“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

([Jack Cross:] “What determines the time between reincarnations?”)

[...] So I can look at you, for example, knowing your reincarnational existences, and I am not limited to communicating to the one self you think yourself to be. [...]

[...] Furthermore, I added, since in our “practical” world we generally renounce all belief in anything like reincarnation, or what I consider to be a true religious stance, we place all of life within each individual living “now.” [...]

I do not want you to think that I am idealizing them, for their ways were not particularly gentle, but their experience with time was a rich vein of experience that is now most unusual—one that you were at least aware of in your own reincarnational episodes. [...]

Even in reincarnation for example, an ego who experienced a Civil War life is now aware of another ego who may have experienced life in the year three thousand. [...]

[...] Consciously, because of your time concepts, you will interpret those simultaneous lives in reincarnational terms, one seemingly before the other.

[...] The early vivid feeling for reincarnation, when he knew Roberts was not his proper name (as a youngster); the episode when he watched grade school children as no more than a toddler himself, and knew he had gone to school before; the flying out-of-body dreams; and the sense of identification with nature, and particularly with the night—those feelings waited for their vindication, for they did not fit into the world as he was told then. [...]

[...] Jane didn’t ask for details on the case, but instead explained to the lawyer something of Seth’s ideas so that the attorney could use that material in his defense, making it clear that above all Seth was not for violence, even though the prosecuting attorney was evidently trying to make the defendant sound as though it was okay to kill because reincarnation was a fact: Since we all lived other lives, no one could really kill anyone. [...]

[...] The full potential therefore should be seen in this, the last reincarnation.

[...] You may or may not have your own encounters with past reincarnational selves or probable selves. [...]

[...] Other historical periods exist simultaneously, in forms quite as valid; and other reincarnational selves. [...]

Some of these may involve the thoughts of what you would call a reincarnational self, focused in another period of history as you know it. [...]

[...] Because of the circumstances, however, and the two family deaths, the information was available, and used to remind all the class members of the different kind of familyship, a different kind of endeavor, and to offer a different kind of assurance and bonds that are not destroyed in your terms by any amount of reincarnation or any amount of time you use them.

[...] During break, we discussed what had been said and then somehow got to joking about a reincarnational drama-scene that Rob and I had played out a few months ago, in which he had apparently been a teacher of mine and an exasperatingly thorough record-keeper. [...]

[...] Reincarnation had been mentioned by the 2nd session, but since the concept meant little to us we hardly considered the many names that would be involved. [...]

Seth treats his own reincarnational background both generally and specifically, if rather briefly on both counts, in Chapter 22 of Seth Speaks. For the names of three of his past personalities as given in that chapter, see sessions 588–89. [...]

(The dream suggests numerous subjects that Seth didn’t go into, and that I’ll leave for the reader to consider: reincarnation, the shifting of ages and the independence of memory from time in the dream state, and so forth. [...]

[...] In reincarnational terms, the Speakers are teaching personalities who reach across the centuries. [...]

[...] This would be a nonsensical development to the logical mind; yet, the girl might be the form of the man’s previous or future reincarnated self.

[...] Theoretically, if you can bridge the gap between various reincarnations, then you can bridge the gap between your system and another.

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

[...] Here you will find, undistorted, uncamouflaged, the innate knowledge of the creation of the camouflage universe, the mechanics involved, much of the material that I have given you, the method and ways by which the inner self as a basic inhabitant of the inner universe, existing in the climate of psychological reality, helps create the various planes of existence, constructs outer senses to project and perceive the various apparent realities or camouflages, how the inner self reincarnates on the various planes. [...]

It therefore provides itself with a large variety of environments in various reincarnations, with problems of various natures, and with diverse circumstances. [...]

[...] You do not have all of your reincarnational backgrounds and one life in particular may surprise you considerably. [...]