“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

And I know that truth speaks to more than intellect, and there is a higher truth than intellectual truth, though intellectual truth is important and it can lead you in the right direction. But when I speak to you I speak to a part of you that the intellect does not know, and intellect can learn from that part of you to which I speak. In many cases intellectual truth follows intuitive truth. You know intuitively. Sometimes you must wait years for your intellect to catch up with what you know. And sometimes you must wait centuries.

I have lived many lives and have had high intellects and I have had low intellects. I have been intellectually stupid and I have been intellectually brilliant. And I have been intuitively brilliant and I have been emotionally dumb.

Now, there is no reason why truth should not be joyful, there is no reason why truth cannot play tricks, even with noses. And note to our friend, Ruburt—there is no reason why truth must necessarily be given in high intellectual tones. Now, I have given material in our own session that is highly legitimate and valid, and it will be used and used well by people who can understand it intellectually. And I have given material that is highly intuitional that will be understood and used by people who know how to use their intuitions. Truth does not follow a single line.

Intellectually you will understand the material, if you read it. I did not mean, earlier, to give the impression that I was poking fun at our friend’s intellect, only that you can at times prevent him from reaching out to others as he should. I need and needed an intellect through which I could work so that our basic principles could be understood by those who were intellectually inclined. And so that the scientist and mathematicians, the religious men, the philosophers, could find no fault with our reasoning. Through Ruburt’s books we can reach and help many individuals. But they will not be reached as I’m reaching those of you in this room.... Recording or no. Our friend Ruburt himself has not understood the meaning of our classes sufficiently. Nor the energy that exists here and that will reach beyond the confines of this room. Our friend over here (Theodore) has Ruburt’s back. It is not a barrier to him.

[...] Those who do not understand their abilities intellectually must one day be led to question them. The intuitions and the intellect are meant to challenge and develop each other, and intuitional knowledge and intellectual knowledge will ultimately lead to the same answers.

Before, he used his intuitional abilities but always intellectually mistrusted them to some degree. Now he will trust them consciously and intellectually, and this development had to occur for his fulfillment now. [...]

[...] The intuitive portions of the personality had to have the full cooperation of the intellectual and conscious self at this point in your development and I am speaking of you both here.

[...] The conscious intellectual faculties had to realize what was operating in order that they themselves be fulfilled. [...]

Some of my material is difficult to accept intuitively and intellectually at one time. You may intuitively grasp a point and intellectually not understand it, or the other way around. But Ruburt insists that he intellectually and intuitively understand each point, and agree with it, or it puts him in the position of publicizing ideas when he is not a hundred percent certain of their validity, and he considers this to some degree dishonest. [...]

Because they were formed at a time before the intellectual and intuitive abilities developed, and were not a problem until the intellectual and intuitive abilities seemed to come upon a system of thought that was in opposition to the underlying emotional beliefs. [...]

Intellectually he changed his views. [...]

[...] The feelings must be brought out into the open so that they can be handled in the light of his current intuitional and intellectual ideas. [...]

[...] The intellectual capacities he always considered masculine. He relied upon the intellectual abilities therefore as the stronger, because in his own background he believed the male to have the greater strength.

[...] In his environment this however was an intellectual thing to do. The feminine image meant instability, intuitions that could lead into unrespectable by-ways, and emotions that were not intellectually restrained.

In appearing on television he wore initially the pants suit to stress the masculine aspects, or tailored clothes, each stressing to him the more masculine, intellectual, respectable qualities of his nature. He is saying, you see, “I am quite normal, quite intellectual, and in my way quite responsible and proper. [...]

[...] Often when he most believes he is being analytically intellectual, he is instead using the intellect in a surface manner to cover rationalizations.

[...] Ruburt becomes intellectually scandalized when I speak simply. I have no need to worry about my intellectual superiority. [...] He is however still at the stage where he takes pleasure in intellectual superiority, and somewhat looks down upon those who are not so intellectually gifted. [...]

[...] Intuitive truths, as Ruburt should know, can also be revealed in other than highly intellectual ways. Some will intuitively understand the material far better than others who may grasp it intellectually but without emotional comprehension.

[...] There is no reason why the less intellectual should not have access to it, or that it should discriminate against them for their lack of gray matter. [...]

[...] The basic principles of it will rest in our own sessions where those who are curious enough and gifted enough intellectually may find the arguments and reasons upon which it is built.

[...] You both considered yourselves fine intellectuals, and at that time advocates of science and of the mind. You, Joseph, were particularly distrustful of the emotions, particularly of course of any raw emotion, and you preferred, if possible, to discuss emotions intellectually while feeling them as indirectly as possible. [...]

[...] Ruburt is being led to discover that the answers to his intellectual questions about his abilities, my existence, life after death, the solution to his physical problems, can only be discovered through the appreciation and use of his intuitive and psychic abilities. He is now making that intellectual discovery.

[...] When our sessions began I spoke to you in an intellectual rather than emotional manner. [...]

(10:05.) It is very possible that you would have found the emotional aura at least vaguely unpleasant on some occasions—so Ruburt always tried, because of his own feelings as well as yours, to be intuitional and intellectual at the same time. [...]

[...] Any strong intellectual explorations of counter-versions of reality have appeared in science fiction, for example. Here scientists, many being science-fiction buffs, can safely channel their own intellectual questioning into a safe form. [...]

It is fairly easy to recognize the ways in which organized religion discouraged vigorous intellectual speculation. [...]

[...] In a fashion, at least in your time, science has as much to fear from the free intellect as religion does, and (with irony) any strong combination of intellectual and intuitional abilities is not tailor-made to bring you great friends from either category.

[...] With some sense of freedom and play, both of you can combine high qualities of intuitional and intellectual abilities so that they sometimes merge into a higher mind.

[...] You set up barriers and gates and limitations, and the material demands your high intellectual focus. [...] You will have to give your high intellectual purpose and learn to use your minds as you never used them before. [...]

[...] Circumstances vary, but if you are lucky—and I hope you will be lucky—then your intellectual faculties will continue to operate. [...]

[...] I find it enjoyable and somewhat amusing, but I always respect the workings of honest skepticism and intellectual critical analysis. [...]

In my own book, for an intellectual exercise—and simply for that, since I do believe that all of you do exist—I am going to deal in one chapter with the difficulties of proving—from my vantage point—that three-dimensional reality does exist and is inhabited by creatures—thinking creatures. [...]

“The fourth Inner Sense involves direct cognition of a concept in much more than intellectual terms. [...]

[...] When an idea comes to you, do not play with it intellectually, but reach out to it intuitively. [...]

The fact remains that when you assess your fellows, you put a far greater stress upon intellectual achievement than emotional achievement. [...] The species is at least embarked upon its journey toward emotional achievement, as it is upon the development of its intellectual capacities, and ultimately the two must go hand in hand.

There are grass-roots organizations—cults, groups of every persuasion—growing up in your country as small groups of people together, once again, search for intellectual reasons to back up their innate emotional knowledge that life has meaning. [...]

There are people who are highly intellectually proficient, whose reasoning abilities are undisputed, and yet their considerable lack of, say, emotional or spiritual development remains largely invisible as far as your assessments are concerned. [...]

I also want to emphasize that your present beliefs limit the full and free operation of your intellects, as far as your established fields of knowledge are concerned, for science has placed so many taboos, limiting the areas of free intellectual inquiry. [...]

[...] What you were told was not given you in precise English, in intellectual terms, in paragraphs or in sentences. [...] And (with humorous emphasis) I am not giving you any more intellectual clues!

[...] For those of you who need it said, I say it: A woman is as intellectual as a man. [...]

Now that is one level, and on another level you think, “I am of the earth and strong and vital, and those who rely upon such thin, high, intellectual matter do not know what they are talking about. [...] You are quite able to follow any discussion in this room and it is about time that you realized it and used those intellectual abilities that are your own, and it is about time that you stopped telling yourself that you do not understand that which you well understand. [...]

[...] Begin if you want then, with what seems to be intellectual meditation, intellectual thought, and then let it carry you away, and it will carry you into a feeling of concept in which you understand a new concept. [...]

(After break, to Bette.) Now for a cousin of Richelieu in the 18th-century France you put up some struggle pretending that you do not understand what you like to think of as intellectual discussions, and you make a great fight against what you like to think of as verbalization, and you pretend to yourself that you do not understand what I am saying when I am saying it. [...]

It is also highly charged to hide from yourself the fact that, as a cousin of Richelieu, you dwelt in a highly artificial intellectualized environment in which words were spoken about constantly without any understanding, and in which you personally held forth using words to cower both your friends and later the masses. [...]

[...] It demands that you intellectually and intuitively expand—it demands that you use your abilities. [...]

[...] You felt, however, that those episodes which you experienced were intellectually stifling and did not allow you room to grow—they did not encourage curiosity or honest questioning. [...]

[...] So now I encourage you to look within yourself and to use your abilities, both intuitional abilities and intellectual abilities. [...]

Now you believe that you are using your intellectual abilities, but you have only begun to use them. [...]

[...] The idea of a game will indeed work more to our advantage, for this is not an intellectual exercise. [...]

[...] Again, do not concentrate on an intellectual level, if possible. [...]

Nevertheless what we need in our work with you is an emotional rather than intellectual attempt, and from your letter I believe that we see eye to eye here.

[...] And if you yourself have a more flexible, easier, less intellectual attitude toward our tests, this will make our task easier.

[...] Now, you are not being intellectually honest by refusing to look into yourself. [...] You are saying, intellectually I will not operate in this particular area. You think you are saying, I am too intellectual to operate in this particular area—my intellect impedes my progress. [...] Pretend then that the inner self is another land—and that you are a tourist—and highly curious—that you are intellectually and intuitively curious—pretend that all this courage you use in your daily endeavors is an aid to help you find your way in this new and strange and wondrous environment. [...]

[...] You are hiding from yourselves—you are not thinking deeply—you are not looking into yourselves, and you are making little effort to use your intuitional abilities or your intellectual abilities. [...]

[...] Intellectually first.”

([Joel:] “Well, it may be completely resolved on all levels but you recognize the intellectual first anyway.”

[...] Someone has been helping you to get over some feelings in the (night) lifetime and they are much more worked through than you might realize at the intellectual level. [...]

[...] You cannot understand nor intellectually grasp pure truth. [...]

You exist in more dimensions than you know, and your own reality (voice quite a bit louder and stronger) transcends your understanding, and transcends the limitations of your own intellectual knowledge… (pace faster, still fairly loud) these truths must be understood intuitively…. [...]

[...] You cannot understand nor intellectually grasp pure truth. [...]

You exist in more dimensions than you know, and your own reality (voice quite a bit louder and stronger) transcends your understanding and transcends the limitations of your own intellectual knowledge ... [...]

A person with several existences stressing intellectual achievement might purposely then decide upon a life in which mental abilities are beyond him, and the emotions allowed a full play that he had denied them “earlier.”

[...] One of the latter may be miserably poor in one life, luxuriously rich in another, an intellectual giant in still another, a great athlete, and then a complete invalid. [...]

[...] Some artists with great ability may shut out intellectual maturity, utilizing native emotional qualities to such an extent and with such intensity that the mental reasoning faculties are largely shunted aside. [...]

Someone else may choose to focus upon intellectual achievement to such a degree that he shuts out all true closeness, and though he can accept a permanent relationship, he will not experience the emotional richness that others may derive from a much briefer encounter. [...]

What Ruburt believes to be his intellectual skepticism is the voice of the overly conscientious self in quite limited Catholic terms.

The overly conscientious self is also deeply emotional, though in Ruburt it often hides under the guise of intellectualism. [...]

This deprived Ruburt of the deeply-rooted sense of inner natural unity when he began to rationalize this or examine it intellectually; he already questioned it, and the questioning was on the part of the overly conscientious self. [...]