“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Since the excerpts are still more representative than complete, however, due to the accumulated mass of information available, my own choices enter in: ESP class data are quoted a number of times; included is material summarizing Jane’s own theories about the Seth phenomena, as she worked them out in her recently completed Adventures in Consciousness; but reincarnation, while mentioned often, isn’t stressed in terms of particulars — that is, I refer to Seth’s statements that he, Jane and I led closely involved lives in Denmark in the 1600’s, but those lives aren’t studied per se. Within our ordinary context of linear time I think of reincarnation, even though in Seth’s terms it’s really a simultaneous phenomenon, as being further away, or more removed, from us physical creatures than the more “immediate” psychic connections and mechanics I want to show as linking Seth, Jane, and myself. [...]

(Perhaps I put this appendix together as I did partly because Jane herself isn’t much turned on by reincarnational concepts, although she does like the way Seth insists upon the unlimited attributes of each personality; and within such a “simultaneous” framework there’s plenty of room for probable selves, reincarnational selves, and [added later] counterpart selves.²

[...] Only after such a basis [is established] 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.

(Jane and I would rather explore specific reincarnational information in an outright book on the subject, and then only after we’d acquired much more personal [and theoretical] material. We do think that in detail, reincarnation, whether it’s seen in ordinary terms or within the “simultaneous” framework espoused by Seth, can be an endless subject.²⁷

[...] You will realize that you are more than you realize that you are now, but you will not lose the state of which you are now aware, and regardless of the fact of reincarnation and regardless of probable selves the unique self that you now call yourself has eternal validity even though the memories that you cannot now consciously recall will be yours in their entirety. And physical life in its reincarnational self is not some chaos thrust upon you, some evil from which you must shortly hope to escape. [...]

[...] He is not in the reincarnational cycle. No one continues in the reincarnational cycle forever. [...]

([Ron:] “There is also the [Asian deity—name lost]   He has attained nirvana, but he stays around and helps people who are still in the reincarnational cycle.”)

[...] I have always, for example, honored both the evening and the dawn in my earthly reincarnations. [...]

[...] It does not change the fact that it is the last reincarnation cycle for parents for example, although it may be lonely for the child in such an instance. I have not gone into these questions; however, to some degree in the subconscious mind you have what could be called a ghost image of your ancestors, and when your parents are in their last reincarnation cycle they leave your plane and it is more difficult for the ghost image to be imprinted.

[...] This time you are both on your last reincarnation cycle on your plane, and as a rule no personality fragments are left behind.

When the Middle Ages began a large number of personalities who had lived before and during the Roman period were ready to end their reincarnation cycles. [...]

[...] There were personalities reincarnated during the Middle Ages who had lived during the Roman experience, however they were not leading personalities and they were not able to transmit knowledge or abilities from past lives, simply because they had not the inherent strength or capability needed.

[...] In each of your “reincarnational” existences you are faced with the same relationship with probabilities. [...]

1. Seth seems to refer to “Artificial Reincarnation” as practiced by the Soviets. [...]

(9:56.) Each day therefore is an incarnation, so to speak, but not only symbolically — for through soul’s intersection with the flesh, each self mirrors daily its “reincarnational” or simultaneous selves.

Now: This does not mean that you will necessarily have a flood of reincarnational information, instant intuitive recognition of “past” lives, or experience any such intrusive data. [...]

[...] Many quite valid reincarnational memories come as imaginings, but you do not trust them. [...]

2. Seth first discussed his theory of “moment points” in a set of four sessions in April and May, 1965, in connection with reincarnation and the dream universe. [...]

As in many cases an old man will appear womanish, so a personality reincarnated steadily as a male will develop strong and overlycompensated-for female characteristics, as is the case with Loren in this existence. The very fact that the personality evades a female reincarnation is evidence of an already developed fear. The personality of Loren, you see, is basically female despite the fact that he has never had a female reincarnation. [...]

[...] Oftentimes when a person is reincarnated continually as one sex, the overall impression of the personality seems to be of the opposite sex. [...]

[...] Loren must have a female reincarnation, even to give validity to his masculinity.

[...] It includes additional information on several topics already mentioned in the book proper, such as coordination points, biblical times and records, objects as symbols, reincarnation, and expansion of consciousness. [...]

My wife died in September 1984, and given her reincarnational relationship with Seth, as described by him, I strongly suspect that the two of them are together now. [...]

[...] Such material began to come through the Ouija board as mostly reincarnational data way back in the second session, for December 4, 1963. [...]

[...] Sometimes he mentioned reincarnational relationships or heritages—again, briefly.

[...] Each succeeding reincarnation finds you in a better position to do so. [...]

[...] You are solving many problems therefore now, since this is to be your last reincarnation in physical terms. [...]

This does not occur in the course of usual reincarnations, but it does occur ultimately in all. [...]

As you know, my dear Joseph, there is a difference between probable realities and reincarnational ones. To keep the discussion simple, I will answer you in reincarnational terms; but as Ruburt is discovering as he writes his Adventures in Consciousness,⁶ many more elements are involved.

[...] Could reincarnational reasons be involved, probabilities, or what?”)

(With a smile:) “Your particular conscious and subconscious viewpoints are fluent enough so that they do not hamper the basic material, or cover it with the rock of dogmatism so that it becomes impossible to find … Actually, what I needed were personalities who were not fanatics along any line — including scientific fanatics who would object as forcibly to the reincarnational data as religious fanatics would object to some of the other material.

[...] The deep connections that occur, for example in various reincarnations, are not apparent to the ego. [...]

[...] In your terms an intense experience can unite and spark developments encountered by one through many reincarnations. [...]

[...] You have agreed, a large number of you, to ignore the existence of reincarnation. [...]

[...] It dealt only with personal material regarding Marian and her family, with some reincarnational data added.

[...] The last part of the session involved reincarnational data. [...]

(See the attached copies of Jane’s reincarnation and grandfather dreams of March 6, and her nightmarish experience of March 8. All of these are very important, I think, with the experience of March 8 taking precedence, I’d say. [...]

Many people’s economic well-being of course was dependent upon the church in one way or another, and in reincarnational terms many millions of people alive today were familiar then with such conditions. [...]

[...] Actually, the material goes into a couple of the questions I’ve got listed about reincarnational connections with the symptoms.”

(This session followed a class discussion on reincarnation and probabilities. [...]

You and your reincarnated selves, or personalities, are not imprisoned in time. [...]

(Janice S.: “Have you always taught on reincarnation?”)

[...] The impediment with reincarnation has nothing to do with his intuitive understanding of it, which was always reflected in his writing. It is instead a reaction against the ways in which reincarnation is interpreted by others with less wisdom and understanding. [...]

Now I have a few brief remarks and then my friend Ruburt wants to send our friend Rachel here back through time to another reincarnation. [...]

[...] Now this includes not only reincarnational material in your terms, but the realization that the personality in the dream state is actually as alert and conscious as it is in the waking state. [...]

[...] So more than reincarnational existences are involved. [...]

([Rachel:] “What am I trying to prove in this reincarnation?”)

(11:20 P.M. Seth’s reference to reincarnational material of my own concerned the “reincarnational dramas” that Jane, Sue, myself and a few others have undertaken on our own, usually at our Friday night gatherings. [...]

[...] All of us expected an easygoing session — one that might touch upon current events involving the three of us, from a very ill feline, say, to our impromptu Friday evening “reincarnational dramas.” [...]

You should be getting some more reincarnational material on your own.

Reincarnationally now, quite legitimate, and harking back to what I told you about the release of your own abilities. [...]

[...] In our casual conversation I happened to remark that I now had three things going reincarnationally: The Nabene thing, the Roman thing, and the Jamaica thing, toward my chronological “list” of “past” lives.

(“All right then,” Jane said finally, “I’ll just tell you this: Our whole idea of reincarnation is all screwed up. [...]

[...] Seth gave us a detailed account of two past lives and began a reincarnational history of Rob’s family. [...] But I didn’t like this insistence upon reincarnation at all. [...] “But the reincarnational part is probably fantasy. [...]

“But reincarnation—and kids forming fragment personalities or whatever as playmates?” I frowned. [...]

[...] You never forgave yourself, and now in your first reincarnation as a woman since that time, you decided to be the vehicle through which he could enter physical reality again, and so became his mother in physical terms.

Now, I cannot give you your entire reincarnational history in an evening.