“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Jane began reading yesterday’s session — it wasn’t her best effort by any means, but she managed to get through it with a little help from me. [...]

(I’ve made no effort to record her progress systematically since we began our twice-daily suggestion routine, and since Frank Longwell has been giving her a weekly massage. [...]

[...] The more incohesive the individual feels the world to be, the greater his or her efforts will be expended in an attempt to put the world back together.

[...] Her control this time was obviously much better although this was only the second such effort.)

[...] There seemed to be an actual effort involved in her speaking—something quite foreign to the sessions. [...]

The four in the beginning was merely my effort to lead Ruburt further, in counting as I did do later on, ending up with our correct six. [...]

[...] This merely involves my efforts to teach Ruburt to focus more specifically. [...]

[...] There is effort involved, as I learn, indeed, the best ways of giving Ruburt data, and try to guide him in discriminating between, or rather among, the many personal associations that any one legitimate impression may bring to his mind.

[...] Her upper torso went round and round with her efforts. [...]

You must start from your present position, of course, but there is no person who cannot better his or her position to a considerable degree, if the effort is made to follow through with the kind of new hypotheses that we will here suggest. [...]

Your love-making continues to be important, for there he experiences letting go without effort, and that will carry over into other areas. [...]

If however you imagine that the environment or physical condition is the reality, then you can feel trapped by it, and spend your efforts fighting a paper dragon. [...]

[...] She also had some visual effects that were hard to describe; in an effort to pin these down, she began adding to her own notes, and these are quoted at the end of the session.

[...] The displaced powers of consciousness are still being assigned to the unconscious, and great efforts are being made to reach what seem to be normally inaccessible areas of awareness. [...]

[...] It took an extra effort for her to rouse herself enough to go to bed.

[...] This was her best effort yet: she marched right along in a perfectly normal way. [...]

[...] Any time you see yourself in your mind as unhealthy or staggering, you must immediately wipe the image away and make an effort to see instead a mental image of yourself as healthy and strong.

[...] Again, bodily efforts are as magical, as creative, certainly, as the writing of a book or a poem (intently) — but Ruburt in the past trusted his creative abilities as if they were something he had to guard from his physical self.

The collection will include our family trees; my father’s journals and photographs; Jane’s and my own grade-school, high-school, college, and family data; our youthful creative efforts in writing and painting; the comic books and other commercial artwork I produced; our early published and unpublished short stories; my original notes for the sessions; session transcripts, whether published or unpublished, “regular,” private, or from ESP class; tapes, including those made in class of Jane speaking for Seth and/or singing in Sumari; our notes, dream records, journals, and manuscripts; our sketches and paintings; Jane’s extensive poetry; our business correspondence; books, contracts, and files; newsletters about the Seth material, published in the United States and abroad (independently of Jane and me); the greater number of letters from readers—in short, a mass of material showing how our separate beginnings flowed together and resulted in the production of a joint lifework.

[...] It was apparent that Dineen sat alone all day in her lovely home with nothing to do; that she was making no effort to face her situation truly, but looking to others to do it for her, and therefore reinforcing her sense of powerlessness. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The senile, in their efforts to run away from their closeted rooms in sanitariums, often show far greater sanity in their way than the relative or society who imprisoned them. [...]

[...] It took time from daily life to break the pattern even when he understood it, so often he went along on the one hand, while making half-assed efforts to free himself on the other.

[...] This does not mean that he need feel like an idiot, but that he set up a body habit for reasons that he once considered valid, and that to change it requires some conscious effort. [...]

[...] And when you understand what it is trying to say, and if you make an effort to do what is needed, the symptoms are no longer needed as a method of communication. [...]

[...] To do so will take some effort on your part, but you can remove them completely. [...]

[...] If he now uses psycho-cybernetics as applied to his work and to the (Seth) book, and makes a definite effort with those methods to focus all of his energy into the book, the symptoms will simply fall away, and quickly. [...]

[...] There is more effort involved in theses communications, for Ruburt must come farther, since I cannot come closer. [...]