“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In our past sessions I have explained time distortions, and you are familiar with the spacious present. [...]

(See the 41st session for material on the spacious present.)

[...] I plan to use his rather spacious walls as a hanging space for my work, rotating the exhibits periodically.

[...] For Seth, basically there is no time, only a great “spacious present” that’s a manifestation of a sublime, indescribable All That Is. Our gross physical senses, and indeed our very bodies, insist upon interpreting the spacious present in linear terms, however—through the inevitable processes of birth, aging, and death—so to help us get his point here Seth advances his ideas of reincarnational selves and counterpart selves in ways we can understand sensually.

[...] As Seth and I both noted in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, each of us has our focus of identity now—not in some other portion of the spacious present, just as each reincarnational self has his or her own historical focus of identity. [...]

[...] Yet, even given ancient concepts like that of Seth’s spacious present, the participants in such adventures usually quite happily ignore the conclusion that reincarnation should also operate from the opposite direction—the future—just as well! [...]

[...] One ought to be very careful about assigning past and future status to various portions of a self, for ultimately, as one moves further into the spacious present, such constructions as the past, present, and future begin to melt away. [...]

[...] However, the place was more spacious, and bore elements of 458 W. Water Street, in Elmira, New York, also. [...] We were in town, protected, and looking out the windows I saw more spacious yards than actually exist there. [...]

In time as you know it, there simply is no point of first origin, since in the spacious present the past does not exist, as the future does not exist in those terms. The dream world is more closely connected with uncamouflaged experience in the spacious present, but it still is in a camouflage perspective, dealing with recognizable projections of material reality.

[...] What he is trying to do is to turn on the “high intellect,” or “spacious mind.” The high intellect or spacious mind is a combination of what you think of as psychic or intuitional, and intellectual qualities—only raised to a much higher degree, and united.

[...] At first it may not seem to be giving you the results you expect, but you are working within spacious time. [...]

The spacious present does not contradict 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, of death and decay, all consciousnesses exist 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, which shows itself in the existence of the only sort of time that has any real meaning — that of the spacious present.

[...] Because the Spacious Present exists as it is, the recognition has already been made. [...]

[...] However in the Spacious Present, All That Is does exist. [...]

Our next law of the inner universe is the capacity for infinite mobility, this occurring within the spacious present, which is an infinite spacious present.

(At this time also, while trying to visualize a method of diagramming the spacious present, I saw an animated graph consisting of long black jointed sticks thrusting up from a common base, at various angles. [...]

Your dream about the return to Sayre, and the more spacious surroundings, means also that as you now change the past and the future, so you have changed the past: you view it in a more extended light, so that it becomes less narrow and constricting. [...]

[...] They simply represent realities with which you are not consciously familiar, and they span the distortions of your time elements so that larger portions of the spacious present become apparent.

[...] You will already have learned to recognize the spacious present for what it is, and the conscious ego will not be so bewildered and confused by the sudden perception that is involved.

Just before the experience of death, timelessness, or the spacious present, begins to be perceived. [...]

7. The spacious present is here more available to the senses.

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

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

[...] A small portion of the spacious present appears in your cube but you see it in camouflage terms of continuity, in camouflage waves of past, present and future.

[...] The vehicle of so-called space travel is mental and psychic mobility, in terms of psychic transformation of energy, enabling spontaneous and instantaneous mobility through the spacious present.

[...] The spacious present enfolds but does not enclose you, and my words will lead you on. [...]

[...] Inward, individualized, aware energy existed before the conception of your time, your time obviously being an interpretation of the spacious present, from which all creation not only originally began but continues in terms of value fulfillment. [...]

[...] In the spacious present there simply is no past. [...]

I could not have explained moment points to you, for example, until I had clearly given the idea of the spacious present. [...]

[...] He began on the spacious present in session 44 in Volume 2.

Now, the time in which the inner ego exists is, as you know, the spacious present. The spacious present is the basic time in which the whole self has its existence, but the various portions of that self have their experience in their own time systems, which are the results of their characteristic methods of perception.

[...] What would correspond, in any case, to your idea of duration within the spacious present; it is a matter of intensities however. [...]