“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There was a Spanish life in the 13th century and one in what is now the state of California in the very early 1800’s. You have been twice a woman, three times a man. [...]

[...] The physical environment is real in different terms to an animal, a fish, a man, or a rock, for example, and different portions of that environment are correspondingly unreal [to each of those forms]. [...]

[...] This Wilford, while carrying on within his own drama as, say, a sickly grocer in Iowa, with a mistress he cannot support, and a wife that he must support (with amusement) — this poor, besieged man on station KYU is also aware of all the other programs going on at the other stations. [...]

[...] In certain ways man also projected outward the idea of a devil or devils, and for somewhat the same reasons, so that he could identify with what he thought of as the unsavory portions of the psyche as he understood them at any given time. [...]

There are many myths connected with my name.⁶ They all represent portions of the psyche as they were understood at various times in man’s history. [...]

[...] As Jane and I were leaving our place to go dancing that evening Leonard called us into his place to meet two friends of his, a man and a woman, not married; we have forgotten their names. The man, who was also planning to attend the VFW affair later that evening, gave Jane and me a free ticket.

[...] One having to do with a man with a mustache, and a change of locations.

[...] An encounter that had a disturbing aspect, this involving himself and another man. The man may have had a mustache of the prickly variety, or unusually bushy. [...]

[...] The third man, Ernfred Anderson, who has a national reputation as a sculptor and teacher at Elmira College, and is a close friend of Bill, Jane and mine, advised Bill to remove the painting. [...]

(Earlier that evening, class members had been discussing some of the letters they’d been answering for Jane.¹ One young man mentioned “feeling like shit” in connection with another matter — a remark that Seth must have overheard. [...]

There is a need within man to feel and express heroic impulses. [...]

[...] Through privation theory religion has created unanswerable questions for itself as it seeks to explain man’s inhumanity to man. To me, privation theory is a beautiful example of how man projects his fears of the world he’s created out upon that very world. [...]

[...] (Very long pause.) The forest is the world of your imagination, surely, the imagination of your minds, and yet given force and power by the innate creativity that rises up from an inner world that represents much more truly the origins of man and beast. [...]

Man’s focus is equally limited in perception theory, which is a deadly psychological game played by the United States and Russia. [...]

So the belief in man’s sinful nature persisted in my mind, a constant reminder of man’s ignorance of his own nature. [...]

The belief in sin and in the sinful self has been for uncounted centuries embedded in man’s concepts about himself and God. [...]

Yet even in our [Jane’s] childhood years I yearned to free us from such doctrines, to search for alternate explanations, to go where no man or woman had gone before, and to venture outside the boundaries of all official beliefs.

[...] So if in the pursuit of such goals I overdid my cautions and overreacted, it certainly was not out of malice, but in a well-meaning attempt to protect the creative self—to keep a hand of caution on its course lest the centuries of man’s belief in sin carried a true weight that I shared but could not comprehend.

[...] Ideas and beliefs bring about those obviously man-made structures that imply self-conscious minds and the ocean of interrelated social events.

[...] Even animals sense their dying ahead of time, and on that level man is no different.

[...] I am not always as serious, young man, as I intend to be with you.

[...] I tell you, young man, honestly, that halfway measures are worse than none. [...]

The man not only walks, but he walks on fire—to most, a seeming impossibility. [...]

[...] The man’s focus is there, as Ruburt focuses in his work. [...]

[...] You trust an adversary because you cannot move him; and you think, there is a man, he will not listen to me, therefore, he must really be great, and you also feared him, and that is why you trust your enemies in a strange fashion for they convince you that a portion of the race is worth saving. [...]

([Gert:] “During psy time I got a picture, I think of myself, as a man standing in a grassy area, like someone’s backyard, and a woman. [...]

Man’s creative alertness, his precise sensual focus in space and time, and his ability to react quickly to events, are of course all highly important characteristics. [...]

[...] Basically speaking, imagination cannot be tied to practicalities, for when it is man has only physical feedback. [...]

At certain levels these intents of man and nature may merge. [...]

I also think Seth’s passages in this (826th) session bear upon his remarks in Session 821, concerning man’s “true identification with nature,” his “place in the context of his physical planet.”

It must seem obvious that behind all such beliefs lies the distrust of nature, man, and life itself.

[...] The child is indeed still within the man, but he is not the child that ‘was.’ For even the child within the man constantly changes.

[...] The man’s attitude was apparent the minute he came in the door. [...]

[...] A murdered man will not be returned whole and intact to physical life [though he may return as a ‘spirit,’ believing he is still alive].

[...] And perhaps with an older man. That is, perhaps a connection with an older man.

(“And perhaps with an older man. That is, perhaps a connection with an older man.” [...]

[...] Looking down upon this car, I saw a wiry youngish man in a white shirt with the sleeves rolled above his elbows; hurriedly, he was circling the car, going all around it and peering into the windows. [...]

(The man looked up at me. [...]

(“There’s a man in there,” he said, “and there’s something wrong with him. [...]

[...] The screen cut him off at the waist, and was large in proportion to the size of the man. [...]

There is also another member of this particular family who is presently a woman, and there is also another member who is presently a man. [...]

[...] Your son was an artist, and certainly prances up and down now in the person of your Ruburt; and at the time you had no understanding nor use for art as any man’s profession; and let it be said that in this respect Ruburt treats you much better than you treated him.

[...] You went back into the house, weeping at your old man’s fate. [...]

[...] The man was in his later forties perhaps, or older. [...]

[...] But in your case, you are aware of man’s inhumanity to man. [...]

[...] The man who is capable of joy is capable, to a large extent, of changing his world. [...]