“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Guilt can be used to manipulate people, of course, and it is a fine tool in the hands of government, religion, science, or any large organization that wants to retain its power.

[...] The species could have survived quite well physically without philosophy, the arts, politics, religion, or even structured language. [...]

[...] It would be hardly a coincidence, I added, that the mass events at Jonestown and Three Mile Island took place within less than six months of each other, and that they represented the two poles, or extremes, of mankind’s present main belief systems: religion and science.

[...] Religion deals with the idea of an afterlife, again, a future event. [...]

[...] Even in school, both religion and science teachers found him troublesome in that regard. [...]

[...] The ideas that we are promoting would indeed change your society—and to some extent they are—for they are altering your readers’ ideas about reality, and challenging the concepts of science, religion, and to a lesser degree, of government itself.

[...] When Ruburt discovered that his energy and abilities had led him to a point where he was at odds with religion and science, and had no place to roost, thematically, he became very worried.

One of the reasons that the intellect refused to see, that its own search was bound to end up in this fashion, was Ruburt’s inability to see beyond organized religion’s hypocrisy. [...]

There will be an evolution of it, and an evolution of all religion as the people realize that the God is within them. [...]

[...] Yet all of his religious background gave him an immersion in a strong organized religion. [...]

I get a connection with a missionary, or religion, and the number 8, and something rising. [...]

(“I get a connection with a missionary, or religion”, is a reference to the fact that the stickers were to be used on boxes of religious cards, as well as other categories. [...]

[...] There are various schools and religions that try to express the self’s validity, but their distortions have smothered the basic authenticity of the teachings.

(1. The material on Jane, religion, and mysticism in the Introductory Notes, the 679th session and Appendix 1 for that session.

Again, that belief in the need for control is rooted in the earlier concepts of the Sinful Self (long pause)—concepts that have come to the fore in current contemporary world events with the new attention being given to religious cults and religions. [...]

[...] Although Jane enjoys the sessions, as Seth himself said in the session for February 1, 1981 She is still somewhat afraid of what he will produce in the future—new theories and ideas that either might or will place her in further confrontation with the major tenets of our ordinary world—meaning science, religion, medicine, history, whatever. [...]

(Pause at 9:57.) Let those who will, laugh at tales of spirits turning into the trees⁵ — a simplistic theory, certainly, yet a symbolic statement in such societies: The dead were buried at home in the same close territory, to form in later times the very composition of the ground upon which religions grew. [...]

[...] They displayed an exquisite artistry in their toolmaking, painting, and religion—indeed, in their whole culutre. [...]

[...] Neither religion or science grant other creatures much subjective dimension, however: You like to think of yourselves, again, as the reasoning animal in terms of your species.

(Gnosticism was a selected system of religion and philosophy, uniting features of Platonism, orientalism, Christianity, and dualism. [...]

[...] Man for centuries attached faith, hope, and charity to the beliefs of established religions. [...]

No — just the questions about the world religions, and those pertaining to the third Christ and allied subjects.