“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, before I let my friends very sweetly and nicely rush to my defense, let me mention that Ruburt also when classes began, made an effort, as our friend over here remembers, to give spontaneous readings which worked very well. [...]

[...] In that ESP class session, you mentioned going into a trance yourself, and the effort required by you to pinpoint us in our time and space.”)

Now, however, you understand the reason why even an impeding action is literally accepted by the personality as a portion of the self, and why therefore efforts must be made that will coax the personality to give up any portion of itself, if progress is to be made. [...]

(The reference to a kitchen extension concerns our efforts to get our landlord to enlarge our very small kitchen. [...]

[...] If your recorder is suitably situated with the microphone easily at hand, then you can speak your dream with less effort than is required to write it down. [...]

[...] Thus the regular schedule was broken, and required some effort on our parts to restore. [...]

[...] We will make an effort in the future to give you both some Direct-Experience-in-Concepts—hyphenated and capitalized.

It’s taken us some years to understand that behind Jane’s symptoms lay her efforts to understand and express the very strong creative energy she’s sensed within herself since childhood. [...] Should she do so, it would certainly be a history of one person’s long efforts to grapple as fully as possible — and not always successfully — with her own human qualities. [...]

[...] She said the traffic noise bothered her, but that she would make an effort to see that it didn’t continue to do so.

[...] She held the envelope in her right hand, making no effort to determine its contents by feeling, twisting, etc.)

Realizing that, he made considerable efforts to change his attitudes and beliefs. [...]

[...] If however effort is to be made to find another solution—

[...] Every time you say, I am helpless, and I am slipping into chaos, whether you get laughs or not, or whether you say it humorously or not, you are indeed pushing yourself further into the chaos you are creating with every breath you take because you make no effort to change the nature of your thoughts and this is what you must do, exert your own control. [...]

[...] It takes a lot of courage and a lot of determination, and the desire to let go and let yourself have some fun, in order to find out who you are and why you are here, and I expect you to put forth the effort. [...]

[...] I will see that you get them, but in the meantime you both can make an effort to express feelings. [...]

[...] The poor eyesight and the sinus are both, on a much limited scale, adaptations of his mother’s more frightening and more successful efforts to close out portions of reality.

[...] Then examination of beliefs takes its place along with other activities — naturally, easily, without effort. [...]

[...] I remembered to ask his name, and as I did so I discovered it was no effort at all. [...]

[...] It took concentrated effort on Jane’s part to break through my emotional barrier and assume a trance state.)

[...] In an effort to communicate, I was blocking communication. [...]

The next few chapters will deal with our efforts to be “scientifically responsible,” to “test” Seth for ESP. [...]