“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] To some extent now, you applied discipline in your work and lives to protect yourself against response to a world that you felt was insane, in direct conflict with artistic pursuits, and in which you felt quite alien —both of you, that is, as a unit.

[...] For I have sprung entirely away from you, and would be alien in your terms. [...]

[...] Although I’ve read “Unknown” Reality since it was finished, and had looked portions of it over during the time of its production, it seems alien to me in the strangest fashion.

[...] Maybe our idea of identity is like a magic circle we’ve drawn around our minds, so that everything outside seems dark and alien, unselflike. [...]

[...] But in the vast range of your emotions, leave room for loves that are very distant, so distant and so alien that you do not recognize them. [...]

[...] Nevertheless there is a small sense of alienation when the associations do not follow through, but are diverted to the desired end.

[...] These are not alien forces of which we speak, these are not things that happen to you. [...]

[...] Otherwise you would find other people’s reactions far too alien, and not be able to relate to them personally or through your work. [...]

His powerful basic insecurity was caused by a broken home, and a situation where he was also thrown into alien cultures; not only was he unsure of belonging to a family, but also felt he had no cultural or national belongings.

There was some alienation, not on the boy’s part but on your own—(to Estelle:) now look up so you will see who I am speaking of... [...]

[...] This can be done by clearing his mind, and suggesting that all alien impulses or conditions be removed.

They are considered as notself, dangerous or alien. [...]

[...] For any so-called extrasensory perceptions you insist upon twice the evidence, and under circumstances when the evidence is vivid in its own terms and must be translated first, before you will accept it, into the alien outside senses, which simply are not equipped to receive it. [...]

[...] Jane and I do feel sure, however, that the experiences of our current lifetimes have so many psychic and physical ramifications that their numbers are literally beyond our grasp—and that many of those developments are certain to be quite “alien” to us here in our own everday realities. [...]

I don’t really think we can conceive of anything to be truly “alien,” though, so I use the word here only to lead into the next of Seth’s larger concepts that I want to mention: that of probable realities, or probabilities, as Jane and I usually say. [...]

[...] That is, the similarity is one of organization, a variety of historical continuity, a strong and involved ego mechanism, a complicated camouflage code system; without, however, the dual inner and outer sense of alienation with which your race has become involved.

(11:08.) There are even now in your species a number of different kinds of consciousness; different in that the physical life-situation is qualitatively experienced in ways that are not native to you in your culture; different in that the entire fabric of meaning, interpretation, experience, and life itself is “alien” to the kind of experience with which you are familiar. [...]

[...] Hence his groping, his sense of alienation from nature, his search for a Cause or Creator of a creation he no longer recognized as his own.

[...] Therefore we are forming new identities, and you have already accepted as part of yourself experiences which previously would have been considered alien, and not accepted.

[...] And time, therefore, physical clock time, is much more alien to the intuitive self than it is to the intellectual self.

[...] I found I could hold my own in that environment that at first had seemed so alien. [...]

[...] In your dual system, that is, the two self-consciousnesses are more divided and alien to themselves than need be. [...]