“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, each of you had to recognize your own emotions and your own feelings this evening, to one extent or another. This is your reality. You are used to hiding from them, and the more feelings you inhibit the more you inhibit your natural joy and spontaneity. And, to some extent, our friend over here is correct in that you can use sensitivity sessions themselves as simply another mask, in which case you never show yourself. Instead you display whatever mask you feel is required, which is after all another part of the social game that you always play. When you are doing psychological time, however, you cannot afford to be using energy to hide your own emotions from yourself. You need a feeling of release, you need to be friends with yourself so that you can let your abilities flow freely.

[...] And all of you have your masks and guises that you wear and have worn. [...]

[...] The charge built up, for him (underlined) about time and work, is masking of course his fear of not achieving as he wants to. [...]

[...] They were behind the reasons that he did not feel he could face the dilemma, but they partially masked it, also.

[...] They are apparent now, and not masked. [...]

[...] It is a mask, for a fear of his own spontaneity.

Earlier the symptoms themselves masked the lack of spontaneity in writing. [...]

[...] In medical procedures, say, the body’s feelings are often masked. [...]

[...] Yet, since I’d been awake while she slept, we speculated that those same habitual cleaning chores had also occupied me enough consciously to mask my awareness of what another part of me was up to.)

[...] When everyone is ready, they give me a mask. [...]

[...] My mask becomes uncomfortable and begins to fill with some water.

[...] The instant I yank off my mask, I jolt awake. [...]

Some of these feelings are also projected upon the apartment house at large, and mask your deep love of your studio, despite all disadvantages.

[...] To some extent the spontaneous self and the Sinful Self wear the same mask or bear the same face. [...]

They serve to mask other quite valid realities that exist at the same time, however, and actually from these other realities you gain the power and the knowledge to operate the material projections. [...]

[...] They all wear coveralls of some kind, and their faces are hidden by masks.

[...] “All my men in the decontamination center wore coveralls and masks — they’re uniforms of a sort.”

The comical series of events involving Floyd, one of his sons, and another helper had started this noon: “Hell, Rob, it’s a coon!” a surprised Floyd called down to me from the roof of the house, after the beam from his flashlight had illuminated the black mask across the animal’s face and made its eyes shine as it crouched at the base of the fireplace chimney. [...]

[...] The night sensitivity, you see, vanished when our sessions began, and returned masked with symptoms when his difficulties began. [...]

Taking that for granted, however, the body is an entire organism, and in many cases, at least, the treatment of individual symptoms merely masks the body’s greater integrity.

[...] In the dream state you are much more aware of them, although there is a final process of dreaming that often masks intense psychological and psychic experience, and unfortunately what you usually recall is this final dream version.

[...] They are usually masked by the polite clothing of conventional acceptance. [...]

See the wide world circus spread
Upon the earth’s great sacred ground.
The masks at midnight tumble down
And the great stone faces stare.

[...] You are using it to mask the true questions. [...]

The entire affair masks the fact that in certain terms there is a mass world mind, that has the same responsibility for the body of the earth as a man’s mind does to his own corporeal image.

When a man or a woman always smiles at you, the smile can be like a mask. [...]