“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I have not forgotten the scientist’s letter. [...]

(The scientist Seth referred to is a professor of physics Jane heard from early last month. [...]

A note regarding your astronauts and their latest excursion: new developments involving the ionosphere have been made during this trip, and to your scientists unpleasant ones, since they do not conform to previous theories.

[...] The activity of the ions, only slightly outside of the expected, will nevertheless make it plain that the scientists do not have predicted activity. [...]

To the scientists this will seem to mean that the ionosphere is less stable than they supposed. [...]

This is done by translating exterior stimuli into interior stimuli, but the physical carriers of the data are all that scientists or physicians have been able to follow thus far. [...]

[...] The perceived lapse noted by scientists is of course the physical one (leaning forward, hand to closed eyes), caused by the “time” it takes the message to leap the nerve endings.³  The interior translation however is simultaneous.

[...] When you think of a scientist, the majority of you will think of a male, an intellectual, an “objective” thinker who takes great pains not to be emotional, or to identify with the subject being examined or studied.

[...] The male scientist is often ashamed of using his intuitions, for not only do they appear to be unscientific, but female as well. [...]

[...] It cannot be treated like a lawyer’s career or a scientist’s or whatever. [...]

Dictation: Your scientists are beginning to understand man’s physical relationship with nature. [...]

The scientist probing the brain of an idiot or a genius will find only the physical matter of the brain itself.

[...] Now a number of scientists tell us that long before the end of this century we’ll have the ability to prolong our physical lives forever — or at least indefinitely, to be more “practical” about it. [...]

[...] So far scientists have only been able to study electricity by observing the projections of it that are perceivable within their frames of reference. [...]

[...] The study of dreams—your scientists consider such work beneath them. [...]

[...] This applies to men and molecules, and to all of those hypothetically theorized smaller divisions with which scientists like to amaze themselves. [...]

[...] The scientist begins tipping tables or whatever, and suddenly disgusted by the limits of scientific knowledge, he turns all of his dedication to what he thinks of as its opposite, or pure intuitive knowledge. [...]

[...] The dream-art scientist, the true mental physicist, the complete physician — such designations represent the kinds of training that could allow you to understand the unknown, and therefore the known reality, and so become aware of the blueprints that exist behind the physical universe. [...]

Dictation: To some extent, each individual who wants to can become aware of the “unknown” reality — can become his or her own dream-art scientist, mental physicist, or complete physician, and begin to explore those lands of the psyche that are the real frontier.

To some extent the churches as well as the scientists are responsible, but priests and scientists are not some foreign people, thrust upon you. [...]

[...] Looking from your planet, outward as you think, at the quasars, your scientists believe that they look backward in space, in your terms. [...]

[...] If you can look backward from your planetary viewpoint with your physical instruments, and using your own terms and definitions, then from some point you see within the same framework, your scientists should be able to look forward, and they cannot.

[...] Your scientists presently have little idea of what this means, for comparatively speaking they conceive of energy in one-dimensional terms. [...]

[...] I told you earlier that your scientist’s idea of an expanding universe was in error, although in one important sense the universe was expanding, and this is what I referred to.

[...] Imagine in other words consciousness, growth, reality and expansion, having nothing to do with expansion of space in your terms, but an almost complete freedom of psychological realities, and you will come at least within the realm of understanding what I mean by an expanding universe that has nothing to do with the expanding universe of which your scientists speak.

Your scientists’ idea of an expanding universe is so dependent upon your own limited theories that it becomes very difficult to make the matter plain. [...]

[...] Scientists like to say that animals operate through simple instinctive behavior, without will or volition: It is no accomplishment for a spider to make its web, a beaver its dam, a bird its nest, because according to such reasoning, such creatures cannot perform otherwise. [...]

Some pessimistic scientists would say: “Of course,” for man and animal alike are driven by their instincts, and man’s claim to free will is no more than an illusion.

[...] The physical organism is not only open to, but to some extent influenced by, many more areas of actuality than is supposed; and its survival is determined by a large variety of factors as yet hardly considered possible by your scientists or doctors.

[...] The whole physical organism contains checks and balances of which your scientists are still not aware, and I must also mention that for all its mandy-pamby, astrology has a strong basis, although it is only one small portion of the whole story, and not indeed the whole kettle of tales.

[...] Ruburt has his own creative abilities, and uses them well, and it is to a large extent because of those abilities that our contact first took place (in December 1963). Scientists like to say that if you look outward at the universe, you look backward in time. [...]

Scientists say now that energy and matter are one. [...]

1. According to scientists, viruses are ultramicroscopic units that can cause diseases in plants and animals. [...] Few scientists would grant thoughts the same kind of validity, though.

A scientist who would threaten the very survival of life on the planet in order to increase life’s conveniences (underlined) is, however, truly displaying ludicrous behavior (with irony).

A brilliant mathematician or scientist, or even an artist, or an accepted genius in any field, can be an emotional incompetent, but no one considers him as retarded. [...]

[...] Give us a moment … We will have more to say very shortly about our dream-art scientist (see the last session); yet there are also other important ways that could be used to study the nature of reality. [...]

In many cases your scientists seem to have the strange idea that you can understand a reality by destroying it; that you can perceive the life mechanism of an animal by killing it; or that you can examine a phenomenon best by separating yourself from it. [...]

[...] So you started by drawing what you saw physically, and to some extent like the scientists you tried to capture the exterior appearance as faithfully as you could.

Jane Roberts and Robert Butts have had letters from scientists of all kinds, many of them academics. [...]