“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt’s students upset him considerably yesterday. They represented the behavior of even the well-meaning people of your society, given an overall set of mass beliefs. In some areas they do very well. Overall, however, you are everywhere surrounded by those beliefs, and the behavior of the two girls should serve as an object lesson.

I do not want to go into history here, but to some extent the Catholic church began the mass pattern that ended up putting the individual in such a position, so that the self was trusted least of all. There were cultural reasons connected here also, but the people in the society were taught to rely upon the priests, so that that authority became substituted for deep individual reliance upon the self.

However, it is the belief that reincarnations are past that largely closes the door. Those futures in your terms so affect the present, however, that vast confusion would result with any mass knowledge. Yet many inventions occur in a strange fashion, as men do at times travel into their own futures and bring back the memory of, say, gadgets existing there, which then in this life they “invent.”