“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He is, however, still alive after each threat, and this convinces him that he will indeed survive. For look what he has survived so far, even though the threats grow more monstrous.

symbiosis—in which the survival and health of each microscopic entity is dependent upon its own identity and its relationship with others. [...]

Released they must be, or the organism would not survive. [...]

[...] A self that is conceived of as a physical composition only would never be able to project, nor survive physical death.

[...] But the vitality that draws you, and the vitality that is within each of you is the same vitality that changes the seasons that you know and that gives your physical existence its meaning that insures the survival of your identity. [...]

[...] Some apparitions are thought-forms sent by survival personalities out of lingering deep anxiety. [...]

[...] This projection is not dependent upon physical life—that is, the survival of the human personality also is then not dependent upon physical survival, nor need it be supported by physical life. [...]

[...] Survival on a particular plane depends upon your concentration within it. When survival is more or less satisfied through attention, then you can afford to perceive other realities.”

[...] The next strongest takes over when the captain is down, so to speak, so that the whole can survive.

[...] For if the authors say that oftentimes a subordinate or potential ego will take over control when necessary in order to insure the survival of the whole, then this implies a decision that has been made; and who has made it?

[...] These take it for granted that any stressful situation will worsen, that communication with others is dangerous, that self-fulfillment brings about the envy and vengeance of others, and that as individuals they live in an unsafe society, set down in the middle of a natural world that is itself savage, cruel, and caring only for its own survival at any cost.

[...] The symptoms are denied energy and cannot survive.

[...] It always seems to be bad news, full of strife and agony and grim determination to survive. [...]

[...] Both sides accept the concept of human aggression and violence as a method of survival. [...]

[...] Each accepts violence as a method of behavior and survival. [...]

[...] The dream said that Ruburt died once and yet lived again, and that as you survived a leaky old ship at one occasion, so would the basic selves always survive.

[...] In a universe formed by chance, with the survival of the fittest as the main rule of good behavior, illness became a kind of crime against a species itself. [...]

[...] In a species geared above all to the survival of the fittest, and the competition among species, then any touch of suffering or pain, or thoughts of death, become dishonorable, biologically shameful, cowardly, nearly insane. [...]

[...] It would be most interesting, I told Jane, if eventually we could manage to check out some of Seth’s material on the surviving members of the family discussed this evening—after the wounds had healed, and provided any of them would be willing to talk about what had happened. [...]

[...] It would be for the author to conduct a survey of the surviving members of families involved in such accidents, to study the after-effects, see what changes the tragedy had brought about in their lives, their habits, ways of thinking and looking at life—in short, the detailed study of each family case history would comprise an intimate, in-depth probing of all the complicated effects that had resulted from that single tragic event.

[...] Even as infants, then, you are predisposed naturally toward certain feelings, thoughts and attitudes that are meant to insure your healthy survival and emergence into adulthood. [...]

That basic impetus toward survival came to take precedence over everything else. [...]

Inherently, each individual knows that he or she must die physically in order to survive spiritually and psychically (underlined). [...] Particularly since [the advent of Charles] Darwin’s theories,⁵ the acceptance of the fact of death has come to imply a certain kind of weakness, for is it not said that only the strong survive?

[...] This does not mean that such individuals make a conscious decision to die, in your terms: But such decisions are often semiconscious (intently). It might be that those individuals feel they have fulfilled their purposes — but such decisions may also be built upon a different kind of desire for survival than those understood in Darwinian terms.

[...] In its natural form this is not a morbid, frightened, neurotic, or cowardly attempt to escape life, but a definite, positive, “healthy” acceleration of the desire for survival, in which the individual strongly wants to leave physical life as once the child wanted to leave the parent’s home.

[...] Now you are considered quite respectable (pause), that you have survived so many changes within that publishing organization.

[...] Physical life must end if it is to survive. [...]