“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“No.” Again, Jane’s comments. This could refer to grab in terms of greed, definitely in Peg’s account of the sister-in-law.)

A connection with greed—a grasp. [...]

(“What’s that connection with greed or grasp?”)

(“A connection with greed—a grasp.” [...]

(1st Question: What’s that connection with greed or grasp? [...]

[...] As long as you fight for gain and greed you will not have peace. [...]

[...] As the evening progressed we became involved in some pretty heated and involved discussions about Three Mile Island, man’s greed for money, his basic good intent, and related issues. [...] I think I made some good points; even Bill said he probably exaggerated man’s greed, yet he wasn’t about to change his views. [...]

[...] He saw man’s greed for money everywhere predominate. [...]

[...] Those of you who do not believe in greed have not suffered its “consequences.” [...] If you are honestly not greedy, yet you see greed, then perhaps you are serving as an example to others — but you form your own reality.

[...] One visitor, a man from another part of the country, began to speak about the state of the nation, largely condemning all of his countrymen and women for their greed and stupidity. [...]

[...] That would be a prime directive: “Thou shalt not kill even in the pursuit of your ideals” — for man has killed for the sake of his ideals as much as he has ever killed for greed, or lust, or even the pursuit of power on its own merits.

(Pause in a forceful delivery.) You may begin to exaggerate the gulf between this generalized ideal and the specific evidences of man’s “greed and corruption” that you see so obviously about you. [...]

[...] He dramatized a portion of each individual’s personality that focuses upon physical reality in a grasping manner, and denies the inner self out of greed.

You may be convinced that human nature is evil, or that no one is safe from another’s aggression, or that people are motivated mainly by greed. [...]

[...] That is, people aren’t polluting the world out of greed alone, but for the economic good of all. [...]

[...] Some of you, in previous existences, before this planet was as you know it, were a part of highly technical civilizations which you ruined out of avarice and greed and ignorance; spiritual ignorance. [...]

Some personalities are drawn to enter at conception as a result of seemingly less worthy motives — greed, for example, or an obsessional desire that is partially composed of unresolved problems. [...]

(10:12.) If men were considered equal, however, the ideas of Darwin and Freud came along to alter the meaning of equality, for men were not equal in honor and integrity and creativity—or heroism: —they were equal in dishonor (louder), selfishness, greed, and equally endowed with a killer instinct that now was seen to be a natural characteristic from man’s biological past. [...]

Your country faces the results of its own policies—its greed as well as its good intent, but it is out in the open in a new way. [...]

[...] An interesting sideline here: his stinginess in small matters is not so much the result of greed as an emotional attempt to maintain the psychic warmth of childhood, a childhood which was marked by poverty.

[...] As long as you fight for gain and greed, there will be no peace. [...]