“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now Ruburt did not know what he was going to speak about this evening and half of his talk in class is automatic, as you know, but it was no coincidence that he became involved in his talk of power and energy for you had a deep distrust of your own energy to sway people as a salesman (to Davey) as you had a distrust of your ability to sway people as a minister (to Joel) and as you also have the same feeling (to Davey), for what happens is this.

If you can sway others so easily then what is there to them after all, for you know who you are and what you are and you do not think you are all that great. If they listen to you like sheep, then how can you look to them with respect? How can you think they are worth saving? How are they worth what you want to give or can give? They are not worth the while. This is what you think when you put out this fine energy to sell a product (to Davey) and this is what you think (to Joel). Whether or not you realize it, your conception of the human race changes, for if you can mold another that easily then where are these fine abilities inherent in the race as a whole.

You do not trust those that you can sway. You trust an adversary because you cannot move him; and you think, there is a man, he will not listen to me, therefore, he must really be great, and you also feared him, and that is why you trust your enemies in a strange fashion for they convince you that a portion of the race is worth saving. Those that stand against you, you feel have a great energy and a great power.

[...] Ruburt always knew from childhood unconsciously of the strength of his personality, its potential, and his ability to sway others.

[...] He wanted to conquer, and bring the world under Ottoman sway.

He determined then to keep this power to sway people in line, until, if ever, he was sure of his cause. [...]

The problems arise in response to ideas that you once accepted as facts of life —ideas that have indeed exerted great sway—ideas that are responsible for much of the world’s woe. [...]

Myths are far more powerful than any facts, and they carry with them the great sway of nature’s own emotional force as it is interpreted through man’s experience. [...]

[...] There were other religions in other times that held a sway over civilizations for far longer periods. [...]

[...] Instead I want you to talk about your trip, and have Ruburt get rid of some of the worries connected with it, so that the positive elements can have greater sway. [...]

[...] They sway the mental state in certain directions. [...]

[...] Held in bounds it helps, but it should not be allowed to gain sway.

[...] With a more painful heart I yearned for my wife to walk to me, hips innocently and joyfully swaying, as she used to do years ago, when she’d meet me every day as I left the printing company where I worked as a commercial artist. [...]

[...] Religious ideas of course held their own sway then as they do now. [...]

Other portions followed, beginning to release those feelings generally under their sway. [...]

[...] Gravity itself did not carry its all-pervasive sway, so that the air was more buoyant. [...]

[...] Women were considered hysterics, aliens to the world of intellectual thought, swayed instead by incomprehensible womanish emotions. [...]

[...] It is here, however, that the tyranny of the fact world holds greatest sway. [...]

[...] Women were considered hysterics, aliens to the world of intellectual thought, swayed instead by incomprehensible womanish emotions. [...]

[...] They rise and fall because of the great sway of emotion and belief.

Science often says that nature cares little for the individual, only for the species, so then you must often see yourselves as victims in a larger struggle for survival, in which your own intents do not carry even the puniest sway.

[...] Close their eyes as they will, such people are still presented nightly with dreams in which they are swayed by events that have no physical basis in the world of facts—and that is my answer to your question. [...]

[...] So she feels and acts less attractive — when that belief holds sway. [...]

[...] Yet the grandeur of the emotions was allowed full sway, and the seasons of the earth and the world were jointly felt.

[...] For his own development he chose to make up, because of a past lack of sensitivity, because of a certain exhilaration felt in those days in cruelty, and because in those days his emotions held no sway, but what he considered cold reason led him on. [...]