“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] With the birth of the conscious mind in man, however, the self who acts needed a way to judge its actions. [...]

[...] A young man who had hitchhiked from Oregon stood in the darkness. “You’re too late, man,” I said. [...]

A man may be a fool, so to speak, in his spiritual or political judgments, as a father or as a brother; or in perhaps only one relationship he may be an artist, bringing out in that other person the greatest abilities and potentials.

[...] It contained an article about early man in the US. [...]

(Long pause.) Your mother believed that a man should work so many hours a day in conventional ways, whether he owned his own business or worked for others—and also of course that he should have a family. At certain levels (underlined), your brother Loren once compared your art to his love of trains—an enjoyable hobby, but not something to which a man devoted his life. [...]

(Long pause.) The desk is also another symbol for man’s knowledge of the past. [...]

These points are highly significant, and the world of the inner man will be found to gain depth, shape, motion, in and through space and time. [...]

(I was with Doctor Kiley and another man who was also a doctor. [...]

[...] He was a big heavyset man with a square jaw.)

[...] The Six-Million Dollar Man came on TV at 5:00, as I started a nap after massaging her—dehypnotizing her—as usual. [...]

[...] In fact, Jane said, it was a more valid and true statement of reality than the other gift from Sue—After Man, by Dougal Dixon. [...]

[...] I said to Jane, that in my hand I held the best man could do about understanding his origins at this time. [...]

[...] Flowers are not just brightly colored for man’s enjoyment, for example, but because color is a part of the flowers’ own esthetic system. [...]

With man’s own exteriorized ego, this leads to the question of free will and the making of conscious choices.

[...] Personal Experience as It Is Related to “Past” and “Future” Civilizations of Man.

In Section 4, then, Seth has more to say about CU and EE units, cellular consciousness, ancient man, evolution, space travel, and other seemingly disparate subjects as he continues to develop his thesis that “biologically the species is equipped to deal with different sequences of time while still manipulating within one particular time scheme.” [...]

1. In ordinary terms, various kinds of plague, including the bubonic and the infamous “Black Death,” were (and still are) spread to man by fleas carrying a bacterium from infected rats. [...] In Seth’s terms, through the complicated interactions and communications involving all forms of life, man’s deep dissatisfactions would have periodically helped trigger the resurgence of scourges like the plagues: In 3rd-century Rome, for instance, several thousand people were said to have died each day; estimates are that over a 20-year period in the 14th century, three-quarters of the population of Europe and Asia perished; there was the great plague of London in 1665, and so forth.

[...] Yet, throughout your history no man or woman has died who did not want to die, regardless of the state of medical technology. [...]

[...] They cannot use their full abilities or powers, nor are many of them given compensating elements in terms of a beneficial psychic relationship with man — but instead are shunted aside, unwanted and unloved. [...]

[...] A man or woman who is ready to die, if saved from one disease will promptly get another, or find a way of fulfilling that desire. [...]

Give us a moment… Basically, religion is an activity through which man attempts to see the meaning of his life. [...] No matter what the name it might go by, it represents man’s connection with the universe.

If a man was a sinner, still there was a way of redemption, and the immortality of the soul went largely unquestioned, of course. [...]

[...] If Christendom saw man as blighted by original sin, Darwinian and Freudian views see him as part of a flawed species in which individual life rests precariously, ever at the beck and call of the species’ needs, and with survival as the prime goal — a survival, however, without meaning. [...]

[...] Man was seen as divided against himself — a conscious figurehead, resting uneasily above the mighty haunches of unconscious beastliness. [...]

[...] (There was some other stuff I got but I’ve forgotten it already.) Anyway the chapter was to be followed according to what I got, by one on frightened people who suddenly break out of old ideas, open their mental environments, and seemingly work miracles in their lives; like the old man, the old woman....

“Maybe between one and two thousand years after the Creation a worldwide flood destroyed practically everything, though some species, including man, survived. [...] Why man’s sin, resulting in the catastrophic flood, to which all species fell victim? The regular theory of evolution doesn’t have to contend with such questions, of course, but in the book I just read no explanations for questions like that are given—I don’t even remember that they were raised.

[...] The explanation for man’s use of language sounded a bit pat, too: God just made him that way.

“I’d say that both the creation and evolution models suffer from logical and emotional sloppiness, and that neither one presents a reasonable view of man’s origins. [...]

People generally have been taught to play down their own heroism, and to concentrate upon man’s weaknesses, and so your newspapers contain categorized fact upon fact, emphasizing man’s errors and stupidities. [...]

[...] The misuse of animals, man’s stupidity and cruelty, so it seems that the species is nearly insane.

Unless Ruburt does, no one will remark about this young man. [...]

(Jim H. told of finding a man asleep at his work. [...]

You can indeed change them, but do not deny the part of you that wanted to wring the other man’s neck. [...]

[...] So before he even admits to himself what he feels, hiding any acknowledgement of aggression, he bends down and says, “My good man, may you live long and heartily. [...]

[...] Our poor man is again subconsciously aware of the intent, but only to some degree.

The very fact that the man has been driven into a corner has made him desperate enough so that he is able to concentrate large amounts of energy on her behalf. [...]

[...] There will also be an improving of company prestige, and this development hinges, believe it or not, one man who is at present considered relatively innocuous and unimportant. [...]

Man, on the other hand, has more to contend with. [...]

[...] The majority of accepted beliefs — religious, scientific, and cultural — have tended to stress a sense of powerlessness, impotence, and impending doom — a picture in which man and his world is an accidental production with little meaning, isolated yet seemingly ruled by a capricious God. [...]

[...] You will perhaps recognize a certain similarity between this concept and the Christian concept of a Trinity, except that the Trinity concept, while hinting at diversity within prime unity, was nevertheless distorted by man’s own sense of his own adopted and unfortunate delusion of duality.

[...] Here man attempts to externalize a division he feels within himself, individually. [...]

[...] This is known, that man forms his god in his own image.

[...] Plato then saw Framework 2 as a splendid, absolute model in which all the works of man had their initial source. Man himself, according to this concept, could not affect that ideal world one whit. [...]

I think the idea of the ether is an excellent example of how man has always attempted to posit or visualize in physical reality his innate knowledge of Framework 2.

[...] While Seth is not “blatantly” male, in his actions and speech he is more a man’s man than the woman’s man type. [...]

Organized religion professes to hold the opposite idea, that man’s identity is independent of physical matter—after death. It often looks askance, however, at any investigations that might show man taking advantage of that independence now. While it preaches the survival of the soul, it is suspiciously uninterested in studying cases in which there seems to be communication between the quick and the “dead.”

With all Seth has told us about man’s potentials, I must admit that we’ve wondered at times why the race isn’t more developed morally and spiritually.

Something about the third man who could possibly be in control or something—definitely won’t be. [...]

A rich man who tries to be poor for a day to learn what poverty is learns little because he cannot forget the great wealth that is available to him, and he can very easily return to his fine home. And though he eats the same poor fare as the poor man for a day and lives in the same poor house for a day or a year or five years, he knows he has his mansion to return to and so he cannot relate. [...]

Now when I said in the last class session that I preferred, if you must project your thoughts and images upon me that, instead of thinking of me as a wise old man, you thought of me as a lark in the morning, I meant because I am such an old bird. [...]

[...] For example, I was thinking of the Los Angeles earthquake, one man walked out into the street and was killed by a brick. [...]