“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are told, for instance, that certain objects or images in your dreams have a definite meaning — not necessarily your own, but following whatever psychological, mystical or religious school of thought in which you happen to be interested.

[...] Natural “mystical” experience, unclothed in dogma, is the original religious therapy that is so often distorted in ecclesiastical organizations, but it represents man’s innate recognition of his oneness with the source of his own being, and of his own experience.

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. [...]

It is no coincidence that you have been relatively free of that concept in its traditional religious connotation. [...]

[...] The compulsive behavior was also intermixed with religious connotations, the crucifix and rosary being part of the objects used at times. [...]

[...] When the situations developed which we have discussed, setting off the old conflicts, again you see, then the discipline idea was short-circuited back to the old compulsive behavior, though in different form, and with the old religious connotation of self-denial. [...]

You threw out conventional religious ideas first, and then conventional scientific ideas, so while these may be a part of your society, they are not a part of your personalized world views. [...]

[...] In reference, however, to one remark you made earlier: You have in almost all of your lives been strongly involved in what you would call religious endeavors. Your remaining lives were just as religiously involved in opposite endeavors, in your terms, but we will go into that later. [...]

[...] It became his vocation in quite religious terms.

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[...] Some use religious dogma, and others rely upon scientific dogma to prove their cases, but in any case, they are presented with a world of deception and vengeance.

[...] The beliefs boil down to your ideas of right and wrong, and they involve all of your attitudes concerning illness and health, wealth and poverty, the relationships of the races, religious conflicts, and more important, your intimate day-by-day psychological reality.

The unconscious is understood to be a garbage heap of undesirable impulses, long ago discarded by civilization, while again much religious theory projects the image of the hidden self that must be kept in bounds by good work, prayer, and penance.

[...] “The next line was to be: your current scientific and religious ideas of reality are like children’s tales.” [...]

[...] The work of mediums, or books about mediums, that deal exclusively with conventional religious concepts, and that interpret reality in those limited terms.

[...] You cannot, each of you, consider the real meaning of your own sexuality unless you understand your own religious history. [...]

Through the centuries philosophical and religious thinkers have created numerous complicated variations of ideas involving free will and determinism, so that neither thesis is as simple as it first appears to be. [...]

I want to add that even with ideas of religious determinism—that man cannot know God’s will, for instance, or is quite dependent upon that divine grace—we’re still creating our conscious ideas of what God is, in those terms. [...]

The entanglements were those that were necessary in the context of that religious drama. [...]

[...] It was the business of the rulers to know in which direction the religious winds blew. [...]

If this happens, all kinds of old and new religious denominations will war, and all kinds of ideologies surface. [...]

Because of the ego’s particular line of development, you have experimented with artificial drugs and chemicals, both in foods and for medicinal purposes, as well as for “religious” enlightenment. [...]

[...] The hatred the Shiites hold for the Bahais is based upon a century-old, primitive religious zealotry. [...]

[...] If you want to call any one dream event a private event, then I would have to tell you that that private event actually was your personal contribution to a larger multisided dream event, many-layered, so that one level might deal with the interests of a group to which you belong—say your family, [or] your political or religious organization—reaching “outward” to the realm of national government and world affairs. [...]

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

[...] To those who are caught up with fundamental ideas in pious terms, religious power is a frightening thing. [...]

His early religious friends quickly turned away when he left the church. [...]

[...] All he had to do was translate his experience into their terms, as before he felt he was expected to translate it into conventional religious, academic, or scientific terms.

Some people, for example, do not question their religious beliefs but accept them as fact. Others find it comparatively easy to recognize such inner assumptions when they appear in a religious context, but are quite blind to them in other areas.

(Long pause.) It may seem that your religious beliefs have little to do with your health or with your day-to-day experience. [...]