“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are born loving. You are born compassionate. You are born curious about yourself and your world. Those attributes also belong to natural law. You are born knowing that you possess a unique, intimate sense of being that is itself, and that seeks its own fulfillment, and the fulfillment of others. You are born seeking the actualization of the ideal. You are born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can individually contribute to the world, and to attain a state of being that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the world.

(Deliberately:) You were born with an in-built recognition of your own goodness. You were born with an inner recognition of your rightness in the universe. You were born with a desire to fulfill your abilities, to move and act in the world. Those assumptions are the basis of what I will call natural law.

[...] You accept, if you were born in 1940, a particular historical sequence: but others born in 1940 (in a different season than your own), are born into a different historical context, a different 1940, with its own probable events. You always think of being reincarnated in terms of being born backward into a history of which you have read. [...]

[...] Say you were born in 1940. [...] Returning to our analogy, however: You are like one violet, born in one spring on one ledge, and we will call the ledge, here, 1940. Other people are being born in 1940 now, in a different “season.”

[...] To you, other people born now in 1940 would be born in a probable reality. [...]

[...] So if you were born in 1940 you have no trouble keeping track of your own time, and you fulfill your life under the same general conditions as those in which you were born.

[...] All of those born on a particular date in 1940 will not necessarily be born “at the same time” at all. [...] In the same way, those born in 1940 “at one season” do not, in a greater context, mix with those born in the same year either.

[...] You are born at a certain time, at a certain place, under certain conditions — but consciousness always forms the conditions. [...] So you decide to be born, say, in a certain month when the planets are thus-and-so. [...]

[...] Each child born alters the entire universe,⁷ and changes the world of its time and birth by bringing into it action not there earlier, in your terms, and by impressing the universe with the stamp — the indelible stamp — of its reality. [...] In the first place, since all time is simultaneous, you are always dying and being born, and your later experience affects the time of your birth.

[...] Many are born the same day of any given year, and generally within the same time period — but individually the inner triggering may be far different, so that while the overall conditions at birth may appear more or less the same, the inner reactions to them will vary widely. [...]

(“The entity was born once as John the Baptist, and then he was born in two other forms. [...] There was constant communication between these three portions of one entity, though they were born and buried at different dates. [...]

Now there will be several born before that time who in various ways will rearouse man’s expectations. One such man has already been born in India, in a small province near Calcutta, but his ministry will seem to remain comparatively local for his lifetime.

[...] Also, could or would Seth give any data on the religious figure already born in India, and the black man to be born in Africa?

Another will be born in Africa, a black man whose main work will be done in Indonesia. [...]

In some lives, then, you are born in fortunate circumstances, and in others you may find an environment of poverty and want. You may be born in excellent health in one life, with a high intelligence and great wit, while in still another existence you may be born ill or crippled or mentally deficient.

[...] It certainly seems to you, or to many of you, that most people would always choose to be born healthy and whole, in an excellent environment, of parents with loving natures and genetic excellence — and in other words to grow up healthy, wealthy, and wise.

(3:34.) The species is filled with a powerful sense of curiosity and wonder, and the need for exploration and discovery, so that even a man born as a king through several lives would find himself bored and determined to seek out a different or opposite experience.

[...] Follow then beyond the knowledge of the flesh to those domains from which flesh was born and is born. [...] A warmth that forms the very pulse of physical existence and yet is born from the devotion of our isolation; that is born from the creativity that is beyond flesh and bone, that forms fingers without feeling fingers, that forms seasons without knowing spring, that creates sand without knowing sand or ground, that creates the reality that you know without experiencing it, that forms fathers, sons and daughters and mothers without knowing what fathers and mothers and daughters and sons are, and yet from this devotion, from that creativity comes all that you know. [...]

(“Where were you born, in what house?”)

(“Were you born there?”)

(“Where were you born the third time, Frank Watts?”)

[...] At the same “time,” so to speak, that this personality is born into a minority race, in a completely different era it may be born rich, secure and aristocratic. [...]

(Bert C.: “What recourse would the poor individual who was born with all of these seemingly insurmountable handicaps have, were she to say consciously, at the ego level, ‘I just don’t want any of this. I would have much preferred to have been born aristocratic’?”)

(Jim H.: “Didn’t you say earlier, referring to the woman who was born in a minority race, that her challenges had been set up by a previous personality, in our terms?”)

(I also think it quite evident that Seth began to go into those attributes we’re born with in light of my comments about current psychological dogma that the infant is born without any impetuses …

[...] Infants are not born with an inbred fear of their environment, or of other creatures. [...]

(And when I got home tonight, my feeling of anticipation was borne out: there was a communication from Maude Cardwell. [...]

[...] Many of the Sumari choose to be born in the springtime,³ but all those born in the spring are not Sumari, and no general rule applies there. [...]

[...] (Jane was born on May 8, I was born on June 20. [...]

[...] The Sumari are extremely independent, for instance, and as a rule you will not find them born into countries with dictatorships. [...]

3. In view of Seth’s statement that “Many of the Sumari choose to be born in the springtime,” I decided to poll the members of Jane’s class for their months of birth. [...]

(John the Baptist was born between 8 and 4 B.C., and died in A.D. 26 to 27. Jesus Christ was born between 8 and 5 B.C., and died in A.D. 29 to 30. Paul [Saul] of Tarsus was born between A.D. 5 and 15 and died in A.D. 67 to 68.

(When, for instance, would the personality be born, in order to have time to bring about such tremendous changes? [...]

John the Baptist, Christ, and Paul were all connected in the dream state, and John was well aware of Christ’s existence before Christ was born.

[...] They were not born at the same date however. [...] The entity was born once as John the Baptist, and then he was born in two other forms. [...]

[...] There was constant conscious communication between these three portions of the one entity, though they were born and buried at different dates. [...]

Men and women are born with a desire to push beyond the limits—to, in quotes (amused and loudly): “explore where no man has ever gone before”—a bastard version of the introduction [to a famous television program], I believe. Men and women are born with a sense of drama, a need of excitement. [...]

[...] For, again to some extent, each man feels that somehow humanity as a whole was born at his own birth.”

[...] Men and women are born, however, with curiosity about all sensations, and about all possible life experiences. [...]

(A question from Dick to the effect that he was not born in 1938; he was born in 1939.)

He protects his children and dies in so doing, and is born again in France in 1826, Bordeaux, a merchant. [...]

[...] You know ahead of time the nature of the period into which you will be born. (Pause.) You were both born with certain abilities, and you knew ahead of time that you would have to enlarge the framework of conventional concepts if you were to have room to use those abilities. [...]

[...] But Ruburt was correct: There was nothing defective about the genes mentioned in your article (in the National Enquirer), in which individuals were born girls, and turned into boys. [...]

(Pause.) You must almost think of yourselves in important ways, as almost having been born in 1964. [...]

[...] The question, “When is the self born?”, would take many sessions to answer. As simply as possible the self, the inner self with which the ego is only vaguely familiar, that self which is the inner strength, continuity and identity, that gives the ego its vital meaning, that inner self, dear friend, is constantly being born.

[...] A.J. replied on November 22, stating that before he could answer Jane’s questions he would like Seth’s answers to three questions: “When was the last time you grew up?”, “What do you love?”, and “When is the self born?”

There is no point in time as you know it, when the self is born. [...]

[...] Even the uppermost or surface elements of the self with which you are familiar, the ego and the uppermost layers of the subconscious, even these cannot be said to be born at any given time, in time as you conceive it.

Now you must realize again, that we are speaking of division for convenience sake when none exists, so at the same time, so to speak, that this personality is born in a minority race, poor, etc., in a completely different era it may be born rich, secure and aristocratic. [...]

([Daniel:] “What recourse would the poor individual who was born handicapped have with all of these other seemingly insurmountable difficulties? What recourse would that individual have were he consciously, at the ego level, to say, I just don’t want any of this, I would much preferred to have been born aristocratic?”)

([Joel:] “Didn’t you say earlier, referring to the woman who was born in a minority race, that her challenges had been set up by a previous personality in our terms?”)

Many of us have not been born in flesh, as I have not been, but other portions of the personality have appeared in flesh; and some portion of us will always be born in flesh, because what one portion of us knows the other portions of us realize to some extent.

Seth as you know him will not be reincarnated, but other portions of our entity will be born in flesh, for we have a part in all worlds and all realities. [...]

[...] (Long pause, then quite slowly:) All creatures are also born, then, with a keen sense of self-approval.

Each creature is born proud of itself, and loving itself. [...]

You are given far more knowledge than you realize when you are born, for example. [...]

Each creature is born trusting [...]

[...] At levels almost impossible to describe to you in your adulthoods, all infants, for example, know that they are born into the environmental niches that suit them and no others — [that are] tailored to their requirements. [...]