“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Both of you have kept yourselves uneasy in your environment lest you become too comfortable. You concentrate upon the annoyances of your neighbors lest you become too close to them and emotionally involved and touched. You have lived here some years yet purposely avoided thinking of it, this apartment, as anything but transitory lest you put down roots and become involved in ways that might distract you from your work and purposes. Give us a moment.... You do not buy much furniture so that the idea of being transitory is more convincing. At the same time you stay where you are so you can work, while denying yourselves the sense of ease that you could otherwise enjoy.

[...] Just now, reading a letter from the editor of an occult journal I found myself mentally responding in James vein, saying: I am somewhat judicious, and therefore waited before responding”—and suddenly I saw—that I WAS SOMEWHAT JUDICIOUS—I AM SOMEWHAT JUDICIOUS and in my mind I’ve thought that I was if anything overly spontaneous and therefore to be watched lest my spontaneity contradict my “reason” as if on my own I had no “judiciousness”—and not seeing in fact that the symptoms were the result of —over-judiciousness. [...]

(“Well, in discussing this with him I was concerned lest he use the method to hide things.”)

[...] You did this with your parents—afraid of seeming better than they, almost ashamed of your ability lest it shame your father by contrast, disciplining yourself over much.

[...] You desperately want Ruburt to improve significantly, yet you are afraid when some improvement shows, lest it will be a “false one” that will not last.

You both felt that the development of those abilities must be protected, lest the need for financial security lead you into full-time work on a long-term basis. You felt that you must to some extent allow your love for each other to nourish those abilities, and yet not jeopardize them lest it lead you into parenthood.

[...] I’d been concerned lest Jane become involved in an unpleasant situation that would have repercussions via symptoms —the idea of publicity, of public display, which she doesn’t want—just when we were trying to learn more about the subject as she reacted to it. [...]

(Lest some hypothetical readers of this material in the future regard Jane and me as idiots, incapable of learning, I’d like to note in our own defense that we’ve made many efforts to put the symptom situation out of mind as much as we’re capable of, yet it doesn’t leave us. [...]

[...] I was personally quietly disgusted by the whole affair, and told her I’d cheerfully dispense with whatever was causing the upset, lest it turn into a chronic physical inconvenience. [...]

[...] It will also be recalled that in several different sessions Bill was counseled by Seth to live alone, lest he suffer a recurrence of his lung trouble.)

[...] Ruburt had used all kinds of discipline, you see, lest he fall back into the common ground from which it seemed most people came from.

[...] Ida was afraid to see the psychologist again, for fear that therapy would throw up evidence of this feared evil thing, and Dick is afraid of writing poetry again lest the intuitions upset his life. [...]

[...] You were even frightened enough lest you lose your own footing in the psychic atmosphere. [...]

You also wanted to have an excuse, and a good one, so that you would not have to go out with the couple, lest they become unmanageable. [...]

[...] Lest he be tempted by his new house, he felt poorly, even for him, yet he saw through what he was doing, and he has begun an awakening of consciousness that is now in the process. [...]

[...] In the old system, you must almost fear personal improvement, lest you become self-deluded—another irony in that old system. [...]

[...] I had an extensive filling put in it a few weeks ago, and was now concerned lest it act up enough so that I would be forced to have it out. [...]

[...] I did not really feel like taking fifteen to twenty pages of dictation from Seth; I was concerned lest I miss some of the material.

It often seemed safer, even, to keep a certain distance from the material, lest you accept it too uncritically, and Ruburt’s critical stance was usually simply an unneeded defense, so that he could keep footing in both worlds at once. [...]

(Long pause.) People have been taught that their bodies are a kind of battleground, and that they must be in a constant state of readiness lest they be attacked or invaded by alien germs or viruses or diseases that can strike without warning.

This last is material that we have not given you earlier, lest the implications lead you to feelings of insignificance. [...]

[...] You used to tell him (underline used) not to tell everyone his good news, for example, perhaps lest it did not develop. [...]

[...] Try to be honest with yourselves as to those early experiences in which you forced yourselves to behave differently than you were, because adults told you that you must … You had better understand the beautiful, unique quality of your own individuality lest you project upon the other sex — whichever sex you are — those abilities and qualities that you are afraid are your own, or project upon them those abilities and qualities that you wish you possessed and fear you do not.