“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I will tell you that many of you, in Ruburt’s terms, and quite unwittingly copped out. You were giving intellectual answers. You were thinking in terms of themes and compositions and all of your answers did, indeed, sound fine, spiritual, highly edifying, but very few of you felt.

This sort of question, if you work at it, will give you great freedom. And so, in Ruburt’s terms, do not cop out and I will be interested to see what you come up with.

(To Joel) And you did cop out. You did not feel deeply enough. Beware of facility because you have strong ability, then it behooves you to use them fully and not to settle for less. You could have done far better and therefore, I did not give you an A and in truth you would not give yourself an A and neither would your friend.

[...] Children playing at cowboys and Indians, or cops and robbers, can on occasion become quite as frightened by the pursuit or the chase as they would be if they were actually caught up in such an adventure in ordinary life.

[...] Also that behind me, not too close, ran a police van, with several cops in it checking up on me. [...]

[...] The idea of napping evocatively brings it to mind in less severe form, so that a nap was not a creative refreshing time, but a cop-out. [...]

[...] For a moment, though, let us change the program to your favorite cops-and-robbers show. [...]

[...] “It’s one of those things where you’re so relaxed you shouldn’t interrupt it—but if I don’t have a session then I’m afraid it’ll be a cop-out. [...]

[...] The belief in the struggle for survival so super-pervades that anything but the most competitive, determined, super-valiant, compulsive desire to hold onto life appears to be cowardly, a cop-out, at best an unexplainable, erratic, unnatural response to life’s conditions. [...]

[...] “Cop out if you want to.” [...]

[...] If Ruburt were a traffic cop, other methods would have been taken so that he would not get run down, for example. [...]

[...] In the vocabulary of the present time you know, you can always cop out. [...]

[...] Each of you cop out in that regard, using time as an excuse. [...]

To say that people can escape to another probability is pragmatically a cop-out — this is apart from the reality of probabilities, for I am speaking from your emotional viewpoint.

(Long pause.) Your television dramas, the cops-and-robbers shows, the spy productions, are simplistic, yet they relieve tension in a way that your public health announcements cannot do. [...]