“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The entity, or the soul, has a far more creative and complicated nature than even your religions have ever granted it.

[...] This also applies to religions, and political and social situations as well. [...]

[...] The bonding to cultural beliefs of religion (long pause) was very strong to make up for that initial lack. [...]

[...] Man, for example, exhibited natural psychic activity long before the birth of science —and for that matter before the initiation of formal religion. [...]

(Pause at 10:41.) Other religions were based upon different dramas, in which ideas were acted out in a way that was comprehensible to various cultures. [...]

(A minute later:) In the psychic areas, all patterns for knowledge, cultures, civilizations, personal and mass accomplishments, sciences, religions, technologies and arts, exist in the same fashion.

[...] Love finds expression through the arts, religion, play, and helpful actions toward others. [...]

[...] You count your religions, sciences, archeologies, and triumphs over the environment, and it seems to you that no other consciousness has wrought what man’s has produced. [...]

Now, people who believe strongly in your organized religions are used to thinking in terms of an inner world. [...]

[...] People strongly believing in your organized religions color the material in a manner that is highly disadvantageous, and that unfortunately often adds to existing superstitions. [...]

[...] Master events may end up translated through mythology, or religion or art, or the effects may actually serve to give a framework to an entire civilization. [...]

[...] You may think longingly and with an almost hopeful nostalgia of the religion of your childhood, and remember a system of belief that ensured you of immortality. [...]

[...] As a result, the religions preached that only man had a soul and was dignified by emotional feelings. [...]

[...] Intellectually known truths are the goal—truths almost like some exotic product to be attained by man, as man searches through science or religion for ultimate answers.

[...] You did not have, in the past life, any idea of joy connected with religion, however, the cross being then a symbol of death, leading to a Puritan afterlife.

[...] In his mind religion was connected with self-mortification. [...]

[...] The story of the Creation, as Biblically stated, is the symbolic representation of a master event—a legend that became its own event, of course, forming about it whole arts and cultures, religions and disciplines. [...]

(Seth has dealt with psychic gestalts, religion, the Crucifixion, beginnings and endings, etc., under the general heading of the God concept, at various times. [...]

This book however will also point out the truths that do exist within the tattered garments of organized established religions; rip apart the crumbling fabric of dogma to the body of revelationary knowledge that was always there.

[...] Instead it’s as if I’m practicing some precise psychological art, one that is ancient and poorly understood in our culture; or as if I’m learning a psychological science that helps me map the contours of consciousness itself … after all this time, I’m finally examining the trance view of reality and comparing it to the official views of science and religion. [...]

[...] Because of culture and religion, an apple may remind many people of the Garden of Eden, or sin. [...]