience is being monitored to some degree by guides.

Seth rarely gives reincarnational data unless it is directly tied in with the overall development of an individual’s present life, and he refuses to give past life histories, for example, to those he thinks will not apply the lessons involved. [...]

THE CONCENTRATION OF ENERGY, BELIEFS, AND THE PRESENT POINT OF POWER

(11:36.) Next chapter [Nineteen]: “The Concentration of Energy, Beliefs, and the Present Point of Power.”

[...] You can cure yourself of an “incurable” disease if you realize that your point of power is in the present.

[...] But I am indeed in sympathy with your precious fingers, and the fatigue of the present group. With Ruburt presently, only presently, I have no worries.

[...] The ulcer for example has reality upon many levels, and must be dealt with in a like manner, for it is not enough to handle it even from the viewpoint of the present ego; for indeed causes are involved of which the present ego must necessarily be mainly ignorant. [...]

[...] For one of the basic reasons for the difficulty lies in the fact that the ego of the present personality does strongly attempt to stand apart from action. [...]

[...] The personality, the present ego, will not acquiesce to action, will not go along with it as part of it, but attempts to force it along its own directions. [...]

I have also discussed reincarnation in terms of environment because many schools of thought over-emphasize the effects of reincarnational existences, so that often they explain present-life circumstances as a result of rigid and uncompromising patterns determined in a “past” life. You will feel relatively incompetent to handle present physical reality, to alter your environment, to affect and change your world, if you feel that you are at the mercy of conditions over which you have no control.

[...] One life is not buried in the past, disconnected from the present self and any future self as well.

[...] Writing in his journal daily with his notations of present programs always represents a conscious intent that serves a beneficial natural hypnotic suggestion of accomplishment. When he does not do so therefore, this is a sign of acquiescence to present conditions, or being hypnotized by the unpleasant current aspects.

[...] See page 35 for material and notes concerning the present status of this question of sepia and Van Elver.)

[...] What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. [...]

Now the image analogy is in some respects distortive, but good enough for our present purposes. [...]

[...] In your terms it would be as if you experienced a future event, then a distant past event, then a moment from the present. [...]

[...] When you look at world events, however, the present world situation for example (the war between Iraq and Iran, which began a few days ago), try to enlarge the scope of your intellectual reach, so that you consider world events as living multidimensional “novels” being formed in the present in response to both future and past triggers. The impact of the future on the past, in your terms — or rather, the implications of the future on the present — are highly important, and such precognitive reactions are as vital, numerous, and real as you ordinarily think that the reactions to past events are (intently).

This puts present world events in an entirely different perspective. Men act, then, in relationship to events that have, historically speaking, not yet occurred — but those events happening, say, in the future, in certain terms cast their shadows back into the present, or illuminate the past according to the events’ characteristics. [...]

[...] This future shadowing the present, or future illuminating the present, represents a vital element in the formation of events as they are perceived in time. [...]

[...] I want Ruburt to apply all of this to his own situation, both in terms of creative endeavors and his physical situation, so that he begins to understand that he can start to react in the present to a future recovery.

[...] You form, therefore, the generation in which you seem presently to have your existence. [...]

[...] Instead, you see, all your acts now affect all of your other reincarnational selves both, in your terms, past and present. [...]

There is no final state of motion, and it is only because of your present position that it seems to you that there must be such a point. [...]

I am now in contact with your parent’s entity and he tells me that subconsciously even his present personality, that is your father, appreciates this fact and loves you deeply. He himself, that is your father’s entity, feels no pain because of the present personality’s problems, since he is working out so many necessary kinks.

As with all inner data, such an experience would be much more vivid than our present procedure. [...]

[...] The time will come at a much later date when you will allow such material entry into your conscious state directly—that is, without the need to project it visually, since here a certain amount of distortion is almost always present.

One reason for the success of our communications is the peculiar abilities present in you both and the interaction between them, and the use that you both allow me to make of them. [...]

The inner self, however, realizes that potentials are present that would not be present necessarily under other circumstances and that abilities can be brought to the foremost that could not be met under other circumstances. Abilities that can be a help, not only to the present personality, but even perhaps, to the society at large and to other individuals involved. [...]

You are aware of the selves that sit in this room on a particular evening of a snowstorm with certain members of the class present, certain members of the class absent, and some new people here, but I am familiar with the inner portions of yourselves that you also know but that the egotistical self has hidden from you. [...]

[...] I simply want you to realize that if this life is a trance you can turn the direction of your consciousness in other ways and perceive greater realities that presently exist. [...]

[...] There are no fears from your present life that you cannot escape and conquer. [...]

[...] During break Jane received some insights from Seth as to what would follow in Chapter Eight — that, for instance, when good thoughts from an individual’s present life were activated, they would draw upon similar ones from his or her reincarnational personalities. [...] I couldn’t recall Seth presenting the concept in just that way before. [...]

[...] In your terms this means that each cell operates with an innate picture of the body’s entire history — past, present, and future.

[...] The body makes whatever changes are necessary in order to bring the two images in line with the present corporeal condition.

[...] Though all of the tissue in that hand has often been completely replaced by the time you are twenty-seven, for example, the identity within each of those present cells remembers that injury.

First, naturally, I have a few comments to make that will not only tie in Ruburt’s smoking habits with his present personality, but also to some extent tie in his present personality with past personalities.

[...] A fear has been developed by the present personality resulting directly from early circumstances. Ruburt is afraid that if he does not operate quickly he will be symbolically caught and crippled as is the case with his present mother.

There is also here connected only with his present personality an ego image of the writer with a cigarette. [...]

[...] As a child at one time he died from suffocation, and this also has its bearings here in the present, the panicky gulping of air being a mechanism of subconscious memory. [...]

“In other words, the past and present are real to the same extent. On occasion the past can become more ‘real’ than the present, and in such cases past actions are reacted to in what you call the present. You take it for granted that present action can change the future, but present actions can also change the past.

“Every action changes every other action—we go back to our ABC’s. Therefore, every action in your present affects those actions you call past. [...] Remembering what you know of the nature of time, you realize that the apparent boundaries between past, present, and future are only illusions caused by the amount of action you can physically perceive.

[...] This existed in that present as a probability. [...] Because past, present, and future exist simultaneously, there is no reason why you cannot react to an event whether or not it happens to fall within the small field of reality in which you usually observe and participate.

[...] Most of the time he spoke directly to the student who requested the session, or addressed the sixty members of her psychology class, who were not present. [...]