“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The information was specific, and you retained most of the identifying data.

[...] The objects were bought in high spirits, with money well earned, and they will retain to some rather strong degree the psychic exuberance which has become part of them, and will therefore add to the overall constructive climate of your dwelling.

[...] Then feeling of change of direction, more straight upward, yet still retained bedself. [...]

[...] Jane retained slight memory of what she had delivered as Seth. [...]

[...] Jane retained a little memory, as before, of the material’s content. [...]

[...] You were out-of-body last night, however, in here with him, and retain no memory. [...]

[...] And yet you will retain awareness. All of this evening I have been speaking of projections in which awareness is retained, and not of more frequent projections which are usually forgotten.

[...] The inner senses are allowed their greatest freedom in projection states, and the whole self retains experience that it would not otherwise. [...]

The thought originally held by A is still retained by A, yet a seemingly identical thought reaches B. A has lost nothing. That is, in sending the thought, in trying to duplicate the thought, he himself still retains it, so what is passed on to receiver B? [...]

[...] People with such beliefs often have severe problems with constipation, and have retention symptoms — retaining water, for example, or salt or whatever.

As the various cells maintain their individuality, as they gain in terms of value fulfillment by cooperation and still retain their uniqueness, so also do the various personalities retain their individuality and uniqueness while still cooperating to form the psychic structure of the entity, which in one context also forms them; and with this little problem I will let you take your break. [...]

[...] But I was unable to retain it.

[...] She did not see either one of them; and like me, while the experience had some duration, Jane could not retain the gist of their conversation.)

[...] He retained memory of his earlier knowledge, and for a considerable period he could now and then recapture that knowledge. [...]

[...] Then I came to think that Seth actually meant that man has consciously separated himself from his dream body to a greater degree than other creatures have—that even though those other entities became “physically effective” before man did, they still retain a greater awareness of their dream bodies than man does. [...]

A closed system could become captured, so to speak, and be used as a building block, still retaining its individuality, by other systems still expanding. In this manner your physical universe, dream universe, and universe of negative matter have come together, while retaining their boundaries as a more or less closed system.

[...] I also had some other sightings, and heard voices which I could not retain. [...]

[...] Besides this the two of you travelling together could help each other retain proper consciousness and purpose during projection. [...]

[...] You will know the plane is a dream image but be able to retain it for your convenience, so that you do not fear falling.

[...] These are retained.

[...] What they do learn however is always retained. [...]

[...] One personality can therefore be a portion of more than one entity, and still retain its own identity, its own individuality. [...]

This is also responsible for the fact that it is difficult to understand how one personality, while retaining its individuality, can be a portion of more than one entity, and we will have more to say on that subject as we continue with the time concept.

[...] Your own present identity contains the knowledge and “memory” of all those simultaneous existences, even as the cells in their way retain memory of all those physical structures which they (have) formed. [...]

Souls are also creative psychic structures, ever-changing and yet always retaining individual integrity (pause), and all are dependent one upon the other. [...]

Using an analogy, its “particles” could be dispersed throughout the universe, with galaxies between, yet the identity would be retained. [...]

[...] Data gained through waking learning endeavor and experience are checked in dreaming, not only against physical experience, but are also processed according to those “biological” and “spiritual” data, colon: Again, that information is acquired as the sleeping consciousness disperses itself, in a manner of speaking, and merges with other consciousnesses of its own and other species while still retaining its overall identity. [...]

[...] The self allows itself to change while retaining knowledge that it is the self who changes. [...]

[...] Jane’s trance had been good; she retained little memory of what she had said since first break.)

Now retain the feeling and follow the feeling backward for the feeling itself has smooth sides. [...]

(It wasn’t until I was typing up these notes at 9 PM on the same day, that Jane realized she could have been in at least a light trance while giving the material; at first she thought she had not been, but then realized she retained only a hazy idea of the material’s content—just that it was optimistic. [...]

Physically the structure of a cell retains its identity, even while the matter that composes it is continually altered. [...]

[...] Such psychological structures also retain their identity, their pattern of uniqueness, even while they change constantly, die and are reborn.

[...] [I had drifted without effort into the desired state.] This contact removed the feeling of elevation from my right hand; but the left hand retained the sensation, so for a few minutes I lay exploring the peculiarities of again being on two levels at once.

[...] Unfortunately I did not retain all of it upon leaving the desired state. [...]

[...] I heard it distinctly and retained it for some time, yet by the time I began my notes for this experiment I had forgotten it.

(George Marshall did name the state, Louisiana, and for some reason I had no difficulty retaining this. [...]

[...] And through all of this, the entity formed from that massive chaos retains its identity and the knowledge of its pasts, and continues to grow in creativity. [...]

[...] As atoms and molecules give your chairs a reality within your system even though the atoms and molecules come and go, so this planetary system still retains its reality. (Pause.)