“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Jane Roberts and Robert Butts have had letters from scientists of all kinds, many of them academics. In some ways the Seth material has been given credit by the establishment; being taught as university course work, for example. But often readers have been afraid to admit publicly that they have found truth in metaphysical sources. They have been trapped by the boundaries of what science has so far accepted into its family: an ethnocentrically perfect “set” of beliefs, with metaphysical mysteries denied, avoided, or written out.

So far, metaphysics has only been entertainment, a step-science of our culture; part of the extended family of science for the purposes of inspiration and ideas, but not given credit as scientific truth. Frowned upon. Even feared.

Scientific truths have always been rewritten through the centuries. I believe that metaphysics is a science of empathetic responses.

[...] The woman through whom I speak found herself in an unusual situation, comma, for no theories — metaphysical, psychological, or otherwise — could adequately explain her experience. [...]

[...] (Pause at 11:35.) Your concepts of personhood are now limiting you personally and en masse, and yet your religions, metaphysics, histories, and even your sciences are hinged upon your ideas of who and what you are. [...]

[...] It is understood that the author is breaking new ground—but metaphysical ground. [...]

[...] The metaphysical elements are actually quite at variance with the science fiction audience: the reincarnational aspects in particular. [...]

The stuff of the body should not be considered as some metaphysical result, then, but as a living gestalt of responsive flesh. [...]

[...] The poetry is an excellent merging of his metaphysical interests and his art. [...]

This is not a dry metaphysical statement. [...]

[...] Laurel has been Seth’s “metaphysical apprentice,” as she recently put it, for fourteen years now. [...]

[...] I bid you a fond good evening, and we have opened up a fine kettle of metaphysical fish.

In metaphysical terms, you have your being in your psyche or soul in somewhat the same manner. [...]

[...] As our own knowledge increased, however, we found that in some critical areas Seth’s ideas departed from those generally accepted in much spiritualist and metaphysical literature.

[...] Seth’s idea of the nature of pain is also quite divorced, I believe, from current metaphysical thought. [...]

[...] In the terms of your earthly experience, it is a metaphysical, a scientific, and a creative error to separate matter from consciousness, for consciousness materializes itself as matter in physical life.

[...] Metaphysics and psychology have not met, in other words.

One book will deal primarily with metaphysical realities, and will be designed for those more intellectually gifted. [...]

Not only do your metaphysics and sciences suffer, but your daily experience as a human being is far less than it could be. [...]

[...] Although he did not believe in metaphysical realities, he had heard the book was the best of it’s kind, and they found it in a used-book store in Seattle, Washington. [...]

[...] Metaphysically, they can be thought of as the point at which All That Is acts to form [your] world—the immediate contact of a never-ending creative inspiration, coming into mental focus, the metamorphosis of certainly divine origin that brings the physical world into existence from the greater reality of divine fact. [...]

In a way, that concept puts a psychological devil in place of the metaphysical one. [...]

[...] The intellectual concepts will be enlarged in all areas—the scientific, metaphysical, psychological and psychic. [...]

(9:35.) Men’s dreams were also different in those times, filled far more with metaphysical images, for example, more alive with saints and demons — but overall one framework of belief existed, and all experience was judged in its light. [...]

[...] I can’t help wondering!) Portions of the latest scientific literature I have on hand, particularly that produced by physicists, contain references that not long ago would have been branded as metaphysical, or even worse.