“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You pick and choose one birth and one death, in your terms.

[...] All of the atoms and molecules that have composed your body since your birth, and will compose it until your death, in your terms, exist now; so even your knowledge of the body is experienced in a time form — that is, bit by bit.

(Shortly before the session was due I mentioned that I hoped Seth would clear up the discrepancy concerning the date of his birth. [...]

[...] For, again to some extent, each man feels that somehow humanity as a whole was born at his own birth.”

[...] It dealt with the idea that imperfections in the universe gave birth to life and all we know—that if the “big bang” had expanded perfectly uniformly there would be no life in the universe, merely a perfectly uniform cloud of lifeless hydrogen gas. [...]

[...] You were not given a certain amount of “life force” at birth that you use up as you go along, contrary to many schools of thought.

[...] It has seen the birth and death of many physical universes such as your own; and the entities within it, in quotes, “at one time” were the inhabitants of such universes. [...]

When Ruburt closes his mind to the feelings of the Sinful Self, he locks it up within a prison as if it could receive no new information, but must always operate with the distorted beliefs of its birth. [...]

You feel now, by contrast, that you must get all of your living in between birth and death, that you must hurry to get everything done, so that time itself is indeed shortened. [...]

[...] That the shock of birth is far greater than the shock of death. [...]

They were responsible for the birth of agriculture, as well as industry, the rise and fall of nations, the “glory” that was Rome, and Rome’s destruction. [...]

The private blueprint, yours at birth, is in certain terms far greater than any one physical materialization of it that could occur in your space and time. [...]

(9:41.) Children often feel that the world and time began with their birth. [...]

[...] The release of psychic energy involved, regardless of me, was literally a new birth, bringing forth an impetus for change and creative activity. [...]

[...] They are means of recognition that stand for something else, a reality; signs that stand for words, spoken before the birth of words; words imprinted in molecules; words that were imprinted in other ways before the birth of molecules; and yet (to class members) words that echo within your own individual psyches. [...]

If you are overconcerned with helping others, then you must first of all begin to question whether or not your creative material, still forming, will serve that purpose, and if not, or if there is a question, you give birth to hesitations and doubts that—again—subvert art’s free flow. [...]

[...] Man, for example, exhibited natural psychic activity long before the birth of science —and for that matter before the initiation of formal religion. [...]

[...] The culture had to change, the foundations of art had to change, the old images had to be in your terms (underlined) demolished, for they had begun to freeze the birth of new insights and creative feeling.

[...] These, denied the core beliefs that gave them birth, would naturally begin to weaken but could linger for some time, generally speaking, unless they were recognized as beliefs.

[...] That energy which is projected from our “superself,” that spark of intense identity that resulted in your physical birth, that unique impetus, in the one way has many similarities to the old concept of the soul — except that it contains only a part of the story.

Aggressiveness and passivity are both behind symbols of birth, for both are needed. [...]