賽斯
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賽斯資料（英語：Seth Material）是美國靈媒珍·羅伯茲的一系列作品，由其從1963年開始，口述給其丈夫，直至她於1984年逝世為止。珍·羅伯茲宣稱，賽斯資料來自一個叫做賽斯（Seth）的靈體，賽斯借用她的身體說話。賽斯資料被認為是新時代（New Age）哲學的基石之一，在新時代運動圈裡是第二次世界大戰後，除了愛德加·凱西的作品與《奇蹟課程》之外，最具影響力的通靈作品。阿爾格西大學臨牀心理學教授Jon Klimo在其關於通靈的書中稱，在通靈的概念進入公眾認知的過程中，賽斯資料發揮了重要作用。
其他的靈媒作者也陸續寫了號稱通靈自賽斯的資料，特別是在羅伯茲過世之後。這些作者有創立賽斯－荷米斯基金會（Seth-Hermes Foundation）的湯瑪斯·馬薩里（Thomas Massari），他說他早在1972年即與賽斯通靈，另一位靈媒作者琴·盧米斯（Jean Loomis），她是康乃狄克州寶瓶座中心（Aquarian Center）的主任。美國各地出現了專門與賽斯資料共同合作的研究團隊。
芝加哥大學美國宗教史教授凱薩琳·阿勒本尼斯（Catherine L. Albanese）在1970年代指出，賽斯資料開啟了美國全國上下關注通靈趨勢的紀元，而且也是崛起的新時代運動自我認同的來源。約翰·紐波特（John P. Newport）研究新時代思想對社會的衝擊，指出賽斯資料的中心思想是每個人都能創造自己的實相（Reality，即境遇）。這是新時代運動裡首次明確出現在賽斯資料裡的基本概念。根據布拉德利大學研究宗教的歷史學者羅伯特·富勒（Robert C. Fuller），賽斯人格填補了心靈引導的角色，他稱之為「非教會的美國靈性」（unchurched American spirituality），其主題涵蓋了輪迴、業報、自由意志、古代形上學的智慧、「基督意念」（Christ consciousness）。
歷史
1963年晚期，珍·羅伯茲和其丈夫羅伯特·霸茲（Robert Butts）以通靈板為實驗器材，撰寫一本有關超感官知覺的書。根據羅伯茲和霸茲，他們於1963年12月2日開始接收來自一男性人格的連貫信息，此人格後來被確認為賽斯。不久之後，羅伯茲說她在腦中聆聽這些信息。她開始不用通靈板寫下聽到的信息，而她最後也捨棄通靈板不用了。直到1984年羅伯茲過世為止，這二十一年間她持續接收賽斯資料（但其中一年因病而空缺）。通靈時她會進入出神狀態，據稱代表了賽斯本人傳達信息。
根據羅伯茲的說法，賽斯人格形容自己是「不再聚焦物質的能量人格元素」，獨立於羅伯茲的潛意識之外，雖然羅伯茲曾表達她對賽斯來歷的懷疑，而且常說賽斯的的教導僅是「理論」。賽斯人格說，他已完成了塵世的輪迴，在毗鄰的存在層次（或「實相系」、「宇宙」）對我們說法。賽斯人格形容自己是一位「教師」，又說賽斯資料的信息會交給每一代的人類。
靈媒愛德加·凱西於出神狀態時用古代的句法說話，且內容含糊不清。羅伯茲跟他不一樣，當賽斯上身時，她的句法風格現代而內容清晰。賽斯附體時，羅伯茲經常坐在安樂椅上，偶爾吸菸、啜飲啤酒或葡萄酒。然後，她通常已記不得賽斯附體時的說法內容，因而要閱讀聽寫紀錄或讓人告訴她賽斯說了什麼。
概要
賽斯資料的核心思想是以意識創造物質實相的理論為基礎的，指出每個人都可以透過思想、信念和期許創造自己的實相，而且吾人在當下就可以通過威力之點（point of power）影響事物的變化。
賽斯資料探討的形上學概念包山包海，包括上帝的本質在內，說它「一切萬有」（All That Is），有時也會提到「多次元上帝」（The Multidimensional God）（現身於平行宇宙或可能存在的宇宙中）；物質實相的本質；宇宙的起源；基督的故事；靈魂的進化、死亡和重生的所有面向，包括輪迴、業報、前世、瀕死經驗、「護衛靈」（guardian spirits）、高昇至「較高意識」的層次；生命的目的和善惡的本質；受苦的目的；多次元實相、平行生命、超個人層次。
自我的本質
根據賽斯資料，整個自我或「存有」（entity）是完形的，由內在自我（inner self）和多種自我所構成。賽斯資料假定此一存有通過過去的存有（有形或無形的）而存在，同時也因所有當下的化身自我（incarnated selves）和可能存在的對應面而存在，而輪迴則是賽斯資料的核心原則。
阿姆斯特丹大學荷米斯哲學教授福特·漢拿赫夫（Wouter Hanegraaff）表示，羅伯茲對自我本質的觀點（以賽斯的身分）影響了其他的新紀元著者（他們有些人使用「較高自我」這個詞指涉相同的概念），而且羅伯茲使用的術語也為某些著者所採用。漢拿赫夫說，賽斯使用各種詞彙詮釋「自我」，包括「存有」（entity）、「全我」（whole self）、「超靈」（(over)soul）。
現實
有些與賽斯資料相關的中文獻把「Reality」翻譯成「實相」，但是「Reality」有個眾所周知的意思，就是「現實」，一般辭彙中並沒有「實相」一辭，因此，把 Reality 譯成實相，有點難知所云。而佛經中的「實相」意指「終極不變的狀態」，而在賽斯的論點中，終極不變的狀態是不存在的，Reality 絕不是「終極不變的狀態」。直接把 Reality 譯成「現實」，表示「現在是事實」，再也恰當不過，不用另闢蹊徑。再不然，將之譯成「實境」「世界」「天地」「界域」等常用詞彙，也遠比譯成「實相」讓人更易了解。賽斯資料說，所有的個體都創造了自身的境遇，並於共同的塵世環境經歷境遇。這類似「責任承擔」的教義。「你創造你的現實」這句話表達了這個概念，而此概念可能源自於賽斯資料。內在自我負責建構、維持個體的肉身和當下的物質環境，而外在自我的期許、態度和信念則決定了事件的開展。外在自我就是人類所認知的自己。
賽斯書探討一個概念，即物質環境乃由個體佔有者（包括動物在內）的內在自我所建構、維持。內在自我在物質現實裡投射出「整體」（en masse），而物質現實則充滿了個體所需的能量。所有的事件也是以這種方式產生的。
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Seth Material
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The Seth Material is a collection of writing dictated by Jane Roberts to her husband from late 1963 until her death in 1984. Roberts claimed the words were spoken by a discarnate entity named Seth. The material is regarded as one of the cornerstones of New Age philosophy, and the most influential channelled text of the post–World War II "New Age" movement, after the Edgar Cayce books and A Course in Miracles. Jon Klimo writes that the Seth books were instrumental in bringing the idea of channeling to a broad public audience.
According to scholar of religion Catherine Albanese, the 1970 release of the book The Seth Material "launched an era of nationwide awareness ... [of c]ommunication with other-than-human entities ... contributing to the self-identity of an emergent New Age movement". Study groups formed in the United States to work with the Seth Material, and now are found around the world, as well as numerous websites and online groups in several languages, as various titles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Dutch and Arabic.
John P. Newport, in his study of the influence of New Age beliefs, described the central focus of the Seth Material as the idea that each individual creates his or her own reality, a foundational concept of the New Age movement first articulated in the Seth Material.
History
In late 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, experimented with a ouija board as part of Roberts's research for a book on extra-sensory perception. Roberts and Butts claimed that they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality on December 2, 1963, who later identified himself as Seth. Soon after, Roberts reported that she was hearing the messages in her head. She began to dictate the messages instead of using the Ouija board, and the board was eventually abandoned. For 21 years until Roberts's death in 1984 (with a one-year hiatus due to her final illness), Roberts held regular sessions in which she went into a trance and purportedly spoke on behalf of Seth.
According to Roberts, Seth described himself as an "energy personality essence no longer focused in physical matter" who was independent of Roberts's subconscious, although Roberts expressed skepticism as to Seth's origins, frequently referring to Seth's statements as "theories". Roberts claimed that Seth indicated he had completed his earthly reincarnations and was speaking from an adjacent plane of existence. The Seth personality described himself as a "teacher", and said: "this material has been given by himself and others in other times and places, but that it is given again, in new ways, for each succeeding generation through the centuries."
Unlike the psychic Edgar Cayce, whose syntax when speaking in trance was antiquated and convoluted, Roberts's syntax and sentence structures were modern and clear when speaking as Seth. Roberts often sat in a rocking chair during sessions, and she would occasionally smoke cigarettes and sip beer or wine. Afterwards, she claimed to not remember the contents of the session, and she would often read the transcript or ask what Seth had said.
Summary
The core teachings of the Seth Material are based on the principle that consciousness creates matter, that each person creates his or her own reality through thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. And that the "point of power", through which the individual can affect change, is in the present moment.
It discusses a wide range of metaphysical concepts, including the nature of God (referred to as "All That Is" and "The Multidimensional God"); the nature of physical reality; the origins of the universe; the nature of the self and the "higher self"; the story of Christ; the evolution of the soul and all aspects of death and rebirth, including reincarnation and karma, past lives, after-death experiences, "guardian spirits", and ascension to planes of "higher consciousness"; the purpose of life; the nature of good and evil; the purpose of suffering; multidimensional reality, parallel lives; and transpersonal realms.
Nature of the self
According to the Seth Material, the entire self or "entity" is a gestalt consisting of the inner self, various selves that the entity has assumed through past existences (physical and non-physical), plus all the currently incarnated selves and all their probable counterparts. Reincarnation is included as a core principle.
Wouter Hanegraaff, Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, says that these ideas have been influential to other new age authors (some of whom use the term "higher self" to refer to the same concept), and that Roberts's terminology has been adopted by some of those authors. Hanegraaff says that Seth uses various terms to refer to the concept of the "self", including "entity", "whole self", "gestalt", and "(over)soul".
Reality
The Seth Material says that all individuals create their own circumstances and experiences within the shared earthly environment, similar to the doctrine of responsibility assumption. This concept is expressed in the phrase "you create your own reality", which may have originated with the Seth readings. The inner self, or inner ego, is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the individual's physical body and immediate physical environment, and the unfolding of events is determined by the expectations, attitudes and beliefs of the outer ego, that portion of the self that human beings know as themselves. "If you want to change your world, you must first change your thoughts, expectations, and beliefs." Or, more succinctly: "You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule".
The books discuss the idea that a living network of panpsychism constructs and maintains the physical environment via the inner selves of the individual occupants (including both living and inert matter). The inner selves project, en masse, a pattern for physical reality that is then filled with energy, as needed, by each individual. All events are also produced in the same manner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Material
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