“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Their reality cannot be probed by scientific devices, for dreams in this respect are as nebulous as the spirit, or soul, or inner self. [...]

When hypnosis is more clearly understood and used, and when certain other psychological devices are discovered, it will then be possible to change focus in such a manner, and through psychological testing discover the personality types, the individual types who dwell in various stages of the subconscious.

[...] Flu epidemics become social excuses for much needed rest, therefore, and serve as face-saving devices so that the individuals can hide from themselves their inner difficulties. [...]

[...] The symptoms did serve partially as face-saving devices, and for both of you to some extent, to explain behavior of your own that perhaps you did not understand—though this largely involves Ruburt’s behavior, of course. [...]

My first example concerns the development of biofeedback machines in the 1960’s. With one of these devices the individual was to learn to control, when necessary, his or her own blood pressure, or any of certain other involuntary body functions. [...]

(11:44.) Others have finished with their challenges; they want to die and are looking for an excuse — a face-saving device. [...]

[...] Others should be left to their own devices in life, etc., etc....)

[...] I wasn’t sure myself as to who or what Seth was, and the thought crossed my mind more than once that the doctor’s attitude was simply a device to gain my confidence—the psychologist’s pretense that he believed in the existence of his patient’s delusion as unquestioningly as the patient did.

[...] The ego is also a device to enable the inner self to inhabit the physical plane.

[...] Whatever reservations she shows—her conscious inhibition of impulses, for example—are learned devices that are literally protective in nature. [...]

You do not fit any of the current patterns, and you make no effort to—nor do you offer any face-saving devices for scientists of high stature. [...]

[...] Not even when I play around with his ideas relative to quantum theory can such proof be found—yet I let Jane’s “amazingly strong” will be the measuring and observing device that automatically causes “waves” of knowing or consciousness—in Framework 2, for example—to coalesce into the “particles” that make up the physical forms she perceives as her reality in Framework 1, either psychically from a distance or right here.

[...] He would also for continue his protective devices for your own physical body. [...]

[...] It is one of my personal peculiarities that I do not approve of this educational device.

Because Ruburt’s background in this life was particularly bizarre in a way and certainly unpleasant, he became beautifully efficient as far as sensing the approach of psychic storms is concerned and very adept at sensing moods, and also amazingly efficient in learning self-protective devices. [...]

Nor is the invention of clock time the only such mutilating device mistakenly invented and used to protect one part of the self from the other. [...]

[...] With numbers I use this device, and have in the past, counting aloud to the number that I want.

[...] It is your nervous physical mechanism which acts as a limiting device. [...]

With the method I have just given you, you will be able to capture as much of the whole dream experience as any investigators manage to do (in dream-labs) when the awakening is done by a mechanical device or by another person. [...]

There are certain self-regulating devices at work here, psychologically speaking, that insure necessary periods of passivity and rest. [...]