“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I do want to emphasize that in many, many civilizations men were expected to improve almost all of their abilities with age, as per for example Bill Gallagher’s story of the old Indian who taught the young boys how to track animals in the forest. [...]

[...] His mother taught him to be extremely fearful of his subconscious, and the rigid ego became a protection from it and her. [...]

[...] He had been taught the dire consequences in church terms of losing your soul, and he was afraid of leading people astray whenever religious areas were approached. [...]

I believe he is teaching, or taught, in a midwestern university. [...]

[...] Ruburt was not taught to love himself as a child, and thought of his talents as a way of justifying his existence — an existence of somewhat suspicious nature, he felt, since his mother told him often that he was responsible for her own poor health.

Before that meeting, while consciously doing what they thought should be done—hiring detectives, searching down clues—they each followed inner directions without knowing it, because you are not taught to think of such things.

[...] You have been taught that there is little connection between your thought and your body’s activities.

[...] If the man or the woman is taught that identity is a matter of sexual performance, however, and that that performance must cease at a certain age, then the sense of identity can also begin to disintegrate. [...]

(Janice S.: “Have you always taught on reincarnation?”)

[...] The male in particular has been taught to separate love and sex, so that a schizophrenic condition results that tears apart his psyche — in operational terms — as he lives his life.

[...] (Pause.) Neither of you were taught to trust creative abilities, much less psychic ones. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) He was a person taught to believe that expression was somehow wrong. [...]

Natural therapeutics always operate, of course, but in your society at least there is considerable pressure put on the other side, for it is the natural person you are taught not to trust. [...]

Sleepwalking was once, in that beginning, a very common experience—far more so than now—in which the inner self actually taught the physical body to walk, and hence presented the newly emerged physically oriented intellect from getting in its own way, asking too many questions that might otherwise impede the body’s smooth spontaneous motion.

(Pause at 10:43.) Now often the ego acts as a dam, to hold back other perceptions — not because it was meant to, or because it is in the nature of an ego to behave in such a fashion, or even because it is a main function of an ego, but simply because you have been taught that the purpose of an ego is restrictive rather than expanding. [...]

They are taught, in other words, the methods that allow them to translate emotion and thought into physical actuality. [...]

[...] You cannot expect a girl to show “strong, logical thought development” when she is taught that a woman is intuitional — that the intuitions are opposed to logic, and that she must be feminine, or nonlogical, at all costs. [...]

[...] Before this could happen, though, the body consciousness was taught to become aware of its own inner environment. [...]

[...] You have taught yourselves to look outward into physical reality, but the inward validity of your being cannot be found there — only its effects. [...]

(10:49.) Through training, many adults have been taught that the imagination itself is suspicious. [...]