“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If the observer was someone you both trusted, the fear of failure would not enter in so strongly. [...]

[...] Investigations carried on according to what is considered scientific precepts are doomed in a large measure to slow-motion tactics at best, and to complete failure at worst.

[...] The optimistic remarks had come through the Ouija board in the first two or three sessions; none of them had materialized, and in the light of Seth’s recent material on distortions Jane and I had thought distortion the reason for this failure.)

[...] No wonder our first attempts were failures.

One note: Your father felt ineffective and a failure when an automobile did not work right, because of his connection with them, and you picked this up. [...]

(Our dog Mischa was 11 years old when he died of kidney failure.)

[...] Physical illness represents the failure to deal with these sufficiently or effectively, and in all cases the intensity and severity of physical illness is in proportion to the severity and intensity of the inner problem.

[...] Our fear of failure undoubtedly plays a strong part here. [...]

Ego failure may result. [...]

[...] Your physical condition in every way is a reflection of your inner expectations, accomplishments, and failures, and I have told you that any illness is the result of an inner distortion.

[...] Ego failure can result.

[...] Jane believes that in the early experiments her failure to appreciate this, to interpret correctly, led to many errors in the material; that actually, through Seth, she had received the correct data to begin with, but needed the practice in fine discrimination to even be aware that the problem existed. [...]

[...] She could not give name of town in S. Dakota because I was blocking her, already worried about possible failure if I checked on a map. [...]

We have come along far enough so that we are beyond the danger of failure, I believe. [...]

“Through the change of roles, Sally now gains insight on past failures, and also helps her present husband to become more contemplative and to seek answers to questions that he would not have asked otherwise. [...]

[...] One of the reasons for my failure to settle the matter right away was the lack of any immediate pressure to do so, for we hadn’t seen Sue since before the 729th session was held; that’s over five weeks ago now; newspaper work has often kept her too busy to make the trip to Elmira.

[...] You feel that you must be successful or he will punish you, that you must be perfect; therefore you become panic stricken at any sense of failure within you, and you overexaggerate your failings so that you came here tonight to me as if you were two and a half years old. [...]

[...] Yet science too has experienced many failures in theory and technology, and knows a new humility; at least partly because of these failures, anti-intellectualism has grown noticeably in recent years.

“Waking consciousness can be taken into the dream state; the ego cannot, as it would falter and cause immediate failure. [...]

[...] I think I know my own parents better now than I did when they were ‘living.’ I understand so much more about them now, and with compassion see and feel their strivings and hopes, loves and successes and failures in ways I was not consciously aware of before. [...]