“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are very rarely vulnerable to any but a small percentage, though you carry within you traces of the most deadly of them all of the time. [...]

So viruses can be beneficial or deadly according to the condition, state, and needs of the body at any given time. [...]

(Concerning symbols… In 1947 scholars began acquiring the seven now famous Dead Sea Scrolls. They had been found in a cave situated above the usually dry Qumran wadi, or riverbed, which leads to the Dead Sea a mile or so away. [...]

You would call whole pages of the [Dead Sea] Scrolls tremendous put-ons, since whole pages, in literal terms, are not true. [...]

[...] Some of the falsified records had poison on the manuscripts — deadly reading material indeed.

[...] The villains consisted of the following ideas: that the world is unsafe, and growing deadly; that the species itself is tainted by a deadly intent; that the individual has no power over his or her reality; that society or social conditions exist as things in themselves, and that their purposes run directly counter to the fulfillment of the individual; and lastly, that the end justifies the means, and that the action of any kind of god is powerless in the world.

(Pause.) You have occasional epidemics that flare up, with victims left dead. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s body felt dead by contrast in large areas in the past. [...]

An archaeologist or a geologist examining “old” rock strata will find dead fossils, just as from your viewpoint you will discover “dead” past lives as you look “downward” through your psyche. [...]

To a future self no more illuminated than you are, you appear dead and lifeless — a dim memory. When you look out into the universe from your viewpoint, it seems as if you look into the past.⁸ Scientists tell you that when the light from every distant galaxy reaches you, the galaxy is already dead. [...]

I give you all my greetings, and I will be around here mostly to show you that all spirits are not dead and dusty and to remind you that you, yourselves, are spirits. [...]

[...] The surroundings in which the dead find themselves will often vary. [...]

[...] Relatives and friends already dead entered into the ritual, which was a profound ceremony also on their parts. [...]

[...] You may, for example, take the form of an individual’s dearly beloved dead pet.

[...] I told him that both of my parents were dead.

[...] So that you actually spend “dead” time—that is, periods that are devoid of creativity while supposedly devoted to it. [...]

[...] You have not used them as a way of life because of the conflicts mentioned earlier, and if you are going to get off dead center and do something instead of complaining, you must each begin to put these to practice. [...]

[...] The “dead” periods of time should also be watched for, for they are often caused precisely by your conventional concepts of time, eroding the quality of those moments.

But beyond this life, and before this life, and forming this life, there are identities and there are realities and these are not dead. [...]

[...] Yet surely you are wide awake when you brush your teeth, and when you dream surely you will say you are sleeping and your consciousness is dead.

How dead is sleeping consciousness, and where do you travel when you sleep? [...]

[...] Obviously, I am saying that “deadly” viruses do not “think of themselves” as killers, any more than a cat does when it devours a mouse. [...]

[...] (Perhaps in this particular biological experiment, the blindness represents an evolutionary dead end, in those terms.) We may ask Seth to elaborate before he finishes Mass Events.

(“But I don’t want to be in the position of finding out that that cat’s dead,” she said. [...] She’d been correct in this case also, saying the person was not dead; he returned within the time she specified, also, namely one dating several months after his disappearance. [...]

[...] Neither girl was dead, by the way. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Dogmatically, arising from the dead alone was clearly not sufficient, for men were to follow where Christ led. You could not have a world in which the newly-risen dead mixed with the living. [...]

[...] For some time they may indeed inhabit such an environment, until they learn through their own experience that existence demands development, and that such a heaven would be sterile, boring, and indeed “deadly.”

[...] The individual knows quite well that he is dead in your terms, but he refuses to complete the psychic separation.

[...] The experience of the “dead” is not the same. [...]

[...] I have said this before in class, you are as dead now, and as alive now, as you will ever be. In life you can be as dead as you think any corpse is, by contrast far deader. [...]

[...] Do you need an old dead thing like me to tell you what life is? [...]

In many ways then, you are “dead” now — and as dead as you will ever be.

Now, all of you here now know that the dead are not necessarily quiet, and that there is no somber mood necessarily connected with those who are no longer alive, in your own terms. [...]

[...] I simply wanted you to know that the dead can be quite lively, that they are not quiet and somber and that your mother only appeared tired because she knew you expected her to. [...]

[...] I wish you all, therefore, a hearty good evening, and remember that the dead have a vitality that would put you to shame and allow your own parents to smile when they visit you. [...]

[...] Those who do not realize that they are dead are here told of their true condition, and all efforts are made to refresh the energies and spirits. [...]

[...] Yet you do not know consciously how you breathe and if you did you would be dead, because you could not consciously handle the millions of manipulations that must take place in order to assure one breath. [...]

[...] All That Is is not static or it would be dead; it is ever changing as you are. [...]

[...] Instead, you see, you gave in to those superstitions regarding the dead and you were afraid to look. [...]

[...] I can assure you that death is another beginning, and that when you are dead, you are not silenced. [...]

[...] Irony whispered that He was as dead as they were. [...]

The alternative, that of hellfire, was equally unbelievable. Yet the conventional God of our fathers apparently sat without a qualm with the blessed in heaven, while the devil tortured the rest of the unlucky dead. [...]