“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The service station is significant on many levels, being used here as a particularly American symbol of the mechanical age, and also one that refers to a pursuit that is utilitarian and also provides service (as Jane said this morning): You deal directly with the public. There are two main areas and issues that wind in and out of this dream, as in the other two: the idea of work and service in relation to the idea of art and creativity.

In the first scene of this dream you see a probable self, who could reasonably be expected to be the kind of son your father might have, gifted with his hands mechanically, assertive enough to own his own business, however—after all, a part of the American dream, embarked upon employment that he enjoyed, and yet one that provided a service, hence physically seen between the ice (and roller-skating) rink, representing pleasure or fun, and the grocery store, representing service or nourishment. So you might have been that kind of person, with the belief system of your times, and with your background. A man if possible should own his own business, provide a service for the community—and, again, inventiveness or creativity were to be wedded to those pursuits. Your father’s inventiveness, again, dealt often with mechanics.

(Long pause.) The more you try to live “a life of service,” or to concentrate primarily upon providing such a service, the more then your artistic self displays its private nature.

[...] There was a feeling of disappointment connected and I’d say that it represents some feelings about my abilities—I thought they were sterling—really terrific—and wore myself out caring for them, but I fear that they are only very good serviceable ones after all, their earlier promise not proving true.... or that my over-care of them has turned them into functional serviceable tools.... [...] By being so careful with the abilities—actually because I valued them, I end up being their servant, but actually end up using my abilities at the service of others—to help save the world, solve problems, etc.... [...]

[...] I tell the “help” that this isn’t my cup of tea, they will have to help; at the same time I discover that this isn’t the best silver as I’d thought but serviceable enough stuff. [...]

It may seem that the question of services (like the lawn) is a mundane one, yet it is connected of course with your attitudes toward work and daily life. Your writing and painting provide “services” of a different order. You should make no absolute decisions in the latter, say, of other services. [...] Take advantage of having services occasionally performed by others, and be more flexible in that regard. [...]

(Pause.) Art provides its own services to the individual, whether or not it appears to be utilitarian. [...]

The same applies in a fashion to services, or even to your physical establishment. [...]

[...] I didn’t feel like hanging around the house until 9:45 — the service was at 10:00 — so I told Margaret Bumbalo I’d run down to the hospital to see Jane first, then walk over. [...]

[...] We stood outside after the service, three in a row facing each other on the porch, while six others carried Joe’s casket between us and down the steps to the hearse.

(The priest in charge — there were three of them — said that Joe had planned much of the service himself, and that Joe had asked him: “Why are the good ones taken?” The priest enlarged the question to: “Why is anyone taken?”

Scheduled events included service.

[...] Martha’s husband was in the service.)

The impression of 4 stars, service? [...]

Scheduled events included service. (Yes, Martha's husband was in the service.) Air Force before it was the Air Force. [...]

The impression of four stars, service? [...]

Now: in your country, generally speaking, rich and poor alike are provided with a multitude of services—many of course that are taken for granted.

Though you paid little taxes, the fire and police protection were not withdrawn, and all of the services continued. [...]

[...] Yet remember that for all of its failings, your peace of mind is also the result of the American services that were available when you did not have much money, as they are now.

In the overall, then, violent shows provide a service, in that they usually promote the sense of a man’s or a woman’s individual power over a given set of circumstances. At best the public service announcements introduce the doctor as mediator: You are supposed to take your body to a doctor as you take your car to a garage, to have its parts serviced. [...]

[...] Nowhere do any medically-oriented commercial or public service announcements mention the body’s natural defenses, its integrity, vitality, or strength. [...]

[...] On the other hand your common, unlettered, violent television dramas do indeed provide a service, for they imaginatively specify a generalized fear in a given situation, which is then resolved through drama. [...]

[...] A department initiated by you, and a relatively new service in this area—I believe it has been adopted and sometimes discarded in other areas—but it is not an ordinary issue, and it is something that you have considered yourself in the past, though not seriously.

It is a new service, and would take place generally speaking within the same framework within which you now operate. [...]

[...] There is a public-service issue involved in here, and a way of squaring away old debts. [...]

[...] No one was trying to run away, and in a way the murderer was performing a service. Any violence or hatred serves a purpose beyond itself, so that man in a way often performs services of which he is not consciously aware.

[...] I not only owned the station which serviced cars, but did the actual work; my clothes were worn and greasy. [...]

[...] The service was a funeral service, hence the connection with flowers, which also reinforced the fifth month.

A distant connection with a trip by train, and the service. [...]

[...] This would be the connection with “service” and “Flowers,” meaning funeral.

[...] Fred stayed overnight, was let go, went to the local Holiday Inn, and was arrested for failure to pay for services. [...]

[...] Often mere lip service is given to the beliefs, but they exist. [...]

Your religious leaders have freedom to say what they want to, and they have all of technology’s advances in communications at their service. [...]

[...] I returned to 330 from talking with Madeline Sullivan of social services. [...] I explained to Jane that much of it was a rehash of what I’ve told other social service workers. [...]

[...] The heat isn’t working in 330 and we waited most of the afternoon for service.)

[...] Some public-service announcements stress the “fact” that the individual can be gravely threatened by high blood pressure, for example, even though he or she feels in excellent physical health.

[...] While she was eating a good lunch I thought of telling her the typewriter repair service had called this morning, citing a bill for $90.00 for the repair and a box of a dozen cartridges, but I forgot to mention it as we talked about other things. [...]

He did not want to use his work (pause) to place his work, at the service of a cause to which he was not indelibly committed. [...]

Your own attitude now (underlined) is most beneficial, and you are doing him a service that no one else can do; partially of course to help make up for harm that you did unwittingly. [...]

(I called Upjohn nursing service last Tuesday, noting that starting next Monday we’ll want a nurse at the house only three times a week instead of five. [...]

(Roe Cantando, head of the local Upjohn service, visited a couple of days after I called. [...]