“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Senior year high—her best friend gave birth to a boy illegitimately. [...]

Once you begin consciously working with Framework 2, help, support, solutions, all begin to come, for you line up your conscious faculties with your unconscious ones, in the most beneficial way, and your conscious goals fit in with your unconscious natural goals—the primary ones given you at birth. [...]

[...] There were then also animal-man and man-animal civilizations of their kinds, and there were complete civilizations of modern man, existing before the ages now given for, say, the birth of writing. [...]

[...] Nor, in the dream, do I recall learning Teresa was going to give birth, even though I didn’t see her in it. Dick gave us the news of the birth on the phone Sunday night.)

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

Later we will discuss such matters as birth defects. Here we are speaking about conditions that can be physically corrected — but not the growth of an arm if you were born without one, for example, or the correction of other lacks in the body at birth.

You wanted to help him, to make sure that the birth was accomplished. [...]

You wanted to help him through the birth and into the next existence. [...]

Individually and en masse, in the dream state you change the orientation of your consciousness, and deal with the birth of events which are only later time-structured or physically experienced.

Children’s play, creativity, and dreams all involve you with the birth of events in the most direct of fashions. [...]

(All with emphatic rhythm:) The inner self was too aware of its own multidimensionality, so in your terms it gave psychological birth to itself through the body in space and time. [...]

[...] In those terms All That Is became physical also, aroused at its divine depth by the thrusting of each grass blade through the soil into the air, aroused by each birth and by each moment of each creature’s existence.

[...] There was no historic Virgin Birth, and no historic Crucifixion. [...]

[...] And by reminding men of a birth and a resurrection it hints at the innate abilities of the race to transcend physical time and space.

What Seth is saying here is that the inner self uses this sense to initiate the birth of one of its personalities in physical life. [...]

[...] But just immediately preceding birth you find yourself in the dream wearing pajamas, entering a theatre, looking for someone.

The pajamas merely represented symbolically your refusal to admit the fact of, first, nakedness; to hold off birth, to gaze about in the theatre of existence before permitting yourself to be born again on the physical plane, this deliberation always having been somewhat a portion of your makeup.

[...] The three of you communicated before your birth. [...]

(“You said once that the shock of birth was worse than the shock of death.”

The shock of birth of course is worse, since the personality is not entirely focused as a personality, and it must make immediate and critical adjustments of the strongest nature. [...]

[...] After death there is no instant struggle, where birth on your plane involves a pressing, agonizing attempt to get one’s bearings, and learn new patterns of behavior, when there is no time in your sense really to make any mistakes at all. [...]

[...] His consciousness would not seem to flow into his body before birth, and out of it after death. [...]

[...] At birth, and before structured learning processes begin, you are far freer in that regard.

You could (underlined twice) walk into “yesterday” as well as tomorrow at that point of birth — if you could walk — and indeed your perception brings you events both in and out of time sequence. [...]

[...] There is some matter here not clear, not distorted or blocked, simply not clear, concerning the actual desire for the birth of males, however. [...]

[...] She did not want children, yet giving birth gave her a sense of power, the only sense of power she had experienced in this existence, and so she used this power as a weapon when she felt a weapon was needed.

[...] Event-making begins before your birth, and the dreams of unborn children and their mothers often merge. [...] In fact, towards death a great dream acceleration is involved as new probabilities are considered — a dream acceleration that provides psychic impetus for new birth.

(“So other things were also involved — not only the birth of a book, but the emergence of the inner self, through art, into the physical universe. Now part of the focus and the strength comes from those two births, and the intensity behind them is also the reason why the book’s nativity strikes the world as strongly as it does. [...]

So include it in The Nature of Personal Reality, for it is the birth of the book in your personal reality.

In Framework 2 your abilities from birth seek their fulfillment, not at your expense, not despite your own best interests. [...] In Framework 2, effortlessly all patterns are set into motion at your birth, opening up innumerable probable pathways, each leading to the best fulfillment of your potential, so that events, chance encounters, everything works together.

You are witnessing the birth of a phenomenon. [...]

[...] We saw their newborn daughter, Jacqueline Ann, about whose birth Jane had given Cec some accurate predictions. [...]

[...] In some cases, the framework itself is used for a final time, with the initial inspired knowledge — the knowledge itself — escaping from the framework and growing out of the context that allowed for its birth.

Ruburt, for example, would have made the same error had he not been led by his experience beyond the framework of inspiration that had given it birth. [...]