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[...] The consciousness of being human was fully developed in the caveman, of course, but the human conception was alive in the fish.

[...] Several times, flashes of concepts came to me while I was house-cleaning — sudden intrusive patterns of thought accompanied by a feeling of intellectual and emotional illumination. [...]

[...] You see, it is possible, in theory, for you to directly experience a concept-essence of the material in any given session. [...]

Material like this is sifted through many layers of subconscious conceptions and is subsequently colored to some degree. [...]

[...] Now he was also interested in concepts, and this will be your connection. [...]

[...] Preparing Oversoul Seven gives him a good point of concentration, yet beyond that he should allow himself the leisure and pleasure of playing with concepts, with poetry, and even with painting. [...]

[...] Even more unfortunate are the special policies for the elderly that detail in advance all of the most stereotyped and distorted concepts about health and age. [...]

[...] Some in this group also subscribe to philosophical ideas that somewhat moderate those concepts, recognizing the importance of the mind. [...]

[...] We will soon, indeed, have you probing into the guts of reality, and then letting the concepts come afterward. [...]

[...] It cannot be done from the safe but distant framework of concepts. [...]

(9:38.) These people (the Gramada) have excellent abilities in putting together solitary concepts that might otherwise go by the wayside. [...]

[...] In your terms it is as if (louder) they perceive the future motion or direction of an idea, a concept, or a structure. [...]

[...] It is important for the race of men now to begin to use and experiment with the inner senses, since for the potentialities of humanity to be fully realized, new concepts must arise which cannot arise in the limited scope he now permits himself. [...]

[...] Only the need to translate conceptions into words causes any complications.

The outer senses, because they have been so dependently and almost absolutely relied upon, act as blinders, limiting the fields of perception that are possible, and therefore hampering both imagination and intellect in the formation of new concepts.

There are frameworks so tenuous and so divorced from your concept of reality you would ignore them, and yet they are richer and more varied than your own. [...]

[...] We’ve been thinking about counterpart ideas since Seth introduced the concept two months ago; see the opening notes for the 721st session. [...]

(These two ideas from Seth, which came through in connection with his data on moment points, are to me very suggestive of the concept of long sound. [...]

I remind the reader of a remark Seth made in the 702nd session for Volume 1, when Jane was delivering material for him on electron spin and related concepts: “Ruburt’s vocabulary is not an official scientific one. [...]

9. In the physics of elementary particles, time reversal, or symmetry, is a basic concept. [...]

In trance or out, Jane likes to “take off” in her own creative ways from concepts like that of the tachyon, or the black hole or the white hole — so in this session she came up with the “dead hole.” [...]

“When Ruburt left the church, the concept of the sinful self was still there, but the methods that earlier served to relieve its pressures were no longer effectively present. The concept was shifted over to the flawed self of scientific vintage. [...]

We had a hard time believing him when Seth told us the very next evening, on April 23, that Jane’s sinful self thinks her physical symptoms are necessary “for the personality’s own good”; that that self has no conception that its policies have become self-defeating; that, following Catholic and non-Catholic Christianity, it believes that suffering is good for the soul; that the idea of the flesh itself being graced is, to it, blasphemous.

That June 15th session was Seth’s 20th on Jane’s sinful self, and the concept in general. [...]

[...] She finds some of the story’s concepts to be quite intriguing.

[...] Telepathically, we are all aware of the mass ideas from which we form our overall conception of physical reality.

The bulk of the book will deal with Seth’s ideas on various subjects, such as life after death, reincarnation, health, the nature of physical reality, the God concept, dreams, time, identity, and perception. [...]

[...] Man related the concept of free will long ago to the question of whether he could deliberately choose evil, for example. [...]

In a strange way, determinism has always seemed lacking as a concept to Jane and me—for if it means what it’s supposed to mean, then surely human beings set up the parameters within which determinism is said to operate. [...]

[...] Such theories are based upon the concept that there is something innately disruptive, base, or wrong in man’s emotional nature, while the soul is always depicted as being calm, “perfect,” passive and unfeeling. [...]

[...] Seth’s main concern was to refute that concept.

(Resume at 4:16.) It is also a good idea for Ruburt to remind himself that he knows well that these concepts are true, and that they will lead inevitably toward his recovery—or rather, to his recovery—for they follow the innate laws of nature as it exists in its own state, apart from men’s ideas about it. [...]

[...] Animals and your own body consciousnesses have little concept of age. [...]

[...] This has to do mainly with the necessary distortions arising from your time concept and the idea of duration; for duration to you presupposes existence continued within a time framework — predisposing to beginnings and endings.

[...] Your communication system may, in time, make the distortions of your God concepts much more visible, so that honest men can at least question “How can God say this to the Jews, and that to the Arabs? [...]

[...] Both sides accept the concept of human aggression and violence as a method of survival. [...]

[...] Because his basic concept held aggressiveness and power as one, however, then the strength to act automatically meant the strength to be aggressive. [...]

[...] The church’s concepts at least gave suffering a kind of dignity: It did (underlined) come from God—an unwelcome gift, perhaps—but after all it was punishment handed out from a firm father for a child’s own good.

In a way, that concept puts a psychological devil in place of the metaphysical one. [...]