“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I should not be here, according to what you have been taught. According to what you have been taught, I do not exist, and yet I can assure you that I do exist. What happens in this room should not happen, according to what you have been taught, and yet it happens. It is enough to open up your own inner senses, to show you that more exists than what you have been told.

Now according to what you have been taught, my friend Ruburt should be mad (crazy) but he is not. According to what you have been told, you are created of physical matter and you cannot escape it, and this is not so. According to what you have been taught, you must disintegrate as you grow old and this is not so. The physical matter of which you are seemingly composed will disintegrate (in physical death) but you will not disintegrate.

(10:05.) Give us a moment… On the one hand many of you have been taught that sexual expression is wrong, evil, or debasing. [...] Yet women are taught that natural expressions of love, playful caresses, are inappropriate unless an immediate follow-through to a sexual climax is given. Men are taught to count their worth according to the strength of the sexual drive and its conquests. They are taught to inhibit the expression of love as a weakness, and yet to perform sexually as often as possible. [...]

The sexual schism begins when the male child is taught to identify exclusively with the father image, and the female child with the mother image — for here you have a guilt insidiously incorporated into the growth process.

[...] The child is also coerced into ignoring or denying those portions of the personality that correspond with the sex it is being taught it cannot identify with. [...]

[...] They also liberate your intellect so that its powers are not limited by concepts it has been taught are true. [...]

[...] There are multitudinous such examples that could be given, as in each day your psyche presents evidence of its own greater being — evidence that you are taught to overlook, or to dismiss because it is not factual.

What is imaginary is not true: You are taught this as children. [...]

In that system of belief many creative people have felt that safeguards were necessary, for they had been taught to fear their own abilities. [...]

[...] The person is taught to mistrust the most the abilities he or she instinctively trusts the most. [...]

That vision means that such a person is taught to mistrust the very abilities that could most help bring about creative solutions. [...]

[...] Boys are still taught to “be cool,” unemotional, aggressive, and assertive — as opposed to being emotionally warm, cooperative, gregarious but without fake bravado. Boys are taught that it is unmanly to be dependent in any way. [...]

[...] Because so many individuals have been taught that power or energy is wrong, destructive, or sinful, and therefore to be punished.

[...] They have been taught that medical science knows more about bodies than any private individual knows about their own bodies and their ways and workings.

People have been taught to trust X-rays for a picture of what is happening within their bodies, and cautioned not to trust their own feelings. [...]

[...] There was a much greater communication in the dream state, so that some lessons were taught during dreams, while others were taught in the waking condition.

[...] I planned to look up the ages of some Biblical patriarchs, and wanted to know what Jane might have been taught about such people, and their ages.

[...] It is not that you must be taught not to destroy, for destruction does not actually exist. It is that you must be taught and trained to create responsibly.

[...] Therefore the lessons must be taught and learned well.

[...] He taught himself a lesson, literally, this evening, and that is the way he learns.

To one extent or another in your society you are taught not to trust yourself. [...]

[...] He felt it necessary to do so because how could the self, unsure of itself, taught that it was bad, bring forth good?

When you are taught not to trust your impulses you begin to lose your powers of decision, and to whatever extent involved in the circumstances, you begin to lose your sense of power because you are afraid to act.

[...] Luckily, the child usually walks before it is old enough to be taught that impulses are wrong, and luckily the child’s natural impulses toward exploration, growth, fulfillment, action and power are strong enough to give it the necessary springboard before your belief systems begin to erode its confidence. [...]

[...] Followers had been taught to act against their natural impulses with members of their families. They had been taught not to trust the outside world, and little by little the gap between misguided idealism and an exaggerated version of the world’s evil blocked all doors through which power could be exerted — all doors save one. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Impulses are spontaneous, and you have been taught not to trust the spontaneous portions of your being, but to rely upon your reason and your intellect — which (amused) both operate, incidentally, quite spontaneously, by the way.

You are used to “trusting your physical perceptions,” taught to accept physical evidence above all as the mark of reality. [...]

Again, since you are culturally taught, to accept physical data as your criteria for physical reality, this is to some extent quite understandable. [...]

[...] It is not that you must be taught not to destroy, for destruction does not actually exist. It is that you must be taught and trained to create responsibly. [...]

These experiences have taught me this: We are multidimensional personalities now—you and I and everyone else. [...]

[...] The theories expand the meaning of individuality and challenge us to accept the larger self that both science and religion at various times have taught us to deny.

[...] Children are taught to repress their emotions rather than to express them. [...]

[...] Many children, however, are unfortunately taught by their parents to be suspicious of exuberance and high spirits. [...]

[...] If you are taught that you cannot trust your impulses, then you are set against your very physical integrity. [...]

[...] They have been taught that energy is wrong, that power is disastrous, and that the impulses of the self are to be feared.

[...] The paranoid and the schizophrenic are trying to find meaning in a world they have been taught is meaningless, and their tendencies appear in lesser form throughout society.

Again, you have been taught to believe that impulses are wrong, generally speaking, or at best that they represent messages from a nefarious subconscious, giving voice to dark moods and desires.

[...] But many people fear that any change is detrimental, since they have been taught, after all, that left alone their bodies or their minds or their relationships are bound to deteriorate. [...]

[...] Children are taught to compete against each other. [...] It is as if you must look at others to see how you are doing — and when you are taught not to trust your own abilities, then of course you need the opinions of others overmuch. [...]

[...] The cat taught you to love again and to open up again. [...]

[...] You taught it communication. [...]

[...] There was a much greater communication in the dream state, so that some lessons were taught during dreams, while others were taught in the waking condition. [...]

[...] They taught the other generations.