“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I’m not writing here about rationalizing the existence of one or more probable selves to account for personal shortcomings in this reality, however, but of simply using the idea to enlarge our basic notions of the human potential. [...]

Basically this concern for human welfare is indeed virtuous, but overindulged in it becomes loaded with possibilities that could be most unfortunate. [...] Your deep consideration for human problems has indeed helped lead you to these sessions.

Such dire conditions cannot be pretended out of human existence, nor should they be. [...]

They are however conflicts that are deeply a part of the human condition, and that must be faced in one life or another, both for the sake of the individual and for the sake of humanity at large. [...]

[...] Tell him he does not have to be spiritually, psychically, or creatively perfect in order to have good health, in the particular way I gave that statement; remind him, for he is equating perfect health with inner perfection, and no human being attains inner perfection. [...]

You do not see yourselves as human beings in a quite human environment, but against some perfect yardstick, and this applies for you (to me) also. [...]

(At the same time, I couldn’t help wondering just what human beings were, why they acted as they did, etc., and why the organism didn’t seem able to take better care of itself at least intuitively. [...]

The character of Christ as it is portrayed is an excellent one, since it stressed human rather than specifically male qualities. Or should I say it stressed human qualities rather than those unfortunately considered male qualities. [...]

Women were scarcely thought of as human creatures, but in very select circles. [...]

[...] This same energy encased within a human form is something else. [...]

[...] Trying to define revelatory knowledge, or a Seth, in terms of our limited ideas about human personality is like trying to translate, say, a rose to the number 3, or trying to explain one in terms of the other.

[...] I believe that it is a part of our human heritage, accessible to some extent to any person who explores the inner dimensions of the mind.

[...] This year alone, for instance, he’s already given a good amount of excellent information upon a number of nonbook topics — among them the interpretation of dreams; human, animal, and plant consciousness, and the interactions among them; human sexuality; viruses and inoculation; other realities he himself inhabits, and so forth. [...]

[...] Neither of us were ever interested in turning out a series of just “psychic books” per se, devoid of all of those human and intimate details that are piling up during our lifetimes, enriching the moments and the days, the weeks and the years, creating the seamless wholes of our lives. [...]

[...] I did not see a human figure.

[...] I believe you had a mental image of the inside portion of a human body, or a thought having to do with inner organs. [...]

Rob had been working on portraits and human figures, so this data made sense to him. [...]

[...] The human system responds as fully to these as it does to physical events. [...]

[...] In a world where humans slaughtered their own kind constantly, who in their right mind would give a moment’s thought to a cat’s consciousness? [...]

Before Seth began a discussion of dreams, and as a preliminary, he explained the natural mobility of human consciousness and outlined the main features of the “interior universe” that could be glimpsed in both waking and dream states and which underlie physical reality. [...]

[...] They may be tortured or agonized like ordinary human beings, but they cannot be fulfilled like ordinary human beings—they cannot have friends or share confidences, or let down their hair with each other. [...]

They were particularly concerned in the beginning with developing a human being who would have built-in safeguards against violence. [...]

They were, therefore, subject to all of the ordinary human fears which were then exaggerated, since physically they could not respond even to nature with violence. [...]

Now you think of dogs as friends of man, and you personify gods in human terms. [...]

“As your body senses temperature changes, so it also senses the psychic charge not only of other human beings but also, believe it or not, of animals, and to a lesser extent … of plants and vegetative matter. [...]

[...] Your attending class, and hence symbolically standing with him as he relates this greater understanding, not distantly but to individual encountered human beings—a good point, important on your part, for you have never before been willing to encounter others at such a direct level.

[...] That is why it is possible for some human beings to experience sound as color, or to see color in sound. [...]

[...] When you are considering the human personality as a thing of this time only and destroyed by death, then its disintegration for any reason seems truly a tragic thing. [...]

[...] As in some cases human beings have quite accidentally blundered through the apparent curtain between your present and your past, so have beings blundered into the apparent division between one plane and another. [...]

[...] Had the human race for example gone into certain mental disciplines as thoroughly as it has explored technological disciplines, its practical transportation system would be vastly different, and yet by this time even more practical than it is now. [...]

[...] Women were scarcely thought of as human, except in very select circles.

[...] This same energy encased within a human form is something else. [...]

[...] Yet as one gets to know each of the individuals in his or her world in particular, it becomes more and more difficult to blame them for the state of the world, or much else for that matter: One becomes too enmeshed with their individuality and humanness. [...]

[...] Yet human love specifies, makes distinctions. [...]

[...] Were it not however for the basic independence of the inner self from matter, human life as you know it would also be impossible.

[...] It is because you conceive of the body as existing within one field only that you have not had more success in dealing with human illness.