“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are creating your own limitations. (Too fast to follow word for word. Seth admits he is part of the game and was, in a sense, created by Gene. He says that Gene is dealing in artificial terms, not real ones.) You and I are part of the same reality.

([Gene]: “Could you tell us something about ours?”)

He (to Gene) Fifteenth century—both France and Italy—a brief journey to Spain—the name however would seem to be Italian. Grabalani or Gribliani or Gribiliani—1423-1473. Makes of items from hides—cutting from hides. Trip to England. Final settlement in France. Difficulties with the left ear. Trouble with this finger (4th on left hand). Player of an instrument like a bugle. Otherwise difficulties with communication. Difficulties with the male parent; some reflection of this in this existence. A blonde sister—D A R. For now let that rest. Family from Florence. Bakers. A list on a gate toward the left. Strong inclination toward exaggeration. A family name connected with St. Anne. A brother who is a soldier. One a priest. A sister named Philipina. Death at the age of 38 from a farm animal. A life in the 13th century. Very close. None after the existence just spoken of until 18th century—a rural area—Spain. Previous sister is now his mother. An awakening of psychic ability and enlarging. Misuse of these abilities. I am not sure here now. We will see. A rural town perhaps 49th parallel. A stone monastery. A brother who is unsure as to his sex. Asks our friend for help. An invasion from another country. Our friend leaves the monastery without leave. There is a trip to Africa. An accident—trouble in the right shoulder. And the setting up in Africa of some establishment much like the one now planned. Let us pursue this. For there were records left. I used the word “utopia" earlier and this was meant to be a utopia. The land was not jungle, a barren area, a dry river, members recruited from an army. Now some brief reference to this in a book. This may not be the precise title:Stolen Lands or Islands, published or distributed or whatever by Mission House, Ltd. Subtitle:A Recording of Utopias and their (perhaps) Results. Book published in England. The group composed of renegade army deserters or dropouts. Too ambitious a project. 73 in all. The whole band entirely wiped out by local tribes. (Incidentally we are much more in contact now. However, I suggest a rest in pure sympathy for our notetaker.)

([Gene]: “Can’t I experience an illusion that I create for myself?”)

(All of the Seth data verified by Gene Bernard at work, Smith—Miss, etc. [...] Smith has brown hair, is overenthusiastic, according to Gene he could very well cause trouble, and if so the trouble would be legal. Gene didn’t say what type of legal trouble, that I recall. Gene surprised and pleased, as Jane was, at this data.

([Gene]: “Seth, can you tell me more about who is running the seminar?”)

([Gene]: “And would it not be true to say that we are all running the same seminar for ourselves since we are all one?”)

([Gene]: “Is it possible for one to be aware of the larger self, the universal self that exists apart from what I here and now call time?”)

1. Genes are elemental units arranged along the threadlike chromosomes in the nucleus of each cell, and transmit hereditary characteristics to following generations of animals and plants. The gene is primarily made up of protein and a twisted double strand or helix of DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid. Each gene occurs at a specific location on a chromosome. We humans, for instance, have 46 chromosomes and an estimated 100,000 genes in each cell, and our genes provide the blueprints for the synthesis of some 50,000 proteins. [...]

[...] Will the dissection of a gene, down even to its atomic components, ever yield reincarnational clues? In Mass Events Seth told us: “Consciousness forms the genes, and not the other way around, and the about-to-be-born infant is the agency that adds new material through the chromosomal structure.” [...]

[...] Gene had questioned Seth in what I guess you could call “professional philosophical jargon,” making frequent references to esoteric Eastern theories with which I was totally unfamiliar. Gene has his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England, in experimental psychology, and taught at Cambridge. [...] Yet Seth not only took him on, but in some way I still don’t understand, he used Gene’s own terminology and jargon to beat him at his own game—and with humor and grace.

[...] Earlier, Seth and Gene had been discussing reality, and Gene had commented that existence was “kind of a lovely colossal joke.” [...]

[...] We corresponded for a while, and then in November of 1966, Gene and his wife visited us. [...]

“But there’s nowhere to go,” Gene said.

[...] Curtis Fuller’s column deals in part with Gene Bernard, although the material therein was evidently taken from the wire stories concerning Gene last year.

[...] Interestingly, John began to ask us questions about the Indian teacher, Baba, who was discussed by Seth and Gene Bernard in the 303rd session. [...]

[...] We did not know who Seth would speak about first tonight, but surmised it would be Gene Bernard.

[...] I said Sarah would undoubtedly like to know how the material obtained tonight could be put to use so as to obtain a practical result re Gene. [...]

[...] Today Jane wrote to Gene Bernard and to Ray Van Over re statements. Today also she received a card from Gene Bernard’s wife Sarah, who is visiting her brother in Ecuador, South America, for several weeks.)

Dr. Gene Bernard has received some excellent material from me, both in the realm of psychological interpretation, and clairvoyant impressions. [...]

3. Seth referred to the latest scientific ideas concerning “selfish genes” — a subject Jane and I had been talking about today. (Genes are units found on the chromosomes of the cell nucleus; they carry hereditary characteristics, and consist mainly of protein and DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid.)

A number of scientists — biologists, zoologists, and psychologists, among others — have recently published highly praised books in which they claim to show how our genes manipulate our individual behavior with only their own genetic survival at stake, even when we think we are displaying subjective qualities like altruism. [...] The idea of selfish genes also implies plan on the part of such entities — and so comes dangerously close to contradicting several basic tenets of science itself: among them that life arose by chance, that it perpetuates itself through random mutations and the struggle for existence (or natural selection), and that basically life has no meaning.

[...] Why does science want us to live thinking that we’re creatures programmed only for the survival of our selfish genes? [...]

As errors and mistakes creep into the physical organic system, bringing forth mutant genes and distortions, so also these mutant genes and distortions are, on a smaller scale, the result of inner distortions within the consciousness of the individual genes.

[...] Distortions occur almost like mutant mental genes, which are then faithfully and duly reproduced.

[...] Also our mental genes and mental enzymes, of which we will also speak more fully.

[...] Mental genes are mentioned in the 26th session, among others, and mental enzymes are dealt with in the 13th, 16th, 19th, 20th sessions, among others. [...]

(Mental genes were first mentioned in the 9th session. [...]

[...] These are actually composed of inbred psychological information as necessary and vital to your life as the data transmitted by your genes and chromosomes. Indeed, these inbred, inner psychological predispositions are all-important if the information carried by your genes and chromosomes is to be faithfully followed.

Something along the line of mental genes. (Jane dictates:) As mental genes are behind the physical genes so to speak, so mental enzymes are behind the physical stuff that you can examine on your plane. [...]

[...] We have spoken of mental genes. These are more or less psychic blueprints for physical matter, and in these mental genes existed the pattern for your human type of self-consciousness. [...]

[...] The inner senses were always paramount in evolutionary development, being the impetus behind the physical formations; and themselves, through the use of mental enzymes, imprinting the data contained in the mental genes onto the physical camouflage material.

[...] Your senses, and again this is to bring John-Philip up to date, your senses are perceptors of a camouflage physical world which is created by the inner self through the use of mental enzymes in a pattern set by the mental genes.

There are chains of influence that are actually composed of inner values of sound that thread together, as it were, the complicated interweavings of both the genes and chromosomes.

[...] See the definitions of genes and chromosomes in the 610th session in Chapter One.)

[...] But Ruburt was correct: There was nothing defective about the genes mentioned in your article (in the National Enquirer), in which individuals were born girls, and turned into boys. The gene bank contains multitudinous—in fact, numberless —varieties of development, meant to insure against unimaginable catastrophes, changes or climate, or whatever. [...]

[...] Beside this, however, certain general, learned patterns are biologically transmitted to the child through the genes. Certain kinds of knowledge are transmitted through the genes besides that generally known, having to do with cellular formations and so forth.

In the terms of evolution as you like to think of it, ideas are more important than genes (quietly), for we are again dealing with more than the surfaces of events. [...] For one thing, the genes themselves are conscious, though in different terms than yours. [...]

Consciousness forms the genes, and not the other way around, and the about-to-be-born infant is the agency that adds new material through the chromosomal structure.² The child is from birth far more aware of all kinds of physical events than is realized also. [...]

2. Chromosomes are rod-like bodies within the cell nucleus, and carry the genes that govern hereditary characteristics. [...]

The various, numberless individual human abilities are part of your, say, gene pool as a species, so the drive to creatively use individual abilities is a spiritual and biological necessity. [...]

And yet a portion of you knows the answer, and a portion of you knows who you are, and the memories of your previous lives are not in your genes or in your chromosomes, but in the psychic reality that forms the genes and the chromosomes. [...]

[...] [See the attached copy.] Sunday afternoon it was Gene Lang from NYC. [...]