Reincarnational experiences are a part of the framework of the self, a facet of the multidimensional reality of the living psyche. [...]

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. [...]

In dreams this reincarnational material is likewise cast into a dramatic mold very frequently. [...]

[...] The reincarnational pattern is generally speaking an open one, in that within it there is room for diversity. [...]

(The material on counterparts emerged from Seth’s treatment of reincarnation. Along with his addition of simultaneous time, I’d say that the concept of counterparts provides reincarnation with a novel approach indeed; and that our awareness of both has always been latent within the reincarnational framework, whether in simultaneous or linear terms.

(Now I’d like to present a batch of notes, ideas, and excerpts from sessions about reincarnation, counterparts, and related data, pulling them together into a coherent picture. Although reincarnation and its variations has been discussed by Seth almost from the very beginning of our sessions, the subject didn’t represent one of our own main concerns. [...] She still says comparatively little about reincarnation on her own, although Seth shows no such reservations.

(In our private session, Seth commented on my “quite legitimate” reincarnational data involving the black woman, Maumee or Mawmee, who’d lived on the Caribbean island of Jamaica early in the 19th century. [...]

[...] “Now I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff on reincarnation and time. [...]

[...] It is not the astral form that existed in a “previous” reincarnation. [...]

[...] As quickly as the new data forms the fetus and physical structure, the self from the previous reincarnation must begin to withdraw its hold. [...]

[...] The new individual has a deeply buried memory of its past lives, but the personal consciousness of the last reincarnated self must not be superimposed upon this new identity. [...]

REINCARNATION, DREAMS, AND THE HIDDEN
MALE AND FEMALE WITHIN THE SELF

Now: Our next chapter will be called: “Reincarnation, Dreams, and the Hidden Male and Female Within the Self.”

[...] The particular way in which he does so, can tell him much about his own reincarnational background in which he operated as a female. [...]

[...] Women, therefore, can learn much about their reincarnational past as men, through studying those dreams in which these types appear, or in which they themselves appear as men.

Many proponents of reincarnation believe most firmly that an illness in one life most frequently has its roots in a past existence, and that reincarnational regression is therefore necessary to uncover the reasons for many current illnesses or dilemmas.

[...] Again, all of a person’s reincarnational existences are, indeed, connected — but the events in one life do not cause the events in the next one.

(4:16.) Another life, for example, might deal with exquisite health and vitality, and as mentioned, still another life might be devoted to the arts of healing — but overall, few people take health problems per se as frequent reincarnational themes, though they may be implied strongly in situations where one is born into a large populace of poor, underprivileged people.

[...] So what you understand of reincarnation, and of the time terms involved, is what you have been told so that you could understand it, but it is a very simplified tale, indeed. And again, it is a story, and though I have never used this term before, in class or in our sessions, and though I do not want our friend over here in the elegant outfit to become angry with me (to Sue), I will tell you that reincarnation, in its own way, is also a parable. [...]

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

[...] By the same token, there is no reason to suppose the reincarnational material was any less correct, though we can’t check it because of the long time periods involved. (Some reincarnational data is much more recent and can be checked to some extent if the people involved have the time and want to make the effort. [...]

[...] According to Seth all of us have been reincarnated, and when we are finished living our series of earthly lives, we will continue to exist in other systems of reality. [...]

[...] Only reincarnation weaves these seemingly disparate conditions into a framework that makes sense. [...]

[...] All of these questions came into our minds when Seth began speaking about reincarnation. [...]

REINCARNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

[...] We are going to begin our next chapter, to be called: “Reincarnational Relationships.”

Now: Throughout your reincarnational existences you expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions, your values. [...]

Now all of this can be applied to your relationships in your reincarnational existences, and of course it also is highly pertinent to your current daily experience. [...]

The reincarnating personality enters the new fetus according to its own inclinations, desires, and characteristics, with some built-in safeguards. However there is no rule, then, saying that the reincarnating personality must take over the new form prepared for it either at the point of conception, in the very earliest months of the fetus’s growth, or even at the point of birth.

[...] I wondered what percentage of them would recall any, and if such a test might furnish good evidence for reincarnation.

[...] This exists before any reincarnating personality enters it. [...]

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. [...]

(“Is there such a thing as reincarnation?”)

(“In what reincarnation of yours was that?”)

(“Your second reincarnation; correct?”)

[...] This is your last reincarnation, in your terms. At death you will consciously realize the sum of your reincarnated selves. [...]

[...] From my standpoint your various reincarnated selves are not seen separately, but as your earthly personality.

[...] The contact is also with your other reincarnated selves that you do not presently recall. [...]

In the future now that Ruburt has loosened, we will deal with your reincarnational backgrounds in some detail. [...]

Reincarnation exists, then, on the part of all species. Once a consciousness, however, has chosen the larger classification of its physical existences, it stays within that framework in its “reincarnational” existences. [...]

[...] “That’s what I got before the session—about animals reincarnating—and I thought: Oh, no. [...] Neither of us could remember Seth stating flat out in any of his material that animals reincarnate, although he may have done so. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The reincarnational aspects of physical life, however, serve a very important purpose, providing an inner subjective background. [...]

[...] Billy can be as he chooses—reincarnated into any species within his classification—as a mammal.

[...] All of this is further complicated by the purposes and intents of the generations in any historical period, and the reincarnational influences.

[...] There are different historical periods, in your terms, where the species has showed what it can do—and what is possible in certain specific directions when the genetic and reincarnational triggers are touched and opened full blast, so that certain characteristics appear in their clearest, most spectacular light, to serve as individual models and as models for the species as a whole.

Again, such times are closely bound with reincarnational intents that direct the genetic triggering, and that meet in the culture the further stimulus that may be required. [...]

[...] And how do such people react after death when they start to get glimmerings about the workings of reincarnation,³ for example?”

[...] Now within that one reality you have reincarnational selves, they belong within the concept of that existence. All probable systems do not have reincarnational existences. [...]

And I know I am only going to confuse you but if you have probable selves then you know there are probable universes and probable earths and probable histories of your earth and you see what this is going to do to your concept of reincarnation as you now hold it. So within the system that you know, you also have probable reincarnational selves within those probable historical earths. [...]

([Nadine:] “How can we tell these from past reincarnational selves?”)

[...] And it has taken me some time to get the idea of probable realities to your heads, and I knew that someone at sometime would ask me about reincarnational selves and so I suppose it behooves me to try to give you an answer, and it is this. [...]

[...] You have a good understanding of reincarnation that Ruburt has lacked, yet that has been counterbalanced by a disinclination to encounter personalities directly in contact in the present. Ruburt would do that, while closing off reincarnational aspects because of possible past emotional content.

[...] This reaction however helped Ruburt to overcome his blocks against reincarnational aspects, and so each of you help the other in that regard.

[...] When you think in terms of reincarnation, you are still dealing with very simple time concepts. [...] You always think of being reincarnated in terms of being born backward into a history of which you have read. [...]

[...] Only after such a basis will the idea of reincarnation achieve its natural validity, and only when it is understood that the subconscious, certain layers of it, is a link between the present personality and past ones, will the theory of reincarnation be accepted as fact. [...]

[...] It seems to you as if one reincarnational existence would be layered above the other. [...]

If you think in conventional terms about reincarnation, then you might examine a book in which each page is a life. [...]

[...] The fear of reincarnation is again a shield for another fear that you have not faced that has nothing to do with reincarnation but has charged the word reincarnation to you. The fear is not connected with reincarnation per se, but as long as you believe, unconsciously, that this is so, you will react in that manner. [...]

(Jane gives reincarnational information to Edgar and Maria.)

(1. About reincarnations Why do people say they remember past lives, but very seldom refer to future lives? [...]

[...] Your question about reincarnation cannot be answered with any clear statement because of the intersections of probabilities in time as you experience it, and because people generally are so afraid of death.

A past death does not bother them, but the contemplation of a future reincarnation implies the death within this present life, and is largely avoided.

However, it is the belief that reincarnations are past that largely closes the door. [...]

[...] The September 25 dream concerns reincarnation and her decision to spend each reincarnation in one “room,” say. [...]

The church could not trust revelations, lest new orders might come to contradict the old ones, to upset the spiritual status quo, and hence the social organization that developed about it; or that might revive old tenets once a part of Christianity but later dropped—such as a belief in reincarnation.

[...] Ruburt’s dream about the reincarnational room told him that he had decided to concentrate in each life rather exclusively upon certain issues. [...]

CHILDRENS’ PLAY, REINCARNATION, AND HEALTH

We will begin a new chapter, to be entitled: “Childrens’ Play, Reincarnation, and Health.”

(4:40.) In a fashion, reincarnation can partially be explained using the same kind of analogy. [...]