“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you are a child, your sense of identity does not include old age in usual experience. [...]

1. In Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality Seth began developing his theory of counterparts — that the larger psychological self, or entity, of each of us manifests not just one physical life in any given century, say, but several, so as to gain that much more experience in a variety of roles involving different ages, nationalities and languages, sexual orientations, family roles, and so forth. [...]

[...] Now, futilely, I wonder why I didn’t try painting images from my dreams at a much earlier age; and why one so seldom hears about other artists doing the same thing. [...]

[...] He was busily tracing these out as he aged—he’s now 74—in order to prove out his own theory of aging and senility, about which he’s evidently written extensively. [...]

[...] For example, they became part of the species’ natural aging processes, as per your psychologist’s article. [...]

[...] Carl Jones knows Bill Herriman and Bill Granger well — but Bill Herriman and Bill Granger have never met; all three are obviously males; all bear a general physical resemblance; all fall within a certain rather broad age bracket. [...]

(My counterpart, Peter Smith, and I are both professional artists; we’re roughly of an age, with strong interests in other forms of creativity, such as writing, and in myth and fantasy.¹ A number of the similarities and differences between Jane and me should be obvious to our readers; she also does quite a lot of painting. [...]

[...] He is past middle age and he is talking to Dr. Instream. [...]

(“Does the number seven refer to the child’s age?”)

[...] During break Jane said she believed it referred to a brother of Maxine’s. The brother is the same approximate age as Jane, and lived in upstate New York near Saratoga; hence Jane got to know the members of Maxine’s family fairly well even though she seldom saw Maxine herself. [...]

[...] My last question concerned the number seven as possibly referring to the age of the child. [...]

[...] You age of communications has significantly altered public and private life, so that for example by mail Ruburt might receive as many petitions as the king of a country in times past. People of no other age, historically speaking, have had to contend with the dimensions of public exposure that are now possible.

The public man, the man of letters, et cetera in other centuries, and the public man say of Rome, or of the Middle Ages, or of the 19th Century, involved personal interactions with the public, but in very limited, controlled situations. [...]

[...] Many artists relied upon the stereotyped constructions of their age, rather than looking within for their own revelations, so that art could have become the frozen art form—painting could have—that showed clearly the spiritual immobility of a people who finally grew dry.

[...] I also made a lot of money at an early age, in those days before high taxes. [...]

[...] It is a translation of many manuscripts that have appeared and disappeared throughout the ages. [...]

Exuberance and joy, however, basically have nothing to do with time or age. They may be expressed as vividly and beautifully at the age of 80 as at the age of 8. For whole segments of the population, however, it seems as if joy and health are fleeting attributes expressed briefly in childhood, and then lost forever.

[...] At our ages (52 and 62, Jane and I, respectively), why have we created lives with such nightmarish connotations? [...] And how many millions and millions of times through the ages have other human beings on this planet felt the same way—and will yet? [...]

(“At what age did I die in that incarnation?”)

(“At what age did Seth die?”)

I have used Andrea because so many typical Western beliefs coincide in her reality — the idea that aging is disastrous; that women are relatively powerless without a man beside them; that life is, practically speaking, highly difficult while it should be ideally simple. [...]

[...] Presently, however, while she tells herself that age does not matter, she still believes that her desirability as a woman decreases with the passage of each day. [...]

Often, of course, those who try the hardest to be “good” do so because they fear for their basic worth, and those who speak of having youthful minds and bodies do so because they are so terrified of age. [...]

All of the ages of Earth, in your terms both past and present, exist, as do future ages. [...]

The entity sees the whole event, the whole person-event, with the time element, or age in your terms, as simply another characteristic or dimension. [...]

[...] Even at an early age, children joyfully explore all of the possibilities of all sensations possible within their framework — pain as well as joy, frustration as well as satisfaction, and all the while their awareness is propelled by curiosity, wonder, and joy.

Parents who are aware of these facts can start helping their children at an early age by asking them simply the reasons for their illness. [...]

[...] I kept feeling that strange affection for Jean, mixed with a regret of some kind that nothing could really transpire between us — because of age and other factors. [...]

[...] Frank had been involved in one of those, too, in the dream state, and Seth had explained how I’d picked up his concerns about age and sexuality and worth, and so forth. [...]

As mentioned, the (45th) birthday was important for what it meant to him, and there is a connection with you at that age—except that he has more knowledge now than you had then. [...]

[...] They cared for each other mutually, and many of the old legends concerning half-man and half-beast have come down through the ages simply from the memory of these old associations.

[...] He evolved through the ages as their beliefs did, and into him they projected those qualities that they could not themselves express.

In the period that you now think of as the Stone Age, the men you think of as your ancestors, the cavemen, often found shelter not in rough naturally formed caves, but in mechanically created channels that reached behind them, and in the deserted cities in which once the Lumanians dwelled. [...]

He went first however because he will die shortly before you, and incidentally in many years to come, and not at a young age. He will live to old age, particularly to compensate for an early death in a past existence.

[...] I thought David’s drawing good for one his age, and added notes of my own. [...]

[...] I do not believe that Jane would have allowed such data to come through too many sessions ago, although she did permit Seth to say quite a while ago that she herself would live to old age. [...]

(Jane said that Seth’s count of 1, 2, 3 was his way—or Jane’s?—of leading up to the number 4 that I wrote on the drawing, referring to David’s age. [...]

[...] Parallel with the belief that vision will fail, you may have the before-mentioned belief that hearing will dim, and these two ideas may be reinforced by a belief that age automatically makes you less a person, turning you into an individual who can no longer relate in the daily pattern of environment. [...] (Pause.) On the other hand you may believe that wisdom grows with age, that self-understanding brings a peace of mind not earlier known, that the keen mind is actually far better able to assess the environment, and that the physical senses are much more appreciative of all stimuli. [...]

[...] Nor is it inherently focused in the particular age period in which it now shows itself. [...]

In the world of your present experience, sexual differences are less apparent as you reach old age. [...]

ages ago, so I gathered

[...] She also said she was surprised her life was ending at such an early age. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Someone aged 14. A connection with someone aged 24 or 23. [...]