“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Also, Joan of Arc has figured rather prominently in her life; in school for instance she was called Joan of Arc, withch, etc.)

([Joel:] “I guess in the beginning Jane and Rob were a little ambivalent as to whether they wanted to go and check the Frank Withers thing, and we have not made any attempt to check the stuff that Bill gave the first time—That I, in the ‘40s and having been a lawyer and went to Northwestern law school, practiced law in the Loop, that kind of thing. [...]

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

[...] You should indeed have spoken more freely, but you also should have seen him simply as an individual, and not as a symbol of a school, or a structure, or as a scientist.

[...] They may return, even enduring violence, as a man might set up a school amid a jungle of savages.

[...] The actual work involved in the selection of data is still made according to the beliefs in the artist’s conscious mind as to who he is, how good an artist he is, what kind of artist he is, what “school” of artistic beliefs he subscribes to, his ideas of society and his place in it, and esthetic and economic values, to name but a few.

(She also recounted how she didn’t have to take gym in school because of her periods, and how Marie said Del had bad eyes because of the syphilis and couldn’t read. [...]

[...] Jane herself left for work at about 11:30 AM at nursery school. [...]

[...] They are Don Simmons and Pete Tomoski, high school classmates of mine from Sayre, PA; I had not seen them for 33 years [1937]. [...]

[...] But if you have schooled yourself to believe that such data is not consciously available, then it will not occur to you to find it in your conscious mind. [...]

[...] While you went to art school, you recognized that in larger terms art cannot be taught, merely basic techniques. [...]

The implications of such statements for education are astonishing: Besides teaching rote information, our schools and universities should acquaint us with as many fields as possible; for these act as exterior triggers, bringing forth natural inner knowledge, sparking skills which are waiting for activation by suitable stimuli in the exterior world.

[...] During this experiment, while reading some poetry aloud that the now-dead Father Trainor had often read to her when she was in high school, Jane’s voice had taken on an enormous male volume and strength. [...]

[...] We saw the same hostess both times also—a girl Jane went to school with in Saratoga. [...]

[...] There was Miss Bowman, there was art school and so forth—so I want you to remember that inner man. [...]

PART ONE OF SETH’S LECTURE TO
PAT’S BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS MARCH 25, 1967

(Recently we have been moving all of Jane’s old poetry, novel, short-story, psychic, and other manuscripts and notes, dating back to her grade-school work, out of the upstairs storeroom into our roomy front-room closet. [...]

[...] Something about being outstanding in a speech class, or in a play, in grade school. [...]

[...] “You weren’t encouraged to read the Bible even in Catholic grade school,” she added. [...]

[...] 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.