“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I went on to tell her of my idea that arthritis, for example, bridged all historical gaps and cultures, and that its origin — I think — lay in the individual’s reaction to fear of motion, for a multitude of reasons. [...]

In time’s reference, the private purposes of each individual appear also in the larger historical context, so that each person forms his corner of his civilization—and all individuals within a given time period have private and overall purposes, challenges that are set, probable actions that they will try to place within history’s context.

Now: In your terms, speaking more or less historically, early man was in a more conscious relationship with Framework 2 than you are now.

[...] Christ, as you understand him historically to be, spoke in parables and symbols. [...]

[...] In far-past historical times, different kinds of orientation were experimented with (as by the “sleepwalkers” described in the last session, for instance). Your own present private experience can give hints and clues about such other cultures, for those abilities reside within the natural framework, now, but are underdeveloped.

[...] Using the same kind of reasoning, you are apt to judge the historic past of your species in very limited terms, and to overlook great dues in your history because they seem to make no sense.

In some historical periods the plight of the poor was so horrible, so unendurable, that outbreaks of the plague occurred, literally resulting in a complete destruction of large areas of the environment in which such social, political, and economic conditions existed. [...]

I’m sure Seth would say that the whole affair was hardly a coincidence, since he’s commented several times that new ideas often separately arise more than once in a given historical period.

(Note: Just as Jane had had this dream, I’d read an article in the Star-Gazette to the effect that a few blocks near downtown Elmira, including the apartment house we’d lived in at 458 W. Water Street, had been designated a Historical Preservation Area by New York State. [...]

[...] They are highly unique and personal, and yet interwoven with historical events which are themselves caused by the psyche’s action. [...]

[...] Iran is an example for the world, in explosive capsule form, complete with historical background and a modern political one. [...]

[...] Jane, since she knows practically nothing about the historical periods in question, was very pleased that Seth’s data was so evocative.

(Long pause.) Historically, it seems to you that mankind was born from an animal’s undifferentiated kind of consciousness into egotistical self-awareness. [...]

[...] In historical terms this situation has always existed for the human species; and we think it applies almost equally in Eastern lands, especially among the political leaders and ruling classes within them.

[...] The organization of the church is a historical fact. [...]

Many writers of historical pieces, for example, are writing out of direct experience with those times. [...]

[...] You may perfect, in other words, but you cannot again enter into that frame of reference as a completely participating consciousness following, say, the historic trends of the time, joining into the mass-hallucinated existence that resulted from the applied consciousness of your self and your “contemporaries.”

[...] It is amazingly resilient, in that according to the belief structures of any given historical period, it can orient itself along the lines of those beliefs, using all of its reasoning abilities to bring such a world picture into focus, collecting data that agree, and rejecting what does not.

[...] Your historical earth as you know it has developed in many different ways, and there is a deeply unconscious connection that unites all such manifestations.

[...] There have always been rhythms in consciousness that are not historically obvious. [...]

[...] In the past as you think of it historically, several groups experimented along those lines. [...]

(With emphasis:) Reincarnation simply represents probabilities in a time context (underlined) — portions of the self that are materialized in historical contexts. [...]

[...] Seth now told Pat she had writing ability, especially for historical works, and that she would do well in writing and history connected with the Tudor period.)