“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In a distant future, even in your field, the limits of the so-called objective world will clearly be known and demonstrated, and a great freedom for mankind will result.

At the present time they may only represent distant ideals, against which mankind measures itself, yet many of them can indeed be realized in the world as it is, if only people become more aware of their expressive capabilities so that the main direction of their lives are expressive rather than repressive. [...]

[...] In considering “immortality,” mankind seems to hope for further egotistical development, and yet he objects to the idea that such development might involve change. [...]

Now, mankind builds civilizations. [...]

[...] In like manner, mankind has a tendency to project his own guilt and his own errors upon a father-god image, who it seems must grow weary of so many complaints.

[...] Yet it is precisely this struggle between ego’s struggles for stability, and the personality’s attempt to expand spontaneously, that is at the basis of much of mankind’s achievements, and that is certainly the basis for much of his art.

[...] Great acts of heroism have also resulted, however, and men, it seems, have spent themselves in following an ideal that they hoped to actualize for the rest of mankind. [...]

Both privately and en masse, then, mankind utilizes the dream world as a preliminary working ground. [...]

(10:28.) Now: (Long pause.) Mankind is a species (long pause) that specializes in the use of the imagination, and without the imagination language would be unnecessary. [...]

I have used the term “expansion of consciousness” here rather than the more frequently used “cosmic consciousness” (pause), because the latter implies an experience of proportions not available to mankind at this time. [...]

Neither school understands the flexibility and the possibilities that are inherent within the conscious mind, and mankind has barely begun to use its potentials.

[...] Mankind did at one time have what you may call a heavier body than at present. [...]

Mankind’s most majestic experiences, and his most unfortunate, still come from that same great creative force. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I fail to see, however, that the most precise mathematical data will enhance the spiritual, psychic, creative condition of mankind (smile), unless it deals with issues that throw light upon the nature of existence, in basic terms. [...]

[...] That species forms the races of mankind that you recognize.

[...] In it I quote Seth from the class session for June 23, 1970, as excerpted in the Appendix for Seth Speaks: “In this reality, [each of] you very nicely emphasize all the similarities which bind you together; you make a pattern of them, and you very nicely ignore all the dissimilarities … If you were able to focus your attention on the dissimilarities, merely those that you can perceive but do not, then you would be amazed that mankind can form any idea of an organized reality.”

In certain areas of mass shared dreams, collective mankind deals with the problems of his political and social objective structure. [...]

[...] They are not eccentric versions of humanity at all, but instead provide a hint of mankind’s true capacities.

Mankind is to some intimate degree acquainted with this attempt of action to recreate itself, for human reproduction is here a case in point, each individual attempting to create a replica, the attempt doomed to failure, but the attempt itself resulting in a distortion of the original action; that is, a distortion of the original individuals, and in the creation of a new reality, this process then being repeated indefinitely.

[...] In this line of beliefs he was able to do anything — cure mankind’s ills if he chose, or withhold such knowledge from the world to punish it. [...]

[...] I certainly advocate that the body of the material be made available to the public, and indeed its purpose is to help mankind understand himself, so that he may understand the world which mirrors his inner reality.