“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“Or that something will happen to me, that will prove that there is more to life than usual cause and effect,” he said to us. “I almost believe that there is. But in my own life, I can’t find it. It’s not in my bag of tricks,” he went on suggestively. “But if someone else told me things about myself that no one could know. …”

“Uh,” Gramacy said. Rob laughed. And in a twinkling I’d changed into Seth. “Look” I said, “no strings, no cards hidden within cards, no bag of tricks beside me on the floor.” Smiling, hearty, Seth talked about magic and cause and effect, but at the same time he demonstrated a magic that is beyond the clever manipulation of appearances. Another personality from whatever realm had joined the party.

Of Master Magicians
whose conjurings
feature the amazing tricks
of space and time,
produced so skillfully
and fast
that we’re dazzled with
the effects,
and miss the magical
slights of hand
beneath
the flashy gestures
of the days and nights.

Producing
from it’s magical bag
of tricks,
one marvelous form
of life after another,
fish,
bird,
monkey,
man
(not just one dove
or rabbit)
with a skill and swiftness
so astute
that our wise men think
one turns into the other!

(She was also concerned because she thought her subconscious might be playing tricks on her, using the Seth approach to problems she or we should solve on our own. [...]

[...] I have no intention of disrupting your household, nor as Ruburt feared was this suggestion merely a trick of his own subconscious. [...]

I know you’ve got a trick

(Note: Ralph had a “trick knee,” also.)

[...] I imagined the different ways magazines like The National Enquirer could trick someone into giving an interview to start with, and turn people against each other, (Carol Burnett is suing that paper—the story was in the news lately.) From there some wild stuff that doesn’t make sense now, with strange things happening to my chair pillow as I sat on it.... [...]

And circus tricks are not part of those... [...]

([Ron:] “Yes, but would you consider Instream’s experiments a circus trick? [...]

[...] Now those who have come open-mindedly to class have found their proofs; and proofs that were not dependent upon cards or showy tricks, but strong proof in that the nature of their reality changed. [...]

[...] The ego felt threatened in direct proportion to the strength of the newly felt abilities, and performed a huge trick.

This trick was this: it pretended to accept the psychic nature as part of itself and began a campaign ostensibly aimed at living up to its image, of adapting it. [...]

[...] I do not expect you to play tricks with it, but I do hope you will realize that you can use it as a flashlight—that you can turn it in different directions. [...]

(To Theodore.) It was your own exuberant energy and not my own, your group energy, that played the tricks with the fire. Had I been around it would have occurred to me, and it would have been a great trick, but I was not. [...]

(To Theodore.) Now, I simply came to let you know that I was in on your conversation, and because I did not want to have you think that I played your little trick and rob you of the pleasure of realizing that you did it for yourselves. [...]

[...] She always knows what he is saying at the moment; the trick is to retain it after coming out of trance.

[...] I know of your trick with the crossword puzzles, so that words later come to your mind at your suggestion. [...]

[...] The nurses and aides on the floor are full of hell today, telling explicit sexual jokes and playing tricks on one another.

(“The reason I asked that question is because I started wondering if you were up to your old tricks again—stewing about things,” I said. [...]

(At first I thought it was a trick of sunlight—which was quite diluted as it came through the room’s east windows—but all of a sudden I stopped to look at the painting as it sat on the shelf I’d built high up on the south wall just inside the door. [...]

Now I will leave you for the evening, having tricked Ruburt into hearing the truth upon this matter. [...]

[...] The nurses and aides were raising hell this morning with their jokes and tricks. [...]

[...] When I asked her if she was up to her old tricks, she said, “I know what I’m doing — but that doesn’t mean I can’t goof up once in a while.”

Now, there is no reason why truth should not be joyful, there is no reason why truth cannot play tricks, even with noses. [...]

These are tricks known to both Joseph and Ruburt, but quite beneficial for all of that. [...]

There are many ways in which you can use these tricks to your advantage. [...]

[...] The trick was to give the intuitional self freedom and not to intellectualize. [...]

[...] Was I really one of those talkative domineering women who used any kind of trick to control their husbands? [...]