“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I was about your establishment earlier, and Ruburt was right. There was a purpose in his misreading. Actually, subconsciously he picked up my thoughts on this occasion. He picked them up a few minutes earlier but his mind waited for a suitable occasion to transpose the word spacious in connection with the present. The spacious present is an excellent term. In actuality there is only a spacious present, so spacious that it cannot be explored all at once in your terms, hence your arbitrary division of it into larger rooms of past, present and future.

Again, there is only the spacious present. You are in the spacious present now. You were in the spacious present in your yesterday and you still will not have traveled through it in your tomorrow, or in eons of tomorrows.

(At about 6:30 p.m. Jane was reading a magazine article, and came across the word specious. She found herself reading the word as spacious; then the phrase “spacious present” came to mind. She did not feel Seth about, yet thought the phrase significant for some reason.

In the spacious present as it exists in actuality beyond shadow, all things that have existed still exist, and all things that shall exist in your tomorrow already do exist. You on your plane cannot experience such reality except in a very limited manner, and you cannot experience such reality spontaneously, and spontaneity is the quality of the spacious present. To you with your ideas of camouflage time this material may sound strange and unbelievable.

(10:45.) A certain kind of affirmation of self allows the brain to tune into these more spacious methods of perception that are the natural characteristics of the mind. [...] You will not use your spacious mind until you affirm its reality within yourself, and until you are ready to handle the additional data which will then become consciously available to one extent or another. But the spacious mind operates through your creaturehood; in your terms it represents latent abilities of consciousness that can be more or less normal functions.

An individual can tune into spacious-mind operation two or three times in a lifetime without realizing it, and have experiences that he finds difficult to interpret later. [...] A dual perception takes place in which the spacious mind is activated. By “activated” I mean that the physical organism is suddenly aware of [the spacious mind’s] existence.

[...] Because it does, certain intuitive psychic and “intellectually spacious” experiences can be physically felt to some extent. [...]

Here I have used the term “spacious” for workings of the mind and intuitions that exist in what you might call an accelerated range of action. [...]

The spacious present does not contradict the existence of durability, but durability does not imply the existence of a future as you conceive it. [...] The spacious present, while existing spontaneously, while happening simultaneously, still contains within it qualities of duration.

[...] Our third law is spontaneity, and despite all appearances of beginning and end, despite all appearances of death and decay, all consciousness exists in the spacious present, in a spontaneous manner, in simultaneous harmony, and yet within the spacious present there is also durability.

[...] Durability within the framework of the spacious present would not exist were it not for the laws of value fulfillment and energy transformation. These make duration within the spacious present not only possible but necessary.

One of the main attributes of this value climate is spontaneity, that shows itself in the existence of the only sort of time that has any real meaning, that of the spacious present.

Remember that reincarnation does not contradict the theory of the spacious present, for such lives within the spacious present are simultaneous. [...]

Seven: The spacious present is here more available to the perceptions.

[...] Basically perception of the spacious present is naturally available. [...]

(Jane said that when Seth talked about our living room and the spacious present, she had some kind of “weird” feeling that involved a concept of the thought. [...]

You will need perhaps to reread your material on the spacious present, since our explanation here will be necessarily in terms of sequence of events, when as you know in the spacious present events are actually simultaneous. [...]

[...] The neutrality is protective, a duration within the spacious present, where nevertheless there is a certain acceleration in terms of value fulfillment.

(See the 41st session for Seth’s first long dissertation on the spacious present. [...]

Remembering again your material of the spacious present, a portion of personality retention however still surrounds those physical reference points with which the personality was familiar.

The spacious present is always present (smile)—my pun—in any work of art. [...] The fluidity or the spacious present pervades the dream state as it pervades a painting, but the images are projected into the spacious present by the dreamer, according to his own understanding and experience.

[...] If a certain intensity is reached here however, a peak of intensity, then you could perceive the spacious present as it exists within your native system. [...]

[...] What about the spacious present and your quasars? What about your spacious present and the predictions, for example, of Nostradamus? What about the spacious present and its connection with evolution? [...]

Past, present, and future, as you know, exist at once in the spacious present. [...] Let us now consider the spacious present in different terms. [...]

Now the spacious present obviously contains all of these systems, and these systems are all open systems, for the energy that composes them is the same. [...]

[...] But if it seems that we are far afield from the spacious present and quasars, then you are mistaken.

[...] Now we will call the whole forest, if you can conceive of it, the spacious present. The trees are compared to consciousnesses, all existing simultaneously; and yet this forest of spacious present does not take up space, as you think of space.

I have told you that all consciousnesses exist in the spacious present, which is spontaneous while also durable. [...]

And in each of these planes of existence there is a reflection of the basic laws of the spacious present itself, which I am in the process of giving you. [...]

I also said that new entities were being formed, but in the framework of the spacious present all this is spontaneous. [...]

[...] Since there is actually only a spacious present this means that the self is rooted both in the past and in the future, using your terms.

[...] You must instead consider reincarnation in the light of what you know of the spacious present.

[...] In a basic manner, as you know, the past, present and future exist at once in the spacious present.

[...] You exist in other words in several guises or reincarnations, at one time within the spacious present. [...]

The mind will be found to be closely allied with the spacious present. [...]

(Among others see the 40th session, April 1,1964, for material on tissue capsules; and the 41st for material on the spacious present.)

You can see that the inner self is much more spacious and unlimited than the ego self, and that while divisions occur they may vary, and the boundaries of the inner self constantly change.

[...] Seth has told us that there is no past or future, only the spacious present. [...]

Now returning briefly, I would like again to mention our spacious present, in which all things have their existence. When the spacious present is understood, with its attributes of spontaneity, then the cause and effect theory will fall. [...] Basically, the spacious present as you know does have durability, because of the existence of value fulfillment.

There is more I want to say, bringing in the matter of our spacious present. [...]

[...] The spacious present contains instead spontaneity, and within it all happenings are simultaneous, and yet there is durability.

(Long pause.) Ruburt had a dream with excellent connotations, in which he looked through a beautiful old house of lovely carved wood and spacious rooms, and decided to move into the house, even though it was in an area that had previously nearly been condemned — signifying that he was indeed rising from beliefs that he condemned into a larger, spacious area of expression.

Again here, when I speak in terms of before and after, I speak only for your convenience, for there is no before or after, only all action within the spacious present, occurring out of itself, spontaneously, into all directions, and forming of itself all the infinite fields and systems of actuality.

[...] Seth introduced the spacious present in the 41st session. [...]

[...] I hope that in other portions of this book certain mental exercises will allow you to leap over the tradition of time’s framework and sense with the united intellect and intuitions your own individual part in a spacious present that is large enough to contain all of time’s segments.

There is much to be explained along many lines which we have only begun to touch upon, for all things are correlated; and there is indeed a correlation between our moment points of which we have spoken, the spacious present, and that portion of the whole self which you call the subconscious.

[...] As we have said, the moment point for you is actually composed of the amount of action which you are capable of assimilating within your present framework, for the moment point is indeed a portion of the spacious present.

[...] For while there is no real past or present or future within the spacious present, there is indeed an infinity of inward and outward; and again, of actions within actions, and there is no end to these actions for they are self-generating. [...]

Also I mentioned that the spacious present knows no beginning or end, and that energy, of which everything is composed, can never be withdrawn. [...]

[...] It would be backtracking to repeat that long discussion, but as the inner universe has as its attributes spontaneity and durability, and as the spacious present is simultaneous while containing within it all pasts and all presents and all futures, and as Philip understands the meaning of expansion in terms not of time or of space but of value fulfillment, so will he intuitively then grasp that no contradiction occurs with actual reality when I say that there is no beginning and no end.

[...] But they will not end, and as we have known each other in the past and in the future and in the present, so these sessions exist in the spacious present, where time as such has no meaning.

[...] The appearance of energy in one form could be said to end in that form were it not for the existence of the spacious present, in which all realities are simultaneous.

The expansion resulted from a contraction of energy, but because of the unique attributes inherent in both value fulfillment and in the spacious present, there simply was not an initial or first contraction or expansion.

[...] What if this series is only part of a larger present, a more spacious “moment” of which we are unaware?

[...] Suppose, as Seth maintains, that past, present, and future are also artificial devices, divisions superimposed over a spacious moment in which all action is simultaneous.

[...] Perhaps it consists of events already in existence in this Spacious Present; events that we have conveniently decided not to contend with “as yet.” [...]

“Again: the medium is the message in the Spacious Present,” Seth said, smiling, “and whenever the time for the program arrives, I am here in your present, regardless of where I am in what you would term my present. [...]

[...] Action also takes place within the spacious present. [...]

[...] On the one hand action is indeed simultaneous, yet in it all action is contained, for it occurs within the unlimited spacious present. [...]