“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment… There is no civilization, no system of science, art, or philosophy, that did not originate in the mind. [...]

Each person alive helps paint the living picture of civilization as it exists at any given time, in your terms. [...]

[...] You can become involved now in a new exploration, one in which man’s civilizations and organizations change their course, reflecting his good intents and his ideals. [...]

[...] It was indeed a dreamlike world, but a highly charming and vital one, in which dreaming imaginations played rambunctiously with all the probabilities entailed in this new venture: imagining the various forms of language and communication possible, spinning great dream tales of future civilizations replete with their own built-in histories—building, because they were now allied with time, mental edifices that automatically created pasts as well as futures.

[...] Because of both scientific and religious ones, in Western civilization you believe that there are threats from within also. [...]

[...] Through that kind of action it helps form your cultural environment, the civilization of which you are justly proud.

(8:54.) The intellect, then, helps your species translate its own natural purposes and intents — the purposes and intents of the natural person — into their “proper” cultural context, so that those abilities the natural person possesses can benefit the civilization of its time. [...]

[...] In historic terms the changing nature of accepted events provides far more than, say, a history of civilization, but mirrors the ever-creative nature of the psyche.

[...] Practically speaking, however, the species accepts certain portions of dream reality as its so-called real events at any particular time, and about those specialized events it forms its “current” civilizations. [...]

[...] Your conscious mind, generally speaking, interprets reality according to your private beliefs and those of your civilization. As long as the civilization maintains certain beliefs, then events must be perceived in a complementary fashion.

[...] In that regard your society, your civilization, your way of looking at reality—all of these at that level also represent highly conventionalized behavior and learned responses.

Your world is full, however, of hints and clues that are relatively invisible simply because you do not look for them, since they do not fit the overall view of reality that currently rules the civilization.

Civilizations do not rise and fall because of weapons, or economics, or technologies. [...]

[...] Yet the old man does sleep in a gigantic shoe that is also like a cradle, from which he and all of civilization continue to emerge. [...] Through expression of the words, but also through your art, for you saw all art as an expression of love, a love in which the old man and civilization was ultimately held.

[...] Not that he has not used them so far, but that he has not focused upon them in what you consider the main lines of civilized continuity. [...]

(10:12.) Man’s dreams have always provided him with a sense of impetus, purpose, meaning, and given him the raw material from which to form his civilizations. [...]

[...] There were then also animal-man and man-animal civilizations of their kinds, and there were complete civilizations of modern man, existing before the ages now given for, say, the birth of writing. [...]

[...] The thrust of your civilizations has been concerned with manipulating nature. [...] Not only of nature’s power and its effects upon civilization, but it also provides you with a very small hint of the other side of the picture, for man despite himself has not lost entirely that identification with the elements. [...]

Even in reincarnation for example, an ego who experienced a Civil War life is now aware of another ego who may have experienced life in the year three thousand. [...]

[...] The personality was often involved then in the flowering period of civilization, when such building was usually carried on. [...]

To some extent, such beliefs follow certain rhythms in both civilizations and in time.

[...] For some time Western civilization stressed a distorted version of intellectual reasoning, for example, and so the current stress about other portions of the self serves a purpose.

[...] In the eras of the great artists, civilization was united by a series of revelations, ideas and also distortions. [...]

[...] There are rites (spelled) that were used in various civilizations to stand as ceremonial reminders of this covenant. [...]

[...] Some other civilizations experimented with a different kind of science than the one with which you are familiar. [...]

[...] In your terms, then, other civilizations considered art as a fine science, and used it in such a way that it painted a very clear-cut picture of the nature of reality — a picture in which human emotion and motivation played a grand role.

[...] The second is that Jane and I are perfectly aware of all the good things that medical science has contributed to our worldwide civilization; given our species’ present collective beliefs about the vulnerability of the individual to outside forces, medicine as it’s now practiced is a vital component of that civilization. [...]

I may for a while stress the ways in which individually, and as a civilization, you have undermined your own feelings of safety; yet I will also give you methods to reinforce those necessary feelings of biological integrity and spiritual comprehension that can vastly increase your spiritual and physical existence.

[...] Science allied with the government has its own dogmas, however (intently), so the civilized world will be looking for new alternatives. [...]

A civilization must avoid either extreme, as of course each individual should. [...]

Now: your civilization is set up in such a way that it seems that no other organization is possible.

Your ideas about the psyche are at the basis of your civilization. [...]

[...] Civilization binds them round.

[...] Heterosexuality, however, rests upon the bisexual basis, and (intently) without man’s bisexual nature, the larger frameworks of the family — the clan, tribe, government, civilization — would be impossible.

[...] Seth talked a good deal on the cooperation of all living things in maintaining our universe, and of how it’s so very wrong for civilized human beings to kill. [...]

(Speaking of the fact that civilized man should not kill, Seth said the whole idea of killing is fallacious to begin with: an enemy who is “dead” is far more harmful than one who is still alive. [...]

[...] Seth repeated several times that for civilized man to kill is wrong. [...]

[...] … The inner core of the self has telepathic and clairvoyant abilities that greatly affect family relationships—and your civilization. [...]