“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Once more, action is not a force outside that acts upon matter. [...]

[...] Identity would suffer if it were forced to perceive more impressions than it could effectively handle. [...]

(Jane delivered the above paragraph quite forcefully, facing me with one foot up on a chair. [...]

[...] Now again, if our Lady from Florence did not have the ability to look inward, I would not try to force her to do so. [...]

This sense of division within the self forces you to think that there is a remote, spiritual, wise, intuitive inner self, and a bewildered, put-upon, spiritually ignorant, inferior physical self, which happens to be the one you identify with. [...]

[...] This is fine, a driving force, but his strength comes from among other things his very personal involvement with nature, and from his contemplation of it. [...]

They have not forced interviews upon you, and many houses certainly would try it. [...]

[...] The self is indeed multidimensional, and the driving force behind the self does not reside in the ego or in what you refer to as the subconscious.

[...] Jane described how she had become very frightened in Florida over the job situation, and that I had been forced to get a job anyhow even though I had told her most emphatically that I didn’t intend to do this. [...]

[...] And what guided those creatures, I wondered — magnetic lines of force, genes, innate knowledge — or what? [...]

[...] You cannot use Framework 2 to force an event upon another person. [...]

[...] Its very danger keeps him on his toes, and forces him to protect his life. [...]

[...] Jane’s delivery throughout this material was as forceful as it could be without increasing the volume of her Seth voice a great deal.)

[...] Therefore, when such a rigid, psychotic personality suddenly discovers a way for release through opening the subconscious, then the rigid rock at its core explodes into a lava of uncontrollable fantasy; and the terror at the base of such a personality is then externalized, and the individual forced to face under the worst possible conditions, those personal disruptions buried for so long.

Once you asked a question (recently; on file), wondering how those who only believed in the evidence of their senses could try to force that limited reality upon others?—and of course they cannot: they can only blind themselves to the greater dimensions of existence.

[...] The Cézanne book will have more effect on the people that you sent it to than they realize, or may be apparent at this time, because you are uniting two strong forces—the artistic and creative ones. [...]

You were afraid, however, that those who tried to leave would be forced to return, that they would seek you out and bring you back and that your fellows would greatly resent any knowledge you had achieved. [...]

[...] But in barely a week he has been forced to face that morning situation, to question it as he really did not before.

[...] The physical signs of improvement have been most beneficial to him, forcing him to recognize that betterment is not only possible but has occurred.

[...] I can’t feel it’s moral to try and force it on anybody even though there’s money involved and we could use the money.”)