“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The news is invisibly organized to fit certain patterns, so that when you read or hear it, it carries the seemingly indelible mark, confirming the basic beliefs of the culture.

[...] When you read the news or hear it, however, because of cultural beliefs you are programmed to behave in a certain fashion, in a fashion that validates, seemingly, the concepts of Freud and Darwin, and the most unfortunate aspects of Christian pessimism.

[...] It is impossible, I know, and not really beneficial, to try to separate yourselves entirely from the cultural world, but you should understand the makeup of that world, and be able now and then at least to separate your private experiences from it, even though they must occur in its context.

[...] It has to do simply with your own society and cultural ideas that are inherent within it. [...]

[...] In your culture, at this present time, it passes for the best method. [...]

[...] Your cultural background specifies, however, certain directions that you follow. [...]

You could not have any of your arts, cultures, governments, religions or sciences without first being couched in nature’s spontaneous order. [...]

[...] There could actually be no beginning or end to any culture. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You are used to thinking of any bodily commotion as disruptive, and put it in the worst possible light, because your backgrounds have given you little experience in such situations—you, Ruburt, or anyone else, largely in your culture. [...]

Cultures of diverse natures communicate in ways impossible otherwise, and all of the great explorations of one country by another have involved prior dream contact.

[...] There is a cultural world, and a natural one.

[...] It would be of some considerable value if you both emphasized your belonging in the natural world, rather than emphasizing the fact that you are ahead of your cultural times.

[...] They are not reformers in the strictest sense, yet their playful work does often end up reforming a society or culture. [...]

Nevertheless, they are often part of the cultural underground simply because they are seldom conformers. [...]

[...] At the same time we readily agree that organizations are indispensable within the world’s very complicated cultures. [...]

[...] Individual life, religion, culture, politics, were each vastly different in each period, the concept of the self profoundly different in one era and another. [...]

[...] Alongside, however, there were always minorities, religions or cultures, who kept out of the main current and experimented along different lines. [...]

Nerves are stimulated so that the areas of the body become more alive and responsive to energies that can be overlooked in the face of cultural or secondary events. Few threats are directly physical in comparison with all of the imagined or actual social or cultural ones. [...]

[...] Your beliefs, cultural background, and to some extent your languages, set up barriers so that this dream dimension seems unreal to you. [...]

[...] All of your creative impulses arise from that hidden dimension — the very impulses that formed your greatest cities, your technology, and the physical cement that binds your culturally organized world.

Diverse cultures are thus able to communicate as the cultural knowledge of various parts of the world is given to the sleeping portion of the entire organism. [...]

The reasons given for such subjugations matter little in the long run, for the reasons change with the times and with your culture. [...]

[...] The cultures used them. They could not use the various cultures as launching ground for the new ideas. [...]

(It was: distinguish between the natural and cultural or social world and assure myself I am safe in the natural world.

(Long pause at 10:01.) Your culture has its biological effect upon the species. [...] If you were thinking in old terms of evolution, then I would be saying that your cultures and civilizations actually alter the chromosomal messages. [...]

[...] In the 563rd session Seth mentioned that he would soon discuss the third of these cultures. [...]

(Pause.) You are involved with some of your counterparts more or less directly, while others live in different lands, and are sometimes separated also in terms of age differences or culture — qualities with which you would find it difficult to relate.⁵ Intuitively, you know who the counterparts are in your daily experience. This does not mean that if you become consciously aware of such affiliations you must then feel it your responsibility to form a kind of culture of counterparts, or to try and affect other people’s lives by reminding them of your relationship. [...]

[...] Those counterparts that you meet will be working, playing, and being more or less within your own culture. [...]

5. Seth has already referred to counterpart relationships at the extremes of distance, and, to a lesser extent, in terms of age and cultural differences. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) You are to some degree a sports-minded culture. [...]

No mainline Western culture for centuries has granted the validity of psychic abilities. [...]

[...] The bonding to cultural beliefs of religion (long pause) was very strong to make up for that initial lack. [...]

The Sinful Self material represents those ideas that were strong element in the original belief structural of a cultural nature, to which Ruburt was “bonded.” [...]

[...] That art may add to the richness of society, to culture—but art always possesses its own secretive inner nature, and with that nature each artist of whatever kind must always relate. [...]

[...] You prided yourselves on not having regular jobs, and being apart from certain portions of the culture. [...]

[...] Nature in all of its varieties is so richly encountered by the animals that it becomes their equivalent of your structures of culture and civilization. [...]