“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your society has emphasized and exaggerated the objective characteristics of life to such an extent, however, that art seems to be an esthetic, fairly remote phenomenon, quite divorced from physical time. [...]

(10:12.) If men were considered equal, however, the ideas of Darwin and Freud came along to alter the meaning of equality, for men were not equal in honor and integrity and creativity—or heroism: —they were equal in dishonor (louder), selfishness, greed, and equally endowed with a killer instinct that now was seen to be a natural characteristic from man’s biological past. [...]

[...] To appear as a good wife Ruburt had to appear less a thinker, less a writer, so that you each followed double standards for yourselves, each trying to appear to express completely different characteristics. [...]

[...] The characteristics of the animals were understood to continue “life,” adding their qualities to the experience of the self in a new way.³ You had better put “life” in quotes in that last sentence.

Give us a moment … Those intimate realizations, however, had to be counterbalanced in line with certain purposes set by your species, and even for that matter momentarily set aside so that other abilities and characteristics could emerge. [...]

[...] They carry the genes, the factors or units — ‘blueprints’ — that determine hereditary characteristics.”

[...] Its characteristics can be given to some degree, and indeed most of my readers could find out these characteristics for themselves if they were highly enough motivated, and if this was their main concern. [...]

An entity is composed of what you may call feminine and masculine characteristics, but when all energy is focused into masculine-oriented personalities then a backlog develops, so that the entity is left with only unused, unmanifested, so-far-denied feminine characteristics.

Because the entity has not expressed but withheld the basic femininity of its nature, it has fed back upon itself so that the overall identity of the entity appears as feminine simply because there is a backlog of those characteristics thought of as feminine.

The same sort of situation develops if the male type of characteristic is repeatedly denied fulfillment or manifestation. [...]

[...] The approach is quite characteristic of you both, all in all. [...] There are lines drawn: you see dentists, for example, but the overall pattern is a pattern highly characteristic. [...]

[...] He felt that many of his own characteristics were considered disadvantageous in a man-woman relationship. [...]

[...] Such a book will always be expressed through those invisible national characteristics that are so intimately involved with language—and obviously, were that not so; no book could be understood by someone of a foreign language. [...]

[...] Your characteristics, intents and purposes are taken into consideration, and constant readjustments are also made. [...]

[...] To date, and in the long run, and despite quite legitimate gripes, considering the nature of our books, and your own joint characteristics, Prentice has been a good choice. [...]

[...] Those houses have not sold because of the very characteristics you found attractive—their relative aloofness, and their aura of apartness.

[...] Taking that for granted, and knowing your characteristics, I have more to say. [...]

[...] Both houses have Sumari characteristics, but in different combinations. [...]

[...] His own personality, however, is left to handle the definitely unsavory characteristics of an Augustus Two who is no longer personified.

[...] Because the neat division of beliefs no longer exists, however, he will seem even more difficult to his wife since the characteristics of Augustus Two now “bleed into” his own. [...]

It was only because the childlike characteristics of Augustus Two finally appeared so blatantly that Augustus Two had to be dispensed with. [...]

[...] The “initial” originating emotional energy that sets any given unit into motion, and forms it, then causes the unit to become a highly charged electromagnetic field with those characteristics of changing polarities just mentioned. [...]

[...] When a unit is in the act of combining with another, it aligns its components in a characteristic way. [...]

[...] And each of you are given information according to the developments and characteristics of that particular portion of yourself who is attending. [...]

[...] There will be, however, a characteristic way of dying that will be adapted by different personalities. [...]

[...] Racial traits and characteristics were exaggerated by your standards because of the necessary inbreeding. [...]

[...] This does not mean that there were not similarities in religious concepts or art forms or whatever, for each level of consciousness has its own characteristics, which will show in all of its works.

Each existence in any of many camouflage patterns trains and fulfills the inner self to develop the greatest possible fulfillment of its own qualities and characteristics. These inherent qualities and characteristics determine the planes upon which the inner self will exist, and on each plane a certain materialization is necessary. [...]

[...] The outer egos are not gobbled up, so to speak, after a particular existence, but remain in control of those characteristics and abilities which they have been so important in forming and training.

[...] One of the characteristics that attracted you to Ruburt as Jane was his passionate involvement. [...]

We will for the purposes of our discussion ignore, for now, certain aspects in Philip’s personality, such as a deep secrecy which is indeed based on fear, because this characteristic and others will not help us progress in our particular subject matter. We will instead content ourselves with a comparison of the two personalities in regard to certain characteristic reactions, which tend to lead the personalities toward health or illness.

But this is not the only reason that one man has an ulcer and the other man has none, for we are involved here with characteristic reactions and with habits that have been engraved within each personality since last physical birth, and before. [...]

[...] She does not have this characteristic usually. [...]

[...] There was no artificial tampering of personality characteristics here. [...]

[...] The ego at any given time in this life is simply the part of us that “surfaces”; a group of characteristics that the inner self uses to solve various problems. [...]

[...] The ideas he presented are basic to his overall theories of identity, and since he deals with some of the characteristics of consciousness, they are also a basis for later material on the God concept.

[...] Identity, because of its characteristics, will continually seek stability, while stability is impossible. [...]

(Long pause.) The entire picture of physical life as you understand it must be of course experienced from your own viewpoint, but its complexity, its order and magnificence of structure and design should be understood as composing but one example of the infinite number of realities, each constructed by the propensities and characteristics of its own nature and the nature of its own consciousness.

(10:05.) At one time, however, you encountered such other formations in a different light, of course, seeing many similarities between their behavior and yours—certain characteristic ways of perceiving at least some experience that elicited your response and recognition.

[...] It is a natural grace, characteristic [...]

I am going to say more here concerning those characteristics of Ruburt’s whole self, which allow me to communicate with your field. [...]

[...] Suffice it to say here that such communications, again, represent the characteristics of motion in a more or less pure form. [...]

[...] The desire to set yourself apart from emotion, and coolly appraise it, is merely an indication of the ego’s characteristic nature. [...]

[...] Both of you can learn to modify these characteristics, but understanding them is basic. [...] But behind Ruburt’s outgoing characteristics you run into some rather restrictive ones that are more on the surface, generally speaking, in your personality.

[...] Once someone gets through Ruburt’s open spontaneous characteristics they are apt to wonder what happened, because he will often not let them get any further. [...]

[...] As Ruburt begins to understand the “artificial” characteristics of the Sinful-Self concept, then those natural characteristics of the natural person will more and more emerge. [...]

[...] My characteristics as they are displayed through the personality, therefore, come from you as well as from Ruburt.

[...] This does not mean that I do not have my own reality, for I do, but in my relationship with you and Ruburt, and in my relationship with your world, I do take certain characteristics that come from each of your realities.

Now: Dictation: There is a constant give and take between each individual and his or her society; the divisions and characteristics of any particular civilization will be a perfect exterior representation of the overall attributes of the people within it, as they relate to one another and as they see themselves.