“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) In larger terms, there are really only scientific and religious men and women, however, and fields of science and religion would be meaningless without those individuals who believe in their positions. As those men and women enlarge their definitions of reality, the fields of science and religion must expand. [...]

(The men were trying to run the film through the TV set.)

Now conventional religion requires tribute and so the men came to you at the door. [...]

Give us a moment … Historically, of course, you follow a one-line pattern of thought, so you see a picture in which fish left the oceans and became reptiles; from these mammals eventually appeared, and apes and men. [...]

[...] In your system of probabilities there are no reptilian men or women, yet in other probabilities they do indeed exist. [...]

[...] Viruses themselves undergo transformations completely unsuspected by medical men. [...]

[...] When you, now, Joseph, find yourself enraged, or even just upset, about world conditions or the behavior of your fellow men, certainly admit your feelings and express them. [...]

[...] To some men there is no good. [...]

[...] More cruelties have been effected by principled men than unprincipled men would ever dream.

The personality has endeavored to right old wrongs, and has succeeded to a great degree, but at the risk of sacrificing inner spontaneity, and even at the risk of losing the very authoritative aspects of his nature, so that there is still a tendency to follow rather than to lead; simply because in the period of the Inquisition he was in a place of authority, he led; and he led men into atrocities committed in the fine name of principle and religion. [...]

Men have also visited other worlds through the ages. [...] In dreams, and in altered states through history as you accept it, men have been taken upon such journeys. [...]

[...] Your fellow men are with you and not against you. [...]

(I told Jane that last night I’d had another long, torturous dream in which I’d been pursued through rooms by unknown men who were after me for some unexplained reason. [...]

[...] The close observer could, I think, find among the three men more physical and psychological correlations [some having to do with illness], as well as meaningful opposing features, so that in this instance the counterpart relationships can be seen as quite apropos.

[...] Her marriage had ended in divorce before she moved here, and while she was always talking about getting married again, she had a great distrust of men. [...]

“Another example: A very industrious individual thinks the majority of men are lazy and good for nothing. [...]

Remember our friend who kept falling in love with men she couldn’t have? [...]

“Men and women have joyfully honored the evening and the dawn and listened to the heart pulse within them with a blessing and a joy, who have not had one hundredth of your blessings or one-third the reason to look forward to another day, and they have fulfilled themselves and brought joy to others. [...]

[...] This is why you have miserable rich men. You can also have happy poor men. [...]

(Resume at 4:16.) It is also a good idea for Ruburt to remind himself that he knows well that these concepts are true, and that they will lead inevitably toward his recovery—or rather, to his recovery—for they follow the innate laws of nature as it exists in its own state, apart from men’s ideas about it. [...]

[...] As it does, so the speakers within each of you can rise to the surface of ordinary consciousness without being considered blabbermouths or mad men and women, or fools, without having to distort their information simply to bring it to your attention. [...]

[...] She chose him knowing this, in order to be of comfort, since in a previous existence in Austria, two men were severely treated at her recommendation. [...]

[...] It will involve five people, four men and one woman. [...]

[...] You also know by now that not only men, but also all consciousnesses, contribute to the formation of your physical universe. [...]

[...] In the session Seth postulates two men, both portions of myself, who represents the conflicting sets of beliefs I’ve carried for years. [...]

In those early days men and women did live to ages that would amaze you today — many living to be several hundred years old.

One of those steps in Jane’s self-directed search for understanding is referred to in Note 5 for Session 681 (in Volume 1), which contains three lines from her poem, More Than Men. She wrote it in 1954, when she was 25 years old. [...]

More Than Men

More than men

[...] (With some irony:) It would not be entirely out of keeping, though somewhat exaggerated a statement, to claim that men who stockpile nuclear weapons in order to preserve peace are insane. [...]

[...] Our friend might also be convinced that he himself is evil, unworthy, or even depraved, the lowest of men or women. [...]

(9:54.) Natural disasters possess the great rousing energy of powers unleashed, of nature escaping man’s discipline, and by their very characteristics also remind man of his own psyche; for in their way such profound events always involve creativity being born, rising even from the bowels of the earth, reshaping the land and the lives of men.

[...] Under such conditions men who feel a part of nothing, of no structure or family or country, can understand in a flash their comradeship with the earth, their place upon it and its energy; through suddenly recognizing that relationship they feel their own power for action.