“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This particular daughter-in-law of your parents pretends, or superimposes a caricature of conventionally accepted female characteristics to hide the basic male qualities. [...]

[...] Am I a success or a failure?” But when you do so, you often ask the question through the cast of old conventional beliefs. [...]

[...] There were three offshoots: one, the nun, with mysticism conventionally expressed, but under guarded circumstances; one, the writer who veiled mystical experience through art; and one, the Ruburt you know, who experienced mystical experience directly, teaches others to do the same, and forms through writing a wedding of the two aspects. [...]

You will take one foot into that position for a brief time only (on the triangle), and then, convention satisfied, leap into the next spot. [...]

[...] Evidently it’s a very long time ago; even in conventional paleontological terms, recent discoveries in East Africa place a toolmaking man in action 3 million years ago, with a lineage possibly going back 14 million years. [...]

[...] I am no exception, even though I am here in a less conventional form. [...]

[...] She’s produced many more paintings than I have in my own more conventional, more plodding way [although now I’m working faster than I used to]. [...]

To those of us who are rooted in more conventional approaches to our probability, Jane’s course may at times seem incomprehensible—but as far as she’s concerned that only shows our lack of comprehension of her viewpoint. [...]

[...] Many of his fears originated long before the sessions, of course, and before he realized that there was any alternative at all between, say, conventional religious beliefs and complete disbelief in any nature of divinity.

[...] To search for answers within the narrow frames of reference offered by the conventional view of reality could be like trying to peer into the depths of personality through an opaque window….

[...] If energy flows in conventional accepted patterns it is not feared.

[...] No great challenges are presented, and no real condemnations; and when these do occur they are of a conventional nature, perhaps already stylish accusations. [...]

In conventional linear, evolutionary terms:

[...] Christianity has conventionally treated illness as the punishment of God, or as a trial sent by God, to be borne stoically. [...]

[...] He felt therefore that he caused your illness, that in a way you were punishing him for the frivolousness that made him suggest you leave a conventional background and your parents, and go with his father in Florida.

(Gert asked about Sister Josephine from her convent.)

[...] I’m unwilling to ascribe the “conventional” notions of precognition or retrocognition to such a tenuous relationship between the two sessions. [...]

At 11:35 tonight Seth briefly referred to my second recent psychic experience, and to Jane’s. Both involved more “conventional” ideas, and both involved perception of my deceased mother in her own nonphysical state. [...]

[...] Just as I do, Peter rebels in his own peaceful ways against conventional authority, preferring to go his individual route in the arts, no matter how dubious his rewards may be.

[...] Whether scientific or not, myths may contain the deepest truths of all for our species, at least in conventional terms: Jane and I are intrigued to think that the sources for those verities could spring partly from other realities.

[...] New concepts were thought of as intuitional or psychic, as opposed to the conventional duties of the intellect, so the two seemed separate. [...]

[...] Actually what we object to is the conventional idea of a spirit, which is an extension of quite limited ideas of human personality, only projected more or less intact into an afterlife. [...]

[...] To her, the design of the three A’s can represent the conventional lines of radiation around a circle, or sun, shape. [...]