“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This provided them with a different kind of time framework psychologically—one that any peasant could relate to. The ordinary person, for example, in the western world cannot relate to a Darwinian past in that same fashion, and psychology robs him of any personal extension in the future after death, so in practical life most modern people have freedom of extension in space but less in time. The peasants of course worked closely with the land and seasons, with earth’s natural timing, and even though such work seemed to make time go faster, in the overall the sense of present time included a rich dimension from both present and past, so that in your terms it would seem longer by contrast —richer—when people went to bed earlier, lacking the night’s electricity.

(Long pause at 10:25.) Nebene had a scholar’s distaste for the peasants, but he also possessed a solid respect for the overall framework of their existence. He had a tendency on the one hand to idealize them for their love of nature, and on the other hand he somewhat scorned their lack of intellectual breadth. The Roman soldier understood them far better, for he was originally of their stock.

[...] You must remember also that the art of the great masters was largely unknown to the poor peasants of Europe, much less to the world at large. [...]

(9:40.) Those mythological images and their belief system were shared by all—peasants and the wealthy—to a large degree. [...]

[...] However, my reading indicates that Seth was probably right about prints being unavailable to the “poor peasants” of those times.

(Long pause at 9:43.) Any man might rise in your democracy from a poor peasant’s son to be the President. [...]

[...] But as a peasant I walked with a heavy foot and great weight until I learned the lessons that I had to learn, as all of you will learn your own lessons. [...]

[...] A queen, weary of her role, may dream of being a peasant girl. [...] In greater terms, the king has been a pauper and the queen a peasant. [...]

The peasant was poor because he was basically brutish as a result of his parentage. [...]

[...] The experience of the guru⁵ who sits in opulence, bejeweled and begowned, has nothing to do with the peasant who works in the field and whose belly is empty. [...]

Even the poorer peasants and farmers bought portraits of themselves, however, from perhaps less gifted artists, and many unknowns took payment for portraits in the form of room and board, and painted all the more slowly.

[...] I touched these streets lightly as Pope; but as a peasant I walked with a heavy foot and great weight, until I learned the lessons that I had to learn, as all of you will also learn your own lessons.”

[...] One was a peasant in Turkey; she was “either 62 or 63 years old.” [...]