“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now you are dealing with methods that have been known through the ages and other civilizations than your own have learned them, some have mastered them. [...]

[...] In your terms only, and historically speaking, they often appeared at the beginnings of civilizations, where direct physical bodily manipulation within the environment was of supreme importance. [...]

[...] What Seth is really saying here is that our impulses are meant to help us create our own realities on a personal basis in a way that will enhance both our private lives and our civilizations.

(9:05.) Such a cultural time works well overall for the civilization that concentrates upon partialities, bits and pieces, assembly lines, promptness of appointments, and so forth. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, in civilized conditions it sometimes needs relearning. [...]

[...] In some other civilizations, and particularly in the past as you think of it, witch doctors operated within a context of nature accepted by all. [...]

[...] Also a drummer boy in a civil war. [...]

[...] Because of western civilization in particular, this is extremely difficult for women in particular. [...]

(See the details of Jane’s dreams, detailed on page 5. For more data on the immediate past lives of Jane and mine in Boston, before the Civil War, see the 59th session, Volume 2, page 140. [...]

[...] The troubles with the economy can be the answers to the problems of Western civilization. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The more “civilized” man becomes, the more his social structures and practices separate him from intimate relationship with nature — and the more natural catastrophes there will be, because underneath he senses his great need for identification with nature; he will himself conjure it into earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods, so that he can once again feel not only their energy but his own.

[...] I am well aware that strong elements of your civilization are built upon ideas of guilt and punishment. [...]

Man’s physical world, with all of its civilizations and cultural aspects, and even with its technologies and sciences, basically represents the species’ innate drive to communicate, to move outward, to create, and to objectify sensed inner realities. [...]

[...] In terms of your civilization, nature and spirit became divided so that you encounter the events of your lives largely in that context. [...]

[...] And other probable systems are aware of the experiments that you are trying, and in your terms and I am speaking now in your terms only which to some extent means that I am hedging the fence, other civilizations have gone your route, some have failed. [...]

[...] Someone very well known who established a church — if you will, a civilization — once said, “Turn the other cheek if you are attacked.” [...]

They were not only his private religious beliefs, but those of his contemporaries generally — and (loudly:) the foundations upon which your present civilization was made. [...]

[...] It seems that you are highly civilized people because you put your ill into hospitals where they can be cared for. [...]

[...] Prayer once enabled the intelligent man to focus his psychic abilities, because the hard fact, taken for granted by all in Western civilization, was the belief in such a God. [...]

[...] Excesses over this survival construction are used in various creative aspects, and represent the basics for culture and civilization.