“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In its way science went along very nicely by postulating man in a mechanistic world, with each creature run by an impeccable machine of instinct, blind alike to pain or desire.

[...] However in the long run the routine itself will help develop Ruburt’s abilities further, and a larger number of excellent sessions will take place.

[...] That belief of course is highly detrimental because it runs against the basic principles of life. [...]

[...] Not comic books, however, but a syndicated fantasy-adventure story to be run in color and take up a full Sunday newspaper page. [...]

[...] I do not want his abilities to run away with him however.

[...] You can accept them or run away from them. [...]

The physical body runs itself spontaneously, and yet with an inner automatic discipline and order that is indeed almost impossible for you to understand.

[...] They invest time and enthusiasm—and that kind of grassroot development is in the long run more apt to change the beliefs of a society than any authoritative dictums from the specialists, whatever their field. [...]

(“Next I was running like a kid. [...]

[...] I agree wholeheartedly with the concepts Seth presents here, while realizing that they run counter to many accepted religious, social, and scientific dogmas. [...]

[...] Instead, the sentence would have read something like this: “Running over the rocks, my water self flows together with others in slippery union.” [...]

[...] Yet I could see that I confused Jane, for to make such a venture possible we’d have to change certain beliefs and values that are deeply rooted within us; especially those about personal privacy and our reluctance to “go public” with such topical, immediate material, instead of trusting that the Seth material will exert a meaningful influence in society over the long run. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Some connection here with the first historical personality whom we have run across. [...]

[...] She wasn’t able, for instance, to quickly run over to try to help me. [...]

(“Has this love of words and images always run through our various lives?”)

[...] If you were running a race you would focus upon your own sensations of speed and agility, trying to bring about a perfection of motion. [...]

[...] Jason ran upstairs to get a gun and got the feeling the Buddha had run out into the night. [...]

[...] He would not be making money for both of you that would enable you to paint, etc., but losing it, if he allowed himself the freedom to run all over the place, take vacations, etc. [...]

[...] The characteristics were allowed to run their course. [...]

[...] You are telling it to change, when all of its instincts, you see, are to maintain stability, and in your country, at least, that stability has been large enough and flexible enough so that you are being financially rewarded, to whatever degree, for promoting ideas that run counter to the deepest beliefs of that system.

[...] I merely want to remind the reader that in ordinary terms naïve realism, or some mind-brain idea very much like it, is habitually used whether we’re considering evolution within a time-oriented camouflage universe, painting a picture, or running a household. [...]

Again, we run into difficulties in explanation simply because there are few verbal equivalents for what I am trying to say.¹³

[...] Basically, then, an overall genetics of cooperation becomes a truer long-run concept than the postulated deadly struggle for survival of the fittest, whether between man and molecules, say, or among members of the same species. [...]

[...] (In Volume 1, see Session 688, plus Note 2 for the same session.) The second law of thermodynamics, on the other hand, tell us that our universe is a closed system — and that it’s fated to eventually run down because the amount of energy available for useful work is always decreasing, even though the supply of that energy is constant. [...]