“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Such tales are myths. [...]

This myth finds great value in the larger processes of nature in general, and yet sees man alone as the villain of an otherwise edifying tale. [...]

“By the time” that the Garden of Eden tale reached your biblical stories, the entire picture had already been seen in the light of concepts about good and evil that actually appeared, in those terms, a long time later in man’s development. [...]

Now if you had all been really paying attention to what I have said for some time about the simultaneous nature of time and existence, then you would have known that the theory of evolution is as beautiful as a tale as the theory of Biblical creation. [...]

[...] And yet, if you had listened to what I have been saying, again, you would have known the theory to be a pretty tale. [...]

[...] You have outgrown the time of children’s tales. [...]

[...] At what point did apelike mammals alter their own genetic message, in terms of evolution’s tales? [...]

[...] You see, you have believed many tales, and symbolically they were very important, and as was mentioned earlier, they have their place in your lives and development. [...]

[...] (To Diane:) so if you come to his classes there will be more than pretty tales of reincarnation for you, for you must learn to work and develop your own abilities. [...]

[...] And the tales that go along with it are different than your own. [...]

[...] You see, you have believed many tales, and symbolically they were very important. [...]

[...] The only other recourse, however, is to repeat myths and tales that you have outgrown. [...]

[...] I admit that I am stretching our ant tale here, but imagine further that our little fellow becomes familiar with everyone in, say, an apartment house, learning to recognize all of the footsteps that go up and down the stairs. [...]

[...] Children’s fairy tales still carry some of that ancient knowledge.

It carries also, however, the imprint of your fears, for the tales say that Atlantis was destroyed. [...]

“In your terms, from your present you ‘plant’ images, tales, legends, ‘at any given time,’ that seem to come from the past, but are actually like ghost images from the future, for you to follow or disregard as you choose.

[...] It was indeed a dreamlike world, but a highly charming and vital one, in which dreaming imaginations played rambunctiously with all the probabilities entailed in this new venture: imagining the various forms of language and communication possible, spinning great dream tales of future civilizations replete with their own built-in histories—building, because they were now allied with time, mental edifices that automatically created pasts as well as futures.

Now these descriptions of after-death events may sound very complicated, particularly if you have been used to a simple tale of heaven or eternal rest. [...]

[...] It increases all healing functions, and despite churchly tales to the contrary, it regenerates and inspires the creative abilities.

[...] And I will keep my eye on you (DMC), but I will not bear tales.

[...] And I will keep my eye on you (Daniel), but I will not bear tales. [...]

The child accepts the Santa Claus answer for some years, and then becomes disillusioned, realizing that the Santa Claus of Christmas tales is a myth. [...]

5. See Note 3 for Session 679, concerning Seth’s male name for Jane (Ruburt), and his comments that “Sex, regardless of all your fleshy tales, is a psychic phenomenon …”

For now in our tale of beginnings, however, we still have a spasmodic universe that appears and disappears—that gradually, in those terms, manifests for longer periods of time. [...]