“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you are tired of playing a Catholic priest, for example, you will fall into your own trap — in which your beliefs [as such a one] are suddenly worked out to their logical perfection, and you see what they mean.

[...] The psychologist, the priest, the physicist, the philosopher or the guru, can explain your own psyche to you only insofar as those specialists can forget that they are specialists, and deal directly with the private psyche from which all specializations come.

([Gert:] “Was this friend that agitated him a priest?”)

He was not a priest in a past life, he was a sailor. [...]

(Long pause at 10:36.) Throughout the ages monks, priests, and religious organizations have become segregated from the rest of humanity. [...]

The voodoo and the healer, the witch doctor and the priest, are all held in honor, yet are also looked upon with a certain terror because of the power and knowledge involved. [...]

[...] The article concerns the efforts of a priest to build a seminary in Portugal. The priest’s order, the Dominicans, had been expelled from Portugal in 1834, and was readmitted in 1940.

[...] The article on page 12 of the newspaper, dealing with the Dominican seminary in Portugal, has to do with the journey to the United States each year of a priest, Rev. Fernandes, on a fund-raising mission. [...]

[...] As popularly understood, Eastern religions can lead to spiritual exhaustion, as the individual tries to level himself out, again, so to speak — and the popular understanding of a religion is far more important than the priests or the gurus understand it, for people directed their lives by following their own versions. [...]

[...] As his uncle, the father was also involved with him in two past lives in the same relationship, and as priests they were also interested in the inner workings of the universe.

[...] It results from priestly existences where you were both highly involved with calculations having to do with the movement of planets. [...]

[...] There were cultural reasons connected here also, but the people in the society were taught to rely upon the priests, so that that authority became substituted for deep individual reliance upon the self.

For centuries, priests of one kind or another have been put in charge of “reading God’s messages,” and interpreting them to the rest of mankind, just as in later times the scientists have been put in the position of interpreting man’s own world to him—in terms quite as esoteric as those of any religion. [...]

[...] One a priest. [...]

[...] You [Jim] were also involved with him in two past lives in the same relationship, and as priests you both were interested in the inner workings of the universe.”

[...] “They result from your two priestly existences where you were both highly involved with calculations having to do with movement of the planets.”

[...] So far we have run across very few priests, and no one else who lived in Atlantis.)

In your terms, the intersection with probabilities occurred one day in an interview the child had with a priest. [...] The child in seventh or eighth grade wrote a poem, expressing the desire to be a nun, and brought it to a parish priest. In your probability, the priest told the child that she was needed by her mother; but intuitively he saw that Ruburt’s mysticism would not fit into the church organization.

Again, however, this represents the male lives with which the self has been involved — the young boy, the priest, the aggressive “jungle man,” and the wise old man. [...]

There were deeply-significant roots to his relationships with the various priests, that had almost magical connotations to him and his psyche. [...]

He is strongly accusing toward anything he regards as religious deceit, because of his experience you see, with several priests in the past. [...]

[...] Spiritualism exists with such fervor in your country because Americans like the idea of a communication with the dead on an individual basis, minus the intervention of priests, and hence the pioneering spirit was early tuned to do-it-yourself séances and the like. [...]

The church was quite real to Ruburt as a child, through the priests who came [to the house] regularly, through direct contact with the religious [grade] school, and the support offered to the family. [...]

[...] When he left it, however, he was without such a structure, and when he did discuss such matters with the priests, they often had more pragmatic sexual interests in mind.

To some extent the churches as well as the scientists are responsible, but priests and scientists are not some foreign people, thrust upon you. [...]

[...] They became, until recently, the new priests. [...]