“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In between you have the nations’ concerns about world approval or disapproval, and endless versions of face-saving devices. [...]

[...] At the same time he must deal with the chicanery of politics itself, and the face-saving devices known so well to religion and politics both.

[...] There are devices within each room that enable a dweller in one room to communicate with those in other rooms. [...]

The inhibition of such emotions also interferes with the nervous system and its therapeutic devices. [...]

There is also some self-protective device here still operating. [...]

[...] When you fear that man will most certainly destroy himself through his misuse of technologies, then you are expressing the same feeling in different form expressed by the religious attitude—only religion’s devils are turned into technological devices. [...]

[...] Now he has sent Willy out as a testing device, and the cat does not know exactly what has happened.

[...] The men were employed by the “plumbers,” a secret group working for the Republican President Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President, and their tasks were to photograph records and to check upon listening devices — “bugs” — that had been planted in the offices during a first illegal entry in May. [...]

[...] In their way the hateful or revengeful thoughts are natural therapeutic devices, for if you follow them, accepting them with their own validity as feelings, they will automatically lead you beyond themselves; they will change into other feelings, carrying you from hatred into what may seem to be the quicksands of fear — which is always behind hatred.

[...] With the greatest understanding and compassion, let me mention that Western medicine is in its way one of the most uncivilized hypnotic devices. [...]

[...] This is active prayer, with him, and a definite training device. [...]

(I should note that Jane seems to misunderstand my attitude here: the aim is not to use halting work on Seth’s latest book as a curative device, but to at least keep things from getting any worse. [...]

(At lunchtime Frank Longwell dropped off a medical device that’s used to transfer moist heat to the body. [...]

[...] In historical times as you think of them, pre-industrial man had no need of those particular devices. [...]

[...] It is therefore a mental device meant to protect his life. [...]

You will experience the vivid realization of your own dreams in this manner, and with some training you will record as much of the whole dream experience as any investigators manage to record when the training is done by a mechanical device, or another individual. [...]

[...] But all appearances to the contrary, the emotions are natural controlling devices that in themselves aid discipline, since they allow for the spontaneous flow of energies outward. [...]

[...] You live in a social world, so the symptoms also served as face-saving devices. [...]

Illness is a face-saving device, socially, often occurring where private beliefs and feelings find irritation with mass beliefs. [...]

[...] Literary devices themselves served as formalized methods of seeming to indulge certain information, while actually offering instead falsified data. [...]