“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Each person is born, however, with his or her—let me correct that—each person is born there with a private natural religion—one that rises from the springs of the individual psyche, and one that provides an easy, custom-made method of dealing with inner and outer reality. [...]

[...] A daughter just born to the couple carries the same “flaws.” [...]

When you are born, you understand that you have a new consciousness. [...]

(In addition the child knew it was not wanted, but had insisted upon being born. [...]

[...] The animus and the anima are born into the individual with the first physical life, and serve as an inner pattern, reminding the personality of its basic unity. [...]

(10:15.) If you are to be born as a male, then the mother serves as a stimulus to activate the symbol of the anima in you, so that the pattern of your own female lives becomes a portion of your next existence. [...]

[...] A new event can literally be born in the past — “now.”

[...] You may say, “I was born in a house on a certain street in a certain town, and no present belief to the contrary will change that fact.” [...]

There, you can meet with relatives long dead, or with children not yet born. [...]

[...] In that framework you are born and die, and in a definite sequence. [...]

You could not die unless you were the kind of creature who was born, nor could you have a present moment as you consider it. [...]

[...] In a dream you are closer to those stages in which events are born. [...]

“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. [...]

[...] They were not born on the same date, however. [...]

[...] If you have decided upon a situation in which a critical organic lack or disability is involved, and are born with a severe disease, for example, then that is the context in which you will experience this particular focus in corporeal reality. [...]

[...] First of all, of course, you do choose the culture into which you are born. [...]

[...] Once you are born into a particular time and country, you do grow up in an almost invisible but definite environment of concepts, assumptions, and predetermined ideas that serve as a basis from which your own individual beliefs spring. [...]

[...] You (pointing to me) do not believe that nature is hostile, nor does Ruburt, but you both accept the concept that there are hostile elements against which you must protect yourselves, and that the artist or writer, or any sensitive wise person is at a great disadvantage against a system in which he is born, and that he is to some extent at its mercy.

[...] You are born into belief systems as you are born into physical centuries, and part of the entire picture is the freedom of interpreting the experiences of life in multitudinous fashions (all intently). The meaning, nature, dignity or shame of suffering will be interpreted according to your systems of belief. [...]

[...] A man might be born deformed or sickly because of the sins of his father.

(10:11.) When one has been born and has died many times, expecting extinction with each death, and when this experience is followed by the realization that existence still continues, then a sense of the divine comedy enters in.

[...] I believe, for example, that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

[...] You know ahead of time the nature of the period into which you will be born. You [Jane and Rob, or Ruburt and Joseph] 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. [...]

[...] Each person born desires to be born. [...]

(“Think of yourselves, in important ways, as almost having been born in 1963 [when these sessions began]. [...]

[...] Such a son or daughter might be born, for instance, through a woman who wanted to experience childbirth but who did not necessarily want to encounter the years of child-raising, for her own reasons.

“I was going back to bed when my last lines suddenly reminded me that I still feel the way I did when I was a young girl; that some part of the dawn does come for me; personally; and that to some extent time didn’t exist before I was born. [...] This happens when anyone is born, but most people don’t feel it — or don’t seem to … Together all of us on earth form time and contribute to its design and to history. This happens whenever one of us is born or dies. [...]

[...] It will be remembered that in the 63rd session, June 17,1964, Volume 2, page 159, Seth gave a date of September 2 for John, stating that on that day “plans may be born at that date which will affect his participation in his professional field.” [...]

[...] Whether any actual plans affecting John were born at the meeting of September 2, time will tell.

Now I want those of you who can to follow still further, for we will travel beyond these fields of probabilities in which all times are born. [...]

[...] You are all born into this time and this place. [...]

You may be born into your present family for many reasons. [...]

[...] They were signed, so to speak, before you were born in this existence. [...]

[...] Some individuals always choose to be born as a part of some group — reborn, in other words, with past contemporaries, while others, disdaining such endeavors, return in much more isolated positions.

[...] If you could perceive these dreams then you would have a good idea of the main physical events of the future, because you would see them being born.

[...] In the dream state too, you see, leaders can be born and make themselves known. [...]

[...] For when you are born again, then you must completely readjust and learn to operate in a strange and alien environment. [...]

But when you are born again into a tiny and helpless organism and when your intellect may still be operating strongly, then there is a shock, for you cannot do what you want to do. [...]

[...] (Pause.) One of the purposes of this book is to tell you that no one is born to be a sickly person, so reading it can help you there.

[...] Here we are speaking about conditions that can be physically corrected — but not the growth of an arm if you were born without one, for example, or the correction of other lacks in the body at birth.