“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

At the first sign of failure last autumn with the ESP column, he pulled out entirely, while he applied for job after job.

(10:43.) Give us a moment… Most people interpret the realities of their lives, their triumphs and failures, their health or illness, their fortune or misfortune, then, in the light of a mythical reality that is not understood as such. [...]

(Jane now emphasized that where she would have “stiffened up” earlier, she now feels it foolish to let the fear of failure block what might be good material. [...]

It is precisely because of this failure, because of man’s endeavor to explain data in terms of his own field only, that so much seems either unexplainable, mysterious, or beyond the realm of intellectual comprehension. [...]

[...] With no unkindness meant, you all know yourselves and your weaknesses and failures, so why should you suppose that the self you know is the only self that you are? [...]

[...] With more than a little wry humor over what I considered to be a failure of belief on my part, I took action: Late in July I had a contractor, who is a friend of ours and well acquainted with Jane’s situation, install a heavy outside door in a bedroom wall, and construct the necessary step to the ground. [...]

[...] The failure adds to the sense of guilt.

[...] Both turned out rather well, as she agreed, finally, after at first proclaiming both of them to be failures.

[...] Arrangements having to do with the amount of air, either poor ventilation or failure of an air conditioner. [...]

[...] In fact, his lecture tour of the United States turned out to be a failure because of the hostile press reaction.”

[...] But you would have considered that a partial failure. [...]

[...] The failure to get there, to turn time around, could be taken as a sign of resistance on the part of the present self. [...]

However, Jane and I don’t particularly think that in our present lives we’ve been that greatly influenced by any successes, failures, or illnesses chosen from other lives except in the broadest of terms: general bodily and personality characteristics and abilities, say. [...]

[...] Our own general psychological unease certainly contributed to that failure, but Jane’s writing became bogged down in details about dates, quotations from old sessions, and elaborate studies built upon our dream accounts and other psychic and daily records, for example. [...]

[...] If young adulthood is considered the epitome of life, blessedness, and success, then old age is viewed as the opposite — a time of failure and decay.

The fact that you did do our notes gave you confidence, while you did not feel threatened by failure as an artist. [...]

[...] A family can constantly reinforce its joy (louder), gaiety, and spontaneity by concentrating on ideas of vitality, strength and creativity; or it can let half of its energy slip away (deeper) by reinforcing resentments, angers and thoughts of doubt and failure.

[...] There will be failures. [...]

Short of outright failure, however, some of the articles I’ve collected contain the information that a conventional artificial joint replacement—for a knee, say—usually lasts only from four to seven years before loosening. [...]

[...] It seems that through a combination of mechanical failures and human error, Unit No. [...]

In all probability there will be some failures, but there will be many successes, and the fear of failure will be our worst inhibiting factor. [...]

[...] Therefore such attempts in this manner are doomed to failure.