“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Animals were tortured in sport. [...]

(“Synchronicity” also seemed to be involved with the dream, for in today’s paper I found myself reading a column in the sports section, concerning knee injuries —and this in turn triggered my remembering that Ralph Ramstad had a “trick knee,” as he used to call it, the result I believe of a childhood accident. [...]

[...] For others, this creativity may show itself in family relationships and emotional comprehensions, in the other arts, in the sciences, in sports, or simply in lifting the quality of living to a newer, richer level.

[...] Active sports are considered good, however, but often contrasted to passive intuitive activities which are then seen as bad.

All children exercise, though relatively few end up, say, as specialists in sports, so the end result of such physical play is the future development of a healthy, strong body. [...]

[...] You felt the ordinary male accomplishments in terms of sports, which brought instant approval, yet you did not choose that road. [...]

High risk sports would not be allowed—excursions across the seas undertaken with “inadequate” provisions, or with rafts. [...]

([Garrett:] “Should people get a pleasure out of killing, like people do for a sport, instead of killing for food?”)

[...] Tom has an old sports car, and not long after I had bought the canvas, he described the car to Jane on one of her visits there, detailing his troubles with it, etc.

([John:] “What specific sports is he interested in?”)

[...] Dudley used to play golf, John said, hence Seth’s gesturing as though acting out a sport which required some kind of hitting or swinging instrument.

[...] Man’s involvement in sports is an instant example, of course, where society’s rewards and the promise of spectacular bodily achievement lead athletes into activities that would be considered most painful by the ordinary individual. [...]

[...] You should be doing something physical, involved in sports, more outgoing.” [...]

[...] She played with it in the grass; with conflicting feelings I watched Mitzi, of whom I was very fond, block off each attempt of the terrified mouse to escape — until finally, having had her sport, she ate it….

I mentioned before that some people court exciting and dangerous sports, living quite purposefully on the edge of death, and choosing to taste life spiced exotically by the ever-present sprinkling of ashes. [...]

[...] From childhood in your society, you were as children told in one way or another that it was healthy to enjoy sports and outside activity, to join in games, to be outgoing with playmates, and all of that is of course quite true. [...]

[...] They wore ordinary clothing, slacks and sports jackets. [...]

[...] Even contact sports, let alone activities like air, sea, or space travel, or any dangerous occupation, could be abhorred. [...]

[...] Loren wore a colorful short-sleeved sport shirt and a light brown straw hat with a narrow brim. [...]

You had a history of bodily achievement in terms of sports, that led you to take an additional joy in the body that tempered the basic concepts you held. [...]

Good evening, sports.