“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Throughout history the downtrodden have often risen into power, using force, rebelling against their oppressors; and yet, learning little from that experience, they turn and become the new elite, the new power-holders. [...]

When man, speaking in your terms of history, began to experiment with memory, there were innumerable instances where the emerging ego consciousness did not distinguish clearly enough between the past and present, as you understand them.

[...] History, however, is but your official line of accepted stimuli. [...]

[...] In historic terms the changing nature of accepted events provides far more than, say, a history of civilization, but mirrors the ever-creative nature of the psyche.

[...] Your memory, it seems, is your own — yet I have told you that you have a history of other existences. [...]

[...] 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.)

[...] Then there’s Jane’s business and personal correspondence; much of her poetry; her journals; her unfinished autobiography; several novels she wrote before publishing the three Oversoul Seven books; the later essays she dictated to me, while in the hospital, about Seven’s childhood; her family history as far back as it can be researched; an objective biography of her physical and creative lives including her two marriages, and Jane’s and my struggles to survive before the advent of the Seth material. [...]

It will do no good to ask deep questions concerning the history of the times of some personality who was impoverished, ignorant, and limited. [...]

[...] And why I felt that way, but you didn’t. Hey, I’ve even got a bunch of history about that, all ready to deliver — a lot of material on each idea…. [...]

That framework has been glimpsed throughout history by many individuals, and given many names. [...]

[...] There was, in the family history, always a struggle to work for oneself, this being a matter of class pride and independence.

(I’d just finished typing the last few pages for Monday night’s session, and I asked Jane what she thought of my final note: I’d speculated about any reincarnational connections that might tie her abilities to speak for Seth, without help of any modern kind, to the abilities ancient man had displayed, when, according to Seth, he’d been able to carry all of his history with him mentally. [...]

[...] In fifth-grade history class, in the convent she’d been sent to because her mother was hospitalized for treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis, Jane learned about Marie Antoinette, queen of France, who had been guillotined in Paris in 1793. [...]

(Theodore Reff, a professor of art history at Columbia University, to whom I sent a copy of Cézanne not long ago, sent us his acknowledgment this week, although he has yet to read the book. [...]

The historical and cultural world as you know it appears to be the only one objective world, of course, with its history already written, its present, and hopefully its probable future.

[...] But there are psychic blueprints,⁷ so to speak, wherein each identity knows of its “history”; and taking any given line of development, projects that history. [...]

[...] You follow a one-line pattern of history, pursuing certain actions as reality and identifying with these so completely that they are all you perceive. [...]

Now that particular feeling is relatively new in history as you understand it, for almost all cultures in the past have had their built-in extensions of identity that included a dimension of actuality of one kind or another, from which each individual emerged, and to which you would return. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The thyroid, strangely enough, was depressed in activity because he feared you see his previous history. [...]

[...] In your terms of history, man appeared in several different stages, or ages is a better word. [...]

Now this cycle that I am speaking of goes back to the beginning of history as it is generally known, to your cavemen. [...]