“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The psychic influence of the other priests was far more creative than he realizes, and it was always in the realm of ideas that he rebelled against authority. [...]

[...] When he is requested to speak as an authority, as at his next engagement, this is something different.

Now when I gave the session for our lady of Venice, I spoke as an authority, as myself, and there was no representative of the college present. [...]

At the same time, in the same world and in the same century, Joseph was an aggressive, adventurous, relatively insensitive Roman officer, who would have little understanding of manuscripts or records — yet who also followed authority without question.¹²

In your terms, Joseph is now a man who questions authority, stamps upon it and throws it aside, who rips apart the very idea structures to which he “once” gave such service.

[...] The black woman followed nothing but her own instincts (and very vividly, too). I do not want to give too much background here, and hence rob our Joseph of discoveries that he will certainly make on his own — but (louder) the woman bowed only to the authority of her own emotions, and those emotions automatically put her in conflict with the [British colonial] politics of the times.

There is much more here that the author does not understand, but he has hit upon excellent methods, and you can take advantage of them. [...]

Here I differ you see with the author.

[...] Leonard Yaudes, the author of the object, has recently lost a pair of garden shears. [...]

[...] In addition, Leonard Yaudes, author of the envelope object, knows Alice Butts.

[...] In addition, both are related to Leonard Yaudes; who sent us the postcard, and who authored tonight’s object. [...]

[...] The dream material is highly important because it signifies his acquiescence to the inner authority of his own being. [...]

[...] But those in position within healing professions have great authority, and any suggestions that they may make for good or ill are granted almost mystical validity by those individuals who visit them.

[...] But you see here what under other circumstances could have been the final straw, so to speak, the word of authority that would say “Your fears are justified.” [...]

[...] It is always wise to take heed, in your own speech, of remarks made pertaining to health or physical appearance, for the higher in esteem you are held by others, the more authority will be given to your suggestions.

[...] She resented the authoritative tone of the dream book as she first saw it, thinking again: “Now my God, this Jane Roberts imagines herself an authority.” [...]

[...] (Pause.) Now it will help if you take it for granted that under some circumstances—and underline some—dealing with Ruburt’s idea of authority, he has difficulty expressing dissatisfaction, or expressing any normal impatience.

[...] Because he does at times use you as an authority figure, he did have a tendency to think that he must have sessions because you wanted them.

[...] Then in the author’s mind the characters will interact. The author may know the book’s end, or allow the characters themselves to work out their own solutions. Here we will call the author the whole self, and the characters are real. [...]

[...] It is easy to look outward and accept an authority. And there is no authority but the authority that is within your own consciousness—the legitimate reality that is your own! [...]

Now, when it seems to you that you are powerless, it is because you are denying the authority that lies within yourself, closing our mind to the answers that are as free as air. [...]

(To Gert.) I want you to work on your own because your favorite propensity is to rely upon authority and I am quite sure that you understand this. [...]

[...] And do not project your conscience outward upon others and then react to them as authority figures. [...]

He has the same feelings toward authority, which is connected to past feelings about his father. So not paying the taxes allows him to give the boot to authority, while it still seems he has a good excuse.

You have said you have but one publisher, where Prentice has many authors, and that is the point. [...]

[...] He is on the way to register the puppy and claim it at a local police station, which means he was introducing this portion of himself to all other parts, and legitimizing it with the authorities—meaning that he was accepting it wholeheartedly under the auspices of the new authority of the self. [...]

[...] I thought it really was a reflection of the author’s fears more than anything else. [...]

[...] The author is basically too unsure of himself to call the book either fiction or nonfiction—thus he saves himself from answering many intelligent questions by saying this is conjecture, even while he takes shelter under the name of science. [...]

When no effort is made now and then to encounter strangers, or guests of that nature, in any position of relative authority, then Ruburt does not question his feelings or beliefs directly. [...]

This does not mean of course that you must helter-skelter have a burst of interviews of visitors—but after three or four encounters with people of any supposed authority, Ruburt is then in a position to make new decisions on such matters, based on current knowledge and his own preferences: and he will no longer avoid such adventures out of fear.

[...] It is understood that the author is breaking new ground—but metaphysical ground. [...]

The mass best-sellers, for example: would you want to have the beliefs of the authors or the readers? [...]

Ruburt once received a few interesting pages from a world view, in which the author spoke, in archaic terms, of being a person who was a “life-taster,” sent by God to taste the quality of man’s experience, so that God might know what new ingredients might be added.

[...] The man is regarded as a leading authority, unfortunately; we wonder how many students he’s inculcated with the same negative thinking over the years of his teaching career. [...]

[...] You are told to give up the self to the leader of the group—the guru, the master, the father, the authority by whatever name.

[...] The “annihilation” is accomplished by turning the will over to the authority. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Both science and religion, generally speaking, provide certain services, which again generally speaking can be withheld to those who rebel against such authorities. [...]

[...] Science in its position of authority can mock those who disagree with it. [...]

[...] She said she suspected that as a woman she’d have more authority if she spoke as a male. [...]

(About the envelope tests — Seth had to be almost omnipotent — because she transferred the authority of the church to him. [...]