“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Efforts could then be made to understand and interpret private symbolism, and individuals within a society would be taught to take advantage of their own inner data to enrich their personal lives and help the community.

[...] Blood pressure rises in whole populations — stress signals in terms of hormones are activated, but you are not taught to recognize these natural signals. [...]

[...] The young selfhood is freer in its identification, and as yet has not been taught to identify its own personality with its sex exclusively.

[...] It is the direct result of the fact that the male has been taught to deny the existence within himself of certain basic emotions. [...]

[...] But the incident made me think that it’s a pity nursing students aren’t taught valid facts of life, instead of the medical dogmas that often prolong illness. [...] But how nice if they were taught that the unimpeded body is only too willing to heal itself. [...]

In almost all such instances, discipline is taught to believers through the inducement of fear. [...]

[...] Regardless of everything that you have been taught, and your own beliefs to the contrary, I still tell you that to mentally minimize a problem is to minimize it—to minimize it in fact. [...]

[...] You are taught as children to be honest in very literal terms, and often children’s natural imaginative abilities and creativity get them in a good deal of trouble. [...]

(Pause.) You are, I hope, coming toward a time of greater psychological synthesis, so that the intuitions and reasoning abilities work together in a much more smooth fashion, so that emotional and intuitive knowledge regarding the meaningfulness of life can find clearer precision and expression, as the intellect is taught—as the intellect is taught—to use its faculties in a far less restricted manner.

[...] While you went to art school, you recognized that in larger terms art cannot be taught, merely basic techniques. [...]

[...] That is what you have taught each other, as if your natural drives and abilities would not automatically seek their own expression within time, but must be forced to do so.

[...] He was a high-spirited child, and was taught there that he must toe the mark and do what the others did, or he would be punished.

[...] Obviously the unconscious is spontaneous, but his early experience taught him, as given earlier this evening, to use that spontaneity with care. [...]

[...] (Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment.) Your beliefs often tell you that life is hard, however, that living is difficult, that the universe, again, is unsafe, and that you must use all of your resources—not to meet the world with anything like joyful abandon, of course, but to protect yourself against its implied threats; threats that you have been taught to expect. [...]

[...] In some ways the Seth material has been given credit by the establishment; being taught as university course work, for example. [...]

Often, seriously ill people quite clearly recognize such feelings, but they have been taught not to speak of them. [...]

[...] The search for knowledge would mean often that you would be between beliefs, operating as you had been taught through training, and trying to operate according to the new knowledge. [...]

[...] You have been taught to interpret them along the lines of very ritualized procedures. [...]

[...] You have been taught that it cannot understand. [...]

[...] You have been taught not to mix, say, waking and dreaming conditions, not to daydream. You have been taught to focus all of your attention clearly, ambitiously, energetically in a particular way — so daydreaming, or mixing and matching modes of consciousness, appears passive in a derogatory fashion, or nonactive, or idle. [...]

[...] So tell Ruburt not to be so impatient with himself, to remind himself that he can indeed trust the self that he knows, regardless of what he had been taught to believe.

Instead of promoting the idea of man’s inner worth, it has taught people to distrust the inner self and its manifestations. [...]

(Long pause.) People have been taught that their bodies are a kind of battleground, and that they must be in a constant state of readiness lest they be attacked or invaded by alien germs or viruses or diseases that can strike without warning.

You have been taught that you are at the mercy of previous events, so your idea of looking for the source of personal difficulty is to examine the past, but — to find what you did wrong there, or what mistakes occurred there, or what inadequate interpretations were made there! Again, regardless of what you have been taught, the point of power is in the present; and again, your present beliefs will be used to structure your recollections.

[...] The Sinful Self was taught to distrust its own nature and expression, believing that that nature, by virtue of original sin, was flawed—but in a tragic fashion—literally damned by God, of course, because of the sins of the forefathers. [...]

[...] You were taught how to construct sentences in school, and you learned how to speak from your elders. [...]