“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] People are, therefore, taught to give up their own private view of the universe, and to substitute for it a prepackaged, rather bland picture so that everyone more or less agrees with this standard version. [...]

People must be able to share their views of reality with their fellows, of course—but in your society you are taught to substitute a stylized version for the highly individualistic and unique view of reality that is your own. [...]

You are taught not to trust your subjective experience, which means that you are told not to trust your initial and primary connection with reality.

[...] There are enough instances of it, known and tabulated, to make an excellent case; and beside this there is evidence that remains psychologically invisible in your private lives, because you have been taught not to concentrate in that direction.

[...] By the time you are an adult, however, you have been taught to disconnect your identity from your feelings as much as possible, and to think of your personhood in terms of your intellectual orientation. [...]

(9:27.) You are taught to submerge the very intuitive abilities that the intellect needs to do its proper work — for the intellect must check with the feeling portions of the self for feedback, for support, for knowledge as to biological conditions. [...]

[...] On the other hand, you have been taught that the intellect, the “flower of consciousness,” is a frail, vulnerable adjunct — again, a chance creation, without meaning and without support — without support because you believe that “beneath it” lie “primitive, animalistic, bloody instincts,” against which reason must exert what strength it has.

When you first learned to write in school, you had to be taught how to form the letters. [...]

[...] You are taught to believe that faith can move mountains, yet many of you will find it extremely difficult to accept your own relationship with the environment. [...]

[...] You are so prejudiced, however, that you ignore information that you have been taught cannot be conscious. [...]

[...] You have taught yourselves that you cannot be conscious in your dreams, however, because you interpret the word “conscious” so that it indicates only your own prejudiced concept. [...]

[...] But what you have is a learned pattern of face-saving self-deception and nefarious (with amusement) techniques, taught by parents to children; so often you pretend to want one thing, and you may say that you “will it” to happen—perhaps because what you really want is unacceptable, or so you have been taught: it is demeaning, or evil, or whatever. [...]

[...] You are not taught to understand creativity, of course. You are not taught how to live with it. [...]

[...] Creative people do have more than most an inner sense of their life’s direction, even if they are taught to ignore it. [...]

[...] Through the ages the Speakers have taught dreamers how to manipulate in these other environments. They have taught them how to bring back information that could be used for the good of the present personality. [...]

[...] You have been taught to focus all of your attention upon physical events, so that they carry the authenticity of reality for you. [...]

(9:45.) You have been taught that your feelings must necessarily be tied to specific physical happenings. [...]

[...] Parents, taught to believe that hatred is wrong, do not know how to handle such a situation. [...] If a parent shows fear, then the child is effectively taught to be afraid of this anger and hatred before which the powerful parent shrinks. [...]

Now: Often you are taught not only to repress verbal expression of hate, but also told that hateful thoughts are as bad as hateful actions.

[...] Your religions in a large measure have taught you to hate yourselves and physical existence. They have told you to love God, but rarely taught you to experience the gods in yourselves.

[...] Instead, using methods other than drugs, it could be taught to expand its knowledge far more safely, to organize it in ways that could be most advantageous. [...]

You have been taught for centuries in one way or another that repression, generally speaking, now, was all in all a natural, good, social and moral requirement, that expression was dangerous and must be harnessed and channeled because it was believed so thoroughly that man’s natural capacities led him toward destructive rather than positive behavior. [...]

[...] You have been taught not to trust that energy, however, and in one way or another your social programs and your governments themselves are based upon the proposition that man must be protected from his own nature —a nature seen as unsavory at best.

You forget many of your quite natural inclinations, feelings, and inner fantasies as you mature into adults, because they do not fit into the picture of the kind of people, or experience, or species you have been taught to believe you are. [...]

[...] People are not taught to understand the great dimensions of their own capacity for experience. [...]

[...] Usually it is shoved away and disregarded because you have been taught that the conscious mind should not hold with such “nonsense.” [...]

The “unconscious” simply contains great portions of your own experience in which you have been taught not to believe. [...]

[...] You have lost a sense of responsibility for your conscious thought because you have been taught that it is not what forms your life. [...]

[...] No person dies without a reason.² You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.

[...] You have taught yourselves to respond to certain neural patterns, and to ignore alternate ones that now simply operate as background activity. [...]

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

[...] You have been taught to follow certain rules. [...] You were not taught to stress individual inclinations or leanings or characteristics, but to view any deviations as alarming. [...]

[...] Generally in your society, you grow up taught by many sources that self-disapproval is a virtue. [...]

You are taught to question your motives, your behavior, your feelings, and everything but your beliefs. [...]