“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Since you both have such mental agility and a history in this life of health and vitality, that history can be used by Ruburt, if he recalls himself running up and down the steps of the art gallery, for example. [...]

People may have some glimmerings of their own reincarnational existences, but they are patterned according to current beliefs—fleshed out by ideas from movies or history books. [...] They do not have access to the history books of the future in the same way. [...] The history books of the past, for that matter, are mainly fabrications.

[...] In those terms (underlined) it is for Loren a step up from, say, Sayre, whose history is richer even in “lower class” origins. [...]

[...] There is a great history of masculinity that expressed itself through the development of thought, quiet meditation—and I do not necessarily mean of the mystical kind—of communion of the mind with nature. [...]

There is a long history connected with such American Puritan beliefs about morality, having to do with the fact that medieval priests were sometimes licentious, and opulent. [...]

(Long pause.) In the past eras of history, as you know, artists had patrons, but your society has not learned to deal with its creative people. [...]

I’d say that in this 829th session Seth spoke out of a knowledge of biblical tradition and history; that is, he wasn’t saying that Christ did rise from the dead or ascend into heaven, but referring to Christianity’s interpretation of its own creative Christ story. Seth has always maintained that Christ wasn’t crucified to begin with — indeed, he told us in the same private session that “…in the facts of history, there was no crucifixion, resurrection, or ascension. In the terms of history, there was no biblical Christ. [...]

Your experience of history, of the days of your life, is invisibly formed by those ideas that exist in the imagination only, and then are projected upon the physical world. [...]

[...] Already, Paul O’Neill has loaned her two books on the history of dentistry....)

I do not want to go into history here, but to some extent the Catholic church began the mass pattern that ended up putting the individual in such a position, so that the self was trusted least of all. [...]

[...] When people form even dreams about other lives, they often draw upon the picture books of history, and there is no such heritage of a cultural nature with which they can flesh out any dreams of future lives.

(As is obvious from history—nothing developed from the material below! [...]

Aside from anything Seth has said or ever may say about other probable realities, or even about human origins here on earth, I think it most risky at this stage in history for anyone—scientist or not—to dogmatically state that life has no meaning, or is a farce, or that attributes of our reality of which we can only mentally conceive at this time do not really exist. [...] The history of science itself contains many examples of theories and “facts” gone awry. [...] Truly, our individual and collective ignorance of just our own probable reality is most profound at this time in our linear history (in those terms). [...]

[...] (Such heretics are also called “vitalists,” a term related to animism, and one which also has a long history of scientific contempt behind it.)

In the same way, when you look at the current state of the world, or at history, you often structure your perceptions so that only the topmost surfaces of events are seen. 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.

Dictation: We will be discussing alternate methods of orientation that consciousness can take when allied with flesh, trying to give the reader some personal experience with such altered conditions, along with a brief history of some civilizations that utilized these unofficial orientations as their predominant method of focus.

[...] In Session 684 (in Volume 1) he said at 10:07: “Your body’s condition at any time is not so much the result of its own comprehension of its ‘past history’ as it is of its own comprehension of future probabilities. [...]

[...] I can have it night or day, in your terms, as I prefer — or any period, say, of your history. [...]

[...] You can see this in your own system, in a slowed-down version, when you observe the changing forms taken by living matter through its “evolutionary” history.

[...] Its private idea of history as alive in cellular memory, upon which the body’s current present is based. Prejudiced official histories.

Give us a moment … (Long pause, eyes closed.) There are lands of the mind.⁵ That is, the mind has its own “civilizations,” its own personal culture and geography, its own history and inclinations. [...] So, ideally speaking, the history of your species can be discovered quite clearly within the psyche; and true archaeological events are found not only by uncovering rocks and relics, but by bringing to light, so to speak, the memories that dwell within the psyche.

[...] In the dawn of history, in the dawn before history began, man changed form. [...]

I have, to some extent, your histories before me and I see your giant steps and your tiny steps and I see where you trip. [...]

[...] I look back again at your past histories and to your probabilities and futures in your terms, and my, how you change. [...]

[...] As people lose the kind of ancestral roots that exist in “less advanced” societies, so many sophisticated civilizations, with rapid overturn of goods and products, with printing presses and writing upon fragile paper, are lost to history.

Your ideas of the history of your species, then, are largely distorted versions of the latest chapter, in those terms.

[...] The species can decide to change its course, and set certain actions into history that will change the future, seemingly against all probabilities apparent at the time. [...]

[...] There are periods in history when this happened before, and a new kind of civilization resulted. [...]

(Long pause at 4:36.) In the deepest of terms, while each body has a history, each moment in the body’s existence is also new, freshly emerging into the world, innocent and unique. [...]

Before the time of choosing, however, there is a period of self-examination, and your full “history” becomes available to you. [...]

[...] It is a universe endowed with male characteristics as these appear in the male-female orientations of your history. [...]

[...] You have in your history then a male god of power and vengeance, who killed your enemies for you. [...]

[...] Events can be considered in the same fashion, as psychological sentences put together from the alphabet of the senses — experienced sentences that are lived instead of written, formed into perceived history instead of just being penned, for example, into a book about history.