“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“But I don’t want the Seth books to end up criticizing everything,” Jane said.

“Well,” I asked, “how are the three of us going to discuss what’s going on in the world, and disagree with a lot of it, without appearing to criticize?”

[...] You cannot honestly criticize your society, stand apart from it, and expect it to pat you on the back—that is asking too much of people.

[...] Verbally oriented, Ruburt hears only an implied order, or criticism. [...]

[...] He is not abject, but he believes heartily in having nothing to do with an arena of activity in which he feels he might meet ridicule or criticism.

[...] His state of mind during the day then varies, so that with his files (of poetry) today he was in a highly relaxed, creative, productive, mental level, one that served to cushion his mind from the critical reproaches he can often give himself, and therefore bodily relaxation could continue. [...]

It often seemed safer, even, to keep a certain distance from the material, lest you accept it too uncritically, and Ruburt’s critical stance was usually simply an unneeded defense, so that he could keep footing in both worlds at once. [...]

Here Ruburt tries to force a situation, to set up on his part an incentive where he will be spotlighted, and therefore knows he will perform well, having chosen a “critical,” dramatic framework.

[...] In that regard they were meant to show that he was as reasonable, orderly, critical and responsible as your notes certainly showed you to be. [...]

[...] Ruburt was to some extent afraid to accept that concept fully—therefore he has been unable to utilize it fully in his mistaken belief that he must maintain a largely critical stance. [...]

[...] Much of this appears in your pendulum work of late, but you both then project those ideas upon the world, so that you think of your readers as overly credulous, or of critics who are overly critical. [...]

Now: Such critical evaluations are placed upon colors as well. [...]

[...] He is prone to criticism; that is, he is prone to being criticized. [...]

[...] That is, do not be critical, but firmly encourage him. [...]

[...] Yet she’d found this deep yearning snatched away with the advent of her psychic abilities—goodbye to all of those accepted reviews, the critical success, even the money, that would go along with the conventional acceptable public image of the successful writer of good quality poetry and/or fiction. [...]

[...] On the other hand, while he did critically examine our material, he insisted in those terms “that he must be responsible for it,” in that he and everyone else must take normal responsibility in a fashion for “subconscious” actions or revelatory information. [...]

[...] Our President’s main challengers for his office haven’t publicly criticized him, but neither have they defended him from foreign and domestic censure—and today our Secretary of State resigned in protest of the rescue mission. [...] All details of the failed attempt may not be released for months, or even years, but already critics are questioning whether the excessive secrecy surrounding the operation led to basic errors in planning and judgment, as well as poor anticipation of the mechanical factors involved.

[...] His criticism in the beginning served also as reassurance to the ego, in its first experiences, that it would not be shoved aside or damaged in any fashion.

To some extent tonight’s relatively brief session should remove senses of urgency on your parts, or of self-criticism, that make you question when or how can you “learn to make” the magical approach work in any specific way—that is, why can you not learn to make the approach work in, say, helping Ruburt’s condition in a faster, more effective fashion? [...]

The critical part of the illness is over. [...]

[...] For one thing, the critical abilities are functioning and in normal dreams they are not. [...]

[...] Had he been more critical at the time, he could have caused the hallucinations to disappear, continued with them or left the apartment.

[...] (If I’d just accepted the wall’s position as ‘one of those things,’ I would have lost my critical awareness.) I decided that it might be better to go back into my body and try over.

[...] You must look out for pitfalls, and use your critical faculties. Ruburt uses his critical faculties supremely well in scrutinizing my activities and nature, so I have no doubt that he can also apply them to the job at hand.

(The symptoms — and now the hospital — protected her from criticism, eliminated book tours, the whole bit. [...]

[...] He would also be driven to critically analyze the phenomena (hyphen)—and in books, because he is a writer—before he felt free enough to simply create (period).

The critical writing and the symptoms went hand in hand. [...]

[...] The very way his notes are written also shows his state of mind, his careful attitude and critical manner. [...]

[...] I’ve also known incidents since, when groups of highly suggestible people with little critical sense have gathered in dark rooms expecting all kinds of apparitions—and nothing happened at all.