“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In 1957, after Jane had sold her first few short stories, she was invited to a conference of science fiction writers at Milford, Pennsylvania. [...]

[...] I remarked that the seeming violation of physical laws posed serious challenges to science, and so forth. [...]

[...] If it wants to, science can take a hundred years to accept these ideas. [...]

[...] The theories expand the meaning of individuality and challenge us to accept the larger self that both science and religion at various times have taught us to deny.

Science likes to think that it deals with predictable action. [...]

[...] The artist, since he isn’t any kind of a scientist (even though he might be interested in science in general), attempts to grapple with the statement as best he can, in light of the feeling he has for what Seth is trying to say. [...]

Science’s eyes, at least, have been largely closed, because it does not know how to read the personal script that is written everywhere in the passages of the chromosomes, or in the passages of a poem. [...]

[...] My ideas had been triggered by an article I’d read yesterday in a recent Science Digest article, which I’ll file: At first glance, I’d told Jane later, the article seemed very good. [...]

[...] It’ll revolutionize science if physicists can understand it. [...]

[...] Both church and science, again, possess a deep suspicion of unofficial or revelatory knowledge, for this must necessarily involve the insertion of new information into a system unable to explain any facts but its own. [...]

[...] Your imaginations have always helped you form your civilizations, your arts and your sciences, and when they are united with your reasoning processes they can bring you knowledge about the universe and your places in it that you can receive in no other fashion.

[...] Even science fiction was not large enough, imaginatively, to contain his abilities, and when those abilities did indeed flower he was afraid he was more of an outcast than ever.

[...] Your sciences, religions, and your culture, has brought you into a peculiar position: “Forget your problems and they will go away.” [...]

[...] “I feel like someone on that TV show,” she said, referring to a popular science fiction program we’d seen earlier this evening. [...]

The Christian-Science background with the father was also important, for it was this inner belief of the father that did sustain him, and that inclination of the father and his mother (Mattie) that Ruburt chose in his background to temper his own mother’s beliefs and lead him in our direction. [...]

(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.

[...] The male shows up better in the sciences, while the female is considered intuitional.

[...] In its way science went along very nicely by postulating man in a mechanistic world, with each creature run by an impeccable machine of instinct, blind alike to pain or desire.

[...] 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.

(The data at the beginning of the session re unexpected word concerning a book reminded Jane of an amusing dream she had last night, and which she has written down per usual: She dreamed that her science-fiction novel, The Rebellers, was being made into a movie.

[...] 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.

[...] Men in the sciences have years and years invested in a particular system, upon which their reputations, self-respect, and livelihood depend. [...]