“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He took great pains in his work, but he was also frightened; and the world confused him and he chattered, again like a squirrel. [...]

[...] In your relationship with your parents for example, such a psychic expansion of self would allow you to absorb your own awareness of their sometimes painful existence, and you would feel no wound yourself.

(When the personality mentioned Jane’s shoulder area, Jane said she felt pain there, but that it was clear now. [...]

[...] Marie was a brilliant, angry woman who lived in near-constant pain, and who regularly abused her daughter through behavior that, if not psychotic, was certainly close to it. [...]

To return to just Jane and Marie, then, I think that their long-range cyclical behavior and interaction, no matter how painful it may seem on the surface, represented deep challenges set up by mother and daughter for certain overall purposes that they wanted to experience, separately and jointly. [...]

Under certain conditions even pleasant so-called body experiences can be experienced as painful—and indeed vice versa (intently). [...]

The slap could bring pleasure or pain. [...]

[...] All That Is seeks all possible experience, but in such a larger framework in this case that questions of, say, pain or death simply do not apply, though [certainly] they do on the physical level (all quite forcefully).

A definite strain therefore developed, particularly painful since it involved his work also, to which he has always been strongly committed. [...]

(Last night Jane woke me up shouting in pain, because of a cramp in her back, momentarily. [...]

[...] During those years Marie was in her late 20’s and early 30’s, and already incapacitated by arthritis; and, to quote Seth from a session held in 1964, she had “… often spoken vehemently of Ruburt’s birth being a source of disease, and pain, that is of her arthritis … If Ruburt’s mother had it to do over, she would not have the child — and the child hidden within the adult still feels that the mother actually has the power, even now, to force the child back into the womb and refuse to deliver it …”

[...] They bring pain, sorrow, or illness to the self or to others, and they are often called evil acts. [...]

[...] No pain, movement in pelvis and I delivered a baby. [...]

The product will not come from pain, and so he felt none in the dream. [...]

[...] I am much more interested, unfortunately, in the more painful process involved in self-realization, spiritual insight, and psychological knowledge. [...]

[...] You have chosen for the unoperable intimacy of tragedy and flesh and pain in order to teach yourselves the unoperable exultant nature of your own vitality and energy and song. [...]

[...] When you think of a scientist, the majority of you will think of a male, an intellectual, an “objective” thinker who takes great pains not to be emotional, or to identify with the subject being examined or studied.

The full personality consciousness indeed places an additional strain upon what you may call the overall body consciousness, and prolongs the sense of pain connected with that body consciousness. [...]

(Long pause.) Now he wanted to hold such beliefs because he felt he needed that quite painful facade to protect himself from his own spontaneity, and then to protect himself against the world because he felt he was too spontaneous. [...]

[...] The release and self-knowledge gained is this last painful episode will allow him to bring more freedom to our sessions.

[...] If a portion of the race is hurt it may take a while before “you” feel the pain, but the entire unconscious mechanism of the species will try to heal the wound. [...]

They were frightened and angry, their condition such that they were often in constant pain. [...]

[...] There was a wrench, almost painful, a click at the back of my neck and I found myself flying through a window at seemingly incredible speed, out of the house at second floor level, gaining altitude and heading over Water Street toward the mountains in the distance. [...]

[...] 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. [...]