“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your ideas of society and cooperation arise from both a biological and spiritual knowledge given you at birth. [...] This does not mean that the intellect is any less, but that it uses its abilities to help you form physical civilizations that are the reflections of mental, spiritual, and biological inner civilizations. [...]

Your searches toward understanding excellent performance in any area — your idealisms — are all spiritually and biologically ingrained. [...]

[...] He would encourage the patient to tune into the private oracle in order to ascertain his or her own purposes in physical life, and to reinforce spiritual strength. The complete physician would be an individual, (male or female), who was in superb health, and therefore understood himself the particular dynamics that operate between spiritual vitality and physical well-being. [...]

[...] The individual’s good, therefore, is the society’s good, and represents spiritual and physical fulfillment. [...]

[...] This cooperation that I speak of is based on love, and that love has a biological as well as a spiritual basis. [...]

[...] If this were not enough, large segments of the population believe that sex is wrong to begin with — a spiritual debasement, allowed by God only so that the species can continue.

Instead, I am saying that deeper bonds of biological and spiritual love lie at the basis of all personal and cultural relationships, a love that transcends your ideas of sexuality. [...]

He compares himself unfavorably with what seem to him to be more spiritual psychics. [...] And this is the meaning of spirituality.

[...] A portion of each person dwells in Framework 1 and Framework 2. Understand that Framework 2 is a psychic or spiritual or mental structure. [...] It is, if you prefer, a spiritual landscape of far greater resources than the one you know. [...]

[...] Christ hoped to show that you survived death psychically and spiritually—that you “returned” to the father in heaven. [...]

The universe is — and you can pick your terms — a spiritual or mental or psychological manifestation, and not, in your usual vocabulary, an objective manifestation.

(Pause.) It is not just that your view of reality is relative to your position within the universe, but that the universe itself is different according to your position within it, and that spiritual or psychological rules apply. [...]

[...] When you consider the soul, however, you usually think of it in such a light — unchanging, a psychic or spiritual citadel. [...]

There are many matters here very difficult to express in words, for you are so afraid for your sense of identity that you resist the idea that the soul, for example, is an open spiritual system, a powerhouse of creativity that shoots out in all directions — and yet this is indeed the case.

[...] You see it is not a simple matter of giving you a definition of a soul or entity, for even to have a glimpse in logical terms you would have to understand it in spiritual, psychic, and electromagnetic terms, and understand the basic nature of consciousness and action as well. [...]

[...] Here we are dealing with an artificial and forced method of, hopefully, bringing about physical, psychic and spiritual illumination. [...]

(9:29.) A discussion involving LSD, conscience, the “death and birth of the self,” mental health and spiritual illumination, may not seem applicable to those of you who have not taken drugs. [...]

Such systems distort the very nature of idealism by placing the ideal in such an exalted position that it can never be attained, for by giving up the self you have you are to attain instead a wholly pure, wholly loving, idealized, spiritual self. [...]

[...] The hoped-for spiritual heaven on earth—in those terms (underlined) – is unattainable, of course.

[...] Through fulfilling that self, through following your natural inclinations and desires, you will discover a spiritual and psychic fulfillment. [...]

And if I do not seem spiritual enough for anyone who reads the material, then let it be said that I have never pretended to be the Holy Ghost. Such a remark is also based upon your definition of spirituality, which is at best limited in your contemporary society, and whose limited definition is indeed the result of the duality which has besieged mankind now for centuries.

I am always amused and somewhat agitated at talk of so-called spirituality, when barriers have been effectively set up, cutting the nature of man into halves, and I will effectively deal with any such criticism. [...]

[...] Earlier in this work I hinted at the hypothetical existence of a truly fulfilled earth-person — with a hyphen.¹ All of the spiritual, mental, and biological abilities would be actualized to whatever extent possible. [...] At the same time, all of the latent spiritual and mental qualities would be fulfilled in a like manner, so that all of the potentials of the species would find actualization in the most developed way in the experience of each individual. [...]

[...] So this hypothetical greater identity also chooses to be born in different time periods, historically speaking; and the same pattern appears in which counterparts are born as individuals, each biologically and spiritually connected, but with great intertwinings and variations, as with a physical family tree.

[...] Seth commented: “You rarely find a person who is a great intellect, a great athlete, and also a person of deep emotional and spiritual understanding — an ideal prototype of what it seems mankind could produce.

The sight of the dying gave them visions of the meaning of life, and stirred new [ideas] of sociological, political, and spiritual natures, so that in your terms the dead did not die in vain. [...]

[...] To some extent, then, the survival of your civilization is quite literally dependent upon the condition of each individual; and that condition is initially a spiritual, psychic state that gives birth to the physical organism. [...]

I am not speaking of some romanticized, “passive,” floppy, spiritual world, but of a clear reality without impediments, in which the opposite of despair and apathy reigns.

This book will be devoted, then, to those conditions that best promote spiritual, psychic, and physical zest, the biological and psychic components that make a species desire to continue its kind. [...]

[...] You may desire spiritual understanding, while thinking that you are spiritually unworthy and opaque. [...]

[...] You are utterly convinced that you are sick, or poor, or lonely, or spiritually opaque, or unhappy.

Those who look upon physical life as inferior to some other more perfect spiritual existence do a great injustice to physical existence in general. [...]

[...] It will be followed by physical organizations, structures meant on a different level to help achieve such a “spiritual” evolution.

[...] The god concept will operate as a psychic and spiritual blueprint just like the architect’s plan, only at a different level. [...]

The spiritual and the biological cannot be separated. [...]

[...] I am still in the process of trying to teach you both that trust is also a spiritual and physical imperative. [...]

(10:00.) When you make love you are entrusting yourself to someone else, making a spiritual and biological statement of openness that is understood through all the levels of your experience—even to the cellular. [...]

In some cases the personality deliberately places himself in such a position that the illness itself, the bearing of it, brings about certain needed spiritual characteristics. [...]

The man’s deep concern in itself has done much to enlarge his own psychic and spiritual understanding. [...]

All of your physical, mental and spiritual abilities are focused together, then, in the brilliant concentration of “present” experience. [...]

Individuals can go from psychologist to psychologist, from self-therapy to self-therapy, always with the same question: “What is wrong?” The question itself becomes a format through which experience is seen, and itself represents one of the main reasons for all limitations, physical, psychic or spiritual. [...]

[...] Feel and dwell upon the certainty that your emotional, spiritual and psychic abilities are focused through the flesh, and for five minutes only direct all of your attention toward what you want. [...]

[...] It also represented the water or fountainhead of spiritual creativity so that both ages merged and you felt that this had been drawn out from you in order to keep you contented within this artificial framework. [...]

[...] It is a good point of housewifery prudence and spiritual prudence as well, but you would not have given had not this authority figure of the Pope done so ahead of you which means that presently you are looking for direction and hoping to find it and also that you are not going to give to any red-hooded beggars who knock at your side door. [...]

I want you to get on with your own discussion, however, the hungry man knows that he is hungry and in India it is not the hungry man who is filled up either with food or with spiritual ideas. [...]

Many schools of religion and so-called esoteric knowledge have promoted the idea that sexuality and spirituality were diametrically opposed to each other.