“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now you must forget such ideas—that a male has certain abilities and a female has certain abilities. You must realize your worth as an individual and her worth as an individual. You have allowed her, in the past, to take full control of your life and destiny, and this no individual can do. For your destiny is within your own hands.

You must learn what it is like to be male and female, to be parent and child. And you will go through the cycles until you can relate with others. And if you cannot understand them from your own viewpoint, then you will become them. And from their viewpoint you will see yourselves. This is the meaning of learning. You will extend your consciousness, as you know it, from the self that you know outward and relate to others and understand them. Or you will take their positions and from their consciousness observe the selves that no longer exist in your time. But you will learn.

Each of you has been both male and female. Some of you have been mothers but not fathers, or fathers but not mothers. You have died before reaching adulthood—or you have lived and become senile—or you have lived and attained wisdom. But your identity and your inner self is independent of these reincarnations. And the vitality that dwells within you has known many forms.