“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The sale of your faces should show you that these do have meaning for other people also, though they are not conventional portraits.

[...] Jane thought that disarray could also refer to the fact that abstract paintings are mentioned in the letter; to some people abstracts would be in disarray, as compared to conventional paintings showing things in the usual sense—flowers, houses, trees, etc.

[...] Instead we discovered his office—and that of his father—to be in a conventional two-story building across the street from the building with a flattish roof.

(Both of us are very familiar with the medical building with the flat roof, since it is of distinctive design, whereas Dr. Lodico’s office across the street is housed in a conventional building we haven’t paid any particular attention to. [...]

[...] All he had to do was translate his experience into their terms, as before he felt he was expected to translate it into conventional religious, academic, or scientific terms.

[...] In the past, the long past, he discouraged your sexual gallantry in his concern for proving himself independent—and also, then, because he felt on the other hand that if he endorsed it you would feel that he was tacitly demanding conventional female protection. [...]

[...] It made me wonder just how many ills are treated in this way, with the “cure” being given to the patient through conventional treatment, where if the patient understood what mechanisms were operating within, the cure could be attained without medical intervention. [...]

During all of this time, we told no one in the hospital what we were specifically doing — staff accepted our conventional explanation that we were writers and “just working.” [...]

[...] There are many techniques apart from medically conventional ones, such as acupuncture, the laying on of hands, or the work of people who may be known as healers. [...]

When reincarnational studies are embarked upon, on occasion people remember some instance of past-life experience, but conventional ideas of time are so strong that so-called future memory is blacked out.

He wanted to protect himself against the “artistic temperament” as it is conventionally understood. [...]

[...] They will try out the ideas, many of them, to the best of their ability, and learn and gain much, all the time hanging on safely to the banners of conventional beliefs—and Ruburt has allowed himself no such comforts. [...]

[...] We agree—and that is where Jane and I diverge most sharply from the conventional establishment belief that events happen to people, instead of being created by them.

(A note: The Democratic National Convention is in its third day. [...] Then I realized I’d goofed: Last Saturday, our local paper had carried a short article to the effect that a psychic we’d heard of had predicted recently that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia would obtain the Democratic nomination for president, after a deadlock between Carter and Kennedy developed at the convention. [...] Since the Carter forces won the fight to keep the convention “closed” during its first, Monday session, this assures Carter the nomination on the first ballot. [...]

[...] I had many questions, ranging from the consciousnesses of the ants involved, and their right to life, as opposed to the “destructive” view taken of them by farmers, scientists, and so forth in the conventional sense. [...]

[...] I told Jane I also felt that Jean was somehow dissatisfied in life, perhaps confused, perhaps caught between her artistic leanings and her upbringing to lead the more conventional life — working at the hospital, and so forth. [...]

In 1965, at the age of 36, Jane had posed for the two conventional portraits shown here.

[...] The sect was a strange mixture of Mohammedanism, Christianity and Judaism, but it went under the banner of Mohammedanism, and considered Christians in conventional terms as enemies. [...]

[...] You had no belief in the conventional gods, yet you were supposed to be conquering lands in their name. [...]

[...] At the same time Jane was in pain — natural enough, I said — for according to conventional belief, muscles that hadn’t been used were supposed to hurt. [...]

[...] Let there be a convention of selves from all places and times. [...]

[...] You have set aside, however, the conventional idea of a family, as symbolized by your (car) dream of the other evening. [...]

[...] A person “cured” of bad symptoms then through conventional medicine might actually be interrupting a natural movement toward a larger overall health, by dismissing the particular annoying symptoms that serve as chosen reference points.

[...] It was very promising material, she told me, and could help change conventional ideas of therapy. [...]