I’ve been inspired to revisit the Seth material by Jane Roberts after hearing Seriah Azkath from the “Where Did the Road Go” podcast mention, more than once, that Seth was talking about simultaneous time way back in the 1960s. For those unfamiliar, Jane Roberts and her husband Robert Butts explored an interaction with a post-physical entity that referred to himself as Seth in a series of books that attracted a worldwide following that continues decades after her death in 1984. There’s a lot to unpack here, but here is Jane Roberts’ description from “The Seth Material”:
While he (Seth) sees reincarnation as a fact, he places it in an entirely different time context, and reconciles the theory with the idea of “simultaneous” time. Perhaps more important, he describes reincarnation as only a small part of our entire development. Other equally important existences occur in other non-physical dimensions.
My work in 2021 involved journeying to my personal “other equally important existences” and I’ll be posting when I arrive at a cohesive and coherent plateau. I’ve already grasped an entirely different time context and am applying it in my new TimeLine Journeying process.
Here’s the quotation that I heard in the audiobook version of “The Nature of Personal Reality”:
In some ways, the rhythm of birth and death is like a breath taken and exhaled. Feel your own breath as it comes and goes. You are not it, yet it comes into you and leaves you, and without its continuous flow you could not physically exist. Just so your lives go in and out of you — you and yet not you. And a portion of you, while letting them all go, remembers them and knows their journey.
Imagine where your breath goes when it leaves your body, how it escapes through an open window perhaps and becomes a part of the space outside, where you would never recognize it — and when it has left you it is no longer a part of what you are, for you are already different. So the lives you have lived are not you, while they are of you.
Close your eyes. Think of your breaths as lives, and you the entity through which they have passed and are passing. Then you will feel your state of grace, and all the artificial guilts will be meaningless.
No one atom of air is like another. Each in its own way is aware and capable of entering into greater transformations and organizations, filled with infinite potential. As your breath leaves you and becomes part of the world, free, so do your lives leave you and continue to exist in your terms. You cannot confine a personality that you "were" to a particular century that is finished and deny it other fulfillments, for even now it exists and has fresh experience. As your moment of reflection gave birth to consciousness as you think of it — for both really came together — so then can another phenomenon and kind of reflection give birth to at least some dim conscious awareness of the vast dimensions of your own reality.
First this quote— Seth, who is male but speaking through Jane, a female, captured the most succinct explanation of the reincarnation cycle I’ve ever heard. Not just the coming and going of our breaths and our lives, but tying this to how both breath and physical incarnations return to the greater whole upon completion.
Fascinating information from a “non-physical collaborator.” I’ve been forming 3 “piles” of Seth teachings:
1) WOW - like the above, mind bogglingly insightful intelligence
2) WHAT IF - material that is worthy of further examination, such as parallel lives and the other realms mentioned above. This is to distinguish it from
3) NAH - advice or insight that is suspect or possibly a muddled translation through Jane Roberts, who counterintuitively drank and smoked through her channeling sessions. Example - The Jesus conspiracy —that a substitute was crucified on the cross — this feels overly “infected” with the book “The Passover Plot” which was popular around the time of the Seth sessions.
Anyone exploring the Seth material has to confront the circumstances surrounding Jane Roberts’ later years, the illness that hospitalized her for most of the last 2 years of her life, and her early death at age 55. It’s challenging to find a context for chronic illness which doesn’t seem to fit with creating our own reality. Yet from her hospital bed in the last 2 years of Jane Roberts’ life, she continued to channel Seth and that material, her last, was compiled in “The Way Toward Health.” But its Seth’s take on Time that moved the goal posts for me personally. I’ll end with this:
Your idea of time is false. Time as you experience it is an illusion caused by your own physical senses. They force you to perceive action in certain terms, but this is not the nature of action. The physical senses can only perceive reality a little bit at a time, and so it seems to you that one moment exists and is gone forever, and the next moment comes and like the one before also disappears. But everything in the universe exists at one time, simultaneously. The first words ever spoken still ring through the universe, and in your terms, the last words ever spoken have already been said, for there is no beginning. It is only your perception that is limited. There is no past, present, and future. These only appear to those who exist within three-dimensional reality. Since I am no longer in it, I can perceive what you do not. There is also a part of you that is not imprisoned within physical reality, and that part of you knows that there is only an Eternal Now. The part of you who knows this is the whole self.
Roberts, Jane. The Seth Material (p. 200). New Awareness Network, Inc.. Kindle Edition.