“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It was a national holiday, sacrificial day ...something that we would translate into atonement but that wasn’t the word at all ...where children were sacrificed, so that the earth would grow ... [...]

[...] Individually, and as tribes or nations, you follow certain “progressions” — and yet in so doing you act also on the part of the whole of nature. [...]

[...] Despite many of your cherished, erroneous beliefs, your nations exist as the result of cooperation, not competition, as do all social groupings. [...]

(9:20.) Since so many were involved, and since the temple people were their own community, then the symbolism also involves nations. [...]

(From The National Enquirer of March 27, 1979)

(Pause.) In your terms man is of course still learning, and as he set up barriers between lands and formed separate nations, so he also set up divisions between aspects of his own consciousness and awareness, in his terms, so he could deal with them one at a time. [...]

[...] Be aware, however, of the sudden reassurances from Framework 2. (Also at Prentice)—The news program invitation (from ABC), which places you in a context, however small, of national interest—an invitation that you did not court; these, plus many excellent letters of late, should show you of course the beneficial aspects of your work that you can at times overlook (with irony). [...]

[...] The same applies, for example, to national conditions, until finally the ignored areas become so obvious that something must be done.

(9:48.) A ruler cannot make his decisions based upon national events only, but he must take international ones into mind, and in a more direct fashion, say, than even 10 years ago. [...]

(Pause at 10:49.) Those who are born into the same nationality, say twice consecutively, learn to speak much quicker the second time around. [...]

[...] The story was largely a refutation of an article concerning drugs in Elmira, published by a national tabloid, the National Mirror. [...]

[...] After supper this evening I read a news account of the riches accruing to a nationally known popular writer, his son and daughter, who shall be nameless here. [...]

[...] If anything, it adds to my argument—for if those theories really held sway, one nation or another by now would have already destroyed your world. [...]

(10:20.) I want to make it plain that such ideas are rampant in society, and are at the basis of many personal and national problems. [...]

[...] This applies to individuals, societies, races and nations, and to sociological, biological and psychic activities.

(Pause.) In ways really difficult to describe, your bodily processes, and what you think of as, say, cultural or national events, are highly connected and a part of each other. [...]

Now this leads to other adventures in which whole civilizations may be involved, for as individuals have their probable destinies, so do civilizations, nations, and inhabited planetary systems. [...]

(10:20.) I want to make it plain that such ideas are rampant in society, and are at the basis of many personal and national problems. [...]

Those principles which I gave you as applying to the individual must obviously apply to nations and to peoples. Therefore if the individual can change his own past, then it must follow that a people can change its past, that a nation can change past events, that the future can influence the past historically, and even you see that a death can alter a birth.

In like manner, England in all probability next year will not suddenly turn into a Mohammedan nation. [...]

1. In Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality Seth began developing his theory of counterparts — that the larger psychological self, or entity, of each of us manifests not just one physical life in any given century, say, but several, so as to gain that much more experience in a variety of roles involving different ages, nationalities and languages, sexual orientations, family roles, and so forth. [...]