Results 1581 to 1600 of 1879 for stemmed:do
[...] Such checking was easy to do; nevertheless conscious deliberate checks were constantly being made to make certain opposing pressures were not unwittingly being exerted. [...]
[...] The best he could do was to get the table up to shoulder height at the most, and I believe this to be a somewhat generous estimate. [...]
(Jane and I do not know the exact sequence of events. [...]
(The two obvious points are that the table broke, and that a great force was needed to do this. [...]
(We read that in ordinary terms highly creative people [like Jane] usually generate large amounts of theta and low-alpha waves pretty constantly while doing their thing. [...] Nor at this time, given the minimum premise that Jane’s speaking for Seth constitutes any indication of “paranormal” activity, do we think that her performance could be identified as such per se on the graphs of her brain waves. [...]
[...] You would go to sleep to solve certain problems … There is an overall general difference, nationally speaking — that is, people of various nations do differ to some extent in their prevalent brain frequencies … All in all, however, the beta has predominated, and has been expected to solve many problems unsuited to its own characteristics.
[...] “What’s the matter,” I asked her after supper tonight, “do you feel guilty because you think you deserted your mother?” I explained that I felt self-punishment, a feeling of unworthiness, self-doubt and mistrust must lie at the root of her symptoms—that she felt she must pay a price for each success, like the publishing of a book. [...]
[...] We gather that Frank isn’t particularly in favor of contacting the medical establishment, but what is one to do, I asked Jane, if one cannot bring oneself out of his or her difficulties unaided? [...]
(8:54.) Ruburt always wanted to help his mother, and felt largely powerless to do so. [...]
(After supper this evening I went around the corner to the office of Doc Piper and invited him to attend the session, since last week he had expressed an interest in doing so. [...]
Objects exist, and yet objects in another sense do not exist. [...]
[...] I have mentioned that expectation has much to do with individual constructions, and indeed this cannot be stressed too strongly.
[...] Nevertheless I do go easy on you now and then, merely because I like to vary the intensities of our sessions, as this is a most effective teaching method, and various portions of subject matter cause different energy expenditures.
[...] You both like to use the word work to show others that you are not irresponsible, and that you work twice as hard as they do. [...]
[...] These viewpoints were barely noticed, and yet they also resulted in a loosening of some mental patterns, simply because you did not automatically do certain things because it was a certain time of day.
(“What do you think of that reading Jane received in the mail today?” I referred to a reading by the medium, Elwood Babbit, given for someone who had written Jane several months ago; the individual subsequently saw Babbitt, and sent Jane a copy of the long, rambling, very generalized material that could have applied to many people. [...]
[...] This has nothing to do with so-called psychic phenomena, but the natural growth and development of a personality whenever it tries to go beyond its space and time context, and takes a challenge of such a nature.
[...] Ruburt would do that, while closing off reincarnational aspects because of possible past emotional content.
(After In Search Of ended on TV at 2:30 Jane read the draft of my note for session 896 for Dreams, in which I wanted to know whether she’d ever willed herself sick [as I had] when a youngster, in order to avoid something I wanted to get out of doing. [...]
[...] You do not worry about the child’s development, for you realize that he will learn better.
[...] You do not give a child a loaded gun if you are certain he is going to shoot himself or his neighbor.
The energy that was liberated, however, has already changed your national scene and will continue to do so. [...]
(“Do you mean roentgens?” I meant here the international unit of X rays.)
[...] The interrelationship between all units or systems has nothing to do with continuity in your terms. [...]
So do portions of each entity find simultaneous expression within various systems or units of action, and they must then progress within these systems according to the specific properties of the systems. [...]
[...] Because they are units or systems, they do possess at their outer limits a resistance which serves to give them unitary identity, a resistance which tends to attract like and repel unlike elements.
They are smaller than small, to be sure, but soon your scientific instruments will detect them; though I do not believe their significance will be understood. [...]
(Last night when I got home, I saw that the young fellow Frank Longwell has put me in touch with to do the lawn had done his job; the place looked great. This afternoon he was to come back and do the raking.
(“As you learn to trust your natural impulses, they introduce you to your individual sense of power, so that you realize that your own actions do have meaning, that you do affect events, and that you can see some definite signs that you are achieving good ends. [...]
[...] And how can the desire to do good bring about catastrophic results?