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[...] Often people exercise over-zealously to punish their bodies, or to force the body to respond at its best, since they do not trust it to do otherwise.

[...] They may also become ill, of course, to force themselves to make such changes.

[...] It comes to be out of the force of itself, and no force stands against it or threatens it. [...]

Nor is such an inner decision forced upon the conscious personality, for in all such instances, the conscious personality has at various times come close to accepting the idea of death at the particular time in life.

[...] The life came from All That Is, from the spirit of life itself, and was freely given — to be taken away by no one, or threatened by no one or no force, until that life fulfills its own purposes and decides to travel on.

(As Seth, Jane delivered all of the above most forcefully.)

[...] It may, with more force than ever, attempt to hold back the expression of these impulses, and its fear of them grows.

[...] Instead the ego will merely be slightly surprised at behavior which it does not condone, but eventually will accept because it has been forced to recognize its reality.

When the ego is a very rigid one however, it will not accept the reality of these rejected patterns so easily, and according to the nature of its rigidity it may restrict so many areas of activity that the inside action, or the inside impetus for expression, almost equally balances the ego force itself.

[...] (Pause.) Many lonely people were forced, or rather forced themselves, into a situation where it was imperative that they relate with others. [...]

[...] Your collective feelings affect the flow of energy and their force — in terms of natural phenomena — can be seen quite clearly in a thunderstorm, which is the exteriorized local materialization of the inner emotional state of the people experiencing the storm.

[...] There was no inspiring local leadership, and a variety of different kinds of individuals felt ill at ease, depressed and forced to the wall.

[...] As certain primitives do rain dances and consciously bring about rain, deliberately directing unconscious forces, so the people in these different places did the same thing quite automatically, without awareness of the processes involved.

[...] A psychological force who wanted me to understand the danger of such a course, and when I went back to sleep somehow the entire thing would happen again.... [...] The idea also being that outside of the known order provided by these stories, there were raging forces working against man’s existence. [...]

[...] They are the motive force of action (pause), the means by which all interior events are exteriorized. [...] They are a part of the creative force from which all realities spring. [...]

[...] You were not given a certain amount of “life force” at birth that you use up as you go along, contrary to many schools of thought.

(Very forcefully:) Emotions, instead of propelling a physical rocket, for example, send thoughts from this interior reality through the barrier between nonphysical and physical into the “objective” world — no small feat, and one that is constantly repeated.

[...] I cannot force, and will not attempt to force, Ruburt to accept my independent structure on a conscious level. [...]

[...] Such persons may then find themselves breaking off good relationships with those of the other sex for no apparent reason, or forcing the other party to break with them. [...]

[...] They turn their deaths into lessons for other people, forcing them to ask questions that would not be asked before. [...]

[...] After giving a couple of paragraphs of material for Jane, Seth brought the session to a close at 10:15 P.M. Jane was more than a little surprised at its quick end; her delivery had been steady and forceful. [...]

Physicists however will be forced to recognize that the energy within molecular structures has its origin elsewhere. (Jane was restless during this delivery, rubbing her face and hair.) They will be forced to postulate the existence of an unknown force, always existing despite newer current theories. No postulated new force theory will be able to explain reality.

I want to make this clear: no postulated new force theory will answer their questions until it is realized that no system is closed, and that the physical universe is not the origin of, but the result of, the energy that they seek. [...]

[...] There is a force within you that allows you to breathe. There is a force within you that knew how to grow you from a fetus to a grown adult. This force is part of the innate knowledge within all consciousness and it is a part of the God within you. [...]

[...] It has not been forced upon you by some outside agency. [...]

[...] The fear of natural forces was, therefore, initially extremely strong in them for the reasons given, and brought about a feeling of separation between man and those natural forces that nurtured him. They could not trust the earth, since they were not allowed to protect themselves against violent forces within it.

Large groups, however, simply left their cities, destroyed the force fields that had enclosed them, and joined the many groups of relatively uncivilized peoples, mating with them and bearing children. [...]

[...] To her it is a weapon that you have to force money from others, and a weapon you will not use. The word weapon is important here, for she believes that money must be forced from some unfriendly source.

[...] You were trying to force yourself and yet punish yourself. [...]

The individual is, again, a stranger, almost an alien, in his or her own environment, in which he must struggle to survive, not only against the “uncaring” forces of the immediate environment, but against the genetic determinism. [...] Science does not stress the cooperative forces of nature. It glories in distinctions, specifications, and categories, and is quite blind, generally speaking, to the uniting forces that are of course every bit as real. [...]

When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement. [...]

[...] This time her vitality, chosen by her, forces her to do so. She wants the man she once knew but her rage forces her, and has forced her, to stay alive, with the one part of the man that remained.

Once more: Ruburt begins to realize he can have full freedom of motion, without feeling that he will be forced to run away. [...]

[...] In other words, you are perturbed over what is the proper direction for you to take—not trusting yourself to make the proper decision automatically, but wanting to force a quick conscious decision so that you will know what to do, and have it over with.

(Pause.) Your dog dream (of March 31, 1979) also somewhat symbolizes that dilemma: do you go with your head, forcing a conscious decision, or do you go with your instincts, symbolized by the dog’s form? [...]

[...] Fragments living and vulnerable to forces, same forces, to which all earthlife is.

[...] The “sinful-self syndrome” (long pause) was activated or heightened or highlighted in the last year or so in particular as you saw yourselves in a crisis situation (long pause), and to one extent or another Ruburt felt that he would be forced to ask for medical help if he did not further help himself. [...]

(Very long pause at 8:25.) The emotional forces that lie behind these statements that I make are impossible to describe. [...]

[...] You are both able to deal with the situation, however—and remember that the great creative forces of your body and mind are actively protecting you even when you are perhaps most concerned. [...]

[...] Your own love for Ruburt is far more helpful than you realize—and if you can get the feel of that love, it alone can serve as a very potent force that can refresh and revitalize both of your lives. [...]

[...] He could not rid himself of the idea of force, though he had died by force, and nothing could persuade him to accept any kind of peace or contentment, or any rest, until some kind of battle was wrought.

[...] They forced his mouth open and stuffed it with burning coals, as a starter. [...]

[...] Jane’s voice was now quite hoarse and weak; I believe she would have been forced to stop in a few more moments. [...]

[...] Science needs new theories to unify as many of the four forces of nature (gravity, electromagnetism, and the atomic “strong” and “weak” forces) as possible, instead of separating them as in the past. [...]

[...] Very forcefully all through here:) But most physicists do not trust felt answers. [...]

(And, very simply, the idea that the “event horizons” of black holes may radiate detectable light could be a step in the unification of some of those forces — gravity and electromagnetism — as they are treated in relativity theory and quantum theory, respectively. [...]

Now: in Framework 1 you often use too much force to get what you want. [...] You try to force events. [...]

[...] There is something to be conquered, and force must be used. [...]