“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Children were urged in one way or another to be aggressive, competitive, and generally to fit the conventional idea of the extrovert. [...]

Many men and women in the same fashion, who do not fit the conventional sexual frameworks, take stands in the same way. [...]

Conventionally, they enjoy having what they think of as highly creative people in the neighborhood. [...]

[...] Many of those 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. [...]

In the time those fears originated, he shared the belief framework of Christianity, so that he believed that outside of that framework there could indeed be nothing but chaos, or the conventional atheism of science, in which the universe was at the mercy of meaningless mechanistic laws—laws, however, that operated without logic, but more importantly laws that operated without feeling. [...]

A good number of nuns were of course carrying the seed of those priests, and bearing children who acted as servants in monasteries, sometimes, as well as in convents. There were numerous rebellions on the part of nuns in various convents, however, for these women found themselves operating rather efficiently though in segregated surroundings. [...]

[...] It was the most vital area of his life, so quite on his own he decided that he would forgo motherhood and a conventional family life.

[...] He tried to tie it to writing alone, which was the closest approximation he could make to creative conventional activity, while still allowing himself expression. [...]

Castaneda’s books, for all their seeming unconventionality, had a niche to fall into, for here was the quite conventional scholar exploring a culture, even of the mind; not his own—but safely, within an academic framework to which he then returned, and to which academic readers could identify. [...]

[...] If you were, or if Ruburt was, a conventional Philip Roth, a novelist, safely within that framework, or if he were willing to set himself up as an “occult” mistress of the spirit, then you would have publicity galore.

The man or woman who seems obsessively concerned with health, is also however obsessed with disease—and afraid of falling into it, as the conventional saint might be of the devil.

Left alone, he never wrote conventional fiction. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You 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. [...]

He had always enjoyed being somewhat disreputable—had seen himself and you prowling around the edges of society (as Jane had said earlier today)—not simply observers of it but to a large extent apart from its foibles, and certainly not mired in all of its conventional misunderstandings. [...]

(Long pause.) Beside this, he felt that such a performance would alter the direction his work would take in ways that would be detrimental overall, for the broadening quality of that kind of discourse could only be as extensive in scope as the quality of his audience’s understanding, so that the material might become too tailored to public need or consumption—tied up in answering conventional questions—an excellent point, by the way. [...]

[...] Certain psychological conventions act as props. [...]

[...] Dreaming prevents life from becoming closed-ended by opening sources of information not practically available in the waking state, and by providing feedback from other than the conventional world. [...]

[...] They are usually masked by the polite clothing of conventional acceptance. [...]

[...] They extended their horizons, pushed beyond the conventional mental landscapes — driven by zest and vitality, by curiosity and love, and not by fear (all of the above with much emphasis).

[...] If he went spontaneously forward in mystical experience, then, given his ideas, it threatened the conventional acceptance of his art. Conventional ideas of art and writing, upon which the old framework, now, was dependent, no longer fit.

[...] He threw himself headlong into the Catholic reality, pursued it with great stubborn diligence, used it as a framework of conventionality in which he could allow his mystic nature to grow.

It was on the surface a very conventional structure, yet underneath, highly unwieldy. [...]

She had forced herself to contain her own reality in conventional terms — but to her way of thinking, he refused to use his energy in the accepted social and financial structure that each of them had accepted.

[...] The effect of looking outward into space, and therefore backward into time, is a kind of built-in convention that appears within your own space-time picture. You must remember, then, when you think in terms of origins, that the very word, “origin,” is dependent upon time conventions, and a belief in beginnings and endings. [...]

Furthermore, in the back of your mind, and somewhat at least as a result of the Gallaghers’ well-meaning query, you also wondered if you were doing your duty should you not insist that Ruburt receive conventional but definite help? [...]

[...] So in feeling it you were both after all quite conventional.

[...] It was distributed to bookstores and areas specifically involved with the conventional occult field. [...]

[...] You are competing now, as you were not before, however, in that general market with all of the conventional cultural goodies. [...]

[...] Even the ego however realizes to some extent that clock time is a convention; but it does not like such conventions broken.

[...] This meant simply that the conventionally-accepted pattern was not acceptable to him.

[...] He felt deeply misunderstood despite any ideas of logic or reason in conventional terms. [...]

He knew quite well that you would be both casting yourselves adrift financially in conventional terms. [...]

[...] This may lead to the suspicion that I expect you to return to the grunts and groans connected in conventional thought with the cavemen; such is far from the case.

You have a sense of rhythm, and more conventional musical knowledge than Ruburt, yet rhythmic patterns are very strongly in his makeup, and appeared earlier, silently so to speak in his poetry. [...]

The abilities quickly grew out of any conventional surroundings. [...]

[...] These ideas merge with conventional beliefs about age, so that it seems you must take stock. [...]

The issue of money has been important because of the conventional male values, and even with Prentice it seems you are not being a man unless you stand up to them. [...]

[...] And in that area, you should also forget any idea of sex roles in conventional terms. [...]

[...] Old ideas of the survival of the fittest, conventional evolutionary processes, gods and goddesses, cannot hope to explain the “mystery of the universe”—but when we use our own abilities gladly and freely, we come so close to being what we are that sometimes we come close to being what the universe is. [...]

[...] His unusual vitality, abilities, and intelligence were apparent, but they were not conventional abilities. [...]

When the psychic development began, Ruburt was triumphant, for his abilities were flowering, and intuitively he sensed that direction, but the part of him that also dealt with the world was somewhat appalled, for again, such behavior was not conventional, and it was not particularly “the way to make friends and influence people.”