“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you have become afraid of emotion or the expression of feeling, or if you have been taught that the inner self is no more than a repository of uncivilized impulses, then you may have the habit of denying this deep rhythm. [...]

And the spirit of the first island responds: “You have taught my island that life is not something to be afraid of, though still it is translated in my own familiar gentle terms.”

[...] You have been taught to concentrate upon criticisms and faults in your society; and in your times it seems that everything will work out wrong — that left alone the world will run down, the universe will die, man will destroy himself; and these beliefs so infiltrate your behavior that they organize much of your experience and rob you of the benefits nature itself everywhere provides in direct primary experience.

[...] You have been taught not to trust the very fabric of your being. [...]

[...] The ego can be taught however. [...]

[...] We taught you to form the reality that you know. [...]

[...] You have been taught to pay almost exclusive attention to your exterior behavior. [...]

[...] That approach does indeed fly in direct contradiction to the learned methods you have been taught.

[...] In that regard, Ruburt’s response before such a session is natural, and to an extent magical, because he knows that no matter what he has been taught, he must to some degree (underlined) forget the questions and the mood that accompanies them with one level of his consciousness, in order to create the proper kind of atmosphere at another level of consciousness—one that allows the answers to come even though they may be presented in a different way than that expected by the rational mind.

And I can tell you, though neither of you may be pleased, that the incident taught the cat lover and the Jesuit much, and through direct experience. [...]

[...] You have been geared to disapprove of yourselves, you have been taught to judge your performance in a very shallow fashion, according to social mores and sexual affiliation, and when you are breaking out of those patterns, you may indeed feel betwixt and between. [...]

[...] They did meet rather often over a period of many years, as she taught his children. [...]

[...] And in one of your particular past lives you not only believed this but taught it, and you believed it heartily. [...]

[...] Initially the beliefs were accepted because he had been taught to believe to fear his energy. [...]

[...] It seems, because of the definitions you have been taught, that there is only one narrow kind of rationality, and that if you forsake the boundary of that narrow definition, then you become irrational, fanatic, mad, or whatever (all very emphatically).

[...] From birth, children will be taught that basic identity is not dependent upon the body, and that time as you know it is an illusion. [...]

[...] I also taught myself to read upside-down print — an equally fascinating endeavor. [...]

She did not remember him … as she taught his children. [...]

The next dream was far more bizarre and rather frightening, but it taught me even more about the nature of dreaming and illustrated many points that Seth had made earlier. [...]

[...] You will all be taught the sacredness of all life, and in the most practical way.

“This is the lesson that All That Is had to learn, and that could not be taught. [...]