“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I seem to feel an unaccustomed excitement about it all; this hovers offstage, one might say, at the chance that she’ll make it after all. [...]

[...] She might, for example, through a series of seemingly chance encounters, end up in another branch of singing, less formal, where she also deals with her contemporaries, as in a music company.

[...] But I regret seeing what may be chances of help being passed by, and these feelings are, I’m afraid, based on our lack of specific knowledge. [...]

(“What are the chances of that happening?” I asked Jane. [...]

(The session was held this evening with the chance that it might be interrupted. One of the tenants in the house had finally located a man with a plow, who was due to clear the area at 9 PM this evening. [...] We decided to go ahead with the session anyhow, on the chance the man with the snowplow did not show up, or was late.

[...] Our tests had been held in the evening, and our results reached chance level only.

We haven’t had a chance to ask Seth about this yet, but will the next time we hold a session. [...]

[...] In the meantime, they might have hired detectives, and all objective avenues may have yielded no results, until by chance they meet at the corner grocery.

[...] When they met, therefore our hypothetical people, they could only gasp with amazement at the ways of coincidence, and the strange fashion of chance or fate.

[...] Consciousness did not come from atoms and molecules scattered by chance through the universe or scattered by chance through many universes. [...]

([Mark:] “But sometimes, in self-pity, we think of it as self-sacrifice but really it’s a chance to gain humility or give service to other people?”)

[...] These concern my insight—a simplistic one to be sure—that one of Jane’s hassles results from her fear that Seth would take over if given the chance. [...] Note, however, that I wrote that she feared Seth would take over—not necessarily that he would if given the chance—a big difference. [...]

He feels that he has taken a chance that you have not taken, staking financial survival on creative work. [...]

[...] If he cannot go around the block to start with, he feels despondent, but the habit of walking will grow as he gives it a chance.

[...] (Pause.) Your immediate superior is losing a chance. Yet he offered you a chance at the grab bag for his own reasons. [...]

[...] These do not occur by chance, but when some kind of rapport causes effects to leap between systems that otherwise appear quite separated. [...]

(By now Jane and I were very curious, since this was the first time we had ever had the chance to resume with a contact made previously on the board. [...]

[...] Consciousness did not come from atoms and molecules scattered by chance through the universe, or scattered by chance through many universes. [...]

[...] He was afraid of the cat, considering him wild and caged originally, as his mother had been in his interpretation, so he felt forced to help the cat (who did not have any love for him), as he felt before he had to help his mother—who would kill him if she had the chance.

[...] I will not say that practice makes perfect, but at least it gives you a chance. [...]

It seems to you that you have, perhaps, but one chance as a species to solve your problems, or be destroyed by your own aggression, by your own lack of understanding and spirituality. [...]

In this case they were given another chance, having the unconscious knowledge not only of their failure, but the reasons behind it. [...]

[...] Evidently the psychological factors associated with the venting idea will be ignored as long as there’s no foreseeable chance that physical harm will be done to the population surrounding TMI. [...]

[...] This chance, no matter how remote it may be, exists in every country in the world that has even one nuclear establishment. [...]

[...] [The entire plant is idle, since unit 1 had already been shut down for refueling.] By now the situation is much more serious, however: There’s a chance of a catastrophic “meltdown” of the uranium fuel rods in the damaged reactor’s core—the worst possible accident that can occur in such circumstances, short of an explosion, and a kind that proponents of nuclear power have long maintained “almost certainly cannot happen.” [...]

[...] Certain impulses are activated as the body realizes they have a chance for fulfillment—that is, impulses are reactivated in a certain order. [...]

[...] In Framework 2, effortlessly all patterns are set into motion at your birth, opening up innumerable probable pathways, each leading to the best fulfillment of your potential, so that events, chance encounters, everything works together.

[...] You cannot inhibit spontaneity in one area and not in another, but he did not get it properly through his head that spontaneity did not mean license, or that spontaneity was going to work against his work if he gave it half a chance. [...]

(4:49 p.m. Joe discussed his fears with me last night when I visited him, but I didn’t get a chance to tell Jane about them until I saw her in 330 this afternoon. [...]