“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt (Jane) was highly creative, and so following the beliefs of his time, he believed that he must watch his creativity most carefully, for he was determined to use it. He decided early to have no children — but more, to fight any evidence of femininity that might taint his work, or jumble up his dedication to it. He loved you deeply and does, but he always felt he had to tread a slender line, so as to satisfy the various needs and beliefs that you both had to one extent or another, and those you felt society possessed. He was creative, and is. Yet he felt that women were inferior, and that his very abilities made him vulnerable, that he would be ridiculed by others, that women were not taken seriously as profound thinkers, or innovators in philosophical matters.

(Pause.) You must understand, I know, that the terms “male” and “female” here are being used as they are generally understood, and have nothing to do with the basic characteristics of either sex. [...] It wants to ignore the creative aspects of the universe, however, which are everywhere apparent, and it first of all believes that it must divorce itself from any evidence of feeling. [...] The male god is a god of power. He is not a god of creativity.

(Although this is a private session that Jane and I are filing separately from “regular” material, we’re also presenting it in Mass Events because of the many insights Seth offers into individual and mass events in general, and into our personal realities in particular. In fact, without those qualities of ours that Seth touches upon this evening, I doubt that the Seth books — indeed, even the sessions themselves — would exist. So in that sense this session contains more of those insights into the how and why of the Seth material that we’re always searching for. [...]

[...] Through creativity the species senses All That Is. [...] It is a source of revelation and inspiration — yet initially revelation and inspiration do not deal with power, but with knowing. [...]

(10:20.) I want to make it plain that such ideas are rampant in society, and are at the basis of many personal and national problems. [...] Much of this is involved with the unfortunate myths about the creative person, who is not supposed to be able to deal with the world as well as others, whose idiosyncrasies are exaggerated, and whose very creativity, it is sometimes said, leads to suicide or depression. [...]

[...] God is supposed to be male. The soul is sometimes considered female. [...] The story says that Eve tempted the male, having him eat of the tree of good and evil, or the tree of knowledge. [...]

(10:35 P.M. “I didn’t know he was going to go into all of that,” Jane said, after I’d told her she’d given an excellent session. “Maybe that’s why I felt so uncomfortable before the session: Part of me knew Seth was going to talk about us. [...]

[...] Here you won’t go to the marketplace, but you think of saving all of these private sessions for posterity, to give them to the world some day. You’re very close-mouthed: You don’t blab our personal business, but you’d do that…. Instead, I see us when I’m 80 and you’re 90, out in the back yard, burning it all.”

(The session really grew out of several insights that Jane herself has voiced since giving last Wednesday night’s book copy. [...] Here I was all set to go earlier….” [...]

(10:03.) The Catholic Church taught that revelation was dangerous. [...] Women were inferiors, and in matters of religion and philosophy most of all, for there their creativity could be most disruptive. [...]