“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:45.) Give us a moment … These may or may not be closer to you than family relationships, but psychically speaking they will share a certain kind of history with you. [...]

[...] Yet in time terms each leaf is also aware of the past history of the plant, and biologically they spring up from that “past.”

[...] Through all of history, one way or another, you have believed in the line of culture leading to your own—that impulses were disruptive, suspicious, and not to be trusted; ignoring the child’s impulse to speak, and to walk and grow, to communicate. [...]

[...] Your world view must include your beliefs about the body and the mind, about religion, history, and philosophy—and you stand as an entity, a psychological entity, in the center of this inner world.

Memory was so perfected that men at one time were indeed living histories, and carried within their minds their genealogies and backgrounds and the knowledge of their peoples, which were then passed on to their children. [...]

[...] His potential for oral history appears to be unlimited.

(“The nurses told me that woman has a history of mental trouble,” Jane said, “and has been diagnosed as schizophrenic.” [...]

It is as if you were reading a history book that was devoted only to the failures, cruelties and errors of the race, ignoring all of its accomplishments. Such practices can lead you to use your own “history” so that it gives a very distorted picture of who and what you are — a picture that then paints your present circumstances.

[...] (Long pause.) He was worried that his natural expression and search, publicly expressed at that point in history, was dangerous because it put him in the gaze of a growing band of fanatics on the one hand, and also roused old fears of a private nature, having to do with the overall validity of revelatory information. [...]

[...] “Before you got through it would cover history, religion, science—the whole works,” Jane said. [...]

[...] You not only tune in the picture but you also create the props, the entire history of the life and times, hyphen — but in living three-dimensional terms, and “you” are within that picture.

[...] In dreams, and in altered states through history as you accept it, men have been taken upon such journeys. [...]

There are times in history when the species deals with different kinds of challenges. [...]

[...] You can look through this history that you know. [...]

[...] You cannot, each of you, consider the real meaning of your own sexuality unless you understand your own religious history. [...]

(11:15.) Yet each of those nameless atoms and molecules cooperates in a vast venture, incomprehensible to you, that makes your speech possible, and your reality of events is built up from a cordella of activity in which each spoken word has a history that stretches further back into the annals of time than the most ancient of fossils could remember. [...]

[...] The species actually took many other routes unknown to you, unrecorded in your history. [...]

[...] I expected there to be a great difference, but watching our early history as shown in the movie made life seem impossibly grim 80,000 years ago. [...]

Now, I cannot give you your entire reincarnational history in an evening.

There are times in history when the race deals with different kinds of challenges. [...]

[...] For each time, they had to ring true to those left behind, adding those necessary personal touches, and references and little stories, to match the personal history of the newly deceased.

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.

[...] She hasn’t read any history of printing per se. [...]

[...] And in particular you chose the conditions of the flood and took part in a joint history.

(On file: see “A Life in the Talmud,” New York Times Magazine for September 11, 1977, on oral history of Jews as well as the Talmud itself.)

[...] (To me:) I said, for example, that you died as a child in one probability, and again in the (military) service, and I gave you a small sample of your parents’ probable history. [...]

[...] One historical event may be simultaneously accepted in several probable realities, for example, while others may occur in one and not in an alternate history.