“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Dreaming touches upon both microscopic and macroscopic events, or realities, and is not simply a human characteristic, appropriately appearing within your own range or within your own species. [...]

There are deeply hidden areas of human behavior far below the surface of actions, and these cause the actions. [...]

The fetus, for example, is remarkably optimistic, carrying within itself the miniature pattern for an entire human adult, taking it for granted that conditions will be favorable enough so that the entire pattern of normal life will be fulfilled despite any impediments or adverse conditions.

[...] You could invent a completely different way of regarding human health by numbering and defining each of those stages. [...]

[...] The monkey was used, also because it is “humanistic,” or has what you think of as incipient human characteristics.

[...] “Do you think the human species is insane?” I asked her. [...]

[...] Dependent feelings are quite universal, however, and it is obvious that all human beings do not have ulcers. [...]

[...] It is your confusion of terms, and the distortive nature of human understanding concerning sexual give-and-take, that makes you think that dependency is weakness. [...]

I quail before your quite human limitations, and if I smile it is not indeed within ridicule—

[...] For on all occasions we find a desire for proofs and for signs, and although I find such desires on the one hand childish, on the other hand I find myself realizing that there is to some extent a legitimate claim, particularly on Ruburt’s part, considering the limitations of the human egotistical nature.

[...] To arrive at any real understanding of human personality several prerequisites must be met.

[...] We shall be continuing our discussion of human personality and its composition, along with that which is, for they are inseparable.

The animals possess a consciousness of self, and without the human intellect. You do not need a human intellect to be aware of your own consciousness. [...]

But why, I asked Jane, haven’t our best minds—at least those who have operated throughout the centuries of our recorded history—been able to arrive at some sort of reasonable consensus about the “origin” of our universe (if it had one), its processes, and our human place in it? [...] Why have so many human beings (an estimated 50 billion of them) had to exist along the way before we arrived at our present point—from which point we in our collective wisdom think we might begin to provide meaningful answers to such questions? [...]

[...] At the same time he let his conscious mind wander, and to compensate saw himself as all-powerful, contemptuous of his fellow human beings, and able to work greater vengeance upon them for their misunderstanding of him. [...]

[...] As Augustus Two he could stay up night and day and perform physical tasks quite difficult for the normal human being to do, for he operated under the indivisible idea of power and strength.

The electromagnetic reality within the human organism has considerable mass, but the entire physical weight amounts to 3 to 6 ounces at the very most. [...]

[...] I mentioned in our last session that the scientists did not realize that man has indeed evolved since the development of the human brain. [...]

[...] Let the medium then stand for and represent the physical appearance of permanency in any object, the physical continuity of any given human form in a painting. [...]

[...] Not indeed a formal audience, but unseen listeners who represent humanity at large. [...]

[...] Jane also sensed more information pertaining to my questions of a few sessions ago, on the relationship of disease with human beings.

[...] There are too many other elements that also apply to the human personality. [...]

[...] I am speaking in general terms now, and in those terms such people are leery of human relationships. [...]

In the next session the following night, Seth launched into the nature of my last trance experience and used it as a stepping stone for his first real discussion of the nature of human personality. [...]

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

[...] Had the human race gone into certain mental disciplines as thoroughly as it has explored technology, then its practical transportation system would be vastly different and far more efficient.

[...] Unfortunately, conscience as you think of it is an untrustworthy guide, speaking to you through the mouths of mothers and fathers, teachers and clergy — all perhaps from distant years, and each of whom had their own ideas of what was right and wrong for you and for humanity at large.

Now: Dictation (on The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression): As the earth is composed of many environments, so is the psyche. [...]

[...] Why isn’t there at least one artist in all of the world painting today whose ability equals Rembrandt’s, and who uses that great gift to evoke the depths of compassion for the human condition as Rembrandt did? [...] Just those four artists, whose lives spanned a period of only 98 years (from 1577 to 1675), explored human insight in powerful ways. [...]