“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.” [...]

[...] Often they are resolved regardless of what you do or believe, simply as a result of the vast creative energies within your being, and the system of checks and balances with which you provided your body at birth.

Natural therapy, therefore, is difficult to achieve to its fullest benefit in your society, because it is constantly interfered with from the time of your birth. [...]

The characteristics that were yours at birth were yours for a reason. [...] You did not arrive at birth without a history. [...]

[...] Part of what I seem to be as I speak through him is as deeply and unconsciously a phenomenon as the birth of a child would be. [...]

When your scientists finally decipher the physical realities behind the birth of your known universe, they will only discover that this was an exterior manifestation of a vital psychic reality that existed long before. [...] An idea on your plane gives birth to physical constructions, but the idea itself is merely a translation of another reality, which gave birth to it.

Creation occurs, again, most often through value fulfillment, which exists in a dimension having nothing to do with your space and time; and in the deepest sense creation as a whole, originally, if you’ll excuse the term, had nothing to do with either your space or your time, and the so-called birth of your known outer universe came long after in the story of creation and value fulfillment.

Our lives, I’ve learned, don’t simply proceed nicely and directly from “birth” to “death.” [...]

[...] My wife’s life and work show that we can even create challenges and goals before birth, then in physical life plunge into fulfilling those qualities as we don flesh and clothing and beliefs. [...]

Your religious ideas have often told you that deformities at birth were the result of the parents’ sins cast upon the children, or that another kind of punishment was involved in terms of “karma.” [...]

The possibility of creative change must always be present to insure the species’ resiliency, and that resiliency can show in many ways—in conditions that you consider deformities, disabilities from birth, or in any physical variation from a hypothetical physical norm. [...]

There are births that have nothing to do with physical birth, and offspring quite as real. [...]

While each individual springs privately into the world at birth, then, each birth also represents quite literally an effort — a triumphant one — on the part of each member of each species, for the delicate balance of life requires for each birth quite precise conditions that no one species can guarantee alone, even to its own kind. [...]

At cellular levels the world exists with a kind of social interchange, in which the birth and death of cells are known to all others, and in which the death of a frog and a star gain equal weight. [...]

[...] there will be “a birth” of seemingly new concepts, simply because his old mental barriers kept him from making certain important connections, and an increasing system of communication between waking and dreaming states.

[...] The birth of great religious events emerges from the interior religious drama. [...]

[...] After their birth they are aware to varying degrees of their destiny, and certain trigger experiences may at times arouse their full memory.

[...] (Birth is much more of a shock than death. Sometimes when you die you do not realize it, but birth almost always implies a sharp and sudden recognition. [...]

[...] Most likely this was my interpretation of her giving birth to the child; she was supposed to have a Caesarean section but didn’t and was in labor 25 hours; a woman is described here, gray hair, buck teeth, yellow teeth—this, Barb says, is a description of the man’s mother—she wanted him to marry Barb: teeth not really buck but protuberant and yellowed; also gray hair. [...]

[...] You gave birth to him however when you did not have to, in order to give him this reentry. [...]

There is in other words no need for you to punish the organs of your body that were involved in that birth.

(Pause.) If you take this information to heart, you should then intuitively realize that by giving birth to the child (pause) you performed a kindly gesture, and opened a door. [...]

(Pause.) Your brains are not empty, but well-oiled machines ready to whirl into activity at your births. [...] In those terms, now, the brain thinks before birth. [...]

The fact is that death in its way is the culmination of life, leading toward a new birth and new experience. [...]

[...] The ancient mother-goddess concept became “unconscious”; the male, purposely forgetting the great natural aggressive thrust of birth, took physical aggression and force as his prerogative — for this came to represent the quality of ego consciousness in its need to physically manipulate its environment.

The church ignored Christ’s physical birth, for example, and made his mother an immaculate virgin, which meant that the consciousness of the species would for a longer time ignore its relationship with nature and its feminine aspects. [...]

American democracy arises directly from the birth of Protestantism, for example, and a new kind of venture. [...]

When women give birth in a crowded world they also know, and with a portion of their conscious minds, that a violation is involved. [...]

[...] By taking advantage of it you leap still further through unknown frontiers, and break through into dimensions of awareness that were always latent since the birth of the conscious mind.

[...] You are, all in all, using your earthly time well, shoving into it birth after birth. [...]

[...] Now your desire has ebbed and flowed through psychic deaths and births. [...]

(Seth’s phrase, “… you cannot see before or after what you think of as your birth or death….” [...]

Let Ruburt remind himself that his birth was not responsible for his mother’s incapacity. [...]

[...] He did not murder her in any way by his birth. [...]

[...] It enters briefly into this process (of birth) but it does not become the new individual.

[...] That is given—the gift of life brings along with it the actualization of that cooperation, for the body’s parts exist as a unit because of inner relationships of a cooperative nature; and those exist at your birth (most emphatically), when you are innocent of any cultural beliefs that may be to the contrary.

[...] But in terms of your world the units of consciousness, acting both as forces and as psychological entities of massive power, planted the seeds of your world in a dimension of imaginative power that gave birth to physical form. [...]