“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He hides behind no other credentials, or social system, or dogma. [...]

[...] It has at one time or another in various lives been on the side of the strongly disciplined portions, in which case it was greatly given to dogma, and concerned with cultural problems of punishment and law; or followed the intuitive side, in which it emerged as mediumship, and high mysticism.

[...] Yet it is no accident that greater discoveries are often made by “amateurs” — those who are relatively free from official dogmas, released from the pressure to get ahead in a given field — those whose creativity flows freely and naturally in those areas of their natural interest.

[...] The fears about being an official psychic were to see that he did not fall into the temptation of allowing all the dogmas to be tacked upon the phenomena, so that he would not operate within old frameworks, and therefore tacitly give voice consent to them.

Organized religion has committed many important blunders, yet for centuries Christianity provided a context accepted by large portions of the known world, in which experience could be judged against very definite “rules” — experience once focused, chiselled, and yet allowed some rich expression as long as it stayed within the boundaries set by religious dogma.

[...] However, I want to make it plain that we are certainly not setting up a new dogma. [...]

[...] And yet it may seem to him that he does know, for the nature of a dogma’s origin will be explained in terms that this main character can understand. [...]

(To Gert.) Over here, we are letting St. Lucia use her own wings and encouraging her not to rely on dogma and therefore we have given you none. [...]

[...] It comes naked and everyone must put clothing on it, which usually ends up as either nonsense or armored dogma.

[...] Many such people are somewhat like us — refusing to accept any kind of dogma.

[...] He is not a doctor of anything, for there is no one alive who could give him a degree in his particular line of research, or in yours … He hides behind no credentials, or social system, or dogma….”

28. Seth’s remarks here are actually an extension of a long discussion on individual beliefs and spontaneity that he’d initiated in a class session two weeks ago: “Now, my words will not, I hope, be used to begin a new dogma. My dogma is the freedom of the individual (my emphasis). My dogma is the sacrilegious one — that each of you is a good individual. [...]

Often you interpret such evidence in terms of the dogmas with which you are already familiar. [...]

[...] Jane does believe that long ago she left behind the church’s dogmas on reincarnation. [...]

“Ruburt found great comfort in the church as a young person, for if it created within its members the image of a sinful self, it also of course provided a steady system of treatment—a series of rituals that gave the individual some sense of hope the sinful self could be redeemed, as in the framework of most of Christianity, through adherence to certain segments of Christian dogma.

[...] The connections involving her mother’s bedridden condition and her tempestuous temper, including her suicide attempts, both faked and real, troubles with a succession of housekeepers, the lack of a father, the almost two years she spent in a Catholic orphanage while Marie was hospitalized, the death of her beloved grandfather, the whole strained atmosphere within which the gifted and impressionable child was growing, as well as her conflicts with church dogma and personalities, had, all together, powerful effects indeed. [...]