“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] If you believe in the sinfulness of the world, for instance, then you will search out from normal sense data those facts that confirm your belief. [...]

[...] Perhaps we’ll discover that they play as strong a role in Jane’s dilemma presently, as my wife’s Sinful-Self material. [...]

[...] Your religions tell you that man is sinful: The body is not to be trusted; the senses can lead you astray. [...]

[...] Your religions stress sin. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There is no doubt that the church cast the soul in a position of stress, caught as it was between its heavenly source and original sin — but there was a sense of psychological mobility involved, one that saw continued existence after death.

Jane’s main puzzlement, however, is that even with Seth’s and her own sinful-self material her physical symptoms persist to such a degree, in spite of an occasional lessening. [...]

[...] I told her that Seth had said nothing at all about what I regard as the central conflict: the one between her sinful self, so-called, and her spontaneous self. [...]

[...] In keeping with that idea, two nights later Seth recommended that we begin studying the sessions on the magical approach to life and on the sinful self. [...]

[...] This followed by a part 2 with chapters following an intuitive shape favoring more association, the sinful self stuff too, showing the portions of psychic motion, could start with a chapter 1 very like the one I have organized and then just have a session or so a chapter until part 2. i don’t know, its a thought…

(I meant to note: Some of today’s Seth material reminds me of Jane’s “sinful-self” material. [...]

[...] It has considered man a sinful creature, flawed by original sin, forced to work by the sweat of his brow.

When you berate yourself for your sins, then you do not realize what joy is. [...]

[...] Many, now — and I am speaking generally — are in the position they are because they so thoroughly believe what all of you believe to a large extent: that you are flawed creatures, spawned by a meaningless universe, or made by a vengeful God and damaged by original sin.

You must realize that fanatics always deal with grandiose ideals, while at the same time they believe in man’s sinful nature, and the individual’s lack of power. [...]

(“Is it the sinful self that’s doing this?” I asked. [...]

As it naturally occurs to him, Ruburt should read over material he has of the Sinful Self, and it will with its own rhythm lead toward further therapeutic adjustments. [...]

[...] If the weather turned disastrous, the people were in a quandary, reexamining the patterns of behavior, finding perhaps minute differences, suspicious variations, that seemed to occur just before the storm—so these became the new sins.

The conventionally religious will be certain that the earthquake is a punishment for sin. [...]

The poor were obviously sinful. [...]

[...] Because of culture and religion, an apple may remind many people of the Garden of Eden, or sin. [...]

(In the same average voice she began: “In the shadow of the image organized religion [at the same time my hands want to fly up], after it has been set up, has always been afraid of revelationary knowledge; to protect itself; and the Catholic Church in particular cast it in the form of a devil, which I was taught: the sin of pride, wanting to learn.”

Asia was where you saw him though he was in many other places, traveling in his middle years (Jane dictates:) doing penance for his sins according to the customs of the age.

And when I looked around me, it seemed that for all of man’s good intentions, he only transmitted the errors of his race; that each man or woman unknowingly perpetuated the peculiar sins and failings of their families. [...]

[...] He talked of selling the land and tearing down the terrace as a projected act of self-mutilation, mutilating something that he loved, to do penance for his sins, in his light.