“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In a mock biological ceremony, he gives birth to the extent that he produces within his body material that was not there before. In ulcers the stomach becomes the womb — bloodied, giving birth to sores — his interpretation of a male’s “grotesque” attempt to express feminine characteristics.

[...] There are, I believe, Biblical tales of such births resulting.

[...] It does mean that the male so divorced himself from the common fountain of love and sex that the repressed energy came forth in those aggressive acts of cultural rape and death, instead of birth.

[...] In other terms and on another level Ruburt felt that symbolically at least he was between birth and death, that egotistically speaking the way of darkness had been parted; and in these terms the mountain to the left represented death, from which he had come, and birth, for he emerged through birth from death; and the mountain to the right represented the death that in your terms has not yet come.

And within that context he knew it was now the time for him to walk out upon those messages that had gone before, and change the distortions, for he knew there would be no other birth and death for him, the time of reincarnations being finished.

[...] How is the entity that is about to manifest part of itself through Sue [who is due to give birth in a few weeks], preparing for the event and experience?”

[...] Before physical birth, you have already made the decision to choose this probable reality, and to probe its potentials. [...]

[...] The third time artificial means were utilized to prevent birth.

[...] In many such instances there is a ferment of activity, a birth of new ideas, and an unstructured psychic activity, that is freewheeling and explosive.

There have been changes through your ages that have given birth to enlarged or expanded consciousness. [...]

[...] Children do already possess character at birth, and the entire probable intent of their lives exists then as surely as does the probable plan for the adult body they will later possess.

Consciousness forms the genes, and not the other way around, and the about-to-be-born infant is the agency that adds new material through the chromosomal structure.² The child is from birth far more aware of all kinds of physical events than is realized also. [...]

[...] Those unique intents that characterize each individual exist in Framework 2, then — and with birth, those intents immediately begin to impress the physical world of Framework 1.

Each child’s birth changes the world, obviously, for it sets up an instant psychological momentum that begins to affect action in Framework 1 and Framework 2 alike.

[...] Framework 2 provides an energy as vital as any given you at birth, and that energy constantly renews the body. [...] Literally, portions of your physical being are as new as at your birth. [...]

[...] Now generally you believe that the body must wear down, become slower, that you are given so much energy at birth—a hypothetical but definite amount, which is then used up heartbeat by heartbeat. [...]

Birth is perhaps the most forceful aggression, in your terms, of which you are capable in your system of reality (emphatically). [...]

[...] The guilt itself arose with the birth of compassion.

[...] The birth of a conscious mind, as you think of it, meant that the species took upon itself free will. [...]

[...] The “new” consciousness accepted its emerging triumph — freedom — and was faced with responsibility for action of a conscious level, and with the birth of guilt.

The birth principle is also here on your parts, not mine, in that the sessions involve a projection into a reality that is largely new, and a birth on your parts, you see. [...]

[...] You have feared disruption, not realizing that it results in creation, and yes, in birth.

[...] As your moment of reflection gave birth to consciousness as you think of it — for both really came together — so then can another phenomenon and kind of reflection give birth to at least some dim conscious awareness of the vast dimensions of your own reality.

[...] Your own body grows naturally and easily from its time of birth, not expecting resistance but taking its miraculous unfolding for granted; using all of itself with great, gracious, creatively aggressive abandon.

[...] In some ways, the rhythm of birth and death is like a breath taken and exhaled. [...]

[...] You could spot the point of intense activity, see the birth of new myths and the death of old ones as certainly as you might be able to see a mountain slide or a tidal wave. [...]

[...] Some great travelers never left the country of their birth.

[...] And (whispering) through the compassion that we have learned, will we be able to understand the divine errors⁶ that gave us the gift of our birth. [...]

[...] In them he discussed at length the “agonized search” for expression of the powers of creativity and existence, and how the beginning of that search “may have represented the birth throes of All That Is as we know it.”

Now so is our work birth of a different kind, quite as natural. It is in fact a kind of pre-birth that is in one way or another intertwined before any birth of a physical kind can emerge—and so of course its effects will become known. [...]

(3:00.) Now: with the birth of a child the multitudinous nature of divinity by any name is instigated, and through the infinite realms of man’s history that individuality, that singularity, and that multisingularity, are eternally proclaimed in ways beyond your known knowledge. [...]

[...] Turns out the three were given up for adoption at birth, and although they knew they were adopted, they didn’t know they belonged to what actually had been a quadruplet group. (A fourth brother had died at birth.) Their unknowing would match my own dreamlike idea of the two young men living in the Elmira area but not knowing of each other. [...]

[...] The TV host never referred to the fact that the three youths were actually members of quadruplets — that a fourth brother had died at birth, according to the news article. [...]

I do not know how or when the two look-a-like young men met — but in my reverie I thought of the mother in question tracing back connections all the way to her son’s birth at the Elmira hospital. [...]

[...] On the side of consciousness, it is a tale symbolically representing the birth of the conscious mind in the species as a whole, and the emergence of self-responsibility. [...]

With the birth of this consciousness came conscious responsibility for the fruits of the planet. [...]

[...] As you come into your body with all of its physical surroundings, so at birth do you emerge into a rich natural psychological environment in which beliefs and ideas are every bit as real.

[...] Each of you have been members of different races, and so each of you have shared in both the advantages and ignominies attached, in historic terms, to such conditions of birth.

[...] Most churches preach a dogma that stresses concepts of the sinful self, and sees man as a creature contaminated by original sin even before birth.

[...] In this dogma man needs to apologize for his birth, and the conditions of life are seen as a punishment set by God upon his erring creatures. [...]

[...] It may seem to you that you do not have any conscious control over your body’s condition in life as you know it, much less before your birth. [...]

Within the basic framework of the body chosen before physical birth (for reasons that will be discussed later), the individual has full freedom to create a perfectly healthy functioning form. [...]

(Pause.) Before physical birth then you form a mental concept of the body you will have. [...]

The symbolism in the birth dream (of Jane’s) is obvious. [...]

[...] The first explosion of psychic energy in an ungeneralized dimension sparked the birth of specifics.

From itself, therefore, and of itself, consciousness gave birth to its new dimension of experience, and then experienced what it had created, further extending itself and in turn bringing forth further possibilities of development.

[...] Seth’s words just above, “… your own thoughts give birth …” reminded me of one of my favorite passages from Seth Speaks. [...] In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.”⁸ I also found an opportunity to insert the same lines in Chapter 10 of Personal Reality; see the 641st session.

[...] In some cases, unknowingly, your scientists are close to observing the birth of time effects within your system. [...]

[...] Your own exterior space exists in precisely the same manner from the standpoint of any other reality (emphatically). For that matter, you yourself are so richly creative that your own thoughts give birth to other quite legitimate systems of which you have no knowledge.

[...] Eve, rather than Adam, for example, eats of the apple first because it was the intuitive elements of the race, portrayed in the story as female, that would bring about this initiation; only afterward could the ego, symbolized by Adam, attain its new birth and its necessary alienation. [...]

Good and evil then simply represented the birth of choices, initially in terms of survival, where earlier instinct alone had provided all that was needed. [...]

The birth of imagination initiated the largest possibilities, and at the same time put great strain upon the biological creature whose entire corporeal structure would now react not only to present objective situations, but imaginative ones. [...]

[...]

(10:59.) Next chapter heading: “ ‘The Language of Love.’ Images and the Birth of Words.”