“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Whenever you cut off your painting, you have difficulties—and that also involves this internal provincial concept of the male image, for you get upset about your painting because it does not bring in money, when a male’s pursuit should. [...]

The male as breadwinner and the male as artist, or the title of the saga is “Bill Crowder may have been stupid, but he fit in with the crowd.” [...]

Being a male does not cause problems. Limited concepts about maleness do. [...]

(In ESP class for April 16, a student asked Seth to comment on “the differences between the male and female [human beings] as we understand them.” [...]

All time is simultaneous (Seth told the members of class), and so you are male and female at once.

[...] And all of you who look upon me as a sign of great logical thinking (humorously), and therefore male-oriented, in your terms, then listen:

[...] In the case of secondary personalities, the main operating portion who usually directs activity might be male, displaying all of the usual male characteristics. [...]

It is also possible for the individual to dress in male attire, while the secondary personality wears feminine clothes — or vice-versa.

[...] In dreams many females will have what you would call male reactions. Some males in dreams will have what you would call female reactions. [...]

[...] You are not only male or female as you know, but both, with one temporarily predominating. Almost (underlined) without exception, there are male and female lives either in your past or future. [...]

[...] If only stereotyped ideas of female-male relationships operated, however, there would be no bond or stimulus great enough to forge one family to another. The antagonism between males would be too great. [...]

[...] Even in the animal kingdom, for example, males do not fight to the death over the females when they are in their natural state.

[...] If the “battle of the sexes” were as prevalent as supposed, and as natural and ferocious, then there literally would be no cooperation between males and females for any purpose. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Generally speaking in your society, power is considered a male attribute. Cult leaders are more often male than female, and females are more often than not followers, because they have been taught that it is wrong for them to use power, and right for them to follow the powerful.

I said (in Session 846) that you have religious and scientific cults, and the male-oriented scientific community uses its power in the same way that the male Jehovah used his power in a different arena, to protect his friends and destroy his enemies. [...]

(With amusement:) The male scientist considers the rocket his private symbol of sexual power. [...]

(“and a male.” The obvious connection being that a male, Leonard Yaudes, wrote the note on the object, and signed it. Once again, there are six personal names on the object, and five of them are male.)

(Question: “Are they male or female, for instance?” “Impression of light-colored hair on two, and a similarity. These I believe males. [...] The other male on the address line of the object, John, crossed out by Leonard, is a close friend of Leonard’s but not a relative. [...]

[...] Connection with a letter or note, and a male. [...]

(I asked her about Seth, a male, speaking through a woman. She said she suspected that as a woman she’d have more authority if she spoke as a male. [...] All of this male business is related to the male priests in her childhood years.

[...] She grew up in a male-dominated world. [...]

[...] They try out the roles of other family members, imagine themselves rich and poor, old and young, male and female.

[...] There are some conflicts still operating from the 15th-century existence, with the result that the male is drawn so idealistically that the real male is found wanting by contrast.

[...] A male. [...]

[...] If you will forgive me, she was more a male than you were, in reality, and the Germans to you now still represent arrogant masculinity.

[...] The main point is that then Barb told me that the male child referred to the illegitimate child of a girl friend and that all the other details given were correct, in reference to this child.

(The child was male as given in the session. [...]

[...] It is the direct result of the fact that the male has been taught to deny the existence within himself of certain basic emotions. [...] The male, however, chose to take upon himself a kind of specialization of consciousness that, carried too far, leads to a hard over-objectivity. Only in dreams in your time, in your society, is the male free to cry unabashedly, to admit any kind of dependency, and only at certain occasions and usually in relative privacy is he allowed to express feelings of love.

[...] It is not asexual, and yet it is the combination of those richest ingredients considered to be male and female.

[...] The male’s aggressive tendencies, often taken as basic characteristics of the species itself, are a case in point. [...]

People in the sports arena also often encourage the concept that sexual expression is somehow debilitating to the male, and can weaken his constitution. [...]

There are so many other elements involved in human nature that I do not really want to point out any culprits, yet male-segregated communities are obviously notorious for encouraging that kind of behavior. [...]

There is also some confusion having to do with your own idea of what male and female is and what is required of each. In your rebellion you see yourself as the male. Spontaneity and freedom also suggest itself to you as male rather than female. [...] The male image of a rebeller, however, comes to a halt in your lovemaking encounters.

I am not saying that you identify as a male. [...] I am saying that the rebellious streak in your nature seems male to you.

It goes without saying that upon your plane male and female are equally important, although because of the plane’s particular overemphasis upon aggressive manipulation the male has thus far dominated.

There is also much here to be explained, since your conception of male and female is greatly distorted. [...] They have actually very little to do with what you consider male and female, and for now we can mention them briefly in terms of arrival and departure.

As in many cases an old man will appear womanish, so a personality reincarnated steadily as a male will develop strong and overlycompensated-for female characteristics, as is the case with Loren in this existence. [...]

It was a male. A dandy was always a male. [...]

[...] You were only hiding in the thoughts of such a relationship from a relationship with a male that you were afraid to take on. Male in general. [...]

([Mark:] “Was that a male or a female?”)

[...] John said another man was with the woman when he talked to her, and that actually he spent as much time talking with her male companion as he did the woman. John was unable to say whether, in his opinion, the male companion is the man referred to by Seth. John had not told us before this that the woman had had a male companion.

(John told us later that the male companion with the woman was a car salesman; hence Jane’s possible associative connection with mechanics. Still, as said before, we do not know for sure whether the woman’s male companion of that evening is the male referred to by Seth.

She would have used you as a buffer between herself and another male, and as a bargaining point. [...] She would have exaggerated the slightest interest you showed in her, and an unpleasant situation would have resulted; an unfortunate one involving yourself and the other male to whom I referred. [...]

(First Question: Is this old hand male or female? “I am not sure, though I suspect male. The hand is not a typically male hand however, but more delicate perhaps.” Seth is correct, in that the old reference here does concern Bill Gallagher and his subjective feelings [the male], on the evening of his birthday party, for which the envelope object was written. [...]

(Pause.) I am not sure, though I suspect male. The hand is not a typically male hand however, but more delicate perhaps. [...]

(“Is this old hand male or female?”

With the girl’s background it is natural enough that an independent male would both frighten and fascinate her. [...]

Her father has been more destructive to her psychological health in some respects than her mother, for he gave her the image of males as weak.

The strong male is therefore a threat, while he also represents security. [...]

Male now learning gentleness. Must realize though that whole entities are neither male nor female in your terms.

(“Is Ruburt a male or female entity?”)

[...] Unless negative beliefs stand in your way, then creative ideas that you contribute to the work will automatically take care of your needs, and it is truly idiotic to want to substitute that good fortune for such parochial concepts like the male as breadwinner, or the male performing in a given definable fashion. [...]

[...] I do not want to hurt your feelings—but your particular beliefs about a male and money are in their way quite parochial, and you must understand that as far as money is concerned, also, those beliefs have little moral value—moral value. [...]

I want to rid you of any lingering misconceptions, but you still have a lingering belief that your old ideas about money and the male have some kind of high moral value. [...]