“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The locality had no great sense of unity as a region, or overall pride in itself as a cultural or natural identity.

Culturally the region did not have its own identity, though it has always striven for some kind of characteristic expression. [...]

[...] These having to do with national and cultural events, so they are common to you both. [...]

[...] Now we as portions of one entity, have certain memories that could be compared to the general cultural ones that you and Jane share, even before you met. [...]

[...] They become overlaid with cultural habits. [...]

[...] It has a good overall climate, a great mixture of cultures. [...]

[...] As given [at various times over the years, mostly in personal material], they involve cultural training and religious indoctrinations.⁴ He is challenging, finally, the old beliefs that say that the self’s spontaneity is not to be trusted. [...]

[...] Man has produced some fine works: The high level of verbal communication, the multitudinous varieties of emotional interactions and of cultural exchange, the facility with exteriorization of ideas and concepts, the reaches of the imagination — all of these, and many others, are unique in the universe.

Your conscious mind is meant to give your body an assessment of what I will call cultural conditions, for there are sophistications and specifications that in your terms consciousness alone can assess. [...]

[...] Patty, RN, took cultures of both leaking ulcers on her hips for tests. [...]

[...] Jane also said she’d never heard anything about the cultures Patty had taken from the ulcer on her knee a couple of weeks ago, so she guessed that meant things were okay there. [...]

[...] The clothes are a costume from another culture. [...]

His powerful basic insecurity was caused by a broken home, and a situation where he was also thrown into alien cultures; not only was he unsure of belonging to a family, but also felt he had no cultural or national belongings.

[...] A country is responsible for its own droughts, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes — and for its own harvests and rich display of products, its industry and cultural achievements, and each of these elements is related to each other one.

Excellence will show itself through the arts, cultural creativity, technological or sociological accomplishments. [...]

[...] The clothes are a costume from another culture.

[...] In far-past historical times, different kinds of orientation were experimented with (as by the “sleepwalkers” described in the last session, for instance). Your own present private experience can give hints and clues about such other cultures, for those abilities reside within the natural framework, now, but are underdeveloped.

[...] These will help you to understand how other kinds of cultures could operate in ways so alien to your own.

[...] The training that connects your visual and verbal culture prevents full translation, but Ruburt was putting together, with my help, information not usually available. [...]

[...] To them the real was the dream life, which contained the highest stimuli, the most focused experience, the most maintained purpose, the most meaningful activity, and the most organized social and cultural behavior. [...] In your terms, physical culture was rudimentary.

Each system, of course, brings forth its own culture, “technology,” art, and science. [...]

[...] Her self-distrust was the conscious overlay for the culturally forbidden activities. [...]

[...] Therefore, dreams will be considered throughout the book in various capacities as they are related through genetics, reincarnation, culture, and private life. [...]

Give us a moment … (Long pause, eyes closed.) There are lands of the mind.⁵ That is, the mind has its own “civilizations,” its own personal culture and geography, its own history and inclinations. [...]

[...] You still try to carry your own cultural versions of reality into the dream state, for example, but the natural heritage of both body and mind escapes such repression — and despite yourselves, in your dreams you come in touch with a greater picture of reality that will not be shunted aside.

(Actually, the affair is a perfect example of much of the material Seth has been going into in his latest book on the mass culture and mind. [...]

[...] You all felt that those dire events of the cultural and social world were somehow transposed over the natural one.

Next to that kind of achievement, conventional ideas of success or failure are literally ludicrous in basic terms, though I understand the hold that cultural beliefs can still have upon you.