“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

They are also in the nature of little tests on my part, for I can tell by his performance where his strong and weak points lie, and in what direction he needs my support.

[...] Yet whenever you begin a new situation of physical improvements with Ruburt, after the first enthusiasm the both of you instantly revert to the old “test-it-out-at-once, check-the-physical-evidence” kind of thinking. [...]

[...] Regardless of what you may think of their present performance at any given “time” in quotes, it is from this system that the greatest potentials emerge; for having dealt with it, consciousness undergoes one of the severest tests in learning to handle its own energy.

[...] The beliefs, of course, are frameworks in which various kinds of experience are tested. [...]

[...] In a curious fashion, however, that circle of safety provides each individual with the freedom and curiosity to go ahead and test independent theories and situations—so it also serves the purposes of creativity and knowledge, and even allows for the acquisition of new knowledge that was not in the original belief structures. [...]

[...] When I got to 330 Jane told me that Shawn Peterson had been admitted to intensive care last night with chest pains, but that the tests so far have been negative. [...]

Your psychological tests show you only the current picture of males and females, brought up from infancy with particular sexual beliefs. [...]

One day while we were still up to our necks in tests, I saw an Associated Press article that really surprised me. [...]

[...] I do much better that way, because I don’t feel that I’m being tested, and I don’t have time to fret about results. [...]

[...] And I knew we were going to go home and start that series of tests for Doctor Instream....”

[...] This period lasted for perhaps ten minutes or more, while the three of us took turns shifting position so we could all test the pressure required to push the table down to the floor. [...]

[...] Even biological testing shows a false picture, for to a far greater degree than realized your biological activity follows your beliefs.

[...] We ended up with Jane more or less on a two-week test period to see if she could get results on her own—although in the light of tonight’s session I doubt if the “deadline” matters. [...]

[...] You have a strong core of energy tested too early and not under the best of circumstances, though at the time you may have believed so. [...]

But here you become involved with one of the most meaningful aspects of the nature of personal reality, as you test your thoughts against what seems to be. [...]

[...] It is sometimes easier to choose an unfamiliar location, however, for then you are not tempted to test yourself as you go along by wondering whether or not the imagined scenes conform to your memory.

If the impetus on your parts is not that strong, or if fear operates, if Ruburt is afraid for example, of being put to a “test”, in quotes, then of course the proper stimulus is not present. [...]

(Tracing of the Ballantine Ale label used in the 10th envelope test, in the 193rd session, September 27,1965.)

You were concerned because of the poor test results in your last session. [...] You think, occasionally, that your own tests are a pain in the neck, even while you admit their necessity.

[...] At any point that an individual realizes his point of power in the present, he will not need a barrier to test himself against, or to focus him in what he thinks of as the proper direction.

[...] Your body is much like a sculptor or a sculpt, never really completed, the inner self trying out various techniques of creativity on its first test piece. [...]