“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Individuals who defy death time and time again are actually more frightened of it than most other people are. Trapeze performers, stunt men and women, race-car riders, and many other groups have a life-style that includes death-defying stunts on a very regular basis.

(Long pause at 4:16.) Only when they pursue some death-defying career do such individuals feel safe enough to relax otherwise and live a fairly normal life outside of their death-defying careers.

[...] In a large manner, the emotions defy time.

[...] 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.

Because you tie your experience so directly to time, you rarely allow yourselves any experiences, except in dreams, that seem to defy it. [...]

[...] Each of his experiences, however, demonstrates the ways in which the psyche’s direct experiences defy your prosaic concepts of time, reality, and the orderly sequence of events. [...]

At one level your cells obey the rules of time, but on other levels they defy it. [...]

I’ve always transferred my life to letters,
and one day it will reside
exclusively in written nouns and vowels,
clean paragraphs
distilled from mysterious life’s days.
Even before death’s event
I plan my mind’s resting place
as if there is a second life
in thought’s products that defies
the brain’s shorter span, and rises
sans blood, flesh, hand or eye,
self-contained, truly alive at last;
like some mental balloon
set on a safe course finally
through unexplored skies
when the hand that holds it
lets it go.

[...] The world’s parts come spontaneously together, with an order that basically defies the smaller laws of cause and effect, or before and afterward. [...]

[...] Though love’s expression brilliantly illuminates its instant, at the same time that momentary brilliance contains within it an intensity that defies time, and is somehow eternal.

[...] He enjoyed defying the physical evidence accepted by the scientist and others.

[...] I realize of course that you live in time, but I also know that the quality of creative work is not bound to time, but defies it. [...]

In no way should that tending take away from your creative work, but add to it in ways that defy conventional ideas of time. [...]

In those terms, using our analogy, the recognition of Framework 2 would bring you from that point to the production of great art, where words served to express not only the seen but the unseen — not simply facts but feelings and emotions — and where the words themselves escaped their consecutive patterns, sending the emotions into realms that quite defied both space and time.

[...] It defies categories, and it insists upon the evidence of feeling. [...]

[...] It defies categories, and it insists upon the evidence of feeling. [...]

[...] The girl, when she could, defied him. [...]

[...] He enjoyed the thought of mediums defying organized religions, and of women in such a position putting scientific establishment investigators to shame. [...]

[...] Now, from a waking state, you do not understand how your dream bodies can seem to fly through the air, defy space and even time, converse with strangers and so forth. [...]

[...] In many instances, however, the two of you have defied such limitations, or these sessions would not happen, and you would have embarked upon no such exploration.

[...] It is very difficult to admit that you are in many ways more effective and creative in the sleep state than the waking state, and somewhat shattering to admit that the dream body can indeed fly, defying both time and space. [...]

[...] The true variety and depth of the various realities and personalities she reaches are qualities that are uniquely hers, and they often defy the written word.)

If ever in a dream experience you defy gravity, then gravity is not a primary reality, but only a manifestation within your own physical system. [...]