“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You must be both male and female. And had I not been both male and female, I would not be able to speak to you and you and you. [...]

[...] I guess the idea was that males operate as a Mafia regardless of gangster connections.... [...]

[...] He believed (underlined) that he should devote all of his time to his work, and could hardly forgive himself for his regrettable lapses into writing—and he was writing, after all, not even for adults, and not for young males either.

He was, in a fashion only, sexually ambiguous, his mathematics expressing what he thought of as an acceptable male aspect while the artistic levels in his mind, now, he related to his feminine aspects. [...]

You “were” right, then, when you worked on the book before your bout, and during that time you trusted yourself—but then your ideas of the comparative nature of your ideas intruded, triggered at that time by (news of) Crowder’s death, and the ensuing beliefs about the male role in society, and as that applied to your own talents. [...]

Ruburt knows the one, in which you both appeared as males and partners.

(“As a male, same color?” Brown and white.)

2. A reminder: Seth usually calls Jane by her male entity name, Ruburt — and thus “he,” “him,” etc.

The male-female tendencies at that time became psychically alienated from each other.* The differences were exaggerated. The ancient mother-goddess concept became “unconscious”; the male, purposely forgetting the great natural aggressive thrust of birth, took physical aggression and force as his prerogative — for this came to represent the quality of ego consciousness in its need to physically manipulate its environment.

[...] The male aspects of Christ were the ones that Western civilization emphasized. [...]

(Speaking of names, this is the time to remind all that Seth calls both Jane and me by male names: Ruburt and Joseph. Why does he speak of Jane as a male — and so as “he” and “him?” In Note 6 for Session 679, in Volume 1, I quoted Seth from the 12th session for January 2, 1964:) Sex, regardless of all your fleshy tales, is a psychic phenomenon, merely certain qualities which you call male and female. [...] When I say as I have that the overall entity [or whole self] is neither male nor female, and yet refer to [some] entities by definite male names such as “Ruburt” and “Joseph,” I merely mean that in the overall essence, the [given] entity identifies itself more with the so-called male characteristics than with the female.

[...] Carl Jung (1875–1961), the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, postulated that the unconscious of the male contains a female, archetypal (or typical, instinctive) figure called the “anima”; the correlative male form in the unconscious of the female Jung called the “animus.” In Session 119, then, Seth comments on how Jane herself has an animus — the hidden male within — and on how Ruburt, that larger “male” entity of which she is a “self-conscious part,” contains an anima, or hidden female. [...] From this information I infer that the entity or whole self of each of us, regardless of our current, individual sexual orientation, contains its own counterbalancing male or female quality, whichever the case may be. [...]

[...] I am not, as I believe I have mentioned, a secondary or split personality of Ruburt’s. For example, I am not a conglomeration of male tendencies that have collected themselves into a subsidiary personality that struggles for recognition or release. I say that I am an energy personality essence, since that is what I am … My name for him is Ruburt,¹⁵ which happens to be a male name simply because it is the closest translation, in your terms, for the name of the whole self or entity of which he is now a self-conscious part.

[...] The so-called male aspect of your personality has always been strong, but by this I mean powerful. [...]

(To Colleen.) You have been a male in several existences. Now, do not be worried about the dreams in which you appear as a male. [...]

[...] He added that the woman “would have used you as a buffer between herself and another male, and as a bargaining point, exaggerating your slightest interest. [...] “The male involved with her has something to do with mechanics.” [...]

“The voice was male, was it not?” Seth asked.

During our first break, Phil explained: A month earlier he’d been speaking to a young woman in a local bar, when he heard a clear, loud, male voice say, “No, no,” very emphatically. [...]

[...] She was Catholic and had a child and a male friend who was a car salesman rather than a mechanic.

[...] I saw briefly various male and female figures, some of them apparently monster types.

[...] I saw a few figures, male and female.

[...] There was an indistinct male personage or figure on the sidewalk before me, passing the empty storefront. [...]

[...] She was a male at that time, however, and you were a female and a priestess. [...] As a male in that life she had an expanding effect upon your personality, but you were very given to ritual and a belief in magic acts, and to the idea that existence in itself was evil and wrong. [...]

You were at that time a male and a friend of his. [...]

[...] One question had to do with the oil showing two male heads which I painted in 1965. [...]

[...] Ruburt is the blond one. (Both are male.

[...] The overly conscientious self has always seen itself in male terms because of the God concept, of the God being male.

To sum up Seth’s somewhat amused comments in the 12th session for January 2, 1964: “Sex, regardless of all your fleshy tales, is a psychic phenomenon, merely certain qualities which you call male and female. [...] When I say as I have that the overall entity, or whole self, is neither male or female, and yet refer [to some] entities by definitely male names such as ‘Ruburt’ and ‘Joseph’ [as Seth calls me] I merely mean that in the overall essence, the [given] entity identifies itself more with the so-called male characteristics than with the female.”

[...] The mother was expected to bear perfect children and to be subservient to the male, at least in outward fashion.

3. Almost always Seth refers to Jane by her male entity name, “Ruburt” — and so “he,” “his,” and “him.”

(“Was Jane a male or female then?”)

Male.

(“The child mentioned earlier: Male or female?”)

Male.

(“Male.” [...]

[...] Your interest in the outdoors now reflecting your male existence. [...]

[...] Others have a series of female lives and then a series of male lives, or vice versa, but the entire reincarnational framework must involve both sexual experiences.

[...] Some enjoy female existences, or have greater fondness for male lives. [...]

[...] Our friend then a male.... [...]

[...] There have been two previous to this as a male. [...]

[...] The second girl, with whom you are now involved, has been four times a male, and in the past involved in business administration of various types and kinds; always as an administrator and one who gave orders.

It goes without saying that parents should hold the bodies of their male and female children in equal favor, so that one is not considered inferior to the other. [...]