“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The material in the sessions is exhilarating, painful, enlightening, perceptive, frustrating, and maddening by turn—and sometimes, it seems, all of those things at once. [...]

[...] Dr. Mandali instructed us to put Jane back on aspirin, to keep any arthritic pain and inflammation under control: “You can take up to sixteen tablets a day.”

Now: This new kind of consciousness brought with it the open mirror of memory in which past joy and pain could be recalled, and so the realization of mortal death became more immediate than it was with the animals.

[...] She has been sleeping pretty well for the most part these days, but has had a great deal of soreness in her arms [and some spontaneous jerking movements accompanied by shooting pains; it seems the arms are lengthening somewhat]. [...]

Now the body has suffered its difficulties, and there is no way out of it except to understand that there are difficulties of growth, regrettable at certain levels in particular—but growing pains nevertheless, extending over a period of time, tensions resulting over a person’s natural tendencies toward value fulfillment and knowledge. [...]

[...] When I got to 330 Jane told me that Shawn Peterson had been admitted to intensive care last night with chest pains, but that the tests so far have been negative. [...]

[...] The hotel is beautifully equipped, and all pains are taken to insure their comfort and survival. [...]

[...] As stated, this brought conflict with the church—a painful-enough period for Ruburt, but he was sure in his convictions. [...]

[...] We are not speaking here of forced growth patterns, or of psychic or biological directions, impressed upon it so that any later divergence from them causes inevitable stress or pain. [...]

[...] Some of it concerned her holding back on her own success for fear that my lack of success would be painful to me, compared to her achievements. [...]

[...] We will later discuss the part of the mind and its interpretation, for example, of painful stimuli, but I want to make the point that those attracted to physical life are first and foremost tasters of sensation. [...]

[...] I want to remind you however that I went to considerable pains to give you some of the important reasons why you both had a tendency, a strong one, toward repression. [...]

[...] In its way science went along very nicely by postulating man in a mechanistic world, with each creature run by an impeccable machine of instinct, blind alike to pain or desire.

[...] Would you, then, deny them reality in order to save them from any pain? [...] Even when you thrust a pain apart from yourself and give it as a heritage to a fragment personality, you give it also your creative power and your hopes. [...]

[...] She told Jane that all the kids on the floor really admire her for the way she “withstood all that pain and agony.” [...]

[...] Some of this is simply that he is afraid of pain if a muscle is suddenly let go. [...]

I was untouched ten years ago,
By love and even pain.
The world touched me or touched me not.
To me it was the same.

[...] From the outside it seems impossible that anyone would choose such a background, such a highly restricted or even painful situation in which to live. [...]

[...] And to some extent through muscular action, even in dreams such aggressions find physical outlet also, and save you quite a few aches and pains, by the way.

[...] (Long pause.) Her last illness, while painful, was not a long lingering one. [...]

[...] The aching and pain has disappeared, and the soreness is beginning to disappear.