“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Here Seth refers to an article in the National Enquirer that has intrigued Jane considerably. It was printed in the issue for March 6, 1979: “Miracle of 80-Year-Old Marathon Runner.” I think she’s using it as quite an effective inspiration for herself.)

[...] All people do not want to be expert runners, however. [...] Is it bad to be a poor runner? [...]

[...] When a runner at the Olympics does better than the runner before then all the sportscasters say, “How grand! [...]

[...] I see you as a Brian Donlevy, in a town 30 or 35 miles from Dublin in 1831 at the time of a hidden rebellion, as a runner. As a runner between the Catholic Irish and Englishmen and in a time of terror. [...]

[...] Even though someone may have thrown a stone in your path in the past, as a runner such things would vanish from your mind as you concentrated on the feelings in your body of motion and agility.

[...] That feeling of freedom is fantastic,” she said, then tried an analogy: “I’m as free as a great runner who breaks a world record when her chest hits the tape….”

[...] Bodily abilities, however, would be freely expressed so that one woman might be a great runner, or a man excel at swimming. [...]

(My state persisted—so much so that I felt like a long-distance runner nearing the finish line. [...]

We do not just receive the torch of life and pass it on as one Olympic runner does to another, but we each add to that living torch or flame a power, a meaning, a quality that is uniquely our own. [...]

[...] I’m a natural runner, but had been unable to do more than a little jogging in recent years because of the pressures of work and of taking care of Jane as she became more and more ill. [...]