“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

7. And at various times through my early years, I understood how my mother used me (and my two brothers) as “weapons,” or tools or objects, against my father. [...]

[...] You used your imagination, a very valuable tool, against yourself. [...]

Ultimately your use of instruments, and your preoccupation with them as tools to study the greater nature of reality, will teach you one important lesson: The instruments are useful only in measuring the level of reality in which they themselves exist.¹ Period.

They would however definitely go where their experience could be best utilized, and where their intimate knowledge of destruction be best used as a tool. [...]

Hypnosis is at best a poor tool. [...]

Your mother’s verbal expressions were often aggressive tools used against your father—that is, when your mother expressed love to you verbally, the words were so chosen that they became verbal assaults against your father.

“Those animal kingdoms, some of them, utilized tools. [...]

[...] Words become terribly inadequate tools to express what I feel and am trying to write here, for I want to record at once every combination of relationships I can conceive of….

[...] You tell him to use suggestion, which is a mental tool, and evade the physical contact which to him is proof of the physical divorce, and a reassertion of the mental being valued and the physical denied.

I have mentioned earlier the peculiar problems of your scientists as with tools and instruments they attempt to reduce reality to their terms. [...]

[...] He used himself as a tool to dissect himself. [...]

[...] The mental enzymes are the tools, and the vitality is the actual material that forms the universe as a whole, the apparent divisions within it, the apparent boundaries between the systems and the diverse materials within each division. [...]

The material will always be the basic tool for study. [...]

[...] I liked the analogy of the spider and his web because it is such a simple and uncomplicated example of camouflage construction, divorced from intermediaries such as ego or tools.

[...] The outer senses are excellent tools of perception for limited circumstances. [...]

Now, you see, when you paint a picture you use your physical body as a tool to create your inner idea. [...]

[...] In other words, the chant is a tool in that regard, a translation in completely different terms, of something far different.

(We searched the glove compartment of the car for paper and a pencil or pen, so that Jane could make notes about some of her perceptual changes — but to my amazement we could find nothing to use in spite of our efforts to keep writing tools in that very place. [...]

[...] It is a probable system where consciousness decided to use the cat form as the most satisfactory and in which the cat walked upright, used tools and so forth.

[...] Involved, however, are very interesting “nonstandard” methods of regarding time, quantum theory, the infinite and the infinitesimal in numbers, model theory, and other mathematical tools.