“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Art is not a specifically human endeavor, though man likes to believe that this is so, and no scientist is going to grant a spider or a bee any sense of esthetic appreciation, certainly, so what you have is art in its human manifestations, and art is above all a natural characteristic. [...]

[...] But with the envelope tests we weren’t trying to convince scientists or psychologists of anything. [...]

[...] The article goes into detail about the scientists who have watched the psychic surgeon operate at his home in the Philippines, and about the surgeon’s home and “operating room,” which is but a shack containing a crude wooden-slatted table. [...]

[...] The individual shouts that his life does indeed have meaning, while the scientists until now have vehemently stated otherwise. [...]

Now, I am speaking to our friend over here (to Arnold Pearson, a scientist,) because he may, perhaps, have a dim comprehension of what I am trying to explain, because of his background, that many of you may not have. [...]

[...] When the question of probabilities is a practical one, then scientists will give it more consideration.

[...] Since 1925 scientists have been steadily reducing their estimates of what a “safe” dose for human beings really is, however, and many now believe that there’s no such thing as a completely harmless amount of even low-level radiation. [...]

[...] In the meantime, however, scientists and medical men find more and more viruses against which the population “must” be inoculated. [...] Much of this is on a predictive basis: The scientists “predict” how many people might be “attacked” by, say, a virus that has caused a given number of deaths. [...]

They will end up providing proofs that your scientists require, but they will serve a purpose closer to my heart, in that they will display the operating procedure of the human personality as it manipulates inner perceptions.

([Rick:] Seth, this is a little changing the subject just a bit, but I’ve been very interested about your comments about the dream art scientists and mental physicists as being some of the careers that I have been interested in.

[...] As Ruburt knows she was a Christian Scientist and a reader. [...]

(Florence stated that at last week’s session she felt like we were mice in a cage, and Seth I and Seth II were scientists checking up on us.)

(I paused, considering the late hour, then asked Seth for his opinion about the recent visit of a young scientist from a Western state. [...]

[...] When your scientists get through with all their high fiddle-faddle, they will also discover that this is the case.

[...] For the dream will not be captured in a laboratory by scientists who will not look into their own dreams.

[...] If your psychologists and scientists would begin a study of their own dreams, they would learn much through personal experience.

[...] But you will be able to translate knowledge in technical terms and perhaps come up with some breakthroughs that scientists can understand. [...]

Both of you—to some extent, now, following this evening’s discussion —felt that with two books and perhaps even the poetry book coming out in one year, people would think it was easy enough for you to write your pronouncements from the hilltop, even though in those books you made certain that you mentioned any and all difficulties that came your way, collected your stories of hassles with scientists or publishers, and so forth. [...]

[...] It was impossible to imagine civilizations built upon data that were mentally received, consciously accepted, and creatively used.⁷ Under such circumstances scientists could hardly look for precognition in cells.⁸ They did not believe it existed to begin with.

[...] These scientists are on record as stating that such X-raying may cause more breast cancer than it cures. [...]