“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

2. Free will is the philosophical doctrine that the individual has the freedom to choose, without coercion, some actions consistent with his or her particular morals and ideals. [...]

Through the centuries philosophical and religious thinkers have created numerous complicated variations of ideas involving free will and determinism, so that neither thesis is as simple as it first appears to be. [...]

Many people no longer believe in life after death, and so large numbers of the population are philosophically denied a spiritual or a physical future.

Now, there are some philosophical matters that I would like to clear. [...]

[...] In such a philosophical world it would seem that man had no power at all.

[...] For weeks after her admittance in April, I didn’t know if Jane would ever do any “psychic” work again, but three months later she surprised me by beginning a series of dialogues similar to the “world-view” material she’d produced for her books on the psychologist and philosopher William James, and the artist Paul Cézanne. [...]

(Long pause.) For adults, ideas of health and illness are intimately connected with philosophical, religious, and social beliefs. [...]

[...] Ruburt was distressed—not only by the individual’s situation, but by the philosophic implications. [...]

Ruburt is working through the philosophical problems that were really only questions not completely asked. [...]

[...] He is challenging those ideas emotionally and philosophically, uniting physical action and inner mobility. [...]

[...] And so that the scientist and mathematicians, the religious men, the philosophers, could find no fault with our reasoning. [...]

[...] You are simply not used to directing your intellects toward philosophical material and then applying it to yourselves and to your lives. [...]

[...] She called Seth a philosopher.”He’s smarter than I am.” [...]

(Being individualists, then, as I wrote in the Introductory Notes for Volume 1, we don’t concentrate upon whatever parallels exist between Seth’s concepts on the one hand and those of Eastern religious, philosophical, and mystical doctrines on the other; while we know of such similarities, we’re just as aware of how different from them Seth’s viewpoint can be, too. [...]

[...] And what about the philosophical questions involving free will in all of this? [...]

An imaginary ant, a philosophical one, might sit and in its own way contemplate how often you walked the floor in a period that might seem like a year to it. [...]

[...] Our philosopher keeps in touch with the other ants, until with time and work and patience, a chart is made and calculations drawn. [...]

[...] You form the reality that you know, not esoterically, not symbolically, not philosophically. [...]

1. Jane’s book (which is now being typeset) is The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s book The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James explains that feeling very well. [...]

Again, you cannot separate your systems of values and your most intimate philosophical judgments from the other areas of your private or mass experience.

(With pauses): Your scientists are finally learning what philosophers have known for centuries — that mind can influence matter. [...]

[...] Yet he felt that women were inferior, and that his very abilities made him vulnerable, that he would be ridiculed by others, that women were not taken seriously as profound thinkers, or innovators in philosophical matters.

[...] Such communication demands a complete knowledge of the root assumptions of such eras, and of the general philosophical and scientific climate of thought at the time.