“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You could have done conventionally well, with portraits, and with other kinds of paintings, with your technical knowledge, but as you learned more you kept trying to put more into your paintings, ever demanding more of yourself and of the art, and forcing upon yourself a kind of growth and development that in a way became larger than the art itself—so that the art, you felt, could never be adequate as an expression of the inner realities of which you became more and more certain.

[...] The fact is that Western man has not only cut himself off from half of his own ability, and half of his own knowledge because of his insistence upon an artificial dual nature, but he has also cut himself off from the very primitive societies from which he could learn very much about these abilities, which he himself refuses to admit.

[...] If he considers a native in Africa, for example, as a superstitious rather imbecilic, almost prehistoric creature from the past, then he will learn nothing of that man’s ability. [...]

(Long pause.) In such a fashion man learned the location of the oceans upon the earth—or at least was given the assurance that such large bodies of water existed, along with clues as to their locations, and the placement of the stars overhead.

[...] Tam visits next week, so we may learn more, but at the moment I don’t expect any miraculous results. [...]

[...] Men and women in fact learned how to deal with daily life—daily waking life—by studying the lessons they received in the dream state. [...]

[...] You will both learn added control by traveling together. [...]

[...] Using what you have learned here tonight, you can use your ability more freely. [...]

[...] There is much to be learned here.

(There’s much to be learned here, Jane said in conclusion, providing she can find the time for study. [...]

[...] In the dream or sleep state, when you do not meet as directly with physical activity, there is the opportunity to learn more about the psyche by a study of dreams — those events that are so like and so dissimilar to your waking experience.

When you have learned enough on your own, then my active assistance will be of benefit as a guide. [...]

[...] They are draining your energy and they are keeping you from learning your own destiny. [...]

[...] We learned about the death of Otto’s daughter Mary, on a conscious level, this week when we bought a recent book by Otto on flying saucers, and read the dedication. [...]

He learned, or relearned, something quite important this evening with the poetry—the feeling of spontaneity and creativity, and will be able to apply some of this now to the physical condition. [...]

[...] Through understanding your own unknown reality, therefore, you can learn much about the unknown reality of the species.

[...] He will learn to use his intellect as a fine tool, while his intuitions point to the proper direction.

[...] As science advances on various planes, the inhabitants learn to travel between planes occasionally, while carrying with them the manifestations of their home station.

When the inhabitants of a plane have learned mental science patterns, then they are to a great degree freed from the more regular camouflage patterns. [...]

Learning to some extent is indeed passed on through the genes, bio-chemically, but this is a physical materialization of inner knowledge achieved and retained from past lives. Human beings learn mainly through experience, and the experience is derived from past experience in other existences.

[...] While focused within that living scene you can learn to travel through it, leaving the “surface” picture intact and whole. [...]

[...] In accidental ways that would be quite humorous if they weren’t so personal, we’ve also learned what negative ideas others can have about us: A person will inadvertently reveal to us, during a conversation, or in a letter or over the telephone, the unflattering opinions his or her mate, or parents, or friends, really have of Jane and me and the work we’re engaged in with the Seth material.

[...] Even so, it is much more resilient and eager to learn than is generally supposed. [...]