“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The “new” Freudian ideas of the unsavory unconscious led further to a new dilemma, for it was then—as it is now—widely believed that as the result of experiences in infancy the subconscious, or unconscious, might very well sabotage the best interests of the conscious personality, and trick it into illness and disaster.

[...] I am not going to have these sessions deal with mental tricks, even though the end would be a good one. [...]

A cruel trick, Ruburt felt, offering promises unfulfilled. [...]

The trick is to allow Ruburt’s associations free reign to a certain point, and then expertly insert the correct data. [...]

[...] Instead, the trick is to view the contents of the world in different fashions, to free your physical senses from the restraints that your mental conventions have placed upon them.

[...] Surely, I thought, this was some trick of perception! [...]

[...] It involves something like a sleight of hand trick, played by one part of the whole self upon another part. [...]

The relief he felt after deciding that he had safely tricked himself, he thought in the morning, was due to the fact that the future death was not his mother’s or his own, but one involving a relative at least somewhat distant. [...]

[...] Ruburt tricked you quite cleverly into doing the sketches for Dialogues—for your own good, he felt, and you did not enjoy the experience, allowing your beliefs to contaminate your creativity. [...]

This was in Belgium—and I will not be tricked, my dear Joseph—it was in Belgium in 1632, and our Philip in a rather sensational case for the times actually brought this husband to a village trial, a particularly unusual occurrence at that time. [...]

(Since the object had been thoroughly flattened by some kind of pressure, it was no trick to place it between the usual two pieces of heavy Bristol, then seal it in double envelopes.

[...] I am not going to run around in circles, perform tricks, move rings, throw rocks and so forth. [...]

[...] The trick is not to learn how, but to recognize the occurrence, and with practice this is possible.

[...] A coincidence — a mere trick of fate that Joseph could be walking through the old man’s home,² and that Mr. Markle would be spending his last time in a nursing home, as had Joseph’s mother — meaningless but evocative that this house was for sale, and that the old man was insisting upon a price higher than the house is worth, just as Joseph’s mother insisted upon a high price for her own home, and determined to get it.³ Period. [...]

[...] If I have to pull a few tricks out of the bag to get my ideas across, then so I shall.

It is however most unfortunate that intelligent men will not listen to intelligent and sane and illuminating data without requiring such magician’s tricks as this. [...]

[...] Now this involved tricks on both of your parts, to which you both agreed. [...]

You try to trick me. [...]

[...] I will never cease to be amused with Ruburt’s little tricks, such as watching the minutes, and I would not at all be surprised, Joseph, to find that he continues in the same hilarious fashion as times goes by. [...]

For my own enjoyment I use such tricks at times. [...]

[...] “I worry that it’s just a psychological trick,” I said. [...]