“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He is able to form many different kinds of cultures, for example. [...] It is simply that your culture puts the various elements together in ways that stress the qualities of what you refer to as rational thinking.

Now: Ruburt’s skill is as ancient as man is, and indeed all of your arts, sciences, and cultural achievements are the offshoots of (pause) spontaneous mental and biological processes.

[...] It has to be broken down, particularly to a time frame, and then into concepts that can take advantage of the world view that is held in your culture. [...]

[...] The information you receive from your culture, from your arts, sciences, fields of economics, is all translated, decoded, turned into cellular information. Certain genetic diseases, for example, may be activated or not activated according to the cultural climate at any given time, as the relative safety or lack of it in that climate is interpreted through private experience.

[...] It not only contains and conveys information, but it also reacts to information from the physical and cultural worlds.

In one way or another, the living genetic system has an effect upon your cultural reality, and the reverse also applies. [...]

[...] Here the generalized fears fostered by religious, scientific, and cultural beliefs are often given as blueprints of diseases in which a person can find a specific focus — the individual can say: “Of course, I feel listless, or panicky, or unsafe since I have such-and-such a disease.”

[...] In your culture, at least, the educated in the literary arts provide you with novels featuring antiheroes, and often portray an individual existence [as being] without meaning, in which no action is sufficient to mitigate the private puzzlement or anguish.

Those programs often portray your cultural world in exaggerated terms, and most resolution is indeed through violence. [...]

In many situations, the main personifications are instead of a ritual nature, taking advantage of psychological patterns already present in the culture’s art or religion or science. [...]

[...] Such cultural models are present in society to begin with, because in one way or another they express in an exaggerated form certain portions of man’s psychological reality that he does not as yet understand. [...]

(9:35.) On an individual basis, the schizophrenic carries through those cultural patterns. [...]

[...] This is a purely cultural, learned behavior. [...]

[...] There are other taboos, involving racial restrictions, or cultural, social, and economic ones. [...]

Basically, then, man’s inherent bisexuality provides the basis for the cooperation that makes physical survival, and any kind of cultural interaction, possible. [...]

[...] There is a great underlying unity in all of man’s so-called early cultures—cave drawings and religions—because they were all fed by that common source, as man tried to transpose inner knowledge into physical actuality.

[...] That is given—the gift of life brings along with it the actualization of that cooperation, for the body’s parts exist as a unit because of inner relationships of a cooperative nature; and those exist at your birth (most emphatically), when you are innocent of any cultural beliefs that may be to the contrary.

[...] As a result you forget your natural selves, and become involved in a secondary, largely imaginary culture: beliefs that are projected negatively into the future, individually and en masse. [...]

[...] Again, remember what I have told you when people expect a hearty longevity, then that is their reality—and do not forget then that your difficulties lie also in the realm of cultural beliefs. [...]

With your cultural training and background, however, the feeling itself further alarms you, so that you become highly anxious, and it is that anxiety itself that is the real symptom, say; it is the anxiety you should question. [...]

[...] On the other hand, when you have them, make a point to recognize that they are the result of cultural beliefs, beliefs that often run counter to the body’s natural knowledge of optimism (pause) and saving inner balance. [...]

[...] You are throwing out, to some extent, now, much of the accumulated nonsense of the centuries (emphatically), upon which people have often tragically built their lives and cultures. [...]

[...] Through all of history, one way or another, you have believed in the line of culture leading to your own—that impulses were disruptive, suspicious, and not to be trusted; ignoring the child’s impulse to speak, and to walk and grow, to communicate. [...]

[...] Culture is as real and natural as trees and rocks, so see the various cultures of these three groups as natural environments of the different places or countries; and imagine, then, each group exploring the unique environment of the land into which they have journeyed. [...]

[...] The majority of accepted beliefs — religious, scientific, and cultural — have tended to stress a sense of powerlessness, impotence, and impending doom — a picture in which man and his world is an accidental production with little meaning, isolated yet seemingly ruled by a capricious God. [...]

Religious, scientific, medical, and cultural communications stress the existence of danger, minimize the purpose of the species or of any individual member of it, or see mankind as the one erratic, half-insane member of an otherwise orderly realm of nature. [...]

[...] Those connections are worked out at all levels of reality, in the waking state through your communication devices and culture, and through the far more complicated arena of the culture of dreams. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been using television programs and such cultural data as a basis for some of his own dreams. [...]

[...] Before the so-called flowering of Greek and Roman cultures, consciousness had not as yet made that specialization. [...] The species, then, had not yet taken up the theme that has been predominant in Western culture.

[...] Using those actually as guidelines, you have so far viewed your world and formed your cultures. [...]

(11:08.) There are even now in your species a number of different kinds of consciousness; different in that the physical life-situation is qualitatively experienced in ways that are not native to you in your culture; different in that the entire fabric of meaning, interpretation, experience, and life itself is “alien” to the kind of experience with which you are familiar. This does not mean that such differences occur as the result of cultural backgrounds or situations, for some such individuals exist within your own culture, and some with your kind of consciousness exist in cultures where they are a minority. [...]

To a very limited extent, the different civilizations and cultures with which you are historically familiar represent a dim glimmering of the various qualities of consciousness and their varieties of experience. [...]

Now that particular feeling is relatively new in history as you understand it, for almost all cultures in the past have had their built-in extensions of identity that included a dimension of actuality of one kind or another, from which each individual emerged, and to which you would return. Such a framework may have been filled with potential problems, but there were usually ways in life to get around those ways that were specified according to religion or culture. [...]

[...] The balances of nature, culture, communication, transportation, had altered to such a degree that a real poverty had resulted, not simply simple basic but adequate living conditions. [...]

Puberty comes at a certain time, triggered by deep mechanisms that are related to the state of the natural world, the condition of the species, and those cultural beliefs that in a certain sense you transpose upon the natural world. In other respects, your cultural environment is of course natural. [...]

[...] It does mean that the male so divorced himself from the common fountain of love and sex that the repressed energy came forth in those aggressive acts of cultural rape and death, instead of birth.

[...] Your culture says that you concentrate upon them. [...] So your culture believes that by publicizing crimes of whatever nature, you will somehow eradicate them.

[...] Your sciences, religions, and your culture, has brought you into a peculiar position: “Forget your problems and they will go away.” [...]

Particularly in your own species there is a great give-and-take between human genetic systems, the environment, and cultural events—and by cultural events I mean events having to do with your peculiarly unique field of activity that includes the worlds of politics, economics, and so forth.

[...] For whatever mysterious reasons, then, our overall consciousness wants and needs this particular “genetic culture.” [...]

Nor do I think that establishment science will soon be interested in Seth’s ideas that exchanges take place involving our genetic systems, the environment, and cultural events like politics and economics; or that our genetic systems react to our thoughts and emotions—let alone that there’s any genetic planning for future probabilities! [...]

(10:36.) I want to show you where culture and cultural beliefs meet with your private experience. [...]

[...] It has colored man’s societies and cultures since its inception. [...]

Animals have their own culture. [...]

[...] Some of your private and joint problems spring from cultural beliefs that you are intellectually aware of, but not emotionally free from. [...]

You also have ideas of guilt about your painting that are culturally induced. [...]

[...] At the same time, because of some cultural beliefs, you are still not all that trustful about creativity to begin with.

[...] It could not do so by imposing its culture, however admirable in many respects, upon others. The culture had to change, the foundations of art had to change, the old images had to be in your terms (underlined) demolished, for they had begun to freeze the birth of new insights and creative feeling.

The artist became at that point truly an initiator, no longer supported by the cultural society. [...]