“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt’s birth did not cause his mother to become an invalid. [...]

[...] It was a part of you before this physical birth, and will be after physical death. [...]

[...] The systems no longer have the flexibility that first gave them birth.

[...] One point representing a birth, and another a death.

[...] When Seth paused for a moment, he asked, “You said once that the shock of birth was worse than the shock of death. [...]

The shock of birth is worse. [...]

(During break we quickly looked through the early sessions to see if we could establish the year of Seth’s birth. [...]

[...] Note that the date of Seth’s birth, given as 1486, is probably wrong. [...]

His circumstances of birth made it difficult for him to overindulge in the rich things of life, although his present mother used rich foods as compensation for other things, and this example opened Ruburt’s eyes and actually started him on the road to self-discipline.

[...] The circumstances of birth were chosen at the last minute on his part and was made for two reasons.

[...] Your body is not beautiful or ugly, healthy or deformed, swift or slow simply because this is the kind of body that was thrust upon you indiscriminately at birth. [...]

[...] A sudden contemporary belief in illness will actually reach back into the past, affecting the organism at that level, and inserting into the past experience of the cells the initiation of those biological events that will then seem to give birth to a present disease.

[...] The body beliefs need to be tackled regardless of the attitudes that gave them birth, and your reassurances of his attractiveness are important—for he convinced himself at least to some degree that because of his condition he was not attractive to others.

“The first state of agonized search for expression may have represented the birth throes of All That Is as we know It. [...]

[...] Actuality was necessary if these probabilities were to be given birth. [...]

[...] A subdivision of primary construction can be called the distortive mirror construction, which would include of course the physical construction of another physical being in birth.

[...] I have explained birth, at least briefly. [...]

[...] The whole idea of the body’s wearing down, as that is understood in your society, is based upon the idea of the body’s mechanistic model: energy is given at birth, and gradually wears down. [...]

[...] At the last minute however a transformation may occur in which the energy is used instead to form a massive earthquake; the birth of an island or new continent.

The great religions of the world all had their births near the major coordination points. [...]

The infant sees mental images before birth, before the eyes are open. [...]

[...] Actuality was a necessity if these probabilities were to be given birth. [...]

[...] It recreates itself in the moment of its birth, with multitudinous slight variations and differentiations; and in so doing automatically plunges into, or projects itself into, those fields which attract the particular range of those differentials.

[...] It is given like a gift to you at your birth. [...]

[...] But animals, as far as we know, do not anticipate their own death, or wonder about their status before birth. [...]

[...] Each sensation we have received since our birth is still intact in the subconscious. [...]