“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Since his psychic abilities did not show themselves in a conventional fashion in his early years, he did not learn to trust them as he might have otherwise, yet this was part of the entire picture. [...]

[...] It is convention, in that the medium’s insights are automatically translated into stylized versions that will be understood by those for whom he reads. [...]

[...] There is nothing unconventional about gods and demons, good spirits or bad spirits. These are quite conventional interpretations of experience, with religious overtones. Cults simply represent counter-conventions, and they are as dogmatic in their way as the systems they reject. [...]

Give us a moment … When you try these exercises, therefore, make an honest attempt to leave your conventional ideas behind you. [...]

Now: Dictation: When you think in conventional terms about astrology, it is as if you are looking at the cover of a book, not realizing that there are many pages within it.

Some persons will be much more affected by, and sensitive to, other probabilities — which, for instance, do not show at all in conventional astrological “charts.”

Give us a moment … Using conventional astrology, you will find certain correlations, because of particular events occurring, that are indeed interrelated. [...]

[...] Later I thought that I should have asked Seth what kind of interpretation of the dream a conventional psychologist would have given. [...]

[...] You put yourselves in the middle, simply speaking, of the conventional world that earlier it seemed you had sworn to combat or ignore. This was quite necessary, for you were in danger of thinking of conventional people as symbols only—not as individuals with their own problems and concerns.

You cannot make conventional judgments in such matters. [...]

[...] In conventional art you end up with a product on many such occasions—a book or painting or whatever—as you attempt to define in physical terms the reality of an inner existence with which you have always been familiar, and to leave in physical reality some evidence, however slight, of inner visions that flicker within all consciousness. [...]

[...] They are meant to be creatively stacked, not just to be combined for example in conventional terms, but the abilities naturally are psychically merged. [...]

[...] They cannot be anchored to conventional ideas of time. [...]

[...] That has to do with his misunderstanding for he has not seen, really, that he is producing work for two personalities that cannot be squeezed into conventional publishing rhythms.

There is also a rather conventional stereotype version of karma that may follow such beliefs. [...]

The official line of consciousness is a certain mental stance, a kind of convention. [...]

[...] To some extent you felt you had to prove your worth as a conventional male, in—if you will forgive me—the narrowest of parochial terms, though you were possessed of abilities that were considered conventionally male only if they could be suitably laundered: art turned into commercial work, and other creative abilities, such as your writing, that at one time could have turned into several fields—the writing of Westerns, even. [...]

[...] For to her, and to me, our world’s present definitions of personality are as limited as the conventional meaning implied by the term ESP. [...]

I don’t think our conventional social systems, including our scientific ones, are going to resolve our questions within Jane’s and my personal lifetimes. [...]

[...] I do not want this ever to be interpreted to mean, a priori, and in conventional terms, that “suffering is good for the soul.” [...]

[...] It confounds and outrages the conventional to see objects behave in a way they have been taught to believe is impossible.

[...] Ruburt acted out his ideas of a conventional medium for Tam, who in a dream state perceived Ruburt’s dramatization.

[...] (Quite successfully.) Once he saw himself simply (underlined) as a psychic, he became prey to all of the conventional psychic ideas, afraid of the sexual-demon characteristics connected with out-of-bodies, for example.

[...] He also began to see two poles in society—one highly conventional, 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, fraudulent.

[...] You see a range of human being and personality that defies conventional ideas of sexuality or of consciousness — that defies all of the ideas that have been handed down to you, and that challenges you each to look for the reality of your own being.

Rob and I were hardly religious in conventional terms. [...]

The alternative, that of hellfire, was equally unbelievable. Yet the conventional God of our fathers apparently sat without a qualm with the blessed in heaven, while the devil tortured the rest of the unlucky dead. [...]

The very point of my material is precisely that it goes beyond ideas conventionally held in most, quote, “mediumistic circles.” [...]

He has the idea at times that he should accept me in conventional terms, from the books that he has read. [...]

[...] The writer of the other letter, while praising our work, is caught up in questions of conventional religion: “I keep wondering over and over again whether Seth is a demon or a deception. [...]

[...] The conventional Christian concept of God has been in many ways a convenient one, and it carries with it many truths. [...]