“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You tested what you were learning wisely against reality as you understood it. [...]

[...] When Jane called Dr. Guy in return, he told her that he’d contacted her at the behest of a Dr. Camper [another pseudonym].¹ Dr. Camper, a professor of sociology at a midwestern university, had asked Dr. Guy to ask Jane to be tested for her psychic ability. [...]

(No envelope test was held during the session this evening.

(It was now time for the 15th Dr. Instream clairvoyant test. [...]

[...] Yesterday they took blood for tests. [...]

[...] We’re using that area as our testing ground. [...]

[...] Open your eyes, all of you, and test what you see against the inner reality that you know. [...]

[...] He felt you were not putting yourself to the test, that you were holding back while he was putting himself to the test, and often not doing too well.

[...] The tests from this standpoint were highly explosive, for he did not understand the situation, and found himself in a position highly ambiguous. [...]

[...] He felt also then that you would give or withhold physical love according to his performance on the tests. [...]

[...] I rubbed the flower extract Steve Blumenthal had given Jane last night on her knuckles of the right hand; we’ll use that location as a test site. [...]

(9:46.) Your ideas of God are put to the test in this meeting (at Camp David), for here men who claim to believe in a merciful God discuss their mortal claims to property and land, and each feels behind him the ancient dictates of an archaic God.

This is a test. Testing, one, two three; if you will indeed forgive my attempts at humor. [...]

(No envelope test was held during the session.

(It was now time for the 13th Dr. Instream clairvoyant test. [...]

[...] Realization of this was behind the irritability expressed against new tests, for the men functioned well enough on tests for which they had been prepared and drilled.

[...] He had to test the love therefore by skipping sessions to see if you still loved him. [...]

[...] In an odd way he felt that you used them against him, in other words—this during the time of tests, in that area.

[...] Steve B. had given her the cream, and we’re using the nodules on Jane’s right hand as a testing ground. [...]

(Moreover, when JA tested me for glaucoma, my eye pressures checked out at 17 for the left and l6 for the right—a point or so better than last time, and midway in the normal range which ends at 25. [...]

[...] Jeff wanted to run a blood test tomorrow — “I’m not sure of the cause of the fever. [...]

[...] Yet because he was the one so involved, he had to test each strand, and in the meantime he still had his “old” consciousness, with its habits, to contend with.

Carefully—I thought!—I explained that suggestion was very important, and asked the professor to have an objective attitude during the tests. [...] He let the class know through his statements and general behavior that he thought such tests were beneath serious consideration. [...] I suggested that he try the experiment too, but he wouldn’t; and his attitude discouraged enough students so that he could say, later, that the low number participating made tests results impossible to evaluate. [...]

[...] Thirteen days later, Jane and I were most intrigued to read an article in a national publication in which researchers show, after eight years of tests, that not only do women do most things as well as men — they actually outperform men in many areas, both intellectually and intuitively.

For example, women test as equal to men in sensitivity to sound; clear, logical, and rational thinking; accurate reading and writing; memory for design in areas like drafting and illustration; number memory; tweezer dexterity; foresight, as in the flow of ideas; subjective personality links to specialized work.

According to these tests, us poor guys exceed women in only two categories: structural visualization, as in engineering, mechanics and building; and measures of simple muscular strength.

[...] Especially do I like the fact that Jane’s work, her contribution to our thought, comes out of her psyche unaided by laboratories, statistics, or tests. That is, our idea of real testing consists in watching to see how the Seth material can assist in practical, everyday living. Other kinds of tests, more “formal” ones that we carried out in 1965–66, are detailed in Chapter 8 of The Seth Material; it’s easy for us to forget now that those early tests were quite successful, and could be resumed at any time. [...]