“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:55.) On the other hand, he is human, in that he is a portion of each individual; and within the vastness of his experience he holds an “idea-shape” of himself as human, to which you can relate. [...]

[...] Even the term, a supreme being, is in itself distortive, for you naturally project the qualities of human nature upon it. [...]

[...] It would never have occurred to you to imagine a god in any other than human terms. [...]

[...] In the most inescapable truth, he is not human in your terms at all, nor in your terms is he a personality. [...]

As far as we can see, Seth’s reincarnational, counterpart, and probable selves, and his families of consciousness, suggest the varied, complicated structure of human personality — and hint of the invisible psychological thickness that fills out the physical event of the self in time.

Long before I finished my part of “Unknown” Reality, Seth and Jane had started their next book: The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. I recorded those sessions, of course, while keeping up with my own work. [...]

And again, at latest count Jane has written three books (including Psychic Politics) since Seth began “Unknown” Reality — and worked on several others — so what is the relationship between the human psyche and such “other” sources of creativity and knowledge?

No one, whether that individual is a psychic, a mystic, a writer, a poet, or even if he or she combines all of those qualities (as I think Jane does), can encompass all of the incredible differences within the human species. [...]

[...] The belief in illness itself depends upon a belief in human unworthiness, guilt and imperfection, for example.

Because you are reasoning as creatures, because you have available such varieties of experience, the [human] species developed reasoning abilities that are meant to evolve and grow as they are used. [...]

[...] Existing in such diversified, rich environment-possibilities, the human psyche needed and developed a conscious mind that could make fairly concise and accurate “minute by minute” judgments and evaluations. [...]

[...] I admit that it is sometimes inconceivable to me that a human being can imagine his world to be meaningless, for the very existence of one human body speaks of an almost unbelievable molecular and cellular cooperation that could hardly result through the bounty of the most auspicious works of chance.

[...] She’d been “stewing” about David, the state of the world, human frailty, Billy, and herself, and had had to make strong efforts to change her thinking.

[...] But the meaning may not always be apparent, for of course when we discuss it, we discuss it from a human viewpoint.

I will never turn aside from human problems and human relationships in these sessions. [...]

I will let you take a break, since I am attempting to take the human limitations that are involved in our situation into consideration. [...]

We will also be concerned with the framework of the human personality as it exists within several levels of reality. [...]

I am aware of more and yet the reason for my concern could be called a quite human reason. [...]

([Seth II:]) And that self tells you that there is a reality beyond human reality, beyond human characteristics that you know—and within that reality even I am dwarfed and there is knowledge that can never be verbal. And there is experience that cannot be translated in human terms. Although this type of existence seems cold to you, it is a clear and crystal-like existence in which things are known that are beyond your comprehension, in which no time is needed, in your terms, for experience; in which the inner self condenses all human knowledge that has been received by you through your various existences and reincarnations has been coded and exists indelibly. [...]

[...] And you will need the human characteristics that you know—and that were mine—and they are still mine, for this self of mine that I show to you does still exist and grow. [...]

Know that within your physical atoms now the origins of all consciousness still sings and that all the human characteristics by which you know yourselves, still exist within the eye of all our consciousness, never diminished, but always present. [...]

[...] We want you to realize that there is more than your human reality. [...]

[...] For to me, and to Jane also, I’m sure, Three Mile Island and Jonestown-Iran represent powerful extremes or directions in large-scale human behavior: certain aspects of religion and science seemingly at opposite poles of the human psyche, as it were.

[...] At least from my viewpoint, each of nature’s rhythmic signs implied a continuity, an inevitability and security, that I’ve often felt is lacking in our all-too-human affairs—this, even though I wrote in Mass Events that Jane and I are aware, of course, of all the “good things” we humans have constructed in our mass reality. [...]

[...] Even if that initial response was slow in coming [partly because of the language barrier, we think], we were glad to get it, for it indicated a commonality of interest in human potential, regardless of nationality. [...]

[...] Because of a combination of mechanical failure and human error, one of the two reactors at TMI had come very close to a meltdown of the uranium fuel in its core. [...]

Biologically all human beings, as you know them, have existed as the various cells of which a human image is composed. [...]

[...] The word, justice, is a human one, always implying punishment. [...]

[...] Not only does the human system for example become influenced chemically, electronically and psychically by physical weather, but also the human system electronically, electromagnetically, chemically and psychically affects and creates the climate in which existence is possible.

Now I have told you that dreams are caused in part—underline in part—by chemical excesses built up within the human system. [...]

Now I shall tell you that physical weather is also caused in part by psychic energy, rushing through the human system and through the systems of all living creatures, and also by an excess, a chemical excess, beyond that which the individual organism can handle.

There is much to be said concerning the interrelationships that exist between the human system and the weather system, and these shall be, these interrelationships, shall be discussed most completely at a later time. [...]

[...] Not only about Jane’s fine ability to speak in a trance or dissociated state for Seth, that “energy personality essence,” as he calls himself, but about all of the vastly complicated challenges that can, and do, arise in the course of a human life.

[...] Jane was a human being first, and a very gifted psychic second. [...]

[...] In some stubborn and psychically grounded way we each are going to make our own choices, as human beings always have. [...]

Even the electric reality of a dream is decoded, so that its effects are experienced not only by the brain, but in the furthest reaches of the most minute cells in the human body. [...] If an effect is felt in any one portion of human experience, then you can be sure that such an effect is felt in all other possible ways, whether or not such an effect is immediately obvious. [...]

Thoughts are psychoelectric patterns, set up by the mind, and transformed to human codes by the brain.

Every effect of any kind, experienced by the human being, exists as a series of electrical signals and codes, that in themselves form a pattern that is an electrical pattern.

I would like to continue with our discussion concerning the nature of the human personality in its relationship to action, and in connection with the matter of illness and health in general.

[...] It is simply a basic characteristic of action at certain levels, and the human personality, with its complicated ego structure, is nevertheless composed of many actions that operate at this level.

[...] I do not, of course, speak in human terms, where every stimuli for example should then be followed or sought out indiscriminately. [...]

[...] But during its alliance within the physical system, it is diffused within the cellular structure, and interrelating actions between the biological system, the electrical system, and the personality structure actually form the reality of the human individual.

Their definitions in fact squeeze human motivation into an impossibly small tube of action. [...] The wide range of actual human experience is far too great for such small packaging. [...]

First of all, many of your correspondents’ “predicaments” appear particularly disheartening, upsetting, or otherwise psychologically incomprehensible because your general (underlined) belief systems are not flexible enough, and do not reflect many important issues concerning human behavior, motivation, emotion or feeling. [...]

[...] In the framework of general beliefs, however, the natural desire for death is not included in the list of human motivations. [...]

[...] Actually, I think those two people removed their material — which talks about All That Is — too far from its human source, its everyday contact with human personality, and thus produced just another psychic book. [...]

[...] Readers will benefit in various fashions, according to their own conditions and intents, but every reader will benefit to some degree or another — and each reader will become reacquainted with those inner springs of vitality and well-being that are so important in human experience.

Thus you deal often with events in which men are touched by great illumination, isolated from the masses of humanity, and endowed with great powers — periods of history that appear almost unnaturally brilliant in contrast with others; prophets, geniuses, and kings shown in greater-than-human proportion.

They serve quite clearly as human representatives of All That Is. [...]

Knowledge on your physical plane must be applied in human terms and human values, or the possibility of helping someone else either through the sort of a session we held last time, or through a more regular session, should not be ignored.

However the human element must not be ignored, and whatever personal help and inner understanding this material brings to others will incite their intellectual curiosity, and this is all to the good. [...]

This next may sound Pollyannaish to an extreme, but he should make it a point to help another human being in any small way, without expecting thanks, three times a week. [...]

[...] The personality, being intuitively strong, should apply some of this intuition outward toward other human beings. [...]

[...] All of this follows inner patterns that are specifically human in your terms. Humanity therefore has its own characteristics, and no (in quotes) “outside influence” can go counter to these, but must work with them.

[...] Your human stock did not all originate solely from your planet. [...]

[...] The Sumarians, your Sumarians however, were not of human stock at that time.

[...] Your Sumarians have become human stock in those terms at other times. [...]

[...] Unless the fact is accepted, however, the human physical structure will never be understood.

You can see now how a subjective experience can have an electrical reality, and through this reality directly affects the human physical structure. [...]

The human system then translates the experience, but its original existence and actuality is electrical. [...]

[...] The original experience, then, again, is an electric one, and the effects are instantly felt by the human system, according to the original intensity of the charge. [...]

[...] The taboos include most aspects of the sense of touch in connection with the human body.

[...] Sexual performance is considered the one safe way of using the great potential of human emotions. [...]

Generally speaking, there will be a specific overall sexual orientation of a biological nature, but the mental and emotional human characteristics are simply not meted out according to sex. [...]

[...] The Church believed that sexual experience belonged to the so-called lower or animal instincts, and so did usual human love. [...]

[...] You are simply human, and if you need any proof that you are a part of the human species, and not so isolated from others, that is it. [...]

[...] Problems are a part of human life—a condition of your existence. [...]

[...] As you grew older the failings of the human condition became more noticeable. [...]