“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She’d been afraid of her body, and sex. [...]

[...] Basically, however, there are no clear, set, human, psychological characteristics that belong to one sex or the other. [...]

[...] Since Ruburt’s nature was rather—rather—extravagantly different from what he considered the norm to be, and since he possessed abilities that were not common generally and specifically to his sex, he became even more unduly suspicious of his own nature. [...]

He believed that you wanted sex, but that you were afraid of it, as he was, because of the possibility of pregnancy. [...]

[...] The very deep love that you have for each other, my dear friends, is in the overall a bisexual love, for you have known each other many times, and in different sex roles.

Sex became dangerous—not to protect your persons—which would be delighted, but to protect your rigid, limited ideas of your “artistic selves”—the writer and the artist might be threatened, and so your personal lives must suffer, and the persons be shoved away.

[...] Miss Price was to some extent a substitute mother image indeed, and a rather dangerous one potentially, in any case, because of the confusion in sex identity. [...]

For some time in the past, I grant you, you each considered sex uneconomical in terms of time and energy. [...]

[...] It was like him to leap from one life into another, with a change of sex.

There is on the one hand a fear of demanding, and on the other hand a tendency to demand too much in personal relationships in which the other sex is involved. [...]

But you are all Sumari despite your ages; despite your sexes; despite the fact that you think you dwell in bodies that are your own and that mean you, for your bodies, of course, cannot hold what you are. [...]

Now we discover that such references were tailored to our own rather limited ideas of the qualities assigned to the sexes, for in Psyche Seth makes it clear that the psyche is not male or female, “but a bank from which sexual affiliations are drawn.” [...]

The framework of sex is another natural therapeutic system if you have not already hampered its effectiveness by contrary beliefs. [...]

[...] It meant “Don’t be ahead of me sexually,” further meaning “Don’t want sex when we are involved in other issues.” [...]

[...] Psyche, as Jane and I call it, contains some excellent new material, such as Seth’s first discussions of sex — including lesbianism, homosexuality, and bisexuality — as well as other related subjects that we know, from our correspondence, to be of intense general concern. [...]

[...] They are equally divided between the sexes. [...]

To sum up Seth’s somewhat amused comments in the 12th session for January 2, 1964: “Sex, regardless of all your fleshy tales, is a psychic phenomenon, merely certain qualities which you call male and female. [...]

[...] “The Red Wagon” is included in the collection Ladies of Fantasy/Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by The Gentle Sex, © 1975 by Manley and Lewis, and published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., New York, N.Y., 10016.

[...] This in itself aggravated those old fears concerning sex and the body—that it would lead him astray. [...]

Now some of this is connected with ideas of sex in earlier years, adolescence. [...]

[...] Seth here gives the sex of the child mentioned on page 128. [...]