“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In drawing up his list of so-called natural laws, I have said that man decided that what appeared to be cause and effect to him was therefore a natural law of the universe. [...]

[...] However conscious fears cause the ego to tighten its grasp and some effects of this nature were starting up again. [...]

[...] The pain however while definite, unpleasant and sometimes agonizing, is not of an emotional nature in the same way that you might experience pain.

[...] Except for the suggestion and stimulus received by regular natural forces on your plane, the plant life does not bestir itself in other directions. [...]

[...] Illness not natural, etc. [...]

(Ironically, Charles Darwin’s natural selection, “the survival of the fittest,” [a phrase that Darwin himself did not originate, by the way], allows for all sorts of pain and suffering in the process — the same unhappy facts of life, in Darwin’s view, that finally turned him into an agnostic, away from a God who could allow such things to exist! [...] Instead, he assigned the pain and suffering in the world to the impersonal workings of natural selection and chance variation [or genetic mutation]. For Darwin and his followers — even those of today, then — nature’s effects gave the appearance of design or plan in the universe without necessitating a belief in a designer or a god; although, as I wrote in Note 7, from the scientific standpoint this belief leaves untouched the question of design in nonliving matter, which is vastly more abundant in the “objective” universe than is living matter, and had to precede that living matter.

Now, if you had all been really paying attention to what I have been saying for some time about the simultaneous nature of time and existence, then you would have known that the theory of evolution is as beautiful a tale as the theory of Biblical creation. [...]

(I think it more than a coincidence that in these excerpts from Seth Speaks, Seth mentions Darwin’s theory of evolution and the Biblical story of creation in the same sentence, for those systems of belief represent the two poles of the controversy over origins in our modern Western societies: the strictly Darwinistic, mechanistic view of evolution, in which the weakest of any species are ruthlessly eliminated through natural, predatory selection, and the views of the creationists, who hold that God made the earth and all of its creatures just as described in the Bible.

[...] Seth discussed the repression of natural aggression, and mentioned the sense of guilt that arose in early man with the birth of compassion. [...]

[...] At the same time, for many reasons there has been a difficulty in accepting the natural patterns of his own individualistic growth—and that is partially because there were no neat categories in which they seemed to naturally fall. [...]

[...] She’s even let go writing up her recent dream material, some of which has been excellent, with apparent precognitive information of a positive nature.

[...] Among them is Jane’s fear of the controversial nature of Seth’s medical material, which led to Prentice-Hall’s installation of the hated disclaimer.

[...] Creatively, on that level alone, he also feels stalled, since he does not know whether or not to continue with my book, or whether or not to begin one of his own—so you have a stalled mobility, without any particular decisions being made of a clear-cut nature. [...]

[...] He is afraid, naturally enough of the change, but the fear of not making it is far greater. He is determined that you have the chance despite any consequences, despite natural fears or anything else.

[...] It is the life-style he feels that is natural to you, and if you deviate from it for too long you become less unified and relatively listless. He feels then you will be working once again actively toward a common goal, with a life-style suited more daily to your natures.

He railed, again, about the psychic work, but this, while important, was deeply recognized as a part of his nature, an extension of it long before he consciously accepted it. [...]

[...] You see his nature.

[...] His illness brought up a million questions about the nature of illness and death, age, and so forth, backed up by your society’s negative beliefs, so you tried harder not to think of your friend Leonard, and of course you couldn’t relax. [...]

Now: Had you been following your natural impulses, your body cells would have picked up that message easily. [...]

The similar nature of your complaint to Leonard’s, however, should have instantly reminded you of such a situation. [...]

[...] But the time has come for mankind to take several steps further, to expand the nature of his own consciousness by trying to comprehend a more profound version of reality. [...]

The back room idea, however, will serve to reinforce the private nature of the sessions in your own minds. [...]

[...] There were natural changes occurring in our work, and overall Ruburt has done well in handling them. [...]

[...] It was, however, biologically locked into earthly existence, and so meant to understand its natural heritage. [...] Its survival was so linked to the rest of nature that it would of necessity always have to return to that base. [...]

[...] There were, then, smaller and larger species of men,⁴ with varying conscious connections with the rest of nature. [...]

[...] Jane’s quick and impassioned response through her own writing, as presented below, reflects feelings deeply rooted within her mystical nature, and also illuminates important aspects of the body and direction of the Seth material as a whole. [...]

[...] I added that even though we have no interest in putting down other approaches to inner reality, still we’re firm believers in the “inviolate nature of the individual consciousness, before, during, and after physical existence, in ordinary terms.”¹ So, here, we leave it up to the reader to make the intuitive and overt connections between Seth’s philosophy and the material Jane wrote today. [...]

[...] A good general question, we think, and one we’d like to see discussed with our own ideas of the inviolate nature of the individual in mind, has to do with the prevalence of ordinary, daily, conscious-mind thinking and perception throughout much of the world. [...]

[...] The personality is transparent also with your nature, and learning to use those abilities which are natural to it, can indeed then rather easily learn to merge consciousness with natural phenomena.

Natural aggression provides the charge for all creativity. [...] Natural aggression is the creative loving thrust forward, the way in which love is activated, the fuel through whose agency love propels itself. [...]

[...] Each has a basis in natural aggression.

[...] A misunderstanding of true aggression can lead into a fear of all emotion, and cause you to cut yourself off from one of nature’s best therapies.

[...] Since strong intensities are indeed natural results of weaker intensities, it would be meaningless to call one present and one past. [...]

[...] Yet a trial and error period is extremely necessary, and in your cases natural, and should not lead to discouragement.

[...] Naturally it is possible to have very successful experiments along these lines. [...]

[...] It was natural for him to want to continue, under the circumstances, but to continue would not have been wise. [...]

Bodily motion is obviously of itself healing in nature. [...]

[...] It has always been your individual and joint search —a private determination to glimpse what you could of the nature of man, that was not glimpsed before.

[...] But I also have your natures to think of—quite lovingly, by the way.

[...] Trust your nature, and then you will see that what you consider mistakes are simply insights that come out of place, so to speak, and that has to do with your remarks before the session.

We will try to give an explanation of your question concerning the nature of evolution.

(“Now, if you had all been really paying attention to what I have been saying for some time about the simultaneous nature of time and existence, then you would have known that the theory of evolution is as beautiful a tale as the theory of biblical creation. [...]

[...] The living portions of nature are the result of your own creativity, projections and fragments of your own energy; energy that comes to you from All That Is and goes outward from you, forming its own image manifestations as you form yours.

You are biologically connected, chemically connected with the earth that you know; but since it is also formed naturally and spontaneously from your own projected psychic energy, since you and the seasons even have a psychic interaction, then the self must be understood in a far greater context. [...]

[...] I intend to deal with them in depth in The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, where the background, particularly for Frameworks 1 and 2, has already been established.

[...] Now in my other books I have rarely commented upon public events of any nature. [...]

[...] The scientists have their own vocabulary, which is used to reinforce the exclusive nature of science. [...]

[...] They are trained to be unemotional, to stand apart from their experience, to separate themselves from nature, and to view any emotional characteristics of their own with an ironical eye. [...]

In a sense any color or quality of that nature could be considered a mental enzyme. [...]

[...] I hope to go into this also at a further time, because there are definite reasons for this that have nothing or little to do with you personally, but represent a more or less natural distortion of data along these lines. [...]

[...] If this were the case your walls would fall away, since intellectually you understand their rather dubious nature. [...]

[...] Any of these discussions are of necessity of a simple and uncomplicated nature. [...]

[...] He is being healed, but with conscious cooperation, and relying upon the fact that you form your reality—not, for example, by simply accepting another framework of belief—but his dealing with the nature of beliefs themselves, and this is an achievement. [...]

[...] When this is accomplished the teeth will tighten again naturally, and are. [...]

[...] A natural-enough resentment comes to the surface at times, natural enough under the circumstances, in which he objects to taking special time out, but largely he is overcoming that attitude and a more pliable attitude toward the body is being set up.

[...] An inverted time system actually presents us with a system that more closely approximates the true nature of time. [...]

[...] Again, this sort of a system is very close to the true nature of time.

[...] Much of the material that I have given you concerning the nature of physical matter will be helpful when considered in connection with this material on time.

[...] It is extremely difficult for a psychological structure to view itself, for in order to do so it must lift itself from the limitations and abilities of its own nature. [...]

[...] The session itself indicates, of course, the nature of the notes. [...]

[...] The stresses and strains are in a fashion not simply those of one person and that person’s relationship with his own nature. [...]

(Very long pause at 10:21.) The statements I have made regarding the innate nature of the spontaneous self can be of the greatest service if they are accepted. [...]

[...] At first glance it seems contradictory of nature to do that, or to make such a conflict possible, yet it must happen all the time. [...]