“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Was it possible that during the complicated rhythms of history, man could have been man (at least approximately as we know him) even before the Tertiary Period, then moved into a long cycle of animal-man forms before returning to being man again? [...]

[...] It is quite natural, biologically and psychologically, to operate in certain fashions that are not acceptable in your society, and that seem to run counter to your picture of mankind’s history. [...]

[...] As far as our accepted history goes, there wouldn’t have been any Spanish speaking colonies or groups in South America in the 1200’s. Latin America was opened up to Spanish settlement in the 1500’s, of course, after the voyage of Columbus in 1492...)

3. I see correlations between Seth’s material here and my speculations at the end of the 922nd session (for this chapter), concerning his apparently unlimited capacity for oral history.

[...] Obviously there is a deep damaging distrust of impulses in the contemporary world, as in your terms there has been throughout the history that you follow. [...]

[...] Even the bare-seeming facts of history are experienced far differently according to the symbolic content within which they are inevitably immersed. [...]

[...] He was not born of a virgin, nor was his physical history any more factual than that once given for Zeus, or Apollo, or the Egyptian gods. [...]

[...] After Seth began that chapter Jane and I realized we could become quite interested in biblical history, but our time for learning had been brief. [...]

Some of these may involve the thoughts of what you would call a reincarnational self, focused in another period of history as you know it. [...]

[...] In what would appear to be a drawing of an animal, then, the entire history or background of the animal might also be given. [...]

[...] There are “lost” portions of the Bible having to do with sexuality, and with Christ’s beliefs concerning it, that were considered blasphemous and did not come down to you through history.

If this were really the case, however, mankind’s history would never change in any true regard. [...]

[...] A brief history: Last month our friend Marie Colucci let a local dentist, Dr. Lodico, whom Jane and I have not met, borrow an abstract painting of mine to try out in his office. [...]

[...] We do not know anything about the history of Dr. Lodico or his family.

[...] These groups of consciousness range throughout history as you know it. [...]

[...] Now, this is a storehouse of knowledge, not of one personality in your terms but, for example, it can be compared, to your racial history, to the achievements of your people, its goals and purposes.

[...] During break we speculated about what might be learned from a computerized global study — one extending back to the beginning of our recorded history, say — to see what correlations could be discovered between earthquakes and periods of great emotional and social upheaval throughout the world…. [...]

We are doing certain kinds of work that can be done by no others, as others are doing work we cannot do—but rest assured that you are adding your voices to those of history, making your contributions. [...]

His inspiration comes now from all of history, and from that larger reservoir he forms the new focus of his art. [...]

[...] I do not see particularly a benefit to outlining the origin of the concepts throughout history, and you can for yourselves trace them in your personal lives. [...]

[...] In your terms the Sumari language is not a language, since it was not spoken verbally by any particular group of people living in your history.

[...] Bette explained that while she never read very much history, Jason seemed to know a lot about it.)