“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Great Britain was in many respects a special place in that many of those personalities who had been resting were born there at fairly regular intervals, and you had a more consistent belief in liberty that did not necessitate such bloody and unfortunate revolutions as those that occurred elsewhere.

[...] Sometimes though not always personalities who need a certain experience will be born into a particular country or race. [...]

These personalities, often talented in many directions and often with past experiences of wealth and power, choose to be born as Jews of their own volition, and this is a karmic compensation, not in any sense punishment but a needed adjustment on the part of the personalities involved.

Think about it: Some of us are born brilliant and some mad, some with bodies swift and elegant, others missing vital organs or whole limbs. Some of us are born so blessed with riches that we live in a world hardly imaginable to the majority of men, and others grow old and die in dark pockets of poverty, equally incomprehensible. [...]

According to Seth, Peter’s own reincarnations had really been completed before he was born this time. [...]

[...] “Here the personality was born only fifty miles away, and as the wife of a wealthy landowner, she often drove through the very land where the small house [of her former life] still stood with its farm. [...]

(4:16.) Another life, for example, might deal with exquisite health and vitality, and as mentioned, still another life might be devoted to the arts of healing — but overall, few people take health problems per se as frequent reincarnational themes, though they may be implied strongly in situations where one is born into a large populace of poor, underprivileged people.

[...] Ruburt chose his parents for his own lifetime: he was born in the right place at the right time. [...]

That concept will be changed because many people in your society and in your times were indeed born with the same intent, and in their private and public lives they are tackling that issue. [...]

[...] You saw your young brother in a fetus position, for he will be born again within the physical universe, and you will not. [...]

[...] Seth began to be more specific on family reincarnational data when he told Jane and me in a very early session that neither of us would be born again on the physical plane; this, he said, accounted for our lack of children and the desire for them. [...]

He will be born in a warm climate. [...]

Dick was born in 1671 and died at the age of 9.

[...] One actually lived to be 18 and was born when Lessie was very young. [...]

[...] In many cases such as this, one or the other waits a longer period of time, being born as a child to the other party. [...]

(And: “A chapter on a person’s ‘Effective Personal Reality’ — about the private purposes in one’s life, and the bounds of creaturehood as set by your body; what you choose to be born with as far as health, disease, poverty or wealth, ability, etc., are concerned.”

[...] I told you that you possessed far more knowledge about your own lives, and the lives of others, than you were intellectually aware of.² You act on that knowledge, for one thing, when you are born physically, when you grow. [...]

[...] They were born, or created, dam makers.

[...] Mice, for example, are inbred in a sanitized environment for many generations until genetically “pure” strains are obtained; these ideal “models” for research into human defects may be born with — or develop — obesity, various cancers (including leukemia), epilepsy, different anemias, muscular dystrophy, and so forth. Some are born as dwarfs, or hairless, or with deformed or missing limbs. [...]

I’ve done the best I could
with thy sweet heritage of blood,
one creature like all the rest
born from your power and benevolence,
graced to share in what you are
for your love’s multiplication
knows no prejudice,
so let me humbly state my thanks

[...] I remember that she had seemed oddly intrigued by them, and that they had borne more than a little physical resemblance to us. [...]

[...] They had no power to leave the place where they were born, unless you gave it to them. [...]

(11:14.) You choose to be born in a particular physical family, however, with your brothers and sisters, or as an only child. So, generally speaking, your counterparts are born in the same psychic family of your contemporaries. [...]

[...] They are not “born reformers,” however. [...]

[...] These inner languages are built up as cordellas, and cordellas are psychic organizational units from which, then, all alphabets are born. [...]

[...] We cannot blame God, society, or our parents for misfortunes, since before this physical life we chose the circumstances into which we would be born and the challenges that could best bring about our development. [...]

Yet I was not a “born psychic” with a background of paranormal experience. [...]

[...] In comparison with those times, however, children are now born ancient, for even biologically they carry within themselves the memories of their ancestors. [...]

With some variations, the same kind of “sudden conversion” can occur when a person who has berated religious concepts and beliefs suddenly does a double-take of a different kind, ending up as a twice-born Christian.

That is, if you have been born in poor or depressed circumstances, then free will will not alter the conditions of that birth.

(Long pause.) When you are born you possess a group of attitudes toward yourself and toward life. [...]

The information was not to be given to “born believers,” but to intelligent people, and to a “medium” who questioned it, not only for himself but for all those given to the same kind of questioning. [...]

[...] When you are born that will is directed toward growth and development. [...]