“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Many who unexpectedly commit great crimes, sudden murders, even bringing about mass death, have a history of docility and conventional attitudes, and were considered models, in fact, of deportment. [...] As a result such individuals find it difficult, finally, to express the most normal denial, or to go against their given code of conventionality and respect. [...]

[...] One such instance is mentioned on page 248 of The Seth Material, when, in response to a declaration by a student in my ESP class, Seth took the conventional idea of hate for granted on the part of the student. [...]

(“In this book, Seth leads the reader beyond conventional ideas of good and evil to a new framework of understanding. [...]

[...] This does not mean that those negative qualities should not be combatted, for in the terms of conventional understanding it certainly appears that men and women are victims in many such cases. [...]

[...] Dreaming then provides the species with learning experience not otherwise available, in which behavior and events can be judged against more developed and higher understanding than that present in conventional daily reality at any level.

Children quickly learn from their parents that experience must be structured in a certain conventional pattern. [...]

[...] The car stands for my travels through the psyche, and the family represented conventional America and its everyday beliefs, which I rejected. [...]

[...] It signals your determination not to be curtailed by those conventional beliefs that pervade in your society.

You would not be tempted toward conventionality, for your woman was not conventional. [...]

[...] Your conventional ideas of time make it simpler, however, to speak of one life as happening before or after another.

[...] Usually these people are not suicides in conventional terms — although they may be.

[...] On the exterior you broke conventions, but you were still tainted by conventional ideas. [...]

(10:29.) The symptoms also served later to provide you both with a sense of separation from the world, a reason for not doing what you thought you should do in conventional terms: go out and spread the word, become television people, or lead groups, or give seminars—all things that largely went against the private portions of your nature, though otherwise you were both equipped to do so.

[...] (Pause.) Conventional wisdom tries to standardize such behavior, however, in an attempt to form a cohesive general view of reality. [...]

(When I read her my note at break, dealing with her own reaction to a conventional religious background, she most definitely agreed with it. [...]

[...] The large majority of people are confused, besieged, and struggling without any clear idea of why they are in such a state, and with barely a hundredth fraction of your insight or understanding, unable to form their own framework, yet aware that the conventional one is sadly lacking. [...]

[...] You are tinged by conventional ideas and judgments—natural enough, but they often contradict your intuitive feelings, and make you act counter to them.

[...] Conventional attitudes began to speak: you should be kind to guests. [...]

The career would have fallen into conventional pattern for money’s sake. [...]

[...] When I saw through the conventions and dogmas of the church, I threw the whole idea overboard. [...]

(Seth began talking about the dilemma posed between the conventional theory of evolution and his ideas about the simultaneous nature of time and existence, soon after these sessions started late in 1963. [...]

[...] There are psychological patterns, therefore, that completely escape your notice because they do not follow the conventions that you have established. [...]

[...] It is not simply that they communicate with you, or you with them, so much as it is that in sleep the conventional properties that you have learned are somewhat loosened and abandoned. [...]

[...] Such species, of course, can nowhere appear within the dictates of evolution or be perceived as realities except under those conditions when you relax your usual conventions of perception and behavior.

In a way, then, in certain terms, work as conventionally understood, and creativity, are indeed basically quite different. [...]

[...] As given in some old sessions, certain difficulties began when Ruburt tried to make his creativity fit the conventional work patterns. [...]

[...] I also bought her three kinds of underclothes to try … Before the session we spent an hour or so watching the Democratic National Convention in New York City. We saw the first session, in which the Carter forces, who wanted a “closed” convention, defeated the Kennedy forces, who wanted an “open” convention.

(I told Jane, joking, that the Democrats might achieve a show of unity in their convention, but that come election time in November they might end up saying something like: “Well, we lost but we were united” against Reagan. [...]

[...] Many of you have been saturated by conventional, distorted ideas concerning health and illness in general. [...]

[...] It was a ranch-style, cedar-sided dwelling that had just been painted a dark green — a conventional one-story affair with white shutters, a fireplace, a picture window, an attached double garage in back, and many trees and shrubs. [...]

In conventional terms they may appear to be great activists and revolutionaries, or they may seem to be impractical dreamers. [...]

[...] They do not bother with the conventions.

[...] You had furthermore decided, and separately, before you met, to avoid conventional long-term relationships in the world of business. Neither of you wanted conventional jobs, regardless now of any prestige or security they might bring. [...]

Later on we will indeed discuss various methods of healing, conventional and unconventional. [...]

[...] A way that, although still very emotional at times, allowed us the freedom to encompass this most unusual and continuing adventure in as easy and conventional a manner as possible. [...]

[...] After all, in the conventional sense what was one to do with personal material from whatever source but keep it personal? [...]

(Seth continued:) He also began to see two poles in society one highly conventional and closed, in which he would appear as a charlatan; and another, yearning but gullible, willing to believe anything if only it offered hope, in which his activities would be misinterpreted, and to him [would be] fraudulent … There was a middle ground that he would have to make for himself … to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end. [...]

[...] While he was tainted to some extent by conventional sexual beliefs, he still felt his own personhood in such a way that he gladly took advantage of characteristics considered feminine. [...]

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