“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:12.) If men were considered equal, however, the ideas of Darwin and Freud came along to alter the meaning of equality, for men were not equal in honor and integrity and creativity—or heroism: —they were equal in dishonor (louder), selfishness, greed, and equally endowed with a killer instinct that now was seen to be a natural characteristic from man’s biological past.

The world of art or literature, or music or learning, was closed to him. When your country began its own saga, each individual was to be considered equal, regardless of birth. Many of these same people had been denied advantages in Europe. They were upstarts. What they did was establish equal starting lines for an incredible race in which each began with an equal position and then tried to outdo the other, freed of the class distinctions that had previously hampered them. Because there were few ground rules, and because it takes time to develop a culture, this rambunctious group set out to tame the continent, to show Europe that Americans could do Europe one better, without a king and without pomp.

When all that was changed, as indeed it should have been (pause), the world underwent great changes. It may not have been much, but a yeoman’s son in the past would always be a yeoman’s son. He would follow in his father’s footsteps. He was not of equal value with a prince, either of church or state. His position was a poor one, yet its freedoms and limitations were known, and his value, whatever it was, was accepted as his station in life. He might be a good yeoman or a poor one, but a yeoman he was.

[...] In that reality a so-called fact is equally true or equally false. [...]

[...] It presupposes a far greater freedom in which perception is not dependent upon space or time, a reality in which objects appear or are dismissed with equal ease, a subjective framework in which the individual freely expresses what he or she will in the most direct of fashions, yet without physical contact in usual terms.

[...] Even when you catch yourselves in the most vivid of dream adventures, or find yourselves traveling outside of your bodies while dreaming, you still do not give such experiences equal validity with waking ones.

The span of a god’s love can perhaps equally hold within its vision the existences of all individuals at one time in an infinite loving glance that beholds each person, seeing each with all his or her peculiar characteristics and tendencies. [...] You cannot, therefore, honestly insist that you love humanity and all people equally if you do not love one other person. [...]

[...] It is easy to claim an equal love for all members of the species, but love itself requires an understanding that at your level of activity is based upon intimate experience. [...]

Four plus one, and an equalization, or equal elements of design. [...]

(“Four plus one, and an equalization, or equal elements of design.” [...]

(The equalization, Jane believes, refers to the book by Louis Pomerantz, that along with the object and the mimeographed list were mailed to her by Caroline Keck from Brooklyn, NY, in August 1964. [...]

(The equal elements of design reference is another general interpretation of the nature of the data tonight—the art background.

(9:35.) There are, therefore, many other equally valid, equally real evolutionary developments that have occurred and are occurring and will occur, all within other probable systems of physical reality. [...]

If both beliefs are equally dominant and vital, then the situation becomes quite serious. [...] If such a person begins to succeed, then he or she is forcibly reminded of the equally dominant need for lack of success — for again, the person believes that self-expression is necessary and desirable while also being highly dangerous, and thus to be avoided.

Instead of developing physical complications, in usual terms, sometimes one portion of the personality actually does act with assurance, power, and energy, while another equally valid portion refuses to use energy or power in any way whatsoever. The ideas are so opposing, and such equal adversaries, that the conscious personality can hardly bear to be aware of both at once —

[...] I have used the different beliefs about power as an example, but any belief may be involved if it and its opposite are held in nearly equal weight.

(Long pause at 3:20.) Again, people who have such views of the inner self usually project the same ideas upon nature at large, so that the natural world appears equally mysterious, dangerous, and threatening.

In political terms such persons also look for strong authoritative groups or governments, stress law and order above justice or equality, and tend to see the poorer, less advantaged members of society as impulse-ridden, dangerous, and always ready for revolution. [...]

[...] At the same time you almost equally hold in your mind the image of Street Three, for you can see them both at once from this intersection.

Let us say that you are almost equally attracted to both courses. [...]

[...] But while you stand almost equally attracted by streets Three and Four, then you send out mental and psychic energy in those directions.

[...] In the 565th session at 9:30, for Chapter 16, he used the example of one’s possible responses to a telephone call to show how all “probable actions are equally valid,” no matter which one of them is physically actualized.

[...] I suppose we are all pretty equal but each of us is a portion of a larger identity which may not be equal to others.”)

[...] They are equally valid, and equally geared though in different ways, to your peculiar dilemma. [...]

[...] There will shortly be another equally remarkable improvement—another stage, in other words, and this one will be followed in a matter of two months or so by complete recovery —that is, two months after the next improvement.

(As I think the ideas in the session proper are among Jane’s best, so do I think those in the material she delivered for herself equally good.

[...] I tried writing it down so that I could read it to Jane: “Why did the personality adopt a course of action—being out of condition, say—that eventually came to assume such proportions in life that the focus upon it equaled, or even surpassed, the hours spent in the creative actions of writing that the personality said it wanted to do each day above everything else?”

[...] I was after an understanding on various levels of the fact that Jane had created something that certainly assumed equal billing with her other creative work—that the personality may have been quite aware that this would happen, and was willing in some sort of terms for the situation to exist for a number of years.

It goes without saying that parents should hold the bodies of their male and female children in equal favor, so that one is not considered inferior to the other. [...]

You should both become equally aware, and consciously and alertly aware, of the beneficial ideas and their importance in your lives — and this will be a portion of the book for others also.

[...] You may see where you held two quite conflicting ideas simultaneously, and with equal vigor. [...]

You may believe that you have a right to health, and yet with equal intensity believe that the human condition is by nature tainted. [...]

Also the impression of something divided into four divisions fairly equally. [...]

[...] These too play a part in test results, since she had these equally strongly in mind this evening. [...]

(“Also the impression of something divided into four divisions fairly equally. [...]

[...] He was bound to publish his work—any kind—but equally determined to protect his private nature. [...]

[...] In a way the symptoms are a statement of the distance Ruburt wanted to maintain from public life, because he felt equally that he should go out into the world in a public manner, and “tackle it.”

[...] There are “electromagnetic momentums thus achieved and maintained,” certain stabilities that operate and maintain their own integrity, though these may not be “equal” at all portions of the spin. There are equalities set up “between” the inequalities.

There are, nevertheless, unequal thrusts in all directions, though “equalities” can be ascertained by concentrating only upon certain portions of the spin.

[...] In the dream state, however, a rose can be an orange, a song, a grave, or a child as well, and be each equally.

[...] They are events that are what they seem to be, and they are equally events that do not “immediately” show themselves. [...]

To be less facetious, I am giving you a brief session also to let you know that since you did hold an unscheduled session, I will endeavor to equalize whenever situations occur of this sort.