“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I have told you that the ego, generally speaking, is self-conscious action that attempts to set itself apart from action and to consider action as an alien object. [...]

[...] It is only the psychic distances between us that make me appear so alien to you, for my personality structure is far different from your own. [...]

His development began in your terms in such ancient times that for all intents and purposes you could say that in terms of value fulfillment he was so far advanced as to be alien entirely.

[...] These will help you to understand how other kinds of cultures could operate in ways so alien to your own.

This does not mean that an alienation results in those realities — simply a relationship in which the body and consciousness relate to other events. [...]

[...] But most of all, they operate to increase the individual sense of alienation from the body, and to promote a sense of powerlessness and duality.

[...] In that context no action is heroic, and man is everywhere the victim of an alien universe. [...]

[...] But when you realize that your own body cells are much more than physical, contain their own capsule comprehension, then you will see that they could, at least theoretically, operate in such a manner if you could throw your own consciousness into them, and perceive their seemingly alien experience.

[...] We ended up in a rather acrimonious conversation in which I hoped I’d alienated him enough so he’d not bother my wife or me.

The entire orientation is strange or alien only to your conscious belief systems. [...]

[...] It resides in the housewife as she goes about her chores and psychic power is meant to unite you and not to set you apart as aliens to your brothers. [...]

The psychic development was hardly as alien to him as he supposed. [...]

[...] This involves the transfer of conscious energy from a home system to an alien one, and certain more or less automatic changes must be made from system to system, involving the use of brain waves, certain patterns being normal in different systems.

[...] Permanence, as the ego thinks of it, would be an alien concept to these portions of the self, and highly distasteful, adding up to rigidity.

The spontaneous self was never meant to appear as an alien to the conscious personality. [...]

[...] Jane and I wondered what role Billy’s illness might play in our affair with David—surely a way of thinking that would have been quite alien to us before the advent of the Seth material.

[...] My personality is such that it is not intimate or understandable to you, now, simply because it is a personality based upon different root assumptions than your own, and has its prime existence in dimensions that are composed of personality structures and gestalts based on alien psychological activities.

[...] Some of the information that I gave you in our last session, concerning the portions of the self, seem rather alien, I am sure. [...]

The workings of any cell within your physical body would strike you as quite alien. [...]

[...] Women were considered hysterics, aliens to the world of intellectual thought, swayed instead by incomprehensible womanish emotions. [...]

[...] They are a tiny band of alienated, frightened people who strike out against anything they cannot understand. [...]

Artists use perspective on a flat surface to try to capture there the feelings and experiences of depth that are, in themselves, alien to the flat canvas, or paper or board. [...]

[...] At one level, then, the body itself has a picture of reality of its own, upon which your conscious reality must be based — and yet the body’s terms of recognition or knowledge exist in terms so alien to your conscious ones as to be incomprehensible. [...]

[...] Women were considered hysterics, aliens to the world of intellectual thought, swayed instead by incomprehensible womanish emotions. [...]