“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These conditions also occur in some varieties of religious cults, whether or not strict sexual segregation is enforced. [...]

[...] Some believe that suffering is a punishment sent by God for past or present sins, or even omissions, while other religious schools insist that suffering is sent by God as evidence of his particular love for the individual involved: “God must love you very much, because he sent you so much suffering.” [...]

A person’s private experience happens in the context of his psychological and biological status, and basically cannot be separated from his religious and philosophical beliefs and sentiments, and his cultural environment and political framework —

[...] It involves great sweeping psychological attitudes on the part of many, and meets the needs and desires of those involved — needs which, in your terms, arise in a framework of religious, psychological and cultural realities that cannot be isolated from biological results.

(Emphatically:) Many people who would not get the disease in any case are then religiously inoculated with it. [...]

[...] (Loudly, then whispering so softly that I could barely hear:) This book will, then, be devoted to the nature of the great sweeping emotional, religious, or biological events that often seem to engulf the individual, or to lift him or her willy-nilly in their power.

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

[...] In religious terms you begin to glimpse a promised land—a “land” of psyche and reality that represents unimpeded nature (again all intently. [...]

[...] He’s become quite religiously oriented, as is his right. I think that as I joyfully talked about my magical exploration in the dream, I was telling him something like: “Hey, there’s more than one way to explore the self, to be religious!” And I think that Linden and I were in correspondence in the dream state, and that in some way he got the message. [...]

[...] For several reasons, not all of them are religious, many of them simply cultural, you do not relate on a deep level to some of the people with whom you deal, the ordinary, square parishioner with quite conventional religious ideas. [...]

[...] That one sentence is basically (underlined) scientific heresy, and in many circles it is religious heresy as well. [...]

[...] She is not religiously inclined in your terms because she does not need religion in those terms. [...]

The material represented a body of teaching, which was at variance not only with his own childhood religious background, but to some extent with the intellectual ideas of early adulthood. [...]

In parentheses: (This is why the father did not go himself, but sent his son, according to the religious story.)

[...] Dr. Hal had a teacher many years ago, a woman, who used to walk with William James; indeed, he read part of his Varieties of Religious Experience to her. [...]

(These notes hardly do justice to the string of events that led to Carol and Fred meeting Miss Dineen—from the couple’s leaving Watkins Glen, motoring to Elmira, deciding upon how to find us, asking a policeman finally for directions to a book-store, going to the wrong bookstore—Rubin’s—just as Miss Dineen came out of the religious bookstore almost next door, Miss Dineen first directing them to 458 West Water, then remembering that we’d moved, etc. [...]

Organized religion has committed many important blunders, yet for centuries Christianity provided a context accepted by large portions of the known world, in which experience could be judged against very definite “rules” — experience once focused, chiselled, and yet allowed some rich expression as long as it stayed within the boundaries set by religious dogma.

[...] There were set rules for almost all kinds of social encounters and religious experiences. [...]

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

(“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. While I was making the drawing the four or five boxes of different cards were laid out before me so that I could refer to them, and the religious box was among them.

[...] The drawing was for a gummed sticker to be applied to a line of packaged cards of various kinds—religious, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, etc., and was for a large old department store in Philadelphia, PA, that goes under the cavalier name of John’s Bargain Store. [...]

[...] There are great sweeping changes in religious concepts abroad in your times, and these represent man’s innate knowledge. [...]

[...] A continuity that Ruburt overlooks, having to do with his continuing interest in religious matters from the time of childhood, echoed in the poetry and in the science fiction. [...]

[...] I usually use the term “entity” in preference to the term “soul,” simply because those particular misconceptions are not so connected with the word “entity,” and its connotations are less religious in an organizational sense.

[...] You were quite right in your material (at the end of the last session) concerning Ruburt’s religious conditioning, in connection with his physical problems. [...]

Some of my friends may not watch such programs at all, but instead look at wholesome sagas, or religious dramas. [...]