“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) Epilepsy is a disease often experienced also by people who have strongly conflicting beliefs about the use of power or energy, coupled with a sometimes extraordinary amount of mental and physical energy that demands it be used.

[...] And (with broad amusement) most of you here are Sumari, and it demands great discipline for Sumari to take down lists — even of psychic families!

This does not mean that anyone consciously decides to get such-and-such a disease, but it does mean that some people instinctively realize that their own individual development and fulfillment does now demand another new framework of existence.

[...] You can expect that quicker motion then to begin, and it will in turn demand necessary greater circulation.

[...] You are asking too much of normal waking consciousness, smoothing out the valleys and peaks of its activity, demanding in some cases that it go full blast ahead when it is actually at a minimal period, denying yourself the great mobility of consciousness that is possible.

[...] How many demand that they use their own potentials? How many demand the best of themselves? [...]

(Again I’m led to see that good sitters are a definite benefit; bad sitters of course would simply be those that were distracting or pulled against me, I suppose—or those who demanded too much. [...]

[...] You make decisions as the result of feeling impulses to do this or that, to perform in one manner or another, in response to both private considerations and in regard to demands seemingly placed upon you by others. [...]

(“But now where’s all that stuff I was picking up from Seth today?” she demanded. [...]

A man’s purpose seemed to be no more than to put bolts together to make an automobile, to spend hours in a factory, working on an end product that he might never see—and because many such people felt that there was little intrinsic value to their lives, spent in such a fashion, they began to demand greater and greater compensation. [...]

[...] And that this particular journey of consciousness, we are leaving ourselves completely open to experience to whatever happens without making any demands or suggestions. [...]

[...] For some time they may indeed inhabit such an environment, until they learn through their own experience that existence demands development, and that such a heaven would be sterile, boring, and indeed “deadly.”

[...] Again, such material often offends the intellect that demands simple, neat answers and descriptions that tally.

[...] The book also however shines with your own contribution, and if you would hide your talent, he consistently demanded that you show it. [...]

[...] I’d told Jane to use suggestion so that she wouldn’t be bothered by whatever Roe might say, but suspected that Roe would want Dr. Kardon to examine the bedsores, and probably this would lead to a demand that Jane would go back into the hospital. [...]

[...] Little by little they demanded less lubrication, for use did not stimulate it.

[...] The body of course knows your situations, and the demands put upon it. [...]

[...] Your “condition” effectively kept Ruburt from making any demands, or from putting any verbal pressure upon you, for he rushed of course to your support.

[...] He enjoyed your massaging them, but he did not want to ask you to do so, for he saw it as a sign of emotional giving on your part that must be spontaneous, and not asked for or demanded.

[...] And to understand what they really did demands that we go beyond stereotyped conceptions. And that each demands on both of their parts great self-examination and understanding. [...]

[...] I want to emphasize that, without expecting her to jump out of bed tomorrow, or making any demands at all upon her. [...]

[...] What more could anyone ask of life, I demanded ironically?

[...] The behavior of Instream, the other psychologist at Oswego, the demand for credentials from Fell and others, the letters asking for help of various kinds—especially those from the unbalanced—all of these things and more added up in her eyes to an indictment, one might say, of one’s very nature. [...]

[...] Therefore, you made demands upon this woman that she could not fulfill and she resented them. [...] She also made demands upon you, for her own reasons and we shall try to go into this some evening. [...]

[...] It is both demanding and compassionate. [...]