“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause at 11:51.) He grew up in your culture, so it seemed wrong to him, for example, not to orient physically in those terms, but to dream in the afternoon, have an out-of-body experience, and so forth. [...]

[...] You have done this with your art; and began, in your terms, as a child of your parents with the teachings of that culture. [...]

[...] The health is there, and neither of you quite understand the nature of his and your achievement, despite your backgrounds privately and in relationship with your culture. [...]

(9:34.) The so-called youth culture, for all of its seeming (underlined) exaggerations of youth’s beauty and accomplishments, actually ended up putting down youth, for few could live up to that picture. Often, then, both the young and the old felt left out of your culture. [...]

[...] The intimate life of a person in one country, with its culture, is far different from that of an individual who comes from another kind of culture, with its own ideas of art, history, politics or religion or law. [...]

[...] The dream state, however, involves you with a kind of communication that is not physically practical, for there (intently) no man or woman is caught without a given role; no individual’s ideas in the dream state are limited by his or her cultural background, or physical experience.

[...] Various races do not simply “happen,” and diverse cultures do not just appear. [...]

[...] The growth of separate tribal cultures, for example, and later of nations, could emerge only through a sense of separation, and a certain kind of alienation. [...] (Pause.) The seemingly local Jewish god (Yahweh/Jehovah) ended up in one way or another by destroying the Roman Empire, and in so doing brought about a complete reorganization of planetary culture.

[...] But they exist also amid your attitudes concerning the culture, your age, and the time that it seems must be involved with painting. [...]

[...] In the context of your cultural beliefs his efforts there are remarkable. [...]

[...] When you were both working on your projects, your cultural time was taken up in a way you found acceptable. When the projects were done, particularly with Ruburt, there was still the cultural belief that time should be so used (underlined), that creativity must be directed and disciplined to fall into the proper assembly-line time slots.

[...] In the light of that kind of physical time, there is no basic cultural time … which you have transposed upon nature’s rhythms.

“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.

[...] They represented culture and civilization, both as it has existed in the past, and as you see it in the future. [...]

You felt, you see, that on entering this institution or this culture or civilization, that something had been taken from you symbolized by you as the fluid that was taken from the brain. [...]

[...] Unfortunately its values have in their way appeared throughout your culture. [...]

[...] A Western doctor may give vitamin shots or pills to a native child in another culture. [...]

[...] On the one hand, you have a culture that publicly points out as common the often exaggerated dangers that can occur with drugs, and on the other holds out drugs as a method of therapy. [...]

The Sumari often provide a cultural, spiritual, or artistic heritage for the species. [...]

[...] They are travelers, carrying with them the ideas of one country to another, mixing cultures, religions, attitudes, political structures. [...]

[...] Only later did it become a symbol of hearth and warmth, so that to some extent dream symbols are cultural.

The basic symbols are beyond culture, and later I will give them to you.

Some of this has to do with the cultural climate that colored his attitudes. [...]

[...] The feminine aspects in any case, culturally speaking, were being denied since you did not want children. [...]

[...] These are projected outward as giant-sized psychic patterns, architects’ plans for the cultural cities to follow. [...]

[...] Following such ideas, you end up with segregations in which the ill, being powerless, are isolated; the criminals are kept together; and the old are held in institutions or in cultural ghettos with their own kind. [...]

(10:59.) I am dealing here mainly with Western culture. [...]

[...] There are genetic cultures operating, then, of literally infinite variety (intently), and they each have their place and their reason, and they each fit into the overall picture—not only of man’s reality but of the planet’s reality, including all of nature.

A person’s private experience happens in the context of his psychological and biological status, and basically cannot be separated from his religious and philosophical beliefs and sentiments, and his cultural environment and political framework —

[...] It involves great sweeping psychological attitudes on the part of many, and meets the needs and desires of those involved — needs which, in your terms, arise in a framework of religious, psychological and cultural realities that cannot be isolated from biological results.

[...] Only when the private nature of reality was emphasized sufficiently would I be ready to show how the magnification of individual reality combines and enlarges to form vast mass reactions — such as, say, the initiation of an obviously new historical and cultural period; the rise or overthrow of governments; the birth of a new religion that sweeps all others before it; mass conversions; mass murders in the form of wars; the sudden sweep of deadly epidemics; the scourge of earthquakes, floods, or other disasters; the inexplicable appearance of periods of great art or architecture or technology.

(I went on to tell her of my idea that arthritis, for example, bridged all historical gaps and cultures, and that its origin — I think — lay in the individual’s reaction to fear of motion, for a multitude of reasons. [...]