“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As long as you are not bothered, as long as you do not have to mix with fools—the same fools who compose the various psychological, scientific, or medical societies—the same fools whom you sometimes say do not bother contacting you as long as the Enquirer, that rag, does not annoy you for interviews, and as long as people are not personally affected enough to bother you in any immediate fashion.

Because of Ruburt’s limited scientific vocabulary, this is somewhat difficult to explain. [...]

(With many pauses:) Part of the difficulty arises from the current (pause) scientifically-oriented blend of rationalism. [...]

[...] You can see easily, however, the highly specialized, intensified view of the world that is apparent in scientific journals. [...]

(To Art O.): Now, my dear scientific friend over there: Atoms and molecules, minute as they may appear to you, also carry their burden of consciousness and responsibility. [...]

I don’t think our conventional social systems, including our scientific ones, are going to resolve our questions within Jane’s and my personal lifetimes. [...]

1. According to generally accepted scientific theory these days, our solar system is some 4.6 billion years old. [...]

[...] Scientifically, again, the units can be thought of as building blocks of matter. [...]

[...] Excellence (pause) in any given area—emotional, physical, intellectual, intuitional, scientific—is reflected in other areas, and by its mere existence serves as a model for achievement. [...]

The use of drugs even offers a pseudo-scientific explanation for interior events. [...]

[...] I realize you will find the statement, there is no beginning or end, almost incomprehensible, because of your own situation on your own plane, and yet this has been known for centuries; and your own Einstein’s theories will help to give the idea scientific respectability.

(With a smile:) “Your particular conscious and subconscious viewpoints are fluent enough so that they do not hamper the basic material, or cover it with the rock of dogmatism so that it becomes impossible to find … Actually, what I needed were personalities who were not fanatics along any line — including scientific fanatics who would object as forcibly to the reincarnational data as religious fanatics would object to some of the other material.

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

Your scientific fields of endeavor may stumble upon the mathematical probabilities involved in such other fields within perhaps a 60-year period, but they will not recognize the significance of the discovery—which will probably be made in an attempt to obtain more data concerning an idea related to Einstein’s special field theory.

[...] The results had checked out, whether or not they could be considered scientific. [...]

[...] As far as we could tell, the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance had been scientifically proven time and time again by Dr. J. B. Rhine at Duke University, and demonstrated by others such as Croisset, a psychic, working with Professor Wilem Tenhaeff at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. [...]

Now using your scientific instruments, to some extent, you can probe into physical reality. [...]

[...] Regretfully, she had to tell him she’d had little time to work on the scientific projects discussed then, although she was still interested. [...]

The nature of matter is an extremely difficult sore point in your scientific circles. [...]

[...] I wanted to keep my experiences on as scientific a basis as possible.

The next few chapters will deal with our efforts to be “scientifically responsible,” to “test” Seth for ESP. [...]