“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

To that extent then the physical universe, like each physical body, is “magical.” I use the term purposefully, for it confounds the dictates of your adult reasoning, and perhaps by so confounding what you think of as reason, I may manage to arouse within you a hint of what I refer to as the higher intellect.

Reasoning by itself can only deal with deductions made about the known world. It cannot accept knowledge that comes from “elsewhere,” for such information will not fit in reason’s categories, and confounds its cause-and-effect patterning. The power to reason comes from Framework 2. In the terms of this discussion, you are able to reason as a result of “magical” events that make reason itself possible. The term “magic” has in one way or another been used to simply describe events for which reason has no answer — events that exist outside of the framework in which reason feels comfortable.

[...] Ruburt in most other areas has discarded that concept, however, and in so doing has enlarged the experiences of his consciousness, and confounded those who accept such principles unthinkingly, as the Air Force personnel.

[...] Inner vision can confound you, because in your mind you often see images quite clearly that you would dismiss if your eyes were open. [...]

[...] I do not mean by the term “rarefied atmosphere” that you live in a world superior to other people’s—only that our work is, in those terms, uncommon, highly original, and in many ways mysterious—for it confounds many of the conventionalized concepts of the daily world in which you live.

[...] Understanding that, you see, can really give you greater leeway, for while you might still recognize such beliefs in yourself at times, you will also be able to recognize their source—and by doing so automatically confound them. [...]

Any deep exploration of the self will lead you into areas that will confound conventional beliefs about sexuality. [...]

[...] This may confound what common sense may tell you. [...]

[...] He was naturally meant to go in areas that would confound his earlier upbringing.

[...] As I told Jane at our first break, the knowledge that time is actually simultaneous is sometimes confounding when one asks certain types of questions; this knowledge half answers the question, yet we want the rest of the question considered.)

Now I hope that you will understand me intuitively, for what I have said confounds the intellect to some considerable degree. [...]

Now I will give you some information with which you can confound Ruburt at our break. [...]

[...] It is only in those compartments of your life that confound you that you suddenly begin to wonder what is happening — but here also, natural hypnosis is at work just as easily and naturally, and your conscious ideas are automatically coming to physical fruition. [...]

[...] It will even confound our friend who yawns over here. [...]

[...] It confounds and outrages the conventional to see objects behave in a way they have been taught to believe is impossible.

Now: Many of these invisible particles (CU’s) can be in more than one place at a time — a fact that quite confounds the physically tuned brain perceiving a world in which objects stay where they are supposed to be.

[...] But this new life confounds it also, and it yearns to return home to its old quietude. [...]

[...] My muscles weren’t magically healing themselves, nor was I undergoing any kind of overall healing that might confound my own beliefs, or those of medical science. [...]

[...] Now the outer sense of sight would seem to confound space, and seemingly conquer a portion of distance by using your eyes. [...]

[...] Grinning, she proceeded to confound me further by describing the double dreams of another class member — since, obviously, the individual in question had also had certain dream adventures that Jane and I didn’t know about. [...]

The first volume, like this one, defies easy description, then, since it leaps over many definitions we usually take for granted; and with its lack of chapter divisions it even confounds our ideas of what a book is. [...]