“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The June event did refer to Ruburt’s swollen gums, which were very painful. [...]

[...] You could have made a much less painful transition between complete commercialism and painting than you did, but here at a crucial moment was starry-eyed Ruburt, with his ideas of the poverty-stricken artist; and you can carry on from there.

It was, however, like a second, more painful adolescence. [...]

[...] We’re told again and again that technically we’re on the verge of producing artificial versions of many bodily parts, as well as microcomputers that will be implanted within the body to regulate its performance; these advances, plus our “conquering” of disease, pain, and suffering, plus genetic engineering, will soon make it possible for human beings to live indefinitely. [...]

The usual framework of married life with children was not to be a part of your experience this time, and both of you took pains to see that you did not have children—or mates that wanted them. [...]

[...] It involves my not shocking him right away with painful data, but working around it rather craftily, and yet still in my own way getting the material across.

[...] You have tried doggedly (intently) to interpret greater experience in old ways, using “old” (in quotes) channels that are adequate for usual creativity in art—but painfully restrictive as far as you are concerned. [...]

[...] I am so fond of you, my pigheaded Joseph, that it pains me severely to see you so misuse yourself. [...]

[...] After the play, at a party for the cast and friends, Bill was seized by severe chest and back pain; he left for home with his parents.

[...] That afternoon I took him to the veterinarian, who kept him for treatment; the problem was serious; by then the cat was in great pain. [...]

[...] I feel caught in contradictions—for if Jane’s new feelings in her hips and legs are signs of new muscular activity, as she thinks, and as Frank Longwell agrees, that’s good news; yet those same feelings, her acute and prolonged bodily discomfort, her aches and pains, have caused her to become almost totally inactive. [...]

[...] At 11:30 PM I gave her aspirin and one of the pain pills Hal Williams had sent her. [...]

[...] There is also an ability to endure unpleasantness, or even pain, if he believes it is for a great-enough principle.

[...] It was as though Seth Two wasn’t familiar with vocal chords or words, and so took pains to use those mechanisms in just the right way. [...]

[...] My hand is actually painful by then, yet I don’t believe I have ever mentioned this fact aloud.

Your work, Joseph, is a synthesis of pain as well as pleasure. [...]

[...] She felt a sharp pain in her chest, and died of a heart attack. [...]

[...] However you might be attracted enough to project yourself spontaneously into the body of one of the soldiers, in which case you could experience pain, until your own fear pulled you back. [...]

Much in these passages fits in with material I’ve presented in Appendix 12, on the reasons behind the pain and suffering in the world. [...]

[...] The male driver buckled over in pain.