“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In scholarly circles, and many that are not scholarly at all, the intellect is equated only with the critical faculties, so that the more diagnostic you are the more intellectual you are considered.

(9:01.) Ruburt’s intuitions, his nature, his creative abilities, and his intellect, have led him into a study of the nature of reality, as, again, he sought to find a larger framework of reference. [...]

[...] While your reasoning abilities at first may falter, that is only because you have trained your intellect to respond in a limited fashion.

[...] The intellect’s function seems largely that of a critic.

[...] The great human qualities of love, strength, compassion, intellect and imagination do not belong to one sex or the other.

[...] His need of you on the other hand also keeps him from plunging, as he did in his past life, too deeply and emotionally into other realities without the brakes that the intellect usually applies. [...]

[...] They go hand in hand with your intellect. [...]

[...] The basic idea behind Christmas is definitely important, whether or not the intellect is able to see its significance.

[...] I’m not unconscious but conscious in a different way, at another level … This state of perception has nothing to do with classical pathological dissociation; and its products — Seth’s five books — display a highly-developed intellect at work and give evidence of a special kind of creativity. [...]

[...] But by that same reasoning—to which, of course, I do not subscribe—you should also add that man can take no credit either for his intellect, since man must think, and cannot help doing so.

[...] Thusly, Ruburt felt that there were contradictions between spontaneity and discipline, the intuitions and the intellect. [...]

[...] It does no good to pretend otherwise, and I think there’s a good reason for this sometimes uneasy blend of intuition and intellect.

[...] That intuitive faculty will then illuminate the intellect so that it learns to question in a broader, more exciting and productive manner than perhaps it did before.

[...] I believe that I had gone as far as my intellect and normal creativity could take me and that new channels were opened when I needed them most. [...]

[...] If they place a great value upon intellect at the expense of the emotions, then the child may be acting out for them the emotional spontaneity of which they are so afraid themselves.

[...] You do well when you do not realize what you are doing, but I want you to become aware and to use your intellect when you are out of your body, and you cannot do it when you are scared stiff. [...]

“What’s the job of the intellect, then?” Rob asked.

In the future, Seth said, the ego and intellect will expand to contain, use and appreciate all the other portions of the self which they now mistrust. [...]

[...] If you identify with your own youth, or beauty, or intellect, or accomplishments, then there is the constant gnawing knowledge that these attributes can and will vanish.

[...] Your imaginations will be of high value here, for they can often perceive unities that are not evident to the intellect—which you have trained to deal specifically with the evidence of the here and now.

Now I hope that you will understand me intuitively, for what I have said confounds the intellect to some considerable degree. [...]