“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There is no need for him to punish himself now either, because he did not take full advantage of his psychic opportunities. [...]

There is in other words no need for you to punish the organs of your body that were involved in that birth.

[...] You felt some self-punishment, denying yourself the trip to make up for what you felt you might have done for her in the past.

Again, no one is punished for crimes committed in a past life, and in each life you are unique. [...]

[...] It has at one time or another in various lives been on the side of the strongly disciplined portions, in which case it was greatly given to dogma, and concerned with cultural problems of punishment and law; or followed the intuitive side, in which it emerged as mediumship, and high mysticism.

[...] He punishes himself with symptoms when it is not. [...]

[...] And if you have not committed a crime in fact, then you have at least sinned in your heart — for which, of course, you must be punished. [...]

[...] To begin with, Seth does not use the word “punishment.” We are not “punished” in one life for the “transgressions” of a past one. [...]

Seth began by saying that Karma does not involve punishment. [...]

As mentioned earlier you may have believed that of itself poverty was more spiritual than abundance, or that you were basically unworthy and should therefore punish yourself by being poor. [...]

This also serves to punish you for the resentment, since by not giving this more positive support, which incidentally is far more effective than you would imagine—you also to some degree help to hold back that which you both want so badly.

He felt that you were his accuser, and punished him by becoming ill. [...]

It does not carry with it any built-in connection with punishment as you think of it. [...]

[...] I am not speaking here of discipline as punishment, but of discipline accepted by a person or a civilization in order to direct action along certain lines. [...]

The desire for punishment led him to contemplate doing the program, but under a guise to fool the spontaneous self. [...]

[...] Beneath this of course the psychological need to be hurt, to punish himself, because he cannot strike out against a superior in the work situation.

It hurt him of course to perform the up and down motions particularly, and he interpreted this to mean that you wanted him to torture and humiliate his body further by forcing it to feel the pain, and that in doing so he was punishing it further. He interpreted this therefore as a punishment of the body, and a mortification in a way of the feminine self. [...]

These personalities, often talented in many directions and often with past experiences of wealth and power, choose to be born as Jews of their own volition, and this is a karmic compensation, not in any sense punishment but a needed adjustment on the part of the personalities involved.

[...] Again, this does not involve punishment in any sense of the word, but the idea of killing permissiveness is not discriminating. [...]

[...] Punishment can be meted out in dreams, you see. [...]

As long as you believe that either good events or bad ones are meted out by a personified God as the reward or punishment for your actions, or on the other hand that events are largely meaningless, chaotic, subjective knots in the tangled web of an accidental Darwinian world, then you cannot consciously understand your own creativity, or play the role in the universe that you are capable of playing as individuals or as a species. [...]

Many churches are primarily devoted to the repression of high spirits rather than their promotion, and a fear of an almighty God is generated, so that God becomes the bestower of punishment rather than the giver of love. [...]

[...] They are like a reward food, while many of the health-food foods come somewhat closer—somewhat closer (much louder)—to a kind of punishment syndrome, though I do not want to stress the point. [...]