“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But the next episode so upset our ideas of what was possible, so outraged our conventional theories, that we very nearly quit the whole thing. [...]

He should point out frankly the fact that he has been more valuable to his firm than others who have slavishly followed conventional policy. [...]

[...] I had no sense of one dream being inside the other one, as in what I call the conventional double dream.”)

[...] In the convent home, as you know, letters were censored, and only positive statements got through the censor. [...]

[...] Because of Augustus’s particular temperament and nature, however, and his native though conventionally undeveloped creativity, he formed a structure rather than destroying one.

[...] They will try out the ideas, many of them, to the best of their ability, and learn and gain much — all the time (much more forcefully.) hanging on safely to the banners of conventional beliefs. [...]

Now by all conventional standards I should say to you: but for such a young man indeed, you have time to learn. [...]

[...] You [Jane and Rob, or Ruburt and Joseph] were both born with certain abilities, and you knew ahead of time that you would have to enlarge the framework of conventional concepts if you were to have room to use those abilities. [...]

[...] I accepted the vaccines because I yielded (if somewhat reluctantly) to conventional parental and medical pressures, as well as my own beliefs of the time: I was “supposed” to take the inoculations; they would be “good” for me. [...]

[...] The young and the old, the conventional and the unconventional, had small skirmishes, where some of the city fathers objected to the long-haired youths in a city park — quite trivial incidents, and yet indicative of splits of values and misunderstandings between the generations.

[...] You purposefully go against the conventions and beliefs of your times. [...]

[...] You cannot allow yourself freedom within conventional religion at this time because of your own ideas. [...]

[...] I think she’s quite right about the naval officer being a symbol for the more conventional, or rigid, rational self. [...]

[...] For several reasons, not all of them are religious, many of them simply cultural, you do not relate on a deep level to some of the people with whom you deal, the ordinary, square parishioner with quite conventional religious ideas. [...]

[...] The harder you work to maintain the official accepted idea of the self in conventional terms, the more of course you block out any kind of unpredictability.

[...] Instead, the trick is to view the contents of the world in different fashions, to free your physical senses from the restraints that your mental conventions have placed upon them.

[...] But in certain terms she was the masculine center of the family, emotions or not, the aggressive one; and speaking conventionally now, your father (Robert Sr.) accepted the more passive creative role. [...]

I believe Percy will have some part to play, either at the convention or perhaps in the lineup of a new government. [...]

(Using conventional reincarnational terms, I half jokingly asked Jane if she’d ever been a dream-art scientist, say, or a mental physicist. [...]

We are going about this explanation in our own way; Ruburt and I have a pact, now, of which he is not consciously aware, and if I observe certain niceties or conventions, which I am perfectly willing to accept, then he lets me through. [...]

[...] The plots may be stereotyped or the acting horrendous, but in the most conventional terms the “good” man wins.