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[...] (Smile): Ruburt, in particular, did not accept reincarnation, and the idea of such multiple life experiences would have been highly scandalous to him.

In a book on reincarnation, I hope to have each of my previous personalities speak for themselves, for they should tell their own story. [...]

[...] Beside your objective role in each life, your reincarnational challenges also involve your dream states, rhythms of creativity that flow and ebb beneath the daily world you know. [...]

[...] My reincarnational existences do not define what I am, however, nor do yours define you.

[...] The mention of Boston occurred we supposed because a little earlier we had spoken of the Boston reincarnational material Seth had given us in the 257th session.)

[...] So does value expansion become reincarnation and evolution and growth. [...]

(Following a discussion on reincarnation.)

(To Bette and Joel.) In other words, your experience and your experience as encountered in class in a reincarnational framework did indeed, and does indeed, and will indeed, in certain terms exist. [...]

(To Bette.) You are doing this to some extent with your reincarnational dramas, and when you do this you see you are bringing others up to date, in those terms, also. [...]

(1. Granting Seth’s concept of time: Does the reincarnating personality usually choose to experience its simultaneous lives through various families of consciousness, or is it more likely to remain “loyal” to one such family in all of them? At the start of tonight’s session Seth had remarked that generally speaking counterparts are part of the same psychic family, but I wanted to know if reincarnating personalities are also.

Although in this note I’ve stressed the “what-might-have-been” aspects of that second question, the same thinking can apply to the first one also, in which I wanted to know how many families of consciousness might be chosen by the reincarnating personality during its “cycle” of simultaneous lives. [...]

Some choose this rather than reincarnating, or rather as a study before a new reincarnation. [...]

In order to gain knowledge, in order to discover your reincarnation realities, you must not necessarily block out the conscious mind with which you are familiar and turn to sleep. [...]

[...] There is no need for you to feel that any reincarnational information must come in a murky, shadowy way through vast areas of a self that you neither know nor understand. [...]

Now, the reincarnational information is available, not only on my part but on your own. [...]

A note: the reincarnational information you received was quite legitimate—and with some little application on your part entire episodes of that existence could become clear, with little relative effort.

The reincarnational material that you have received should enlighten you. [...]

Reincarnational challenges need not take a lifetime to satisfy however. [...]

[...] “And reincarnation is a terrific theory to play around with. Remember my first published short story, “Red Wagon,” in Fantasy and Science Fiction? It was based on reincarnation. [...]

[...] So the early sessions intrigued me, but, intellectually, I couldn’t accept reincarnation. Interestingly enough, reincarnation wasn’t a part of the “Idea Construction” experience. [...]

[...] Most of the first ten sessions dealt with reincarnation and included some fascinating material on Rob’s family.

Remember that reincarnation does not contradict the theory of the spacious present, for such lives within the spacious present are simultaneous. [...]

[...] Yet the girl could be the form of the man’s previous or future reincarnated self.

[...] Actually the relationship in question, while called a reincarnational one, is a parallel one to our own. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] You were earlier speaking of reincarnation, and Ruburt has just finished reading The Three Faces of Eve.

These potential egos at one time or another will have their chance, as dominant egos, in this existence or in another reincarnation. [...]

[...] I will give you some personal reincarnational material very shortly. [...]

(Seth was giving general reincarnational data on my family and on Jane’s as early as the 9th session, while avoiding such things as times of death, etc. Actually the concept of reincarnation made its appearance in the first session. Seth began to be more specific on family reincarnational data when he told Jane and me in a very early session that neither of us would be born again on the physical plane; this, he said, accounted for our lack of children and the desire for them. [...]

[...] That data was also connected to dream analysis and reincarnation.

3. A note added later: I found most of the material Seth had delivered since 10:11, but especially at this point, to be strongly reminiscent of a passage in the 657th session in Chapter 15 of Personal Reality. I’ve put together these excerpts from that session: “Each of your reincarnational selves has its own ‘points of power,’ or successive moments, in which it materializes daily existence in a linear manner from all the probabilities available to it. In a way that will be explained in another book, there is a kind of coincidence with all of these present points of power that exists between you and your ‘reincarnational’ selves. [...]

(With emphasis:) Reincarnation simply represents probabilities in a time context (underlined) — portions of the self that are materialized in historical contexts. [...]

[...] (Although not bringing up his ideas of reincarnation or points of power in the 683rd session, Seth implied both of those qualities in many parts of that material.)

[...] In larger terms, such focusing in particular areas can involve an entire life situation, reincarnationally speaking, where you choose ahead of time, so to speak, to concentrate your attention in certain areas rather than others; you may pick for yourself a body that does not perform normally, or a mind that is not up to par in usual terms.

[...] I’ve often wondered if at least some of my motivations for working this way have reincarnational or counterpart¹ inspirations. [...]

(We’re presenting his material for me because it has good general application: If Seth deals with my own painted images without even mentioning the words reincarnation or counterparts, still he does reveal how such “residents of the mind” make up part of each person’s innate knowledge of his or her own greater — or larger — self.

[...] Current feelings regarding personality, however, do not take into consideration the existence of telepathy or clairvoyance, nor the fact of reincarnation. [...]

[...] This is the last reincarnation for John’s wife because of this decision. [...]

[...] This is a last reincarnation. [...]

(“Are you saying that my dream had reincarnational connotations? [...]

[...] You do not appreciate your own dream, or your appreciation of it is too remote—and yes, it does contain some reincarnational data, for it shows you a moment in a life when a decision was made, even though the emotional disgust that you felt at the time was separated from you—for the mouse at the time stood not only for itself but also for the victims of war, burned bodies you had seen while soldiers went about the remains to see what loot might be left.

[...] A dream involving reincarnational information, for example, may also serve to help us face a present-day problem by reminding us of other unused abilities inherent in our personalities. I’ve had two particularly vivid reincarnational dreams. [...]

[...] On Seth’s suggestion, I told myself before sleep that I would have a dream that would give me further information about my own reincarnational past. At this time I really didn’t believe in reincarnation, but I said to Rob, “Well, what have I got to lose? [...]

[...] We have all kinds of gaps to be filled in on our own past lives, however, because as long as I refused to accept reincarnation, I asked Rob not to ask for reincarnational material. [...]