“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

An old response, caused by the necessity to iron on occasion as a child on demand, and her mother’s unreasoning fastidiousness, as the child saw it. [...]

His mother often demanded the bedpan just before meals, and he thought this was to annoy him. [...]

[...] I am demanding more of you because you are working. [...]

[...] You set up barriers and gates and limitations, and the material demands your high intellectual focus. [...]

(I showed Jane the list of questions I’ve been acquiring, at Seth’s own suggestion, and told her that one of them concerned the insurance situation — that I didn’t want to mess it up by demanding action from our lawyer, say. [...] I added that I couldn’t imagine the hospital not demanding action before this — yet they haven’t. Seth had said the question would be cleared up without any long wait.

(Long pause.) A democracy is a highly interesting form of government, highly significant because it demands so much of individual consciousness, and because it must rest primarily upon a belief in the powers of the individual. [...]

The idea [of democracy] expresses the existence of a high idealism — one that demands political and social organizations that are effective to some degree in providing some practical expression of those ideals (emphatically). When those organizations fail and a gulf between idealism and actualized good becomes too great, then such conditions help turn some idealists into fanatics. [...]

[...] He demands proof of the validity of this material, his psychological time experiences notwithstanding. He demands physical effects and then freezes up. [...]

[...] I demand discipline and respect at my sessions, no matter what I said about Ruburt and discipline earlier. [...]

[...] He is sensitive to their needs, and therefore demands more of himself than he would otherwise. [...]

The demand for attention is a healthy sign. [...]

[...] He will naturally feel like walking as the muscles themselves demand to be used when they are ready.

[...] For a time they rebelled, not in response to their own impulses, however, but in response to the demands of others. Your brother to some extent identified strongly with your father, seeing him as the intellectual, the inventor held in bonds, almost in thrall by the “emotional” demanding woman. [...]

[...] He stretched just about every muscle in a new way, and made new demands upon the body, that the body quite agreeably tried to meet.

First of all, again, the situation, the living situation you have chosen means that you both place a good many demands upon the other, that in a family situation, for example, might be dispersed. [...]

[...] I’m also demanding the very best insight, an excellence of understanding, from each reader, even though it may not be easy to summon those qualities. [...]

[...] “How about the beliefs and the sessions?” Jane demanded right away. [...]

(To Carl:) Now this was a poor-enough bargain for her to make, but for you to add to it in her mind, to demand that she prove this womanhood daily with the dishes or the housework or whatever, was too much for her to bear, and she felt doubly betrayed by you and by herself.

[...] Part of this is because you think that she will demand the sort of environment from which she came—which, quite secretly, appeals to you immensely, and yet for which on the other hand you have nothing but scorn.

[...] Pleas for help were seen as demands—not as opportunities to use abilities, so he felt hounded. [...]

[...] I suggested she demand plenty of energy, as Seth said she could do in the last session. Also, Jane’s hip and foot had bothered her a good deal, and she told me that she had not been consistent yet in demanding the energy available to her, and in channeling it upon her books as suggested by Seth.

[...] You must demand the most of yourselves, for some of you will be involved later in asking others to demand the most of themselves and you must serve as examples. [...]

They, your parents, are done with each other, your mother being more honest than your father in this respect. (Long pause.) Her rage, you must understand, is the other face of life, vitality and love, and she will not give up her demands. [...]

[...] She demanded that some portion of your father remain. [...]

[...] One small example: As usual, if it wasn’t for my own demands and suggestions, this session wouldn’t even exist—whereas to my way of thinking Jane should have demanded to have it on her own. [...]

[...] This time, Jane said, Nebene had changed; his face was less pinched and narrow and demanding, more open, etc.)

Your paintings, in a few years, now, will be in some demand, and you will find yourself quite spontaneously doing multidimensional portraits.

[...] They do not make demands. [...]

[...] I placed no demands upon you from the beginning. [...]

[...] It needs encouragement, not demands—but above all, let him concentrate upon expression rather than repression. [...]

Overall, you are too demanding of yourself. [...]