“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

On the one hand you are too well in control of it. [...]

[...] Seth greeted us, gave a few voice effects which were controlled because of the hour and the proximity of other tenants, and expressed his willingness and capability to continue until six in the morning. [...]

[...] He thought that body and mind were two different things, that the body must be controlled for the sake of the mind, that his consciousness existed apart—in his head, say—with its own abilities, while his body had its own pursuits as apart from his own. [...]

[...] Men did not begin hunting animals until certain groups of animals needed a way to control their own population. [...]

[...] Behind those beliefs was the belief that spontaneity is an indulgence to be controlled, that good things are not spontaneous, but bad things are. [...]

[...] Smiling, Seth said, “One other point: These sessions are scheduled, and therefore operate under certain controlled conditions. [...] Ruburt allows me to use the nervous system under highly controlled conditions. [...]

As far as I can see, Seth’s reference to hypnosis had to do with the “training” undergone by some mediums in which hypnosis is used to initiate and stabilize the trance state, and occasionally to call forth the communications of “control” personalities. [...]

[...] It controls and organizes larger portions of action.

[...] You form the reality, the shape, of thoughts, for they have shape, in much the same way that you breathe; and you have as little control of them, once you have created them, as you have of your breath.

[...] It was apparent that her control with this new method was somewhat unsure; she paused often while speaking, and appeared to have to make quite an effort to maintain just the right balance between being herself while allowing Seth to hover just below, or within her range of consciousness, so that she could pass along his data. [...]

[...] He had felt relatively in control, business-wise, used to dealing directly, and this is one of the reason why he and Tam work together intuitively and business-wise so well.

[...] It has been difficult for him to accept the fact that the mind literally controls the body. [...]

[...] It has the ability to see what is coming, so to speak, but while the frightened ego is still in control it chooses to see only a portion of what is possible, and before the point of death it usually chooses to hide in the past.

[...] He is learning to control this to some extent, for which you should be grateful. [...]

[...] When circumstances are at their best then he allows me to come through clearly, but he is concerned over issues that are only of surface importance as far as the volume of the voice is concerned, and he is only now learning control. [...]

[...] Lose control of matter when spirit is fatigued.

(9:38.) In a way, Ruburt’s symptoms ended up as providing a system of controls, serving in several rather than one area, but areas that he is now exploring in rather concentrated form. [...]

[...] Chronic physical disabilities and problems drag on in a certain fashion because they serve many purposes, and the last groups of sessions show the interior and exterior kinds of controls that those symptoms have provided. [...]

[...] Your control over it is quite effective, for you create it as you create your fingertip. You are not consciously aware, consciously underlined, of your control over the physical object that may be touched by that fingertip.

Nature became then an adversary that he must control. [...]

[...] One of the greatest, however, is the idea that the conscious mind does not have any touch with the fountains of its own being, that it is divorced from nature, and that the individual is therefore at the mercy of unconscious drives over which he has no control.

This rigid control of consciousness prevented spontaneous enjoyment of an everyday variety that would otherwise have had a beneficial and balancing effect. [...]

When the peak is reached then self-pity controls your emotions so completely that there seems to be no escape. [...]

When Augustus Two was in control of the body the chemical makeup varied considerably. [...]

When the process began, however, the deep power of nature had to be “controlled” so that the growing consciousness could see itself as apart from this natural source. [...]

[...] A family tyrant, for example, may have no physical symptoms at all, yet be quite obsessed with controlling the family members, stuffing the household with regulations, limiting the family’s freedom, or whatever. [...]