“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] One letter in particular caught my eyes because it was from an old friend, Ed, the man who had introduced Rob and I to begin with; a man who we had lost touch with until two years ago when he’d suddenly written from Alaska.

[...] Could 3 and 7 — egg carton and milk man — apply to Larry’s grocery store job? [...] Then I thought of another connection with “milk man” — our young fan, Larry, once would only drink milk, he was on a natural food diet — or had been. [...]

Milk man

[...] He was the one I described in The God of Jane who felt himself to be a woman trapped in a man’s body. [...]

(“A connection with a man, not yourself, perhaps with your landlord.” The paint blot on the object reminded Jane of a man, which could give rise to the man data here. [...]

[...] This because of the numerous photo and man references in the data. At this time, of course, before Jane had seen the object, I had no idea that it would remind her strongly of a man, and hence possibly give rise to the photo data.

[...] A connection with a man, not yourself, perhaps with your landlord.

(As soon as she opened the double envelopes, Jane said the object looked like a man to her, with either horizontal edge uppermost, and that she thought this impression had given rise to the photograph data. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] He is not the man involved with the woman. This man is 38-39 years old.”)

[...] One is a short man, already beginning to bald. [...]

[...] The short man who is already beginning to bald, John knows as Bill Driscoll; John told us he is a very good salesman and the only one in the division fitting that description. [...]

The man, business, bottles or coverings, containers.

[...] This means he is now an old man now or is dead. [...]

And another man, younger, light skin, wears light colored trousers, part of uniform? [...]

[...] (No.) The man, business, bottles or coverings, containers. [...]

[...] This means he is now an old man now or is dead. [...]

And another man, younger, light skin, wears light colored trousers, part of uniform? [...]

Instead you are presented, of course, with a picture of man’s body as it reflects, and is affected by, man’s beliefs. [...]

Man’s will to survive includes a sense of meaning and purpose, and a feeling for the quality (underlined) of life. You are indeed presented with an evidential picture that seems to suggest most vividly the “fact” of man’s steady deterioration, and yet you are also presented with evidence to the contrary, even in your world, if you look for it.

[...] In man’s very early history, however, and in your terms for centuries after the “awakening,” as described in our book, people lived in good health for much longer periods of time—and in certain cases they lived for several centuries.¹ No one had yet told them that this was impossible, for one thing. [...]

[...] The Bible that you recognize—or that is recognized—is not the first, however, but was compiled from several earlier ones as man tried to look back, so to speak, recount his past and predict his future. [...]

[...] In it Jastrow goes on to talk about how silicon-based computer life is going to replace man and his messy emotions—theories quite in keeping with current “scientific” thinking about man’s innate worthlessness and his accidental creation. [...]

Ruburt once received a few interesting pages from a world view, in which the author spoke, in archaic terms, of being a person who was a “life-taster,” sent by God to taste the quality of man’s experience, so that God might know what new ingredients might be added.

[...] The man is regarded as a leading authority, unfortunately; we wonder how many students he’s inculcated with the same negative thinking over the years of his teaching career. [...]

Now (President) Carter is a man of good intent. [...]

The black man is somewhere a white man or woman in your time. The white man or woman is somewhere black. [...]

[...] We can be a child at one end of it and an old man or woman at the other … Michelangelo [who lived for 89 years, from 1475 to 1564] decided to span a century himself instead of as three counterparts, say. Since there aren’t any laws about all of this, a great man could choose to do it that way in order to affect our world more with his gifts, from his own personal angles. [...]

[...] The dream state, however, involves you with a kind of communication that is not physically practical, for there (intently) no man or woman is caught without a given role; no individual’s ideas in the dream state are limited by his or her cultural background, or physical experience.

[...] It is true that the hungry man, awakening, is still hungry. [...]

[...] The same thoughts may fill another man with intense terror and grave feelings of guilt. This same man, however, who would not purposely entertain fantasies of such nature under normal conditions, may in time of war imagine himself killing the enemy with the greatest feelings of holy joy and righteousness.

Now: It is often said that man believes in devils because he believes in gods. The fact is that man began to believe in demons when he started to feel a sense of guilt. [...]

In your terms man is an animal, rising out of himself, from himself evolving certain animal capacities to their utmost; not forming new physical specializations of body any longer (again in your terms), but creating from his needs, desires and blessed natural aggressiveness inner structures having to do with values, space and time. [...]

Such a task meant that man must break out of the self-regulating, precise, safe and yet limiting aspects of instinct. [...]

[...] The chips will be down, but another man will pick them up; that is, these two men will drop the chips and another man will pick them up. [...]

[...] This applies to every man.

[...] (Pause.) There seems to be a man this time with very dark hair. [...]

[...] I have never led you wrong, and I tell you, you can be a healthy man.

(So far man’s behavior has him headed for destruction rather than survival. Seth repeated several times that for civilized man to kill is wrong. [...] When man kills he rips out a part of himself that he has created. Man will stop killing when he realizes this, and that death is not an ending but a change of form.

[...] It involved Bill’s father William [Jane hadn’t known the name of Bill’s father], and an older man with brown hair whom Bill looked upon as being in a position of authority. [...]

[...] Bill had looked up to the man running the grocery store in his neighborhood.

(Toward the end of the session Seth said he thought the object Peggy has been carrying in her handbag has “something to do with rock,” and that a man had somehow been connected with it, or its origin. [...]

[...] A man with a bristly mustache and short bristly hair was mentioned in the first part of the spontaneous session for which no notes were taken; this referred, Barb said, definitely to her father. [...]

[...] Most likely this was my interpretation of her giving birth to the child; she was supposed to have a Caesarean section but didn’t and was in labor 25 hours; a woman is described here, gray hair, buck teeth, yellow teeth—this, Barb says, is a description of the man’s mother—she wanted him to marry Barb: teeth not really buck but protuberant and yellowed; also gray hair. [...]

John Bradley and another man in a bar discuss Viet Nam now. The man has a mustache, light brownish or gray. [...]

[...] I am speaking of course generally, and of anticipatory fear, not the fear, quite healthy, with which a man faces a ferocious beast.

[...] A man uses his abilities according to the extent of this realization. [...]

[...] When a man is ill it is not necessarily because he wants to be ill subconsciously. [...]

Man is of good intent. When you see evil everywhere in man’s intent — in your own actions and those of others — then you set yourself up against your own existence, and that of your kind. [...] You will not see man’s good intent, or you will do so ironically — for in comparison with your ideals, good in the world appears to be so minute as to be a mockery.

[...] These paranoiac tendencies are largely hidden beneath man’s nationalistic banners.

[...] The money and position, however, have often been attained as a result of the belief in man’s competitive nature — and that belief itself erodes the very prizes it produces: The fruit is bitter in the mouth. [...]

[...] Originally this enabled man in many ways to live in the inner and the outer world with relative ease. [...] The clock time idea was invented by the conscious ego of man for many various reasons, with fear in the foreground.

Physical time, or that is clock time, was invented by man’s ego to protect the ego itself, because of the mistaken conception of dual existence—that is, because man felt that a predictable conscious self did the thinking and the moving, and an unpredictable almost automatic self did the breathing and dreaming. [...]

Usually in these sessions only one inner sense is in strong operation, but as I mentioned in our last session, man does not trust anything which occurs to him or in him unless he is consciously aware of what he is doing, how he is doing it, and why. [...]

[...] It is without doubt one of man’s tragedies, and it arose in large part out of this unpredictable dualism that befell him.

Studies will show that this duality is not a natural state of man, since even today many so-called primitive societies do not experience this duality to anything like the degree with which it affects more civilized communities. [...] Instead, and to the contrary, this sense of duality besieges man as he becomes more inventive in a purely mechanical fashion.

[...] 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. [...]

[...] There is certainly much to be said for Western man. [...]

[...] Remember the old man. [...] The man was a contractor, given to physical labor in his younger years, but convinced that the minute he retired his body would begin to fail. [...]

[...] The man could stop the game.

A man only gives up his soul when he has not met it face to face, and that is like bidding adieu to a stranger you have met at a train station: little loss, for you do not know what you have missed.

[...] If the man comes let him in. [...] Perhaps I will tell you about your TV man. [...]

[...] With a power saw one man cut into the base of the tree; pulling on a rope thrown over a higher branch, two other men pulled it down. [...]

(At 9:34 the service truck moved to the back of our house; we could see a man with a flashlight checking wires, etc., but no one knocked on our door. [...]

(“How about the man who cut down the tree with the power saw? [...]

[...] Of course animals can communicate with man, and of course man can communicate with other species—with all species. [...] Man cannot afford to become aware of such communication at this point, simply because your entire culture is based upon the idea of the animals’ “natural” subordinate position. [...]

[...] They enjoy working with man. Horses enjoyed the contributions they made to man’s world. [...] Dolphins, for example, respond emotionally to man’s world. [...]

It is somewhat fashionable to see man as … the creature who dirties his own nest, and I am not condoning much of man’s behavior in that regard. [...]

[...] There are thousands of farm-bred animals, however [and have been], all throughout civilization, alive for a time, well-cared-for for a time—animals who in usual terms would not exist except for man’s “gluttonous” appetite for meat. [...] It seldom occurs to anyone that certain forms of animal consciousness came in physical form [by choice], that certain species are prized by man and protected, or that the consciousnesses of such animals had anything at all to do with such an [overall] arrangement.

New sentence: In your historical past, when man identified his identity with the soul, he actually gave himself greater leeway in terms of psychological mobility, but eventually the concept of the soul as held resulted in a distrust of the intellect. [...] Part of man’s latest over-identification with the intellect is, of course, an overreaction to those past historical events. [...]

[...] As a species, you think of yourselves (pause) as the “pinnacle” end of an evolutionary scale, as if all other entities from the first cell onward somehow existed in a steady line of progression, culminating with animals, and finally with man the reasoning animal. [...]

New sentence: That particular blend of rational thinking with which your society is familiar takes it more or less for granted, then, that man’s identity as a species, and the identity of the individual, is first and foremost connected with the intellect. [...]

[...] Animals, it is true, do not reflect upon the nature of their own identities as man does (pause), but this is because that nature is intuitively comprehended. [...]