“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt in his own way tried to escape poverty through the use of his brains, and he was afraid that that was not going to work either. Ruburt’s brains however gave him much more leeway than his mother’s beauty gave her, and his intellect came with a counterpart—an intuitional and psychic counterpart that enriched it and kept it from becoming bitter or even ingrown.

(“What is the mind as opposed to the brain?”)

Brain is mechanism and mind is spirit.

[...] Little attention has been given to the pathways opened, even in the physical brain, as the result of psychedelic experiences. Those portions of the brain, seemingly unused, deal with these other dimensions, and physically (underlined), you begin to use these portions, though minutely, for the first time, under psychedelic situations.

[...] The physical brains alone, the unused portions, have it within their ability, for example, to hear color, to smell sound; in other words, these portions contain among other things functions, unused mainly, that would allow you to perceive physical reality in various other fashions. [...]

[...] These portions of the brain, once activated, then allow you to switch sense impressions from one sense mechanism to another, you see.

[...] (Long pause.) Insanity, as it is labeled, is sometimes merely the result of a strange situation, in which certain individuals use the ordinarily dormant portions of the brain as well as, or sometimes largely in place of, the recognized portions. [...]

[...] The brain would be more or less what it is, that is, the brain of the present personality existing on a camouflaged plane. As the brain gives orders and communicates messages to the various parts of the physical body, so would the mind or entity do in like manner. The mind would contain all data having to do with past existences and intertwining purposes, problems and relationships, but it would only give such data to the brain as was necessary for its present existence.

[...] If it will make things easier for you, you can think in terms of the entity and the brain and a mind.

The scientist probing the brain of an idiot or a genius will find only the physical matter of the brain itself.

Not one idea will be discovered residing in the brain cells. [...]

You cannot find any given dream location, either, within the brain itself. [...]

[...] So, often, you attempt to examine the nature of the brain in man by destroying the brains of animals, by separating portions of the animal brain from its components, isolating them, and tampering with the overall integrity of both the animal in question and of your own spiritual processes. [...]

[...] But for the materialists, the mind-brain duality isn’t scientific in the orthodox sense. It isn’t falsifiable; that is, it cannot be stated under what precise conditions the mind-brain duality could be proven false. [...]

[...] For them consciousness is nothing more than an epiphenomenon, the passive by-product of the brain’s physiology and chemical events. [...]

“Science would say that the idea of meaning itself is simply a reflection of the state of the brain, as is the illusion of our consciousness. [...]

[...] There were innumerable considerations, innumerable experiments, with size, brain capacity, neurological structure, and with a kind of consciousness flexible enough to change with its environment, and also vigorous enough to explore and alter that environment. [...]

[...] When man knew no more than a simple tribal life, his brain already had the capacity to learn anything it must, for one day it would be responsible for the life of a planet.

[...] But the mind is connected with the physical brain, and so hidden in its [the brain’s] folds there is an archaeological memory. [...]

[...] Neither words within your brain, within your mind; for the voice itself and language itself is bound to be distorted. [...] The inner knowledge within you existed before the nervous system existed, before there was a brain capable of learning language. [...]

[...] Scientific analysis of the brain will tell you nothing about the power that moves your thoughts, or hint at the source of the brain’s abilities. [...]

(An EEG, or electroencephalograph machine, traces brain wave patterns on graph paper.)

[...] The “absent” portion of the self cannot be traced through brain patterns, though the point of its departure and the point of its return may show a particular pattern. [...]

[...] You can feel what you cannot necessarily describe verbally, and know through direct experience what even the physical brain cannot describe nor comprehend, for you are more than the physical brain that you have now. I am no poet but then thinking of one of Ruburt’s poems, then think of the brain, indeed, as a web you form about the inner self. [...]

The past exists as a series of electromagnetic connections, held in the physical brain on the one hand, but it also consists of the same sort of realities retained in the nonphysical mind. [...] The present exists as a series of electromagnetic connections in both the brain and the mind, and this is the only reality which you are justified in giving to your present.

[...] Once more, the only reality that can be assigned to the past is that granted to the symbols and associations and memory images that exist electromagnetically both within the physical brain and within the mind.

[...] (Pause.) Now, we have strong electrical brain discharges, in disorganized patterns.

[...] Sufficient enough repression here has caused these rampant electric brain discharges that automatically affect the motor systems. [...]

[...] Most of the knowledge gained escapes the physical organism however, for the experiences could not be translated by the physical brain.

[...] The brain cannot contain such episodes. [...]

[...] One piece had been written by a brain “researcher” who, we thought, exhibited remarkably little understanding of the human condition. Almost in spite of myself, I thought it quite humorous that the reviewer himself had written books on the brain — that had in their turns been attacked by other reviewers.

[...] Its transference is automatic and instantaneous on Ruburt’s part, and is performed through the inner workings of the mind, the inner senses and the brain.

[...] The thinking brain does not know. [...]

It is fashionable in your time to consider man as the product of the brain and an isolated bit of the subconscious, with a few other odds and ends thrown in for good measure. [...]

You can feel what you cannot necessarily describe verbally, for you are more than the physical brain that you have now. I am no poet, but as in one of Ruburt’s poems, think of the brain as a web you form about the inner self. [...]

We should most probably here substitute brain for mind, since I believe that is the terminology upon which I decided to settle. Using again the arbitrary divisions, brain for the physical construction, and mind as the intangible, then to set the record straight brain would not sense the inner planes, while mind would deal with them.