“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This should be done with a light rather than a heavy mental hand, of course. [...]

[...] This time, also, she could reach up in the air higher, especially with her left hand, than she’d been able to do yesterday. [...]

Ruburt was strongly committed to the sessions on the one hand, and highly skeptical on the other. [...]

We will have a freer hand since Ruburt has vocalized some of his doubts. [...]

(11:05.) Give us a moment, and rest your hand.

[...] There are also reasons why the deep subconscious has allowed such difficulties to come about, and in most cases the basic reason here is a lack of understanding and communication between the various portions of the self, so that seemingly the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

[...] He tries, therefore, to construct a model of the universe with only a handful of available clues.

[...] On the one hand you are too specific in your use of the term “sexuality”; yet in another way, and in that context, you feel that any kind of affection must naturally lead to sexual expression, if given its way. [...]

(10:05.) Give us a moment… On the one hand many of you have been taught that sexual expression is wrong, evil, or debasing. [...]

[...] On the other hand, spiritual love and devotion could not be muddied by sexual expression, and so any normal strong relationship became a threat to the expression of piety.

[...] On the one hand, each of my readers is but one individual alive on the planet at any given “time.” [...] On the other hand, each individual alive is a necessary one. [...]

[...] On the other hand it is always becoming, and that becoming happens on the part of each of its own portions.

[...] He places his weight often upon his hands, increasing circulation there, bringing about the flush of color, but this only occurs with certain arm motions that suddenly release blood to the hands—that is, that release it more suddenly than he is accustomed to.

(My two questions for Seth concerned the small lumps on the underside of Jane’s left arm, including one on her elbow, and the bright redness of the palms of her hands that I noticed the other day. [...]

(Long pause.) You can look at an apple and hold it in your hands, so it is obvious that its shape does not contradict its color. [...]

(9:40.) So far, you do not hold your consciousness in your hand, however. [...]

Give us a moment … Do you want to rest your hand?

[...] On the other hand she may entertain no such ideas, but be murdered at the age of 17.

[...] She moved her arms, hands, and shoulders very rapidly. [...]

[...] Then I massaged Oil of Olay into her feet, lower legs, hands and forearms, talking to those portions, each in turn. [...]

[...] She sat upright in the rocker with her hands clasped in her lap.

[...] As before now Jane began to sit quietly, hands again folded in her lap; her mouth and lips began to work again, and finally the high thin voice emerged once more. [...]

[...] It is on the one hand ritualized, and on the other hand perfectly spontaneous. [...]

[...] I just got the next sentence,” she laughed, but my writing hand was lame so I asked her to wait. [...]

[...] My writing hand ached.)

(I was so concerned for my friend’s safety and welfare that I scooped him up in my hands, and held him between them like a child holds a trapped fly. [...]

[...] I still held my green friend inside my cupped hands. [...]

[...] This made me very angry, for as I felt my friend buzzing inside my hands, I wondered how I would know him from any other insect once I released him in order to help him.

[...] Her head was down and she sat with a hand raised to it. [...]

There is still a tendency here to depend perhaps overmuch on intuitions which are basically sound; but such a dependence must go hand in hand with the discipline of which I have spoken. [...]

[...] My writing hand felt little fatigue.)

[...] It was followed by a mild yet durable feeling of enlargement in both my wrists and hands, and feet.

[...] My writing hand was tired. [...]

[...] You did this to assure yourselves that these abilities, feminine in both of your minds, would not so get the upper hand that the responsible, and in both of your minds, masculine or dependable aspects of your life would be threatened.

Ruburt on the other hand felt he could use psychic books as a means of livelihood, for in the books at least he felt the masculine and female tendencies merge; the intellect making use of the intuitive information.

[...] Actually I had several about the new painting, but my writing hand was so cramped I felt I wouldn’t be able to continue using it much longer.)

The concepts of God that you have, have gone hand-in-hand with the development of your consciousness. [...]

(Jane, in trance, sat with a hand to her closed eyes as she rocked back and forth.)

[...] Rest your hand …

[...] (Pause.) On the other hand, some leaders may give little consideration to such issues, but still be deeply convinced of the misery of the human condition, focusing upon all the “darker” elements, seeing the world’s destruction ever closer to hand without really examining the beliefs that arouse such constant feelings.

As the mind developed, the species could hand down to its offspring the wisdom and law of the elders. [...]

[...] I now became aware that my right hand felt “fat,” or enlarged. When I mentioned this Jane then became aware that both of her hands also felt this way to some small degree. [...]

(See Volume 2, page 5 in the 43rd session for a brief explanation of the hand phenomenon. [...]

This is the same person who on the other hand used to put up barriers of bookcases at one end of the living room to protect himself from any neighbors or miscellaneous callers; who objected when Mr. Gottlieb dared to cross into his private working area and glance at a paper. [...]

[...] On the other hand he carried the beliefs of this afternoon’s dream—that originality made a person instantly suspect, and that in the ordinary world, if you put yourself in the world’s eye its people would hunt you down. [...]

[...] He did not fear death, for example, at the hands of others, then, but too close emotional contact. [...]

[...] Science as you think of it separates itself from the subject at hand. [...]

Give us a moment, and rest your hand … A practitioner of this ancient art learns first of all how to become conscious in normal terms, while in the sleep state. [...]

[...] There, from another viewpoint, you can see it even more clearly, holding it like a photograph in your hands; at the same time you can see from that broader perspective that you do indeed also stand outside of the dream context, but in a “within” that cannot show in the snapshot because of its limitations.

(Jane took a long pause, sitting quite still with her hands raised to her face.)

[...] It may accept the challenge of great change on the other hand, and allow a reorganization of psychological processes, in which case identity is not only saved but renewed. [...]