“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The body consciousness must react to your (underlined) interpretation of an exterior stimulus as well. The body consciousness, for example, will react quite differently to, say, two slaps of exactly the same pressure—one an energetic love slap, and the other one delivered in ridicule or anger. The physical stimulus itself, however, would be precisely the same, but the body would react to your understanding of that stimulus.

The slap could bring pleasure or pain. In its moment-to-moment reactions, the body consciousness is, you might say, “literal-minded.” It reacts literally, say, in that regard, to symbols. The symbols are the realm in which interpretations are made, but the body must always react moment by moment at that level of activity, irregardless of a vast knowledge of probabilities.

[...] In most cases the child can slap the parent. It may be slapped back, but it knows the slap will not really kill the parent. [...]

In this case the child did not dare slap the parent, for even the slightest move upon the mother’s bed, the slightest most unintentional motion, made the mother cry out in pain. [...]

[...] Now Jane’s left hand began to move; it lifted and slapped lightly at her right hand, on the table, and did this repeatedly. [...]

[...] The staff had also told Jane that it looked like she may develop a sore in a new spot on a shoulder blade, so they’d slapped a dressing there too. [...]

(9:22.) He lives above his means for certain reasons—because he enjoys a certain kind of self-indulgence, and the immediate satisfaction of desires, but also a kind of backhand slap against the socially prominent or wealthier associates—that he can live as well as they.

[...] (Emphatic and humorous, slapping the chair arm.

[...] (As Seth, Jane slapped her knee, grinning.

[...] A normal child at times can slap its parent back, and the parent is obviously immune. [...]

[...] Why does a gentle touch soothe me, while a slap hurts me?”

[...] That is like a slap in the face that she must tolerate, and because of her own actions and stress laid upon what was right and proper at the expense of true feelings.

A slap in the face to Nebene, saying “Aha, I am using my abilities as frivolously as I dare to, and you will get little more from me.” [...]

The rather slap-happy, haphazard attitude of the other residents on that road is actually more effective in maintaining it, since they do not dwell upon its disadvantages but simply and purely expect the road to be passable.

[...] Or you will think of the poor soul as a blackboard eraser, slapped between two hands — one good and one evil.

[...] To the ego, even sleep seems a slap in the face. [...]

[...] Smiling broadly she slapped my hand with the envelope, and paced back and forth briefly as she used to do many sessions ago.)