“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Some of Ruburt’s ideas along those lines were highly reinforced by his mother as well as by the church, and later in its way by the very pronouncements of science. [...]

Science has no sacraments. [...]

[...] Then science threw out the entire thesis: Man wasn’t at the center of the universe anymore. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

The belief has been in the miraculous quality of science, under whose banner such inoculations began. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] The information you receive from your culture, from your arts, sciences, fields of economics, is all translated, decoded, turned into cellular information. [...]

[...] That world has been largely hidden by the camouflages shed by science and religion alike, but in your times the landscape began to appear so dark and threatening, so forbidden [...]

[...] You dwell in a state of natural grace that is quite alive and vital whether or not science decrees that consciousness possesses its own intent. [...]

[...] “Before you got through it would cover history, religion, science—the whole works,” Jane said. [...]

“The varieties of consciousness—the inner ‘psychological particles,’ the equivalent, say, of the atom or molecule, or proton, neutron or quark—those nonphysical, ‘charmed,’ ‘strange,’ forms of consciousness that make experience go up or down (all with amusement), and around and around—are never of course dealt with (by science).

[...] In occult science it’s been connected with the pineal body, or gland, that mysterious member of the endocrine system is buried deep within the brain, and through the centuries has been considered by many — including the French philosopher and mathematician, René Descartes (1596–1650) — to be the seat of the soul.

[...] For science this is a very uncomfortable situation that has yet to be resolved. [...]

Psychology, religion, science — in one way or another, all of these have added to the confusion by stripping the conscious mind of its directing qualities, and viewing it as a stepchild of the self. [...]

[...] The opposition of science and religion would only reinforce her own personal fears, then—a very important point. [...]

[...] Darwin then brought nature to man’s focus in a new way, for before neither science or religion had dealt with it in a meaningful manner. [...]

[...] You are in a position where your private experience of yourself does not correlate with what you are told by your societies, churches, sciences, archaeologies, or other disciplines. [...]

[...] He wanted her agreement to an interview next Saturday at 3 PM, for a radio show about science fiction, for half an hour. [...]

(Also during break, I’d told her I’d found myself stewing rather often about the reception of Seth’s material by the world at large, and science in particular. [...]

[...] They no longer trust religion or science in organizational terms. [...]

[...] They never fit that Protestant work ethic, and the very idea of a creative mind has not fit in—so far, at least—with the overall patterns of the society in terms of religion or science. [...]

(Jane has been reading G.N.M. Tyrrell’s book, Science and Psychical Phenomena & Apparitions, lately, and she now told me she had hoped that Seth might discuss his relationship with her this evening.