Results 441 to 460 of 1879 for stemmed:do
What they do is take quick glimpses of your plane—and hold in mind that the saucer or cigar shape seen on your planet is a bastard form having little relation to the structure as it is at home base. [...] There are so many things that you do not understand that I hope to explain to you. There are other things that you do not understand that I cannot explain to you, simply because they would be too alien now for your regular mode of thought.
[...] I do want to mention one little point with which you might be concerned or pleased. [...] I do like to save a few little surprises like this for you now and then.
(“Seth, why do Jane’s eyes appear to be darker and more luminous now, when she’s delivering your messages? [...]
Ruburt is doing very well under the situation. The feelings in the leg and the knee do indeed signify new motion, and the willingness to move. [...]
(We’d wanted to read over some of the late sessions today, but didn’t do it. [...]
[...] Jane didn’t feel like reading and discussing sessions, though, so we decided to have one tonight and perhaps do some reading tomorrow.)
Ruburt’s entire group of symptoms do not follow any established pattern. [...]
(On the negative side, staff still has trouble at times irrigating the catheter—but as soon as Jane starts drinking more, the urine clears up, and so do the muscle spasms. [...]
[...] LuAnn came in to give eye drops, Cathy to take temperature—97.8—and Lynne to do blood pressure. [...]
(“What do you think of my dream about my selling my paintings last night?”)
It is Ruburt’s nature you see to accept heartily or to disagree heartily, to plunge headlong into, or to run from, and the psychic developments made it impossible for him to do either; or rather his reactions made wholehearted acceptance or rejection impossible. [...]
[...] I have said what I felt necessary, so do as you wish.
[...] You had nothing to do with the death, however, you felt guilty about the circumstances for she did not do well in her profession and died, indeed, of starvation in another town never having told her family where she was. [...]
[...] Do not take it at face value but feel within yourself for the hidden self that is within. [...]
[...] If a “ghost” wants to contact you therefore, he can do so through telepathy, and you can yourself construct the corresponding image if you desire. [...] Your rooms are full now of thought-forms that you do not perceive; and again, you are as much a ghostly phenomenon now as you will be after death. [...]
Some dead friends and relatives do visit you, projecting from their own level of reality into yours, but you cannot as a rule perceive their forms. They are not more ghostly, or “dead,” however, than you are when you project into their reality — as you do, from the sleep state.
[...] The length of time an individual has been dead in your terms has little to do with whether or not you will be so visited, but rather the intensity of the relationship.
Do not be overly concerned at any time if I suggest something that you do not think practical, but do look into such matters thoroughly. [...]
[...] I do not mean to be unreasonable. You do not have to worry that I will deliver only personal material, but this material tonight is important as far as our relationship is concerned.
[...] I do intend to go into this matter thoroughly, since it involves various stages of consciousness through which we must journey.
[...] I see nothing grossly egocentric in this remark, and if you do not consider the material valid, then why spend so much time with it?
[...] The people who take such inoculations within your own culture, now, usually do so because they do not want the disease specified, and they believe that the inoculation will prevent it. It is impossible to tell ahead of time how many of those individuals would come down with the disease otherwise, yet diseases do come and go whether or not inoculations are given. [...]
You cannot afford that kind of method now, because you do not believe that the mind itself can help protect the body against disease caused by bacteria or virus. In many cases, whenever your culture and so-called primitive ones have met, inoculations worked, whether or not the natives believed in a particular inoculation, because they do believe in the “white man’s superior power,” and were as hypnotized by the white doctor’s mystique as they were by their medicine men.
Try to do your mutual suggestions when you feel you have a good rapport with Framework 2. You were wise not to do so today. [...]
[...] As we waited for tonight’s session Jane said she “got sort of down” because of this, yet added that there was no doubt her right leg was doing good things about straightening more. [...]
[...] Many dreams do activate the brain in a ghostly fashion, sparking responses that are not practically pertinent in ordinary terms. That is, they do not require direct action but serve as anticipators of action, reminders to the brain to initiate certain actions in its future.
[...] They do not perceive the mind’s activity at all, except as it is imprinted onto the brain.
[...] When one portion or one half of the brain is activated, for example, the corresponding portion of the other half is also activated, but at levels scientists do not perceive. [...]
[...] The brain has abilities you do not use consciously because your beliefs prevent you from initiating the proper neural habits. [...]
[...] What I do I will do. I am saying that I do not want Ruburt’s consciousness involved beforehand, and the nervous strain on Ruburt’s part of wondering how such events will come to pass must also be avoided.
I do not intend to let Ruburt in on any of my plans or intentions, as far as demonstrations are concerned. [...]
(“Just what do you mean when you speak of demonstrations? [...]
[...] They fit together in a much more organized fashion than the outer senses do, and in some cases they tend to overlap. [...]
[...] I do not know what floor it was on, except that it was at least several floors up. [...] The building could be the Carnegie Hall office building, or one very close to Carnegie Hall, on 57th St. I do not recall the street number. [...] I do not know whether he is still located there, or what has happened to him, not having seen him since.
[...] You find it easy to blame others for not having the knowledge that you have thus far obtained, when you forget that I had much to do with choosing who would receive the knowledge. The situation and the time and the growth of your own abilities had something to do with this. [...]
[...] I do not do anything in the terms to which you refer, and my activities parallel your own only in a very slight manner. [...]
[...] Jane and I feel that we cannot rush her development, nor do we have any desire to, so the letter left us somewhat at a loss; we finally decided to let events take their course, and send the A.S.P.R. any data in which they might be interested, when, if ever, it manifested itself.
When the two of you are in rapport, you do more good for each other than you do, say, during prayer periods when less rapport exists in the entire situation. [...]
[...] They have asked her to do a book on Seth, dreams, and reincarnation.
[...] Seth could develop this material, since I do not know how one of these men “influenced my life at one time,” etc. [...]
[...] At the party however, I do not recall Jane leaping with recognition when she met Don Simmons...
(As always when doing such work, I spread newspapers on my drawing table. Jane saw me doing this, and knew I was experimenting gluing the burlap to panels to make painting surfaces. [...]
[...] Printing or black ink, I do not know.” [...] I do not know if Seth referred to this, or merely black ink being connected with newspapers.
[...] But you see when you do so you realize that you are not in your normal waking condition. [...]
Almost all of your dream experiences do involve projection of one kind or another. [...]
[...] In that context you do not trust good fortune—indeed, it seems practical not to trust it. [...] You do not tell people that you are doing well—you tell them that you must work from morning to night; that you do not have enough time. [...]
[...] If people might think you have little to do all day because they do not see you going to a job, then you can show that you have even less time to yourself than others.
When you begin to realize that you do indeed live in a safe universe, these patterns of reaction begin to break up. To some extent however as they do you can feel weaponless, or unprotected. [...]
Ruburt sees, and so do you, that other publishers would be glad to take our work—and you no longer feel “trapped” by Prentice, and “Prentice’s incompetence” in certain areas. [...] I do not mean you personally necessarily. [...]
[...] Basically you do not consider the terms. You do not realize that he has long ago made a bargain to give his family those things which he feels will content them, only to find them less content. [...]
The pressure, I am sorry to say, has also some connection with our sessions, in that he feels caught betwixt and between; somewhat under pressure to hold sessions regularly, although he may not feel like particularly doing so; and under pressure not to hold sessions when he may feel particularly like doing so. [...]
[...] Under most circumstances the tail end of a session such as this will do well.
[...] You can specifically say that this has to do with what you call your psychic work, but even before “it” began he was aware of that energy of his, concerned about using it, focusing it, delighted with it, and afraid of it at the same time.
[...] 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.
[...] It was apparent that Dineen sat alone all day in her lovely home with nothing to do; that she was making no effort to face her situation truly, but looking to others to do it for her, and therefore reinforcing her sense of powerlessness. [...]
[...] Dineen believed that other people acted oddly toward her because they had all been hypnotized into doing so. [...] All of this may sound exotic to some of you, and be only too real to others, but any time that you assign elements of your experience to exterior sources, you are really doing the same thing that Dineen did.
[...] If you think that you must come and go at everyone else’s beck and call, then you are like Dineen, who believes that she must do what this “hypnotist” tells her to do. [...]
[...] I am not saying here that many doctors and nurses do not try their best to promote healing, and certainly healings occur — but they do so despite the system and not because of it. [...]
In such cases, however, and with your understanding, he should feel free to call on you, regardless of what you are doing. [...] It is far better, however, to do that and learn than to deny the impulses altogether.
[...] It is difficult to be prissy when discussing such a topic—but if you feel that others might be offended, do as you wish.
Lunch, and he took his shower—something else he had put off doing. [...]