“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] They have been trapped by the boundaries of what science has so far accepted into its family: an ethnocentrically perfect “set” of beliefs, with metaphysical mysteries denied, avoided, or written out.

The Magical Approach is a perfect example of a scientifically-unacceptable method of working with reality. [...]

(“I was so beautiful, then, “ she said, “so perfect physically that I relied on that. I disdained anyone who wasn’t physically perfect. [...]

[...] Do not at this point judge him against your idea of perfect performance.

[...] If you become ill you can hate yourself for not being what you think you should be — a perfect physical image made in the likeness of a perfect God.

— is instead the result of an exaggeration or overextension of perfectly normal body processes. [...] We will have more to say about such issues later on in the book — for I hope to show you how certain feelings and beliefs do indeed promote health, while others promote an unfortunate extension or exaggeration of perfectly normal bodily processes, or viral activity.

[...] Not perfectly, but she did do it …)

[...] It is perfectly formed to fit into its environment—and the environment is perfectly formed to have such creatures.

[...] As the body consciousness developed itself, perfected its organization, the inner self and the body consciousness together performed a kind of psychological double-entendre.

[...] She told herself to forget it, that the decubiti could heal themselves perfectly well. [...]

[...] He should tell himself, again, that it is perfectly safe to move, that the body’s safety, in fact, is dependent upon its fluid motion, so that the muscles are free to relax and contract. [...]

[...] I knew that Jane was in the house somewhere, that she was walking perfectly all right, and that Jim had come to see her, not me. [...]

[...] Dana took Jane’s temperature — 98.6 — perfect. [...]

[...] That Seth was right: The body was perfectly willing to move, and knew how to do so, if it was allowed to do so. [...]

[...] She also raised her arms above her head in a perfectly normal way as she wet her hair while standing up, she said. [...]

[...] If you were running a race you would focus upon your own sensations of speed and agility, trying to bring about a perfection of motion. [...]

[...] As you become accustomed to the idea of “reckless” expression of the ideal, then it is free to find “more perfect” expression. [...]

[...] Do not consider your own symptoms as weakness, or as something to be ashamed of in the face of the ideal of perfect health.

In view of what you say about the material we sent you, we see why a paragraph-by-paragraph rundown isn’t necessary; this is perfectly all right, and we thank you for your effort in going over the material, and the time you spent answering. [...]

[...] There are distortions, and you should expect them, and there is no perfect state of consciousness. Perfection implies, automatically, something done and finished, beyond which, there can be no growth nor development. [...]

Do not insist it as perfect and, therefore, hamper its growth. [...]

[...] As to her own mother, Marie, I said it was perfectly okay to admit that she didn’t succeed there, or chose to withdraw or admit failure. [...] The mother’s hatred, Jane said, led to her need for protection — perfectly normal, I said. [...]

[...] I thought that was perfectly natural, but extending those feelings for the next 30 years would seem to be too much in nature’s scheme—as I’ve said before, it doesn’t seem to me that nature necessarily wants things to work that way, while making perfectly possible the fact that they can, if one chooses. [...]

(Long pause at 7:46, one of many.) If Ruburt once found himself imagining that he must be strong and perfect enough to help solve everyone else’s problems, now he found himself relatively helpless, and “undefended” —that is, his physical condition put him in a situation certainly where he felt helpless. The super-perfect, impractical self-image simply fell away: it could not survive such a situation. [...]

Those who look upon physical life as inferior to some other more perfect spiritual existence do a great injustice to physical existence in general. [...]

[...] Because of Ruburt’s energy and creativity, he has always perfectly mirrored and even somewhat exaggerated the condition of the inner self, its activities and inner postures.

[...] He does normally slow down in winter, which is perfectly all right, taken alone.

[...] I sent you considerable energy, and transposed a clear image of the perfect organ. [...]

[...] At the same time I want her to realize that her body is perfectly capable of taking care of itself, of healing itself, if she will but leave it alone so that it is free to do so.

[...] Neither house is perfect. You would find yourselves quite hampered in such an idealistically perfect environment. [...]

In the beginning it would not be perfect. [...]