“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your mother represented the opposite in your mind—the emotionally explosive, suffocating immediacy, a female life and earthly ties, social commitment, homey chores and distractions that seemed to be directly opposed to solitary creativity.

[...] You are trying to order her to be something—a female—when in your heart you wished she was a male, and so when you try to order her about in the dream instead you speak to the brother who is a male, and your words do not make a physical impression. [...]

To sum up Seth’s somewhat amused comments in the 12th session for January 2, 1964: “Sex, regardless of all of your fleshy takes, is a psychic phenomenon, merely certain qualities which you call male and female. [...] When I say as I have that the overall entity [or whole self] is neither male or female, and yet refer to [some] entities by definitely male names such as ‘Ruburt’ and ‘Joseph’ [as Seth calls me], I merely mean that in the overall essence, the [given] entity identifies itself more with the so-called male characteristics than with the female.”

[...] Consciously (underlined), at the start of your marriage you would both have been delighted to work together doing comic strips, fulfilling male and female roles quite conventionally, with just an added flair. [...]

[...] In that light, as in the Catholic one, the female’s guilt is seen as even larger than the male’s. So that additional pressure is cast upon the women, who are indeed seen as spiritually inferior—or (underlined) on the other hand painted as pure, pedestal-like individuals in the manner of the Blessed Virgin. [...]

[...] A dancer, female, in Spain. [...]

Also a connection with a small child, female, perhaps age 6. I do not know, a niece or sister perhaps. [...]

[...] The complete physician would be an individual, (male or female), who was in superb health, and therefore understood himself the particular dynamics that operate between spiritual vitality and physical well-being. [...]

[...] It is not asexual, and yet it is the combination of those richest ingredients considered to be male and female.

[...] Also on the page 11 side of the object can be seen portions of two female figures—a foot, and the hemline and knees of another model. [...]

[...] Five female models wear coats, and many buttons are visible on the coats. [...]

[...] I painted a male in modern garb, but in reality, according to an amused Seth, the subject was a female clairvoyant who lived in Constantinople in the fourteenth century; unconscious distortions in my own perceptions led me to the male figure. [...]

[...] She had an illegitimate child, a female, which she deposited at the nunnery for the nuns to care for. [...]

(We thought an apt connection with scale would be the “balancing” of the table on its two south legs as the male and female trios sat before it. [...]

[...] These three chairs were used by the male and female trios as they sat at the table. [...]

[...] They’d been touched off by an article we’d just read in the March Esquire, having to do with the supposed difficulty the male and the female have adjusting to each other. [...]

[...] After achieving the desired state, I saw a few vague faces, male and female. [...]

[...] They try out the roles of other family members, imagine themselves rich and poor, old and young, male and female.

[...] Jane said her impression of the woman in question was of a person more masculine than usual for a female, but she didn’t voice this during the session. [...]

[...] Plants will know whether a fetus is male or female, even if the mother does not.

(Pause.) Your brother Dick was meant to be a female. [...]

Now we discover that such references were tailored to our own rather limited ideas of the qualities assigned to the sexes, for in Psyche Seth makes it clear that the psyche is not male or female, “but a bank from which sexual affiliations are drawn.” [...]