“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Some ancient religions put the existence of gods there, and saw the spirits of each living thing as existing primarily in that invisible medium of reality. [...]

Organized religion professes to hold the opposite idea, that man’s identity is independent of physical matter—after death. [...]

[...] The theories expand the meaning of individuality and challenge us to accept the larger self that both science and religion at various times have taught us to deny.

[...] Only when the private nature of reality was emphasized sufficiently would I be ready to show how the magnification of individual reality combines and enlarges to form vast mass reactions — such as, say, the initiation of an obviously new historical and cultural period; the rise or overthrow of governments; the birth of a new religion that sweeps all others before it; mass conversions; mass murders in the form of wars; the sudden sweep of deadly epidemics; the scourge of earthquakes, floods, or other disasters; the inexplicable appearance of periods of great art or architecture or technology.

[...] His culture, his religion, his psychologies, and his psychological nature together form the context within which both private and mass events occur. [...]

What is the relationship between the individual and the gigantic mass motions of nature, of government, or even of religion? [...]

[...] Through all of man’s religions and philosophies that line of thought has been most prominent; those who had the most energy suffered from it the most, of course. [...]

[...] We talked about religion. [...]

[...] They suffered, in other words, for religion’s sake. [...]

[...] The generally explosive predicament in Iran, for example, has been considerably aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan over the recent Christmas season: Now the unbending revolutionary government of Iran, following its own fanatical interpretation of the Moslem religion, must contend with at least an implied threat on its eastern border as the godless Russians occupy Afghanistan. [...]

[...] He enjoyed the thought of mediums defying organized religions, and of women in such a position putting scientific establishment investigators to shame. [...]

[...] Religions have gone astray, of course, by insisting upon the literal interpretation of symbolic material. [...]

[...] Such a framework may have been filled with potential problems, but there were usually ways in life to get around those ways that were specified according to religion or culture. [...]

[...] Are you trying to tell me religion has been in back of this all of the time? [...]

[...] Hints of those abilities are always present in the dream state, and in the arts, in the religions, and even in the sciences. [...]

(Long pause at 9:41.) Your religions have been largely patterned from such self-disapproving bases. [...]

These are ancient truths, they are behind each religion.

[...] With all of their dire faults and distortions, religions have at least kept alive the idea of unseen, valid worlds, and given some affirmation to concepts that are literally known by the cells. [...]

[...] They are largely the result of the interpretations of religion as conventionally understood. [...]

[...] At the same time he must deal with the chicanery of politics itself, and the face-saving devices known so well to religion and politics both.

[...] For you both, it has implications about the distortions of religion in its organized format, and other implications that will come to your own minds.

The personality has endeavored to right old wrongs, and has succeeded to a great degree, but at the risk of sacrificing inner spontaneity, and even at the risk of losing the very authoritative aspects of his nature, so that there is still a tendency to follow rather than to lead; simply because in the period of the Inquisition he was in a place of authority, he led; and he led men into atrocities committed in the fine name of principle and religion. [...]

[...] The interest in extrasensory perception, the interest in science and religion, all represent efforts on his part to tie various of his older personalities together, and to learn from their mistakes.

[...] 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. [...] Your religions do not explain your greater reality, and your sciences leave you just as ignorant about the nature of the universe in which you dwell.