“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Only when it abdicates its functions does it allow itself to become swayed by “negative” experience. [...]

[...] You may believe that you are too easily swayed. [...]

In your time, medical men, again with great superiority, look at primitive cultures and harshly judge the villagers they think are held in the sway of witch doctors or voodooism; and yet through advertisement and organization, your doctors impress upon each individual in your culture that you must have a physical examination every six months or you will get cancer; that you must have medical insurance because you will become ill.

For the body of Augustus is once again under the sway of beliefs about himself that are highly contradictory. [...]

[...] In poetry perception is immediate, the words arranged to intuition’s order, and the very rhythm carrying its own sway.

[...] Your conscious energies are focused upon the physical field, and the distortive cause and effect theory holds sway.

[...] But the intellect would insist upon keeping rigid control, fearing that if Jane let her spontaneous self hold sway that it would go whole hog psychically, in the worst way, and destroy all other elements and activities of the personality.”

[...] It implied sway and power over the masses. [...]

[...] Therefore, the so-called egotistical consciousness was not given complete sway. [...]

[...] For your individual integrity, you must be willing to jeopardize present financial security; and if you are willing to do this, these men will sense that they cannot sway you, and they will accept your terms in the main.

Now I will tell you that Ruburt’s Josef, in Seven, is a very good approximation of another quite different life of yours, in which the emotions were given the fullest of sway—and you also have those characteristics to draw upon. [...]

[...] And as soon as early youth left, then you allowed the negative ideas to hold sway. [...]

[...] And in this case you both fell into their sway at the same time. [...]

[...] Jane’s voice was good, her head down, eyes closed; she swayed to her left often. [...]

Nothing could sway him from that course while he believed it was the right one. [...]

[...] You had to take care of him, and it seemed you both saved face; but almost all of your problems come from the unthinking acceptance of conventional ideas that have been allowed to hold sway.

[...] If anything, it adds to my argument—for if those theories really held sway, one nation or another by now would have already destroyed your world. [...]

[...] Our independence relative to reincarnation may represent just conscious cussedness on our parts, but we believe that each of us (meaning anyone, that is) always has the freedom to accept or reject any such choice or causality —whatever we choose to do. No, instead we think of our current challenges as contributing to the knowledge of our whole selves in most specific ways, rather than our being swayed that much by our reincarnational and/or counterpart associations. [...]

[...] Both of them, relatively isolated psychological polarities, hold about equal sway. [...]