“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I brought in to show Jane the two paintings that had been involved in my enlarged-perception experience yesterday—The Girl with The Violet Eyes and the head of the man. [...] I still get the feeling when I look at the girl, and the man too. Jane liked the man so much I put it up on the bulletin board—not easy, since it isn’t framed.

There are multitudinous species of viruses and so forth that man has not encountered and recognized, and there are connections between viruses and other species of living matter that remain unknown. [...] They are indeed amazingly swift creatures, and through scent alone they are aware of the presence of man when any member of your species is at all in the immediate area — standing, say, at least several miles away. [...]

There are many, many species that man has not discovered, in all the categories of life — insects onward.

([Bette:] “During break Jane stood here talking to Dee  and as I stood and watched these two, Jane all of a sudden was a very little girl looking up at this man and the man was trying desperately to get Jane to say that she was sorry for something that she had done, and Jane would not say this. [...]

And now I do bid you all a good evening and yes, there is a connection over there (to Sheila) with the man of whom you spoke earlier. [...]

(The session was held this evening with the chance that it might be interrupted. One of the tenants in the house had finally located a man with a plow, who was due to clear the area at 9 PM this evening. [...] We decided to go ahead with the session anyhow, on the chance the man with the snowplow did not show up, or was late.

(The specialist, actually the man who keeps the house in good running order for the landlord, is a personal friend of his. [...]

[...] Our landlord is a complex and generous man who has lowered our rent and the rent of some of the other tenants over the last few years.

(Joe Cernohorsky is the specialist mentioned on page 248, the man who keeps the apartment house we live in, in running order for the landlord. [...]

[...] Man’s experience (underlined) includes, for example, all kinds of behavior for which science has no answers. [...] Science can justly be reprimanded when it tries to pretend that man’s experience (underlined) is limited to those events that science can explain.

Within the patterns of human experience, then, lies evidence of man’s greater ability: He rubs shoulders with his own deeper understanding whenever he remembers, say, a precognitive dream, an out-of-body—whenever he feels the intrusion or infusion of knowledge into his mind from other than physical sources. [...]

If man paid more attention to his own subjective behavior, to those feelings of identification with nature that persistently arise, then half of the dictates of both the evolutionists and the creationists would automatically fall away, for they would appear nonsensical.⁴ It is not a matter of outlining a whole new series of methods that will allow you to increase your psychic abilities, or to remember your dreams, or to perform out-of-body gymnastics. [...]

I need not spare you, spare yourself, young man. [...]

[...] I am not taking credit, you see, for another man’s abilities. [...]

([Theodore:] “Yes, man.”)

[...] Every man and woman has protection. [...]

[...] If not, then the man meets his physical description closely. One other man is along in years. [...] I do not know the last man’s age.

[...] One man may be bald in the center of his head, and one may have a mustache, or if not he is not cleanly shaven.

[...] Therefore, he turned his efforts to bettering his fellow man’s physical state. [...] In a fashion this involved old Christian principles, of course, as pure socialism does—so that a man shared his goods with his fellows, and all land belonged to the people, so that private property—in those terms—would not exist.

As he grew older, however, he remembered more and more that scent of spiritual exploration, the encounters with spiritualism, and he began to wonder if after all it were possible that spiritual nourishment of itself would better man’s state. [...]

[...] It might also be of interest to note that the younger man—with wife, whom none of us met—knew in Mansfield of the Jupenlasz family. [...]

[...] Simply as an analogy, it would be as if within physical reality you lived, say, the life of a rich man of great talent, the life of a poor man with entirely different talents, and the life of a mother and career woman. [...]

A journalist, a housewife, and a man of the bar.

One man you will like far less than the others gathered, but he will be with you nevertheless, and much more loyal than one of the women, who will impress you far more. [...]

Man.

(“Can you give us the man’s name?”)

(Ruburt signifies a tall man walking along a path, in robes, and in hilly country. [...]

[...] The man to whom I referred as having difficulties in the third vertebra is the younger man of the two in question.

[...] Married to a man who dealt with cloth stuffs, and with some material that was made into large bags or sacks.

[...] The man, I believe, was your father.

[...] I did not however address you, young man.

[...] This is like a young man saying, “When I grow old and retire, I will use all those abilities that I am not now developing.” [...]

[...] If a man says he loves you and yet denies you your freedom, then you often hate him. [...]

[...] The man who literally hates, immediately sets himself up in this fashion: He prejudges the nature of reality according to his own limited understanding.

[...] A man who hates always believes himself justified. [...]

Because of space travel a visitor might come as a young man, and return some 40 earth years later still appearing as a young man, leading to the idea of immortality and eternal youth of the gods.

[...] We had no opinion particularly, beyond remembering that according to Seth the whole question of the race of man and its origins, and doubts concerning theories of evolution, was vastly more complicated than was generally believed. [...]

[...] There were some deliberate experiments, that were in fact far more dangerous to the experimenters, always in which the experimenters tried in one way or another to advance man’ s knowledge.

(9:50.) When it seems that great discoveries come, and then are lost through the ages, perhaps to be rediscovered, it simply means that man’s own in nature was not in harmony with them, could not use them properly. [...]

[...] Your father represented your father, but he also stood for your version of the race [species] of man itself, of the nameless old men seemingly worn down by age, the lack of communication between nameless fathers and sons. Yet the old man does sleep in a gigantic shoe that is also like a cradle, from which he and all of civilization continue to emerge. [...] Through expression of the words, but also through your art, for you saw all art as an expression of love, a love in which the old man and civilization was ultimately held.

The withered foot (of my father) represented any and all deformities, and the great gap you felt existed between man’s ideal, and his actualization of it.

It is precisely because of this failure, because of man’s endeavor to explain data in terms of his own field only, that so much seems either unexplainable, mysterious, or beyond the realm of intellectual comprehension. [...]

[...] Yet this inner self, this inner vitality, is one of the main clues which man refuses to recognize, calling it an unreasonable assumption, but not willing to examine it for those characteristics which show it to be the most reasonable and logical of phenomena.

Clairvoyance exists and is possible because of its basis within the spacious present, and this is not known because man will not accept the available data. [...]

[...] If they had not been left open, man would have no knowledge at all, nor any hint, of his basic inner existence. [...]

[...] He speaks with several male natives and an American man, from Minnesota, who deals in a business that is connected with salt. [...]

[...] They eat or talk with a man (voice very faint) whose name has to do with grip, you see, as bag or valise. [...]

They meet a man in a hut-like place. [...]

[...] While in this state, I had repeated visions of a man, an aged man in robes, standing before an ancient wall. [...]

(“What connection, if any, does the picture of the man I painted in Florida, around 1954, have with Jane or myself?”)

Many concepts, huge advancements and practical inventions, simply wait in abeyance in the world of dreams until some man accepts them as possibilities within his frame of reality. Why man so often mistrusts the dream reality would escape me, if I did not know the nature of the ego.

[...] Physical man, observing fire, dreamed of it, thereby immeasurably enriching the universe of dreams. [...]

[...] It is a contribution of the universe of dreams to your own universe, representing knowledge within the dream universe that man was independent of physical matter ultimately.

Now, and this can hardly be called a controversial statement, the imagination is waking man’s connection with the universe of dreams. [...]

[...] Instead I watched a man from above and behind; dressed in suit, hat, carrying a bag or briefcase. [...]

[...] The man has a connection with the paper business, but not a newspaper. [...]

[...] If so a female child, but there is no man in that seat. [...]

The interest was of a business rather than a social one, in connection with this man.

The public man, the man of letters, et cetera in other centuries, and the public man say of Rome, or of the Middle Ages, or of the 19th Century, involved personal interactions with the public, but in very limited, controlled situations. [...]

[...] If man can be a natural healer, and he says so, then he personally should heal others and himself. [...]