“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Many cancer patients have martyrlike characteristics, often putting up with undesirable situations or conditions for years.

[...] Each person is meant to express his or her own characteristics and abilities. [...]

[...] The pictures you see will follow your own unique leanings and characteristics.

[...] It is not nearly as tied to psychological characteristics as you suppose. [...]

[...] Some women display what you think of as masculine characteristics, growing hair about their faces, speaking with heavier voices, or becoming angular; while some men speak with lighter, gentler tones than ever before, and their faces grow smoother, and the contours of their bodies soften.

[...] Completely different characteristics, abilities, and performances are expected from those in each category. [...]

[...] Even characteristics that would otherwise appear as faults attain a certain loving significance. [...]

The span of a god’s love can perhaps equally hold within its vision the existences of all individuals at one time in an infinite loving glance that beholds each person, seeing each with all his or her peculiar characteristics and tendencies. [...]

[...] Love, sexuality, and play, curiosity and explorative characteristics, merge in the child in a natural manner. [...]

[...] The inner ego is formed about characteristics and abilities that have been dominant in previous personalities, characteristics which the entity has developed through its experience in various lives.

We find, on Ruburt’s part, a much less violent reaction to springtime than the reaction which in the past was more or less characteristic with him.

[...] The nature of action itself is such that tension is one of its positive characteristics, and the tension is the element that causes action to seek expansion in terms of an attempt to duplicate itself.

[...] Creation is the result of tension, though instantly new tension is set up, since tension is a characteristic of action. [...]

[...] The twelve, therefore, plus Christ as you know him (the one figure composed of the three) represented an individual earthly personality — the inner self — and twelve main characteristics connected with the egotistical self. As Christ was surrounded by the disciples, so the inner self is surrounded by these physically oriented characteristics, each drawn outward toward daily reality on the one hand, and yet orbiting the inner self.

God was seen as cruel and powerful when man believed that these were desirable characteristics, needed particularly in his battle for physical survival. [...]

(10:03.) The disciples, therefore, were given physical reality by the inner self, as all of your earthly characteristics come out of your inner nature. [...]

Characteristically, when he leaves his body he does the same thing, hardly pausing at the threshold of alpha but taking off from there.

[...] As each event has its own symbol for you, so you have your characteristic way of combining these. [...]

[...] Some stages through which you pass are native stages to other kinds of consciousness, and while passing through these you will find yourself using symbols in the way that is characteristic of that level.

[...] These are far from opposing characteristics, and without an aggressive thrust, symbols would lack their high mobility. [...]

Give us a moment… In your terms, again, the psyche contains what you would consider male and female characteristics, while not being male or female itself.

[...] Basically, however, there are no clear, set, human, psychological characteristics that belong to one sex or the other. [...]

[...] Over the generations, then, certain characteristics appear to be quite naturally male or female, and these will vary to some extent according to the civilizations and world conditions. [...]

The psyche then contains, again in your terms, female and male characteristics. [...]

[...] You simply do not understand it, therefore I come to you in terms that you can understand, and these characteristics of mine that seem so cozy are to some extent devious. They are my characteristics as I am, but also as I was. [...]

Now, let you all for a moment remain quiet as I divest myself of those characteristics that you find so human and understanding, and remember that inner portions of yourselves also have existences that are as strange. [...]

[...] In the case of secondary personalities, the main operating portion who usually directs activity might be male, displaying all of the usual male characteristics. [...]

(3:25.) What we are involved in mainly, however, are the characteristic periods of seeming amnesia, occurring usually involuntarily, often without any transition except perhaps for a headache.

[...] Jane’s trance was now deeper, her delivery more emphatic and a little stronger.) We will want to deal overall with the nature of reality as it exists within your camouflage system, as it exists in other systems, and with the overall characteristics that pertain to it, regardless of any given manifestation. That is, certain characteristics belong to reality, regardless of the methods by which it brings itself forth.

[...] Certain characteristics however belong to reality regardless of the very methods and the various manifestations.

[...] This will be given along with and as a part of the basic characteristics of reality, as divorced from camouflage materializations.

In larger terms, the word reality and those characteristics that I will give you as attributed to it, will be seen as part and parcel of a unified psychic consciousness, from which all other consciousness emerges. [...]

What I want you to know is this: I come here, I hope, as an endearing personality with characteristics that you understand. Now these characteristics have been mine and they are mine, and I am who I say I am. [...]

[...] And you will need the human characteristics that you know—and that were mine—and they are still mine, for this self of mine that I show to you does still exist and grow. [...] And to that self, physical reality is like a breath of smoke in the air and that self does not need the characteristics that you know and find so endearing. [...]

([Seth II:]) And that self tells you that there is a reality beyond human reality, beyond human characteristics that you know—and within that reality even I am dwarfed and there is knowledge that can never be verbal. [...]

Know that within your physical atoms now the origins of all consciousness still sings and that all the human characteristics by which you know yourselves, still exist within the eye of all our consciousness, never diminished, but always present. [...]

And that self tells you that there is a reality beyond human reality, beyond human characteristics that you know... [...]

Know that within your physical atoms now the origins of all consciousness still sings and that all the human characteristics by which you know yourselves still exist within the eye of all our consciousness never diminished but always present; your individualities never diminished... [...]

[...] The appreciation of distinctions and differences is considered one of the greatest characteristics of consciousness, and so those aspects of it are valued. On the other hand the equally significant assimilating, combining, correlating characteristics of consciousness are overlooked. [...]

[...] So there was a give-and-take involved in which the blacks expressed certain tendencies for the country as a whole, while the whites expressed other characteristics.

[...] Individuals — or races — did not have to take certain specific roles, acting out various portions of humanity’s characteristics; each person was allowed to be unique, with all that that implies.

Various kinds of seemingly contradictory characteristics may appear, then. [...] Since each person is unique, the various Sumari characteristics will then appear quite differently. [...]

[...] There is a tie-in here with Sumari characteristics.

(Here’s one point brought out in that deleted material: Since Seth had told Jane and me long ago that the three of us belong to the Sumari family of consciousness,⁴ we were more than curious now when he declared that the woman who presently owns the house on Foster Street is also a Sumari: “[She] added Sumari characteristics of expansiveness.” [...]

1. Naturally, Seth’s material here began to sound very reminiscent of Jane’s and my own Sumari characteristics — especially those concerning the “mystical sense of connection with nature” that each of us feels, and our individual desires “to work in solitude.”

[...] As usual during such times, my face was extremely animated, and Seth’s characteristic gestures were quite noticeable. After speaking to each student individually for a moment, Seth said with a touch of humor: “I come here, I hope, as an ‘endearing’ personality, with characteristics to which you can relate.

[...] … We want to deal with the nature of reality as it exists within your camouflage system and within other systems, and to study the overall characteristics that pertain to it, regardless of any given materialization.

[...] Seth’s deep tones, his gestures and characteristic way of using words—these were absent.

“In the most important way, and in the only basic way, I am Seth, dispensing with certain characteristics which are mine, which I used to contact you. [...]

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

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

[...] Yet he or she might also find within strong characteristics of another one, in which case the individual is in the same position as someone who is, say, part Irish and part French in physical terms.

[...] Often they do not even recognize each other as having many of the same characteristics.

[...] It should be obvious to you that your own characteristics, interests, attributes, and directions also are partially responsible for the form the material takes.

[...] The Jonestown situation definitely involved all of the characteristics that I have ascribed as belonging to a cult. [...]

The Harrisburg situation potentially threatened the lives of many thousands, and in that circle of events the characteristics of a cult are less easy to discern. [...]

[...] They are trained to be unemotional, to stand apart from their experience, to separate themselves from nature, and to view any emotional characteristics of their own with an ironical eye. [...]

I am mentioning this only to stress the fact that self-delight and self-approval (long pause) are natural characteristics — characteristics that actually make your entire physical world, and world of experience, possible.

[...] Form is not a characteristic of energy, any more than it is a characteristic of matter. [...]

Form is not a characteristic of matter, despite appearances. [...]

It can be shown, and we will go into this, that form is not a characteristic of matter. [...]

[...] No computer could count the combinations of characteristics possible. [...] They may appear as superior characteristics of one kind or another, but they must be biologically stated as the variations from the genetic norm.

[...] (Long pause.) They want to sift their characteristics through a certain cast. [...] It is made on the part of the individual and on the parts of the parents as well, so that a certain group of people will relate to the world in a highly characteristic way. [...]

(Long pause.) The most important aspects of individuality are those subjective characteristics that on the one hand distinguish each person from the other, and that on the other hand are each like sparkling psychological mosaics, giving separate, exquisite individual versions of that larger pattern from which mankind emerges. [...]