“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

[...] People in your dream did not notice your strange attire, incidentally, because in your dream you had not yet elected to be born.

[...] You then planned or decided to be born when the meeting was carried out. [...]

[...] That is, because you imagined that he would be a contemporary in age, you saw him on a bicycle, a child’s method of transportation, but because he was born earlier the vehicle carries him past.

[...] There are of course reasons why the three sons were born within the family. [...]

[...] In one way, when you were born, she was quite content that your father vanish. [...]

[...] He is strongly a part of her, and was born from her for that reason.

As a change of environment affects twins, Twin A becoming something different again through a given environment from Twin B in another environment, so twins born in different times also develop different portions of a basic personality pattern. [...]

You were born into a state of grace, therefore. [...]

[...] I am placing these concepts within your time scheme because in your terms they were born out of it. [...]

Your body has within it the miraculous strength and creative energy with which, in your terms, it was born. [...]

(11:32.) Physically, your body must follow the nature into which you were born, and in that context the cycle of youth and age is highly important. [...]

[...] By the time he is born he has already learned to accept his parents’ idea of what reality is. [...]

[...] When the infant is born he still hears these sounds and voices, but again they do not meet his physical needs nor bring him milk when he cries, and gradually he discards them, focusing upon that data which best serves his physical purposes.

Otis (my father’s father) was a woman, born in India two years after Otis’s death, and dying at a young age in her early teens. [...]

[...] Otis was elderly even then; my father was born in 1890. [...]

[...] For example, you have visual images when you are born, internal visual images, symbols that are activated the moment you open your eyes for the first time. [...]

[...] The personality may have chosen to be born blind for his own reasons. [...]

(Pause at 10:49.) Those who are born into the same nationality, say twice consecutively, learn to speak much quicker the second time around. [...]

[...] Something happens the moment you are born and the world is different. [...] You are not born as members of a nation tied tail to tail. [...]

[...] Any consciousness that wants to be born is born. [...]

[...] For when you are born everything is here for you. [...]

[...] By the time he is born he has already learned to accept his parents’ idea of what reality is. [...]

[...] When the infant is born, he still hears these sounds and voices, but again, they do not answer his physical needs, nor bring milk when he cries, and gradually he discards them.

[...] In all forms of life each individual is born into a world already provided for it, with circumstances favorable to its growth and development; a world in which its own existence rests upon the equally valid existence of all other individuals and species, so that each contributes to nature’s whole.

[...] If you believe that the body is sinful, for example, you cannot expect to be happy, and health will most likely elude you, for your dark beliefs will blemish the psychological and biological integrity with which you were born.

[...] You will be born in the midst of certain mass beliefs, and these may vary according to the country of your nativity. [...]

This of course involves considerations of race, and you must realize that your present race is the one into which you were born, in your terms, in this place and time. [...]

Nearing was born into the world just left by James, and he saw the industrial developments that at one time William James had anticipated with such vigor and optimism.

(I should note here that SN was evidently born in 1883, and that WJ died in 1910—which leaves a period of some 27 years during which their physical lives overlapped. [...]

[...] I described to him the house in which I was born, situated directly across Route 6 from the old college buildings. [...]

[...] Not necessarily because you did not want to be born, but because those experiences were in themselves legitimate,² and in your present state are written in the “memory” of your physical being.

(Intently at 9:36:) Now this does not mean that your personality as you know it was often trapped within a womb, destined to die there, or that a hypothetical whole self would not be born. [...]

[...] In that regard, you are born by degrees. [...]

[...] In physical terms it begins before your own parents are born.

The individual is born equipped with his humanness, with certain propensities and leanings toward development. [...] He is born wanting to form civilizations as, for example, beavers want to form dams.

[...] Taking that for granted, then, you are each born with the conscious knowledge of what has come before. [...]

Consciousness forms the genes, and not the other way around, and the about-to-be-born infant is the agency that adds new material through the chromosomal structure.² The child is from birth far more aware of all kinds of physical events than is realized also. [...]

On these other levels the child knows, for example, of its contemporaries born at about the same time. [...]

(10:26) A child may be born with a strong talent for music, for example. [...]

(“In what year were you born, Frank Watts?”)

(“Upon what street were you born, Frank Watts?”)

(“Is the house in which you were born still standing?”)

[...] Your being, the greater consciousness that is yourself, intersects with space and time; it is born in flesh simultaneously at many [moment] “points.” [...]

The physical reality into which you are born is not nearly as solid or predetermined or definite as it appears to be. [...]

It will now or later and the child who will be born, will be born. If an individual is meant, in his terms, to be born to you as a child, if he has decided to do so and if you have decided to have him as a child, if your past relationships for example have set up this situation, then the situation will take place. [...]

The life in any case, if it is to be born in physical terms, will be born. [...]

Each person, for example, is born with his or her uniquely individual set of characteristics and abilities, likes and dislikes. [...]

[...] They are born with the knowledge of how to think, with the propensity for language. [...]

Yet the physical matter of the born infant contains none of the same physical matter which was received initially from the parents. [...]

Call the particular matter given by the parents x and y. When the child is born, it does not contain anywhere within it these particular portions of matter called x and y. It would appear that the matter had changed. [...]

No particle of matter is the same in the born infant, that was contained in either the fetus or earlier in the sperm or egg. [...]

(“In what year was Ted born?”)

[...] So this hypothetical greater identity also chooses to be born in different time periods, historically speaking; and the same pattern appears in which counterparts are born as individuals, each biologically and spiritually connected, but with great intertwinings and variations, as with a physical family tree.

[...] That greater personhood gives birth to many “psychic children,” who then become physical by being born into the races of men and women.

[...] There are reasons, then, why people are born in any given century, and why they meet in space and time. [...]

[...] Where was I born? [...]

I believe (pause), he belongs in a litter born in approximately the same area that he died. [...]