“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Indeed, however, Jane and I think that in ordinary terms, and for many reasons, our species long ago began creating a great deal of negative thinking and action—so much so that those qualities came to range throughout all facets of our world culture. [...]

[...] It is true in terms of culture that the two of you may feel quite alone in this endeavor, but in terms of more basic issues you are not alone, for you have all of the power of nature on your side.

Many of your beliefs are of course cultural, but you have still accepted those that served your own purposes. [...]

[...] This causes a schism in all of your cultural activities.

[...] You contribute your abilities and experience, helping to form the world’s civilization and culture. [...]

In other periods, for example, there were acceptable frameworks through which mystics expressed themselves, and most cultures have such avenues. [...]

Part of the limitations set upon the self are cultural, and vary according to civilizations, but the basic cause is the absolute reliance upon the outer senses—

[...] If the cultural limitations were lifted this would at least be of some benefit.

“In your mind you creatively envision the ideal — the sanity of some future culture that, you hope, our work and [that of] others will bring about. [...]

“When you thoroughly understand what is meant by the entire safe-universe concept, then the physical, cultural climate is seen as a medium through which the ideal can be expressed. [...]

[...] You are born into different races, into different cultures, with different — but the same — desires … There are many things that you are learning. [...]

[...] And (to a black student) you cannot know what it is like to be black in this culture — you may not agree here — unless you are also white in it…. [...]

(Pause.) For many years you both pursued your arts despite living amidst such cultural beliefs. [...]

Other personal beliefs held by both of you to some extent or another, with the usual cultural connotations, stressed a false humility over the rightful natural pride of ability. [...]

[...] So Ruburt finds his muscles sore, and in the terms of your culture goes on faith that the soreness is good. [...]

[...] Those religions had as great an effect upon their cultures as Christianity has had upon your own.

(Pause at 10:41.) Other religions were based upon different dramas, in which ideas were acted out in a way that was comprehensible to various cultures. [...]

(A minute later:) In the psychic areas, all patterns for knowledge, cultures, civilizations, personal and mass accomplishments, sciences, religions, technologies and arts, exist in the same fashion.

The beliefs involving the son’s inherent rivalry with the father, and his need to overthrow him, follow instead patterns of culture and tradition, economic and social, rather than biological or psychological. [...]

[...] That image in a way is a potpourri, picked up from his readers, even other books, the culture in general. [...]

Behind all of my suggestions and attempts to help you lie realms of historical culture, or personal episodes, that go back to that main unfortunate habit of self-disapproval regarded as virtue. [...]

[...] And I’m not ready for either of the books Seth has mentioned doing — the Christ book, or the one he talked about last month, on cultural reality. [...]

[...] And while he can indeed use more weight, your cultural idea of proper weight is somewhat exaggerated. [...]