“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As a rule most of you wake up in the same bed in the same house or town, but certainly you wake up as the same person in the same century. In those terms the entity wakes up as a different person each day, in a different century, each life seeming like a day in its level of experience. [...]

[...] This automatically meant that emerging man, in that framework, must let go of a certain kind of animal comprehension that was extremely valuable overall, but could inhibit ego growth … For many centuries there was no clear-cut differentiation between various species of man and animal … There were also, of course, parallel developments in the emergence of physical man. Again, for many centuries, there were innumerable species of man-in-the-making, in your terms; various postures, and even types of manipulation, as well as alterations in brain size and activity. [...]

[...] Jane thought a period of less than a century was much too short a time to encompass so many dramatic changes. [...]

[...] Some wanted to know if one of the three Christs could have been the Teacher of Righteousness; this personage was the leader of the Zealot sect in Judaea early in the first century A.D. There were four known Jewish sects flourishing there at the birth of Christianity.

[...] The other changes will occur generally over the period of a century, but the results will show far before that time.

[...] This is perhaps no easy task in usual terms, yet he is indeed learning on his own part to use his consciousness in a different fashion than the one prescribed by man in one way or another for centuries. [...]

[...] The methods have been known for centuries; not only centuries as you think of them, but for the lifetime of this earth as you know it, and even before — when the poles were reversed and when there were other stars in the sky and when the planets were not the planets that you know.

[...] It is not imprisoned in tiny boxes of days or weeks or months, or even of centuries.

(“In what century did I live?”)

B C 4 Century.

[...] This Seth might be “born” two or three times in one century — or more — and then in your terms not appear for five or ten centuries. [...]

[...] That Seth then seeded himself, so to speak, in the space-time environment you recognize — appearing through the centuries, sending out offshoots of “himself,” exploring earthly experience and developing as well as he could those potentials of his own greater identity that could best be brought to fruition within a creature context.²

[...] Truly, for myself the whole house thing had its origins in my early childhood, over half a century ago. [...]

8. We think it quite likely that Seth’s material in this delivery, and some of Jane’s in Politics, grew out of reading we did earlier this month on “new” forms of mathematics — which embody some ideas that are actually many centuries old. [...]

[...] This is unfortunately one of the main distortions that have come down through the centuries and that is the only point I felt strongly enough that I should interfere with your fine rendition. [...]

[...] Now, do not forget that through the centuries, and through time, information had to be given according to the background of the time, and oftentimes questions had to be answered in the terms in which they were asked and the questions themselves that were asked were often loaded. [...]

It is now nearing Easter (on March 26), and the yearly commemoration of what is considered historic fact: the [resurrection and] ascension of Christ into heaven.¹ Untold millions have in one way or another commemorated that occasion through the centuries. [...]

[...] The old religious myths fit a different kind of people, however, and lasted for as many centuries in the past as Christianity has reached into the future.² The miraculous merging of imagination with historical time, however, became less and less synchronized, so that only r-i-t-e-s (spelled) remained and the old gods seized the imagination no longer. [...]

[...] (Originally Luke composed his Gospel and Acts as one treatise; the two were separated early in the second century.) Out of such contradictions as those implied in Luke’s case, however, confusion and opposing opinions reign when one studies the Gospels and related material. [...]

2. According to Seth, then, those old religious myths lasted for about 20 centuries, dating from 2000 B.C.

[...] Otherwise it is impossible to understand how for example, an 18th-century town, a 20th-century town, and an ancient village can all exist not merely at once, but also on occasion in the same (in quotes) “location.”

(Jane told Phil that Janice had been his wife in Persia about ten centuries ago. [...]

(“You mean after ten centuries you can’t tell your own wife?” Jane said, “now isn’t that carrying things a bit too far? [...]

[...] They do not experience centuries, you see, though they may remain attached to your system for centuries of earth time.

(In our private session, Seth commented on my “quite legitimate” reincarnational data involving the black woman, Maumee or Mawmee, who’d lived on the Caribbean island of Jamaica early in the 19th century. [...]

[...] What I’m getting is that the idea of just one life in any given time is bullshit — the psyche is so rich that it can have more than one life in one time period, like your Nebene and Roman soldier living together in the first century. [...]

Each of you takes part in your world — and in your time as you understand it, and in your terms, all the creatures of the earth participate in the century. [...]

[...] Between the four of them, the century is being covered. [...]

You returned as a squaw many centuries later—in Quebec, outside of Quebec—in the 1700’s, where you learned the intuitive knowledge of the female and applied these abilities to your search for truth. [...]

[...] The Torimba tribe in Africa ended up after many centuries in Asia Minor carrying with them remnants of their past civilization. [...]

Centuries after the original cry. That is, the strength of the inner sensual impact was as weakened and diluted as it would have been if what you heard was a cry through the outer ear that came originally from centuries already gone by.

[...] The experience was of very low volume, had almost dreamlike existence in one dimension only, and represented an echo of anguish heard centuries after the original cry.

(“Centuries?”)

[...] We discussed the amazing facts that the American civilizations had existed for centuries concurrently with the European and Far Eastern ones, but with each totally isolated from the other. [...]

For unnumbered centuries, you had largely self-contained, unique “sophisticated” civilizations, intensified centers, situated in prime natural territories, but completely unknown one to the other, with thousands of miles of wild earth between, that was explored only by the most daring. [...]

To your way of thinking some lives are lived in a twinkling, and others last for centuries, as some huge trees. [...]

[...] Looking backward in time, Plato heard the story of Atlantis from his maternal uncle, Critias the Younger, who was told about it by his father, Critias the Elder, who heard about it through the works of the Athenian statesman and lawgiver, Solon, who had lived two centuries earlier [c. 640–559 B.C.]; and Solon got the story of Atlantis from Egyptian priests, who got it from ———? [...]

[...] And so it has been through the centuries.

[...] For they are indeed the sounds of insects through the centuries, of stars swirling through the universe, of the blood pounding through your veins.

I told Seth that it could be — but that I also wondered why over the centuries the species couldn’t have slowly accumulated a body of knowledge like that he was giving us now.

[...] If you could, you would have done it centuries ago. [...]