“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Forget the idea of man’s work and what your paintings should (underlined) provide, and the idea of fame or success. [...]

[...] You dealt with emotion unrestrained by discipline, and with the feelings of a young man. [...]

[...] A man may work for nearly a century and not attain it, or it may come tomorrow afternoon.

[...] The long-haired man facing the viewer’s left.

[...] He has sought out to some extent the strange and the bizarre, and he believes, now, as he did earlier, in the importance of conflict as a way of keeping a man on his toes. [...] This was the time of caution and danger, when a man could retire, settle for security, give in to complacency—or even become a gentleman farmer—as he was at times tempted to do (with amusement).

[...] The same street does not suddenly become gold beneath the foot of the rich man and woman—and potholes in city, state, or government roads are felt alike by the tires of the Cadillac and the lowly Volkswagen.

When you were a young man in New York City, bringing in the cash, you paid your taxes without a qualm. [...]

[...] She wants the man she once knew but her rage forces her, and has forced her, to stay alive, with the one part of the man that remained.

In each of her three sons she sees portions of the man she knew. [...]

Your mother tried to change you into the image of the man she had known. [...]

[...] You recognized your predicament, and henceforth refused to take the main responsibility for your mother, which was the responsibility of a man for his wife.

[...] A man no longer need follow his father’s vocational footsteps. [...] All of this meant that man’s conscious mind was about to expand its strengths, its abilities, and its reach. [...]

Organized religion felt threatened; and if it could not prove that man had a soul, it could at least see to it that the needs of the body were taken care of through suitable social work, and so it abandoned many of the principles that might have added to its strength. [...]

[...] He began to feel that social action itself was of little value, for if man’s evil were built-in, for whatever reasons, then where was there any hope?

[...] And it seemed in the beginning that science delivered, for the world was changed from candlelight to electric light to neon in the flicker of an eye, and a man could travel in hours distances that to his father or grandfather took days on end.

[...] In that life, in that life of which I am speaking—you had a man, roughly resembling your wife in bone structure, and in temperament. This man was not a family relationship...was not in a family relationship. [...] The man was the kind who gained feelings of superiority and pleasure from helping you, but also helped you quite legitimately and kindly. [...]

[...] And a man or a woman who is aware of only one of his or her own egos will be considered an idiot, indeed. [...]

[...] Now there seems to be another younger man connected perhaps with one of your daughters, who may be offered either a new job or something new in his line of work that may tax him and yet he will feel that he must accept it—for he is driven by ambition—and he will accept it. [...]

[...] Now in the past existence, you were younger than this older man and you were constantly trying to prove to him that you could do without him, and so you are constantly trying to prove to your wife that you can do without her in that particular respect. [...]

Nevertheless it is fully capable of perceiving far more than Western man allows it to perceive. [...]

Again however, through this excellent balance and these fine controls, the ego will accept knowledge derived from the dream state, as a man might accept a message from a distant land in which he does not care to dwell, and whose environment would both mystify and frighten him.

It is amazing how man regrets the hours spent in sleep, for he does not realize how hard he works when his ego is unaware.

Man possesses an innate biological knowledge, however, of right and wrong, and to a large extent religions, as they are utilized, distort much of that information. [...] Man is not set one against the other. [...]

[...] Such ideas can and have been used most beneficially by simple men and women throughout the ages, and distorted as they are, they still served to remind man that his source is not the world.

[...] The fact is that religions have been the carriers of some of the best ideas that man has entertained — but it has also held most stubbornly to the most troublesome concepts that have plagued mankind.

[...] Such philosophies do not give man a stake in nature, or in the universe.

[...] In such a philosophical world it would seem that man had no power at all.

[...] There is one man important in the three-in-one merger, and the best man has not yet been found.

[...] You seem to be the third man in this particular setup that I am now trying to describe.

However there could be a complete turnabout, I believe in procedure; and if so oddly enough in the light of present circumstances, you would be the man to whom they would turn. [...]

[...] A gray-haired man with glasses has other ideas. [...]

[...] The mind’s capabilities, if studied, would lead man into a realization of these other fields of actuality of which I have spoken. [...] The ingredients of matter are first of all intangible ingredients, and the study of the mind and a study of the processes by which the mind creates its dream images could lead to a basic understanding of the manner in which man subconsciously produces the physical images of his own material universe.

[...] Such evidences of other actualities could serve as important clues, which if followed could then begin to unravel the secrets which are secrets merely because of man’s refusal to pursue them.

The ego considers itself the self, and considers anything outside of its self as being either nonself or another such separate identity, and so the individual man is led to believe that telepathy is basically a communication between two or more basically alone, separate and aloof selves. [...]

—rather than upon any sense of justice, so that in a very basic sense man is considered a natural criminal in the eyes of the law, and more and more laws are then seemingly required, in order to protect man “from himself.” [...]

(Long pause.) Originally the early races of man knew better. [...]

[...] Man tried out in waking life those lessons that he received in dreams. [...]

[...] Often those purposes led you to overexaggerate the differences between groups, and to minimize man’s biological unity.

[...] Whatever man’s conscious beliefs, on a biological level his genetic structure is intimately related to the genetic structure of all other species.

In man, the probabilities of development are literally numberless. [...]

[...] It is usually said that animals, and also man, avoid pain and seek pleasure—and so any courting of pain, except under certain conditions, is seen as unnatural behavior.

[...] As the evening progressed we became involved in some pretty heated and involved discussions about Three Mile Island, man’s greed for money, his basic good intent, and related issues. [...] I think I made some good points; even Bill said he probably exaggerated man’s greed, yet he wasn’t about to change his views. [...]

(I do wish I had on record some of my remarks, since in them I clarified some of my own ideas about man’s behavior versus his basic good intent.

[...] He saw man’s greed for money everywhere predominate. [...]

[...] Ruburt knew a few moments before the man’s visit that the taxes would be less than you supposed. [...]

[...] or should I be seeing that man within a framework of, just as we were talking about health as just being a stepping stone, should I be seeing this man with a viewpoint towards what this can mean for helping other people be part of a constructive arrangement?”)

([Tom:] “Now it has been suggested that the next time I go to New York I might see a man...”)

[...] A man or a woman who has strong and definite mental deficiencies... [...]

([Theodore: ]“But the point is—I guess the question I’m asking is: Am I really more interested in the certain possibilities of status, and that would not be the positive way of looking at things—or should I be seeing that man within a framework of, just as we were talking about health as just being a stepping stone, should I be seeing this man with a viewpoint towards what this can mean for helping other people be part of a constructive arrangement?”)

([Theodore:] “Now it has been suggested that the next time I go to New York I might see a man... [...]

[...] Now various kinds of lacks can show up in many ways—in mental deficiencies—a man or a woman who has strong and definite mental deficiencies—who has strong negative habits—such a person has blocks in those areas. [...]

[...] The last time she’d done this had been early on March 4; her material then was on parallel man, alternate man, and probable man; Seth mentioned it that same evening in the 687th session, and it furnished the basis for Section 2 of this volume. [...]

(9:40.) We have been speaking about probable men, and do intend to deal more deeply with probable man [or woman], as that is applied to your species. [...]

[...] She couldn’t recall it clearly, but it featured her talking to a man, objecting to him that he’d told her something he’d given her would be painless—but that it was instead quite painful: a suicide pill, or something like that, she said. [...]

[...] The younger man was, when you met him, afraid himself of schizophrenia, and had a great need to establish his own sanity at the expense of anyone who showed any but the most conventional characteristics.

[...] That desire led you to disregard conflicting feelings, urging you to leave the man alone.

You also thought two opinions were better than one, and you hoped that the man could provide some information about Instream himself, so that you would know better how to deal with him.

(C B Doesn’t know a man with a limp, or something wrong with a leg. As stated however, C B felt even before her husband’s death that she would remarry, to a man “with a great age difference.” We don’t know if this means to a younger man than C B, or an older one.

Some additional problems for the woman who called, and marriage to a man with something wrong with a leg, perhaps only a slight limp. [...]

The worldwide view of man as a species, worldwide brotherhood, in no way hampers or endangers the individual man, and in no way endangers nations, but will represent one of the main hopes of mankind, without which no nations will endure.

The ego is indeed a necessity within the physical field at this point of man’s development. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, the ego can be compared to the nationalistic state of nations, necessary indeed for man’s development, but already growing passé, and perhaps even mitigating against the survival of the species, where once it aided that survival.

[...] The individual self will expand, as the individual man will be capable of expanding when the old idea of nationalism is finally overthrown, and he can be benefited through learning of, and cooperation with, other men as brothers upon your planet.

[...] You get in trouble only when you identify too strongly with the socially inoculated man, so that you can say “With my beliefs, I do not think I can learn to put Prentice in Framework 2.” (See my closing notes for the last deleted session.) The “my” there, in that sentence, refers to the socially inoculated man. The other man has no difficulties at all in that regard, and that man is you, too. [...]

[...] When you are upset, ask the creative man what he thinks. [...]