“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Yet to Ruburt’s mother, if you were a woman you either banked as she had on that femininity, and used it as a tool, or you became educated. Education meant that the feminine nature must be controlled. She was deadly frightened that Ruburt might have a child and not finish school. She also felt that Ruburt was a poor woman to begin with, in a way, because the intellect and femininity did not seem to mix—that is, Ruburt’s mother considered them odd components.

Education was a practical tool. Ruburt sought out men who would not insist upon children. This also meant that they had certain slants of mind. These slants fit in with his artistic purposes as he understood them. Because he considered himself a writer, and because he considered a writer something different from a woman, it was difficult for him to realize that he was both.

None of this would particularly show in terms of symptoms until Ruburt began to sell. Then the tool was perfected. The abilities were put to the purpose of protecting him from the hostile world, serving as economic sustenance. It became his duty to repress spontaneous feelings that might lead him astray. Before, those found expression in his dealings with the outside world—but those dealings, he felt, were no longer necessary.

[...] When the ego becomes too concerned with daily matters, with worry in other words, then the works of the tool become clogged. [...] Dissociation, and I will give you many ways of achieving it, unclogs the tool and is absolutely necessary. The freely working subconscious, or the inner you, is completely capable of taking care of all practical considerations, and will use the ego as a tool to see that this is done.

Nevertheless, the ego is the tool by which the hidden self manipulates in the physical universe as you know it. [...] However when the ego becomes involved with fears to a greater or lesser extent, it ceases to be an effective tool and becomes instead a hammer hitting you incessantly over the head.

[...] In other words, the ego becomes a tool to disrupt rather than to create.

[...] The older man is named Larry O’Toole, and is from Baltimore, MD. [...] Gary is about 25, [Bill is 27], and Larry O’Toole is 50 or so. Bill knew Gary for about two weeks, and O’Toole for about six weeks. [...]

(Larry O’Toole, it developed, rented for the summer the “front room across from a beach.” [...]

(Bill states that on or somewhere either just before or after July 29, the date of the 75th session, he attended a party at Larry O’Toole’s cottage. [...]

[...] Your scientists will discover that their tools are no longer adequate. [...] You will come no closer to knowledge of the fifth dimension until you use the inner senses as tools of perception.

They will be and they are prisoners of their own tools. [...]

[...] The mind is the tool which must be used.

Various tribes in different parts of the earth would suddenly begin using new tools, say, not because there might be any physical communication among them, or cultural exchanges, but because separate conditions in their own environments triggered mental processes that activated the particular images of the tools required for a given job at hand. [...]

(Long pause.) The ideas for inventions, tools or products exist mentally, to be brought into activation whenever they are required, say, by circumstances, or by the environment.

[...] Early man was in that same position, and his inventions—his tools, his artistry, and so forth—came into being from the inner, ever-present realm of the mind, triggered by his unconscious but quite real estimation of his position within the universe at large, and in regard to his own environment.

[...] You must learn to understand your motives and even with the hypnotic ability that your husband has, you still have not learned to understand your own motives using that tool. [...] You can use the tool of hypnosis to a far greater degree than you are using it. [...]

[...] Hypnosis is an excellent tool, you are using. [...]

[...] Hypnotism, as I have mentioned, will be a basic tool in the beginning. Hypnotism, you see, is not a camouflage tool, but a psychological tool which is therefore uncamouflaged, and relatively undistorted.

When tests are conducted, and this will take a while, but when tests are conducted in laboratories, using the trance, the controlled and disciplined trance, as a tool and an instrument, then very quickly you will be able to delve beneath personal subconscious material to other layers.

[...] What you need are tools and instruments that are free from camouflage. [...]

[...] He did confirm however, the presence of a green and white boat that was anchored out in the bay, and in view from the front room of Larry O’Toole’s cottage. [...] Bill then suggested that he write to Larry O’Toole for confirmation, since as far as he knew O’Toole should still be in Provincetown. In particular, O’Toole could check on the rowboat with a symbol on its bow, as described by Seth.

[...] Anyhow the vacuum represents my work as a tool—I give the vacuum but people have to pick up their own dirt; I don’t have to do it for them. [...]

[...] Man has an innate inclination toward the use of tools, and technology is no more than an extension of that capacity. (Pause.) When men use tools in accord with (pause) the “dictates” of value fulfillment, those tools are effective. [...]

[...] You see, I want you to use the tools and abilities that you have and the intellect is one of them, but I do not want you to concentrate so intently upon using one tool that you forget the others. [...]

[...] In the meantime it is an excellent tool but the true wisdom within you, once again, allows your body to spontaneously breathe as you listen to me, refreshes yourselves as you listen to me, collects from realities that you do not perceive, infinite potentials of energy that fill your being as you listen to me. [...]

[...] or that my over-care of them has turned them into functional serviceable tools.... [...]

[...] Although instruments can indeed be most advantageous in many ways, they still present you with secondary rather than primary tools of investigation—and they distort the nature of reality far more than the subjective attributes of thoughts, feelings, and intuitions do.

(9:21.) The human consciousness has not, therefore, developed the best and most proper “tool” with which to examine the nature of reality. [...]

The outer senses as you know are themselves camouflage constructions, specific tools formed for a specific reason to manipulate camouflage reality. [...]

They must be interpreted instead through the use of those inner senses of which I have spoken, for these are the basic tools of the inner self. [...]

The tools of investigation will therefore be different.

The ego is the tool by which the hidden self manipulates in the physical universe. [...] However, when the ego becomes involved with fears, it ceases to be an effective tool and becomes instead a hammer hitting you incessantly over the head. [...]

[...] Then these materializations of panic and pain play about the physical body, projected by the ego, and steal the powers of the subconscious mind from their natural constructive tasks.… In other words, the ego becomes a tool to disrupt rather than to create.

[...] The freely working subconscious — or the inner you — is completely capable of taking care of all practical considerations and will use the ego as a tool to do so.

You are correct about Ruburt’s impatiences: He is to use it (underlined) as a tool, however, and not let it use him. [...]

[...] The body is not just a tool to be used. [...]

[...] It is like a tool of perception. [...] In many ways it is an aggressive tool that the consciousness uses to pierce through time and space as you know it.

(4:28.) We must also remember, however, that in a fashion beliefs themselves are tools, and that in some situations beliefs that seem quite negative can also clear the way for more beneficial ones. [...]

[...] His tools had to be adjusted first before he can make the same breakthrough, yet it is just as certain. [...]