“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Incidentally, if it is not now known by your scientists, it will be shortly discovered that the physical organism does not age in sleep at the same rate at which it ages in the waking state. Aging, therefore, is not a primary. Again, this does not mean that secondary conditions such as aging and gravity and clock time, do not have effects within your system, obviously. [...]

Two men for example, of precisely the same physical age, of precisely the same physical condition, will be in completely different states of mind, of competence, of effectiveness and of strength, as a direct result of their inner beliefs as to their relative freedom within the framework of the physical system in which they exist.

He will be at all times a prisoner of clock time and of aging, for he will consider these the primary conditions under which he must operate. [...]

[...] Now the age issue is connected to you and your work. [...] If you were his age he would not be so frightened in this regard.

[...] In old age it does the same thing. [...] Many cease creating their bodies and die at a young age for a great variety of reasons, of course, but some die because they believe that old age is shameful and that only a young body can be beautiful.

Your beliefs about age, therefore, will affect your body and all of its capacities. As mentioned earlier in this book (in the 627th session in Chapter Six), you may become hard of hearing because you firmly believe that this must come with age. [...]

I said that your conventional geological ages were faulty, along with your theories of the age of the earth, for it is far older than is supposed. [...]

(10:04.) In one way or another, the race played with technology through the ages, in a subsidiary manner. [...]

[...] Beside all of that, there were cultures advanced enough for space travel, before the numbering of your geological ages. [...]

[...] In it I’d been a woman who was the same age as my father. [...]

[...] Animals and your own body consciousnesses have little concept of age. [...]

Seth’s material largely opposes science’s mechanistic model of the body wearing down within certain age limits, abetted as that model is by the power of the beliefs that say it will. [...]

Now I bid you good evening, and when you realize that you have been many people and that you are many people, then you will realize that you need not think so in terms of age, for you are as much now the young woman that you were back in Naples in the 14th century as the man that you now think you are, and you are not bounded by what you think of as your present age. When you realize that your own personality is indeed multidimensional, then you will realize that your age is a reality that you are presently experiencing, among many other realities. [...]

But you are all Sumari despite your ages; despite your sexes; despite the fact that you think you dwell in bodies that are your own and that mean you, for your bodies, of course, cannot hold what you are. [...]

[...] Lawrence remarked there is no age because there is no time.)

[...] He considered that he aged as a tree will age, but perversely he felt that others aged to spite him … From an early age, however, Jane drank in his feeling of completeness with nature, and it had much to do with her later development …

[...] To some extent he replaced the father she’d lost at the age of two when her parents were divorced. [...]

(Joseph Burdo died in 1948 at the age of 68. [...]

Now, there’s very recent discussion in medical circles that many cases of senility are caused by a “slow virus infection,” rather than just heredity or the traditional aging and oxygen starvation of the brain. [...] But either way (whether senility arises through aging or infection), beliefs would come first, helping the whole body maintain its healthy performance well into old age, or encouraging it to deteriorate unnecessarily.

[...] I watched my father go through the ravages of senility; he died in November 1971, at the age of 81. See Jane’s very evocative passages about him, as well as my drawing of him in old age, in Part Three of her book of poetry, Dialogues.

(Pause at 11:56.) The illnesses generally attributed to all different ages are involved. [...]

[...] In terms of sex, you insist upon a picture that shows you a growth into a sexual identity, a clear focus, and then in old age a falling away of clear sexual identification into “sexual disorder.” [...] In many cases the person is truer to his or her own identity in childhood or old age, when greater individual freedom is allowed, and sexual roles are more flexible.

Since you value sexual performance in the most limited of terms, and use that largely as a focus of identity, then both your old and young suffer consequences that are not so much the result of age as of sexual prejudice. [...] If the man or the woman is taught that identity is a matter of sexual performance, however, and that that performance must cease at a certain age, then the sense of identity can also begin to disintegrate. [...]

[...] My mother, who died five years ago at the age of 81, was with me. She was of an indeterminate age in the dream, as I was, and I believe she was telling me what to expect out there. [...]

[...] From my dream notebook, with age data about all involved added for the reader’s convenience:

(The dream suggests numerous subjects that Seth didn’t go into, and that I’ll leave for the reader to consider: reincarnation, the shifting of ages and the independence of memory from time in the dream state, and so forth. [...]

[...] I was dancing with middle-aged man who had some limp or such. [...]

(Very actively delivered:) In your current beliefs, again, consciousness is equated in very limited terms with your conception of intellectual behavior: you consider this to be a peak of mental achievement, growing from the “undifferentiated” perceptions of childhood, and returning ignominiously to them again in old age. [...]

The natural experiences of what you think of as time distortion, for example, occurring in childhood and old age alike, represent quite normal experiences of your basic “time environment” — much more so than the clock time with which you are so familiar.

If a young adult believes that sex is good but old age is bad, then he or she will find it impossible to consider exuberant sexuality as a portion of an older person’s experience. [...]

(11:12.) The wisdom of the child and of the aged are both available. [...]

[...] If you believe that your existence is dependent upon this corporeal image, then you feel in danger of extinction, for no physical form lasts, and no body, however beautiful in youth, retains the same vigor and enchantment in old age. [...]

I can say this to each of my readers honestly (smile): I am older than you are, at least in terms of age as you think of it.

If a writer can qualify as any kind of authority on the basis of age, therefore, then I should get a medal. [...]

[...] “For ages in the past,” she said, “whenever I thought Seth wanted to start the book, I was afraid to let him do it.”

The difference in age to some extent applied, in that he became angry at you then for being enough older than he so that your aging parents would become a difficulty. [...]

[...] He never thought of himself beyond the age of 30. [...]

[...] He had no intention of living to a ripe old age. [...]

[...] (Dorothy, Mattie’s sister, died a year or so ago at a very advanced age.) His emotional direction however was always with his mother. [...]

Because of the true simultaneous nature of time, they are, of course, speaking to all of your ages at once through their various manifestations. [...]

[...] They are accompanied by some physical variations, and there are some variations having to do with age.

[...] Through the ages the Speakers have taught dreamers how to manipulate in these other environments. [...]

It is somewhat of a psychological trick, in your day and age, to come to the realization that you do in fact form your experience and your world, simply because the weight of evidence seems (underlined twice) to be so loaded at the other end, because of your habits of perception. [...]

(“Because of your individual and joint intuitive understanding and intellectual discrimination, you were able from an early age to clearly perceive the difficulties of your fellows. [...]

[...] Because you can see so clearly the failings of your age, you each have a tendency to exaggerate them, or rather to concentrate upon them, so that you do not have an emotional feeling of safety. [...]

[...] Some years difference in their ages. 54 and 36, or that number of difference in their ages. [...]

(Jane’s grandfather died at the age of 67. During last night’s session she gave this age for her own life span, and said I would live to be 87. [...]

(Seth now refers to the unscheduled 230th session of February 6, in which Jane gave the predictions for the ages of death for herself, the Gallaghers, and me.)

[...] He was subconsciously but never consciously aware that next month marked the time of his grandfather’s death, and subconsciously he knew his grandfather’s age at death.

[...] However, unless drastic changes occur in all of your characteristic ways of handling stress, then the relatively old ages mentioned should stand up well.

Using age as an example now, it may seem to you that you are a given age, that within your subjective experience it must be paramount, that regardless of your age you are to some extent closed off from the experience of being any other age. [...]

She also contracted diphtheria and died at the age of 17. [...]

Dick was born in 1671 and died at the age of 9.

[...] The 3-year-old boy lived into old age, turning into a prosperous tradesman dealing in wools and textiles. [...]

The reason that Dick has had the same father twice is simply that he died at such a young age, before the relationship could be worked out between the two. [...]