“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You do not understand this point clearly at all, but your social organizations, your governments — these are based upon imaginative principles. [...]

[...] The vast social structures of Christianity were instead based upon man’s “sinful” nature — not the organizations and structures that might allow him to become good, or to obtain the goodness that Christ quite clearly perceived man already possessed.

Even when social scientists or biologists explore human sexuality, they do so from the framework of sexuality as it appears in your world. [...]

[...] These provide both a psychic and social framework for personal growth, understanding, and development. [...]

[...] Now I will be here for a social time. [...]

(What Seth said was repeated to Jane—ending with the fact that he would be here for a “social time.”)

[...] I’d been thinking about those passages, and when Seth returned to the subject tonight I decided to have some fun with our accepted social and scientific establishments by writing this note.

But nowhere do we see anything about any spiritual dilemmas that may be involved with all of this, or about the enormous social problems — challenges, to be sure — that could soon begin to manifest themselves if anything even approaching “eternal life” comes within the reach of numbers of people. [...]

Animals can be obedient to their masters, and be healthy and exuberant at the same time, but in the terms of nature, no matter what social customs might say, no person can be obedient to a master and be healthy and exuberant at the same time. [...]

The church could not trust revelations, lest new orders might come to contradict the old ones, to upset the spiritual status quo, and hence the social organization that developed about it; or that might revive old tenets once a part of Christianity but later dropped—such as a belief in reincarnation.

[...] She came up with a number of memories new to me — like going to the youth center on Saratoga Springs’ lower Broadway on weekend evenings to dance and socialize, and so forth. [...]

[...] Your social life should and must not be allowed to deteriorate. [...]

[...] The creative writing class has served its purpose, provided you keep up your social life. [...]

[...] Money applied liberally, however, to a poverty-stricken group of people can increase their problems if the basic social and individual causes are not resolved. [...]

The world-view consists of those cultural and private beliefs concerning cultural, economic and social environments. [...]

[...] Yet certainly in these pages we have presented several pictures of social and political realities that are far from ideal. [...]

[...] Outcasts might become the socially prominent. [...]

(Jane called Leonard Yaudes this morning while I was painting [I thought she was talking to Peg G.], and said later that she was picking up from Seth a good deal of excellent material on the body consciousness, our social mores re illness, and my own recent panicky hassles after Leonard’s operation a couple of weeks ago. [...]

[...] In the entire natural scheme, and at all levels — even social or economic ones — disease always has its own creative basis. [...]

[...] This affects both intimate behavior and, say, social interactions.

[...] The woman was not easy in social life, and could now stay home to care for the small invalid.

[...] Your social, political, religious, economic and medical areas of life are all built upon certain assumed suggestions that people agree to accept as standards of behavior. [...]

There are also a core of individual thinkers who straddle all social or academic categories, who follow our books. [...]

[...] Some were socially oriented, enjoying a kind of comradeship that would find, for example, television’s impersonal communications a mockery of the give-and-take that they enjoyed in personal contacts.

[...] Earlier his own spontaneous nature, his desire for social intercourse, his simple love of fun, were strong enough to overcome the inner feelings that made him shy away from people. [...]