“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] 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.

Energy was feared, expression suspicious unless it was directed and tempered in conventional fashions. [...]

Now when I speak to you as I have this evening, my purpose, my one and main purpose, is to let you sense the endless vitality that is mine, though you, in conventional terms, would designate me by some ridiculous word—survival personality, as Ruburt says, or “spirit” or “dead.” [...]

[...] In fifth-grade history class, in the convent she’d been sent to because her mother was hospitalized for treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis, Jane learned about Marie Antoinette, queen of France, who had been guillotined in Paris in 1793. [...]

[...] The same applies to your guests, and particularly to the two young boys from the Sunday school, hopefully showing Ruburt that all conventional churchgoers were not closed-minded, but were also seeking out new knowledge.

(Seth spoke to Gert after she had discussed life in the convent and her feeling of having had to go there.)

[...] (The kittens had the same mother, but had come from successive litters.) I was 44 and Jane was 34, and in conventional terms both of us were still struggling—not only to learn about ourselves and the world, but to find our creative ways in that world. [...]

You become aware of their existence, but in the meantime often your generations change, while theirs has not, and so they appear eternal in conventional terms. [...]

(“And conventional families?” I asked Seth. [...]

[...] They are impatient, however.¹⁰ They will be found in the arts and in the less conventional sciences.

[...] Because of the conventional ranch-style floor plan of the hill house, our bedroom is isolated from the front and back doors; we reach it at the end of a hall opening off the living room. [...]

Dictation: Now: You may be quite able to see through the distortions of conventional Christianity. [...]

[...] The people within that framework will stray only so far from conventional beliefs. [...]

[...] This was just another version of the American male’s conventional role.

[...] You did not meet Ruburt either until you were in your thirties, so the challenges set were not those that would be solved by a conventionally young man.

The conventionally religious will be certain that the earthquake is a punishment for sin. [...]

[...] Also, as we grew up independently of each other, Jane and I gradually dispensed with conventional scientific ideas that life had occurred by chance; the emotional natures of our creative endeavors led us to question the theory. [...]

Ruburt’s love for Joseph, his own purposes, and his growing questions, along with his interest in painting in general, triggered exactly the kind of stimulus that broke through conventional beliefs about time and knowledge. [...]

[...] He may at times be jealous of her attention, but this is not a sexual jealousy in conventionally understood terms. [...]

[...] Consciously (underlined), at the start of your marriage you would both have been delighted to work together doing comic strips, fulfilling male and female roles quite conventionally, with just an added flair. [...]

[...] Ruburt uses abilities that do not fit that known world’s categories—abilities that by their nature straddle many dimensions of activity, none of them normally conventional, normally established, none of them easily defined. [...]