“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Lately Joseph has found himself embarked upon a series of episodes that seem to involve reincarnational existences. [...] He previously had experience that convinced him that he was a man called Nebene.⁹ All of this could have been accepted quite easily in conventional terms of reincarnation, but Joseph felt that Nebene and the Roman soldier had existed during the same general time period, and he was not sure where to place the woman (but see Note 1).

[...] The realization is usually put in reincarnational terms, so that the self is seen as traveling through the centuries, moving through doors of death and life into other times and places.

[...] Then Jane told me that Seth could “continue forever” — whereupon he returned to touch upon Jane’s and my reincarnational “history” from another angle.)

Now: In your terms only, [neither of you] … has a reincarnational future. [...]

[...] There are many courses that you can follow after death after you have finished your reincarnation. Because when you are finished with your reincarnation, there is not a time when you can say, “There, I have had it. [...]

[...] Now, whether or not it is couched in reincarnational terms, it offers clear, precise and excellent insights as to how those within your family operate and what stimuli is important to them. [...]

([Rich:] “Can you tell me at what level of reincarnation I am at?”)

(To Rich.) You are in your fifth reincarnation. [...]

[...] This was his last reincarnation. [...]

[...] Work in this life is completed, reincarnation cycle completed.

All of those now in this room are coming close to their last reincarnations, and when these are done you must know yourselves thoroughly. [...]

(At break reincarnation was naturally discussed, with Lillian voicing some doubts on this score. [...]

However, you will reincarnate whether or not you believe that you will. [...]

When I tell you that you have lived for example in 1936, I say this because it makes sense to you now; but you live all of your reincarnations at once. [...]

[...] In the vast structure of probable activity, however, far more differentiation was still necessary, and this is provided for through the inner passageways of reincarnational existence.

[...] The inner reincarnational structure of the human psyche is very important in man’s physical survival. [...]

(9:39 P.M. “Before the session, I knew he was going to talk about the Garden of Eden, choices, and reincarnation, “Jane said. [...]

Your reincarnational selves have as many probable lives as you do. [...] If you see these reincarnational selves as one entity, then this becomes quite natural. [...]

[...] When you think in terms of reincarnation it seems that one tracing exists before the other, but the entire “chart” exists at once, with all the individual life-tracings.

[...] But in dreams you often do work quite as valid as any performed in the day, and in the dream state you meet and interact with your own reincarnational selves.

[...] The affair involved an excellent TV movie on reincarnation we saw last night. In the dream experience I think I was considering doing a book, a sequel, to the movie—but I was also seeing one or maybe two reincarnational lives of mine, seeing how a belief in reincarnation helped open a sense of the future in the present: I was learning how to visit those lives, which were still happening and for which I think I yearned—without dying in this life. [...]

[...] Although Jane has had “particular difficulty” with the theory of reincarnation, both through Seth and in her poetry she’s always kept psychic windows open through which she can view and express reincarnational ideas and emotions. [...] We expect to receive from Prentice-Hall the page proofs for the book, for our review, any day now.) In her poetry the young Jane was using ideas akin to reincarnation before she even knew the word—subject matter that was strongly disapproved of by the Catholic priests who visited Jane and her bedridden mother at home.

[...] During the early morning hours of the 6th she had a very vivid and joyful reincarnational dream involving herself, and a dream in which she returned to her own past in this life. “I rarely have reincarnation-type dreams, but awakened around 2:00 A.M. with this and the following dream,” she wrote the next day. [...]

[...] Even if you were aware of reincarnational existences, your present psychological behavior would not be threatened but retain its prominence—for only within certain space and time intersections can physical actions occur. The more or less general acceptance of the theory of reincarnation, however, would automatically alter your social systems, add to the richness of experience, and in particular insert a fresh feeling for the future, so that you did not feel your lives dead-ended.

Now: conversely, if you do not accept the idea of reincarnation, this does not mean that reincarnation is not a fact. [...] For the egotistical self it will be a nonfact and the physical senses will of course find no sense data to confirm reincarnation.

Those of you who believe in reincarnation in more or less conventional terms, can make the error of using or blaming “past” lives, organizing them through your current beliefs. [...]

[...] I know just where it’s going afterward, too — into reincarnational selves and this power thing. [...]

Now: Each of your reincarnational selves is born as a creature in flesh, like you. [...]

In a way that will be explained in another book for those interested in such matters, there is a kind of coincidence with all of these present points of power that exist between you and your “reincarnational” selves. [...]

I “see” the reincarnated aspects, the various manifestations taken in that regard. [...] I must remember, in all communications with those in the room, to limit my remarks and focus to the specific reincarnated “present self.”

[...] The Christ entity had many reincarnations before the emergence of the Christ “personality” as known; as did the Buddha.

I perceive people in a room in a far different manner than they perceive themselves; their various past and future reincarnated personalities, but not their probable selves, are perceivable to me.

If this is the reincarnational material, let that go for now.

Now, I have been a woman in several reincarnations. [...] Many of the women here have been men in several reincarnations. [...] You must have reincarnations in which you are a mother and a father. [...]

[...] When you are resting between reincarnations, you rest in a dimension in terms of space and time. You come back into space and time if you desire to reincarnate. [...]

[...] This is their last reincarnation, and I tell you it is much easier to solve your problems now than to solve them later, and they are solving theirs now. [...]

[...] I see each of you now with Ruburt’s eyes closed as you have been in past reincarnations and as you will be. [...]

[...] Some, of personalities between reincarnations.

[...] It is not the astral form that existed in a previous reincarnation, for example.

[...] As quickly as the new data forms the fetus and the 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. [...]

All of those now in this room are coming close to their last reincarnations, and when these are done you must know yourselves thoroughly. [...]

(At break reincarnation was naturally discussed, with Lydia voicing some doubts on this score. [...]

However, you will reincarnate whether or not you believe that you will. [...]

When I tell you that you lived for example in 1936, I say this because it makes sense to you now; but you live all of your reincarnations at once. [...]

The bulk of the book will deal with Seth’s ideas on various subjects, such as life after death, reincarnation, health, the nature of physical reality, the God concept, dreams, time, identity, and perception. I’m sure that these excerpts from the material itself and some sample reincarnational readings will give most readers greater insights into their own personalities and the situations in which they find themselves. [...]

[...] Yes, Seth does insist that reincarnation is a fact. [...]

[...] Seth often explained problems as the result of unresolved stresses in past reincarnational lives, and gave specific advice as to how the individuals could use their abilities now to meet these challenges.

Before this I had suspected that the reincarnational data was a delightful dish of fantasy cooked up by my own subconscious. [...]

(Following a discussion of reincarnation, probable selves and time. [...]

[...] And your reincarnated selves, or personalities, are not imprisoned in their time, as you think of time. [...]

([Rachel:] “Have you always taught on reincarnation?”)

([Gert:] “Could I also pick up my own reincarnations?”)

[...] These are not portraits of yourselves as past personalities in your terms, or of particular reincarnational selves. [...] In your terms the selves that are the sum of your reincarnational personalities. [...] You can draw upon their knowledge, and you can also draw upon the knowledge of your own reincarnational selves, “past,” in quotes, and “future.”

[...] In various reincarnations upon your plane, the ego that reincarnates is the same ego. [...]

Theoretically such an ego could continue reincarnating indefinitely in such a fashion, always growing and developing, but always dealing with problems of manipulation and physical construction of energy. [...]

Now if there is good communication between the self, that is the inner self and the outer ego, then the ego begins to understand what it is, and also to realize that it has greater capacities than it can realize by continued reincarnations, upon one plane.

It then does not reincarnate again upon that plane. [...]

([Gert:] “On this crocodile business, was this reincarnational material?”)

This was reincarnational material. [...]

[...] My new book will break beyond the concept of counterparts—as that concept broke beyond the concept of reincarnation.

[...] The term “reincarnation” hints at some. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The idea of counterparts was meant to lead you beyond time-oriented reincarnational ideas.

Now in one context those ideas are valid, but they are also deceiving—because your present focus will determine which reincarnational episodes you become aware of (intently). [...]