“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In the bedroom for a nap I did another verse of the poem and suddenly understood that physically I’d gotten in the habit of identifying myself with pain instead of pleasure. [...]

[...] Such cleaning has always been very painful for her because of heavy tartar deposits, but today she withstood an hour’s heavy scraping with practically no discomfort.

(Her dentist was so puzzled by her exceptionally good reactions that in the middle of the session Jane had to explain her apparent insensitivity to pain; usually it takes two trips for her to achieve the same results, with the use of Novocain. [...]

[...] The creative energies build up their thickly-dimensioned pseudorealities of pain. [...]

[...] Then these materializations of panic and pain play about the physical body, projected by the ego and stealing the powers of the subconscious mind from their natural constructive tasks to do so. [...]

For your ego Joseph the unspoken but strong advice you gave Jane, who was carried away in Elmira at the radio station, this advice was excellent and saved you both much pain. [...]

[...] Your father planked the hot shoe upon the foot and you screamed, thinking of the horse’s pain. [...]

[...] It would not have been so serious except that in the stable as a child, you could not understand how or why your father would so inflict pain upon the horse, slamming the hot shoe upon the wounded foot. [...]

[...] The nail I stepped on penetrated rather deeply through the sole of my shoe, but was not very painful; but since it was rusty we thought it best to get a tetanus shot. [...]

[...] Jane cried out and said she had a sudden sharp pain in the instep of her left foot, and that right after that she felt the foot move “sideways” in a way it hadn’t done for a long, long time. [...]

(It was painful for Jane to be turned today. [...]

[...] These are growing pains, that are already passing.

[...] His fear of the tooth pain was a physical interpretation of his fear of facing the dilemma, the pain of bringing it out into the open. [...]

Hatred always involves a painful sense of separation from love, which may be idealized. [...]

[...] Hatred is not the denial of love, then, but an attempt to regain it, and a painful recognition of circumstances that separate you from it.

[...] Jane had a cigarette: She said she’d meant to tell me today: For the first time in a very long while, she had pain in the first knuckle of her forefinger on her left hand—and the finger is starting to bend at that knuckle. [...]

(She was still half-crying with pain and upset, but told me to go out at 11:45. [...]

[...] Number twenty-one: How do you account for the pain and suffering in the world?” Many people have asked us this question.)

(Since Seth gave us the material on therapeutic dreams last Wednesday, I began suggesting that I would experience one, as I was in a bad mood generally speaking and had been for a week; also I felt poorly with aches and pains etc.; nothing serious but annoying.

[...] She said she had pains in the foot at times. [...]

[...] She wasn’t aware of pain there now. [...]

[...] Jane was making noises of pain and discomfort, though after a while she stopped this while she ate. [...]

[...] Even at an early age, children joyfully explore all of the possibilities of all sensations possible within their framework — pain as well as joy, frustration as well as satisfaction, and all the while their awareness is propelled by curiosity, wonder, and joy.

[...] They feel their growing, as you listen to your heartbeat … They also experience pain [which] while definite, unpleasant, and sometimes agonizing, is not of an emotional nature in the same way that you might feel pain. [...]

Unless physical pain is involved, drugs should be avoided — particularly for those in depressive states.

[...] Try as I might, I couldn’t find the proper adjective to describe the groin sensations; they weren’t ones of pain—but what?

(One final note: At the beginning of this session I wrote that I had trouble describing the very uncomfortable sensation in my left groin—that it wasn’t pain. [...]