“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But I also wanted some material on myself, since my “distress” of a couple of weeks ago had returned; symptoms in the stomach, back, etc.—various shooting pains.

[...] At the same time it began to feel colder than the others, and Jane had pain in the palm of her hand and midway up her arm, on the outside and underneath—these points forming a rather straight pathway down to the finger, we noted. [...]

[...] He tries quite honestly to perform an act while believing he cannot, so that the muscles do fight themselves, and hurt quite painfully.

[...] We have then pressure pains, extended abdomen, and irregular periods. [...]

(Jane began dictating in a normal voice and at a normal rate, but her speed of delivery soon began to slow down, as will be noted, until it became almost painfully slow. [...]

Ruburt I believe once wrote a poem in which he stated, much more poetically indeed, that pain was deeper than a lake or a river; and this type of depth is that to which I refer here. [...]

(Needless to say, when Carl or whoever was measuring pressure on the scale, the other three took pains to see that they were not subconsciously exerting a heavy pressure on the other side of the table,thus forcing a stronger response across the tabletop to get the legs back on the floor. [...]

(10:05.) These ideas went a long way to justify later scientific experiments that involved giving pain to animals, for example: nature itself had no feeling. [...]

[...] At break I took pains to explain to Jane that with the new approach I was using, I was quite aware that Seth had said it all before, and planned to go back over portions of the material thoroughly.)

You would be grateful then when Ruburt did originate such a crisis, simply because the pressure behind the repressed feelings was more painful then, so that it was defeating its own purpose. [...]

[...] In that session Seth was quickly at pains to say that belonging to a certain family of consciousness did not come first in our reality: “Your individuality comes first.”

[...] Rob was in constant pain, and though he didn’t complain, he couldn’t hide the sudden spasms. [...]

[...] The consciousness of the mouse, under the innate knowledge of impending pain, leaves its body. [...]

(Ironically, Charles Darwin’s natural selection, “the survival of the fittest,” [a phrase that Darwin himself did not originate, by the way], allows for all sorts of pain and suffering in the process — the same unhappy facts of life, in Darwin’s view, that finally turned him into an agnostic, away from a God who could allow such things to exist! [...] Instead, he assigned the pain and suffering in the world to the impersonal workings of natural selection and chance variation [or genetic mutation]. [...]

[...] The consciousness of the mouse, under the innate knowledge of impending pain, leaves its body. [...]

[...] Jane and I think its implications are often missed by many who write us with questions about the pain and suffering in the world. [...]

[...] Unless he studies himself most thoroughly, he must take great pains to see that the commitment is followed up by self-discipline. [...]

(The last session, deleted, for June 27, had helped both Jane and me—at least once more we’d started the painful process of searching for insights into our belief systems. [...]

[...] You are the one who will feel the pain in the guts in that case, and not him. [...]

Grandfather, why does this cause me pain?

[...] Nor did I merely wish he would change just so that I could avoid the pain I felt watching him deteriorate. [...]

...You can also use this technique whenever you are overwhelmed by the pain of an ulcer, or a business problem. [...]