“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth said he did not know whether Marian could learn rapidly enough how to do this; but if she could get herself on the right track soon, he said, she would not need the operation in June; a medical examination then would show that the tumor was shrinking, and would continue to shrink. Since Marian is a deeply religious person also, Seth tied his ideas on positive thinking and suggestion in with the religious theme, stressing the positive use of faith. He went to considerable length in all of this, repeating himself often in an effort to teach Marian as much as possible.

(Seth reassured Marian about the dream involving her dead mother, explaining how it was a case of Marian projecting her own subconscious fears, among other things. Marian’s concern over her approaching operation entered in here, and Seth used this concern to make his main points of the evening. Marian loves children deeply. Seth explained that the ovarian tumor represented her subconscious attempt to grow something, since she has now almost gone through menopause and cannot grow children. Seth stressed that if Marian could learn to channel her energies outward, perhaps in helping underprivileged children, the subconscious need to be wanted would be satisfied and the tumor would shrink by itself.

So, when you shrink from such words or such meanings, why do you shrink? [...]

[...] He is good at telling you to expand, and yet he is so frightened of a self no longer undisciplined that he shrinks from using his abilities at the gallery, and this is reinforced by your fear of his doing so, or indeed of showing your own abilities to others. [...] You cannot truly shrink in one field of endeavor without shrinking in all, particularly if you are creative.

[...] The time is past for him to shrink from contacts with the outside world, as far as the gallery or any other endeavor is concerned. This shrinking was initially necessary, because he needed to learn how to handle his rather explosive personality. [...]

[...] Do not shrink at selling it. [...]

[...] Here I started to feel the microscopic nature of our planet, comparatively speaking; a shrinking a momentary sense of desolation that was my own, I think; there was no attempt to deny integrity or uniqueness of physical life; but only to express... [...] If the room was going to shrink and all of us with it—as it had grown massive, I just wasn’t ready for the experience. [...]

[...] As I have mentioned before, science’s determination to be objective almost immediately brought about a certain artificial shrinking of psychological reality. [...]

[...] There is no doubt that the accepted dimensions of psychological reality began to shrink precisely at the time that modern psychology began. [...]

[...] We’re so busy now I shrink from even thinking of trying to do that any more. [...]

[...] The dimensions of the self begin to shrink enough, and it is at that point, in your terms, that the search for a private God or religion begins to emerge. [...]

[...] All of these, however, strain the individual’s biological sense of integrity, reinforce ideas of danger, and shrink the area of psychological safety that is necessary to maintain the quality possible in life. [...]

[...] at the same time as Jane she knew she wasn’t shrinking but that it was a subjective experience. [...]

[...] I doubt if I for one will ever be able to fully comprehend that kind of reasoning—whether from Seth or anyone else—since I think that as the body —any body—recovers, its range of activities expands correspondingly instead of shrinking. [...]

[...] I say incipient because the condition is momentarily at a point where it can develop cancerous globules; or the condition, a beginning tumor, can retreat and shrink, and entirely disappear, according to the inner climate of the woman’s psyche.

Those feelings about time, and the way you handled them, seemed to make your own time shrink. [...]

(The tack holes running along one edge of the object resulted from the canvas first being tacked to a sheet of board, then wet so that pre-shrinking would take place before the gluing process.

[...] If a parent shows fear, then the child is effectively taught to be afraid of this anger and hatred before which the powerful parent shrinks. [...]

[...] But the year we arrived, her life began to shrink. [...]

[...] It seems to recede in time and to shrink in psychic space as the intensity of it begins to diminish. [...]

Certain isolation from the outside world is absolutely necessary, but do not shrink from contacts. [...]

[...] If the room and everything in it was going to shrink as realistically as it had expanded earlier—and it was, I could tell—I just wasn’t ready for the experience.

[...] But in ordinary terms, even if my wife’s death has left me more open and vulnerable to psychic possibilities, I still shrink from offering any sort of blanket assurance. [...]

[...] Her sacrifice of physical motion in order to have greater creative motion is a “bargain” I shrink from making. [...]

[...] As he’s often said himself, he isn’t omnipotent: Like Jane, he shrinks from being a guru—and I stress that Seth doesn’t hold that attitude just because Jane does. [...]