“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In what may seem to you to be an odd analogy I will compare your thoughts with viruses,¹ for they are alive, always present, responsive, and possess their own kind of mobility. [...]

So-called harmful viruses are ever-present within the body. [...]

[...] Probabilities involve you with a rich psychological growth and development, present but not observable in your “home ground.” [...]

[...] Your existence before and after death is as much a normal phenomenon as your present life.

(To Sally.) I can show you the children you have had in the past, and those you will have in the present and in the future. For the present, past and the future are all present, but not when you hit the panic button when I come as you have done in the past. [...]

[...] And those of you who were not present at that session may then divulge their initial secrets. [...]

[...] Creativity is always vulnerable and within the vulnerability of your present life is the key to your own infinite existence. [...]

[...] They will lead naturally, spontaneously, to a spirituality that is a natural outgrowth of present experience. [...]

Now the future, in your terms, to that extent affected the present but this is something that you all do all of the time. You must remember that there are no divisions between past, future, and present and that you do not react simply to the present. [...]

[...] Now your physical perceptions operating alone are often responsible for these doubts for you think you are all that you can see of yourselves, or you think your life is all that you presently perceive of it, and so if you trust in your physical senses alone then you must, indeed, be filled with doubts for you know, instinctively, that you are more than the self that you are presently able to materialize or to give expression to. [...]

I use words because presently they make sense to you but hopefully behind the words that I speak, you sense the inner vitality which has no need for them and hopefully listening to me, you sense, if only dimly, the wisdom of the self within each of you that is triumphant in its own wisdom, its own spontaneous freewheeling wisdom upon which your intellect rests. [...]

[...] And I am telling you this because I do not want you to so intellectualize your present experiences that you become overly concerned and lose their spontaneity. [...]

It is your contact with All That Is, but it is up to the conscious mind of the present individual as to how much its abilities will be used and in what manner. The present individual is to learn. [...]

[...] A period of time where the issue is uncertain on both the part of your present landlord and your prospective buyer. (Florence Halliday, who was once an ESP student of Jane’s.) This, again because of the psychic conditions involved, is highly plastic. [...]

As this field is further activated through imagination, emotion and expectation, it becomes more highly charged and attracts to it those elements which it needs to give dimension to those elements already present in the basic version. [...]

[...] It is the power that has been given to you as an identity, its services available to you—that is, available to your present personality, for its use.

The present within which you seem to experience the dream is not, however, the present in physical time — the present in which your body lies upon the bed. [...]

[...] While sleeping in your present time, you may have a dream that concerns your past, with events that you know to have occurred years ago. Nevertheless, you may experience these events [within the dream] as happening within the present.

[...] Emphasis is laid upon those conditions present in the waking state but absent from the dreaming experience. We shall consider those aspects of consciousness which are present in the dream environment and absent in the physical one. [...]

The unseen self is not a dungeon of repressed ideas and feelings, dangerous to behold, but the fountainhead of individual existence, upon which our present physical survival is dependent. [...]

At one time the personality’s sister was a father to the present personality. [...] There is a need on the present personality’s part to understand its own nature, and to use its abilities constructively. [...]

It seems to you that any personality worth its salt must have a series of memories, of events that existed in the past and progressed to a present and a future. [...]

[...] The garden and grounds now about the personality’s present home, are replicas of gardens laid out by the same personality in the Spanish era. [...]

[...] Emolene Frazer now left, but before she did she described her present home to us in some detail, since Jane and I have not seen it. [...]

[...] Pressure, the newest attraction, was at once called for, and before long began to manifest itself to various degrees; at first however nothing like the pressure of Wednesday showed, but there seemed to be plenty present, enough so that each person present, especially those who had never witnessed such a thing, could take the time to experience it.

[...] I am tempted to say that it probably was not as strongly present as at other times when we frankly requested pressure in order to experience it. [...]

[...] This tipped the top vertically to the floor, and the other three present touched the top lightly. [...]

(Even so, when all present withdraw their hands from the table, no matter what its antics have been, as soon as all contact is withdrawn the table falls back into normal floor position.

[...] Obviously you read the past from the present, but you also create it from the present as well. You accept certain data — your present recognized series of events — then use that series as a measuring stick, so to speak: It automatically rejects what does not fit. [...]

Past associations merge with present reality and form a pattern. [...]

In The Nature of Personal Reality I stated that the point of action occurs in the present.¹⁰ In Adventures in Consciousness Ruburt said, quite properly, that time experience actually splashed out from the present to form an apparent past and future.¹¹

[...] However, when you look “backward” at the planet you actually try to predict past behavior from the standpoint of the present.

[...] Your past, present and future does not concern them. They also have memory of the past and future, but always experienced within the context of the present; and this is quite at variance with your own experience.

The spacious present is much more a vivid reality to those outside of your system. [...]

It is very difficult for them to understand your ideas of past, present and future. [...]

[...] It simply means that presently you perceive but a small portion of yourself, and in limited terms. [...]

You were presented—or rather you presented yourself—with a prime example of the abilities of the natural person. [...] You are presented now, in the world, with a certain picture of a body and its activities, and that picture seems (underlined) very evidential. [...]

[...] You are indeed presented with an evidential picture that seems to suggest most vividly the “fact” of man’s steady deterioration, and yet you are also presented with evidence to the contrary, even in your world, if you look for it.

Instead you are presented, of course, with a picture of man’s body as it reflects, and is affected by, man’s beliefs. [...]

Your Olympics,² on television, present you with evidence of the great capacity of the young human body. [...]

In these circumstances, when the personality attaches itself at conception, there is almost without exception strong past-life connections between parents and child, or there is an unceasing and almost obsessional desire to return to the earthly situation — either for a specific purpose, or because the reincarnating personality is presently obsessed with earthly existence. [...] The personality can simply realize that it takes to physical experience well, is presently earth-oriented, and finds earthly atmosphere a rich dimension for the growth of its own abilities.

(Just before the session tonight I wondered aloud what the present Chapter Thirteen would have been like if Jane hadn’t begun to read, early this month, the anthology containing the long section by Carl Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst. [...]

[...] The consciousness of matter is present in any matter — a fetus, a rock, a blade of grass, a nail.

[...] It is particularly dependent upon emotional characteristics — not necessarily of the last incarnated self, but the emotional tensions present as a result of a group of past existences.

You may be “conscious” and reacting to a remembered event so strongly that you are relatively unaware of present events. [...] Nor in a daydream do you usually worry about returning safely to the present moment.

[...] Your present time is one of many dimensions that help form this particular stage of consciousness. Therefore your past, present and future exist within it, but only as portions of that interior environment. [...]

[...] Into his inner mind come pictures or symbols of material objects, people or events, from perhaps the past as well as present and future imaginings, the joy now being expressed with greater freedom mentally, but with symbols.

[...] Without symbols to come between it and experience, it perfects itself in a kind of value fulfillment that you presently cannot understand except symbolically.

[...] You do not compare the present situation with a past one in a detrimental manner. You live in the present. [...]

[...] The point of power is in the present, and when you believe changes can occur, they do indeed happen.

The fabric of the present self is interwoven with these reincarnational “pasts,” and from them the present self draws unconsciously from its own bank of personality characteristics, activities, and insights. [...]

[...] Such instances represent an excellent working rapport between the present self and the unconscious, which brings these memories to the surface in such a way that current life is enriched. [...]

[...] In simple terms the whole self contains male and female characteristics, finely tuned together, blended so that true identity can then arise — for it cannot, when one group of characteristics must be emphasized over the other group, as it must be during your present physical existence.

[...] Your consciousness as you know it, your particular present kind of consciousness, is a statement of awareness brought about by a particular kind of tension, a specific kind of focus arising from the true unconscious of the whole self.

You exist, therefore, now within this reality as present and immediate as you are now... although in my terms, more than fifty centuries of your time has elapsed since your seemingly present existence.

Know that within your physical atoms now the origins of all consciousness still sings and that all the human characteristics by which you know yourselves still exist within the eye of all our consciousness never diminished but always present; your individualities never diminished... [...]

The [universe] is, as I explained, always coming into existence, and each present moment brings its own built-in past along with it. [...] As a result, for example, your archeological evidence usually presents a picture quite in keeping with your ideas of history, geological eras, and so forth.

[...] I just wish I could present those sessions here, for in them Seth gave us much valuable information—not only about ourselves [including Jane’s somewhat impaired physical condition, her “stiffness”], but about the myriad interchanges occurring constantly between our inner and outer realities, or Frameworks 1 and 2, as he calls them. [...]

[...] Now, our country’s initial concern over the accident at TMI has grown to include deep questions about why we’ve built so many nuclear energy generating plants near large population centers; carrying out a mass evacuation in case of a serious accident at any of those sites seems to present a series of insurmountable challenges.

[...] That being exists in a psychological dimension (long pause), a spacious present, in which everything that was or is or will be (in your terms) is kept in immediate attention, poised in a divine context that is characterized (long pause, eyes closed) by such a brilliant concentration that the grandest and the lowliest, the largest and the smallest, are equally held in a multiloving constant focus.

His idea of changing the present through altering pictures in the past is also pertinent and good. Have him continue the practice as he began it—it aids in understanding beliefs, and it does alter the past and therefore the present.

These improvements are happening in such a way that no undue stress is placed upon any particular group of muscles or tendons, and yet there will be some periods in which feelings of unaccustomed activity are present, and perhaps some tenderness, as muscles and tendons are gradually activated.

[...] He did not live in the moment, or know his body’s present reality. [...]

[...] He was afraid of out-of-bodies precisely because he did not have a good enough footing in the present. [...]

For again, the medium is the message in the spacious present, and when- ever the time for the program arrives I am here in your present, regardless of where I am in what you would term my present.

You know the nature of personality now to some degree, and I am always to some degree present at your sessions. [...]

(To me:) I have told you that your own presence is also involved here to some extent, and whether or not you are present at any given session.

For in my present in your terms, I am also the personality who is not speaking this evening, the Seth who does not have those characteristics with which you are so familiar. [...]

(Pause.) In a fashion those ancient dreamers, through their immense creativity, dreamed all of life’s creatures in all of their pasts, presents, and futures—that is, their dreams opened up the doors of space and time to entities that otherwise would not have been released into actualization, even as, for example, the units of consciousness were once released from the mind of All That Is.

[...] For the most part, I’m presenting only the beginning of the several pages of notes I took from him—just enough to show how even his more personal material can fly in the face of convention (to coin a phrase!):

“They are done for you in Framework 2—and further discussions of Framework 2, incidentally, will be interwound throughout our present book. [...]

[...] I will work on one book one night and another one the next, if you prefer, or discuss private material or other questions of a general nature, or work twice a week on our present material—whatever suits your fine fancies.”

Now if you wish, quality-depth operates within the value climate of psychological reality, and gives truly amazing dimension to the spacious present, which is contained within the value climate of psychological reality.

You may if you wish consider the quality-depth principle as blowing like a wind through the spacious present, it indeed being like a wind in that it is known by its effects; and if you must think of it visually it would, perhaps, have a funnel shape. [...]

[...] I did not attempt any measurements this time, being satisfied now that when this feeling of enlargement is present, there is a definite physical difference. [...]

Any serious illness possible or probable in Ruburt’s present existence would have occurred in his youth, at the age of 15, when a severe psychic crisis threatened. [...]