“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Praise him, without of course overdoing it (smile) but praise him when he is doing well and showing improvement, and encourage him. Do not comment overmuch about symptoms when they occur.

Even to you when you are used to such praise in the past life of which I told you. [...]

([Arnold:] “Seems as though it was undeserving praise though.”)

It was not undeserving praise. [...]

[...] (Eleanor wrote Jane about this October 4, 1972, praising Rich Bed extensively. [...]

[...] The writer of the other letter, while praising our work, is caught up in questions of conventional religion: “I keep wondering over and over again whether Seth is a demon or a deception. [...]

[...] It is therefore unrealistic to expect, say, wholesale criticism—or, for that matter, wholesale praise. [...]

[...] SC’s praise for Seven III must be another one of those predicted good things that are going to come our way out of Framework 2....” [...]

[...] His poetry was accepted and praised artistically, when the ideas agreed with dogma.

[...] The fact that psychic books, so-called, do not give him what he thinks of as conventional literary praise is annoying but not basically pertinent.

The creativity for which Ruburt was praised as a child—the writing of his poetry, for example, became more and more frowned upon by the church as he became older, and in particular when the poetry contained concepts that did not fit Christian dogma. [...]

[...] For both events obviously involved effects her work was having in that outside world we shied away from: Seth, it seemed, had even managed to make his way into a court of law, the very fabric of our society; and regardless of whether he was praised or knocked, his ideas were “officially” discussed. [...]

[...] I’ve also been praised or criticized for elements that I hadn’t realized existed in a painting, while my conscious intentions were ignored or unperceived. [...]

(Pause.) You will not feel the need, say, to “justify your existence” by exaggerating a particular gift, setting up the performance of one particular feat or art as a rigid ideal, when in fact you may be pleasantly gifted but not greatly enough endowed with a certain ability to give you the outstanding praise you think you might deserve.

Again, many can thankfully praise a given doctor for discovering a disease condition “in time,” so that effective countering measures were taken and the disease was eliminated. [...]

[...] He thrives on praise; so, true to form, the giant killer Ruburt insults him to his face.

[...] Here she has the symptoms as a kind of protection, so I’m wondering about our reactions if we took steps that would put us more in the public eye—left us open to more criticism—as well as praise—for instance. [...]

[...] You can choose to buy or not buy a product whose virtues are being praised. [...]

[...] His ego will lap up whatever praise it needs through being an assistant to the director. [...]

A number of scientists — biologists, zoologists, and psychologists, among others — have recently published highly praised books in which they claim to show how our genes manipulate our individual behavior with only their own genetic survival at stake, even when we think we are displaying subjective qualities like altruism. [...]

I am again, not here praising the intuitions above the intellect. [...]

[...] By session time I didn’t know whether Seth would blast us or praise us.)