“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The so-called practical solution would find you out of the organization within two years. Is this practical? Your ideas of practicality are not mine. On the other hand there will be men who will have the same sympathies as your own, and with whom you will make contact within the company, if you avoid these so-called practical solutions.

Material matters may seem extremely practical to you. However there is nothing less practical than inner torment, and much inner torment is caused by a false sense of what is practical. Inner torment will cause you to lose whatever material gains you have achieved, and this is not practical.

Mankind thought that killing worked. It was the most practical solution, or so it seemed, to many problems. You know now that killing is not practical, since it is being brought home to you in a very practical manner that in the long run he who kills will not survive.

We come again to the problem of practicality, and at the risk of repeating myself let me say that in the past Ruburt’s seeming impracticality has been more practical than your intellectual practicality. [...]

When you start out by trying to be practical in cold terms you rarely succeed, because you close yourself away from what does not seem to be practical in your terms. [...] To cut off many is disastrous, and prevents any sort of practicality, since half of your abilities will not be used.

[...] I hesitate, and I mean this, to offer practical advice to one who tries to be so practical. But my dear Joseph, there is no true practicality in smothering your abilities by working in a position where you cannot use your abilities. [...]

[...] Practically speaking however, muscles suddenly released from tension need first to simply relax and gain strength, and resiliency, practically. [...]

[...] With a freer attitude, you see, the paintings would come through, practically speaking, now. [...]

The inner dream communications are important practically, biologically and symbolically. [...]

[...] “I think Seth’s going to add a Part 4 to this book,” she said, “and he’s going to call it ‘The Practicing Idealist.’ And I want to keep changing it to ‘Practicing Idealism,’ because his heading sounds too much like it’s already been used. [...]

THE PRACTICING IDEALIST

(I could only reply that I didn’t know of a book called The Practicing Idealist. [...]

[...] The actualization of those events, however, requires certain practical circumstances. In play the children try out events initiated in the dream state, and “judge” these against the practical conditions. [...]

[...] It also practices forming events as the muscles practice motion.

Children’s dreams are more intense than those of adults because the brain is practicing its event-forming activities. [...]

The money is being achieved or accumulated as a result of your search for the ideal, so it appears twice as ironic to you that the funds for taxes be used to pursue national goals bent, it seems, upon the most gross, shortsightedly practical conditions. [...] Here again you find yourself often in a dilemma of your making, between the ideal and what seems to be; if not the grossly practical, something close to it.

For there, you envision on the one hand the best possible book, content, production, et cetera; and as if to purposefully torment yourself, you also envision the opposing “gross practical product” that could possibly result—a product that would only mock by contrast the ideal that is also so vividly envisioned.

Now: as Ruburt often imagined the worst possibility, and thought that he was being practical in doing so, in terms of his physical condition, gums and all, so you do the same thing in these given areas.

There is one commandment above all, in practical terms — a Christian commandment that can be used as a yardstick. It is good because it is something you can understand practically: “Thou shalt not kill.” [...]

[...] If you are idealists, and if you feel relatively powerless in the world at the same time, and if your idealism is general and grandiose, unrelated to any practical plans for its expression, then you can find yourself in difficulties indeed. [...]

[...] The expression of ideals brings about satisfaction, which then of course promotes the further expression of practical idealism.

AFFIRMATION, THE PRACTICAL BETTERMENT OF YOUR LIFE, AND THE NEW STRUCTURING OF BELIEFS

(At once at 12:25.) New chapter heading [Twenty-two:] “Affirmation, the Practical Betterment of Your Life, and the New Structuring of Beliefs.”

[...] This is no longer theory to you, for you are practically aware of the self in an evergrowing fashion.

I did want to make the point however that you are now aware in practical terms of a conscious part of the personality that appears to be independent of the ego and aware of the ego’s activities.

You are practically aware in everyday life now of a self who watches the self. [...]

[...] In The Nature of Personal Reality I tried to extend the practical boundaries of individual existence as it is usually experienced. I tried to give the reader hints that would increase practical, spiritual, and physical enjoyment and fulfillment in daily life. [...]

[...] We will further describe the triggers that can make such information practical, or bring it into practical range.

[...] You may still need to practice, but your practice will be largely in joy, and will not take as long as it might others. [...]

This sort of experience involves a sudden psychic awareness, straight from the entity, that all boundaries are for practical purposes only. [...] Had the human species gone into certain mental disciplines as thoroughly as it has explored technological disciplines, its practical transportation system would be vastly different, and yet by this time even more practical than it is now. [...]

[...] To conform to the laws of a particular plane is a practical necessity, and at this time the flying saucer craft simply cannot afford to stay betwixt and between for any indefinite period.

[...] It is oftentimes practical that entities or their various personalities visit one plane before another. [...]

In your practical experience, tables remain tables, although physicists well know that physical appearance is in some ways a mirage. At your level of experience many effects are accepted and used quite practically, as are your solid tables. [...]

In your terms, practically speaking, probable events seem to make more sense when you think of them as latent future ones.

(Pause at 10:01.) A sudden or intense belief in health can indeed “reverse” a disease, but in a very practical way it is a reversal in terms of time. [...]

[...] Practical help is needed in all areas of the human life. Yet it is far better, and more practical ultimately, to concentrate upon the beneficial elements of civilization — far better to organize your thoughts in areas of accomplishment than to make mental lists of man’s deficiencies and lacks.

[...] That reality contributes to the experience of others, but each of you possesses a unique, original stance in space and time that is yours alone in quite practical terms, regardless of time’s relative existence.

Such a practice leads to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, in which effective action seems impossible. [...]

Such ideas literally held people in chains, fostering slavery and other inhumane practices. [...]

I want to avoid concentration upon esoteric practices in this book, but they do sometimes impinge upon the subject matter at hand.

The ideas of penance, fasting to excess, the personal abuse of the body, such as self-flagellation — all of those practices are conducted in the belief that suffering is something to be sought in itself. [...]

Now: apropos of your firewalker, fire of that temperature would indeed burn the flesh if it touched it in your practical reality.

[...] That belief generates certain actions or events, so that practically speaking, while he sees the flames, and perhaps smells the smoke, the heat of the fire will have no effect—because for him its character is changed. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, again, he erases the fire’s practicality, so that it can have no effect.

In a manner of speaking, you must be a practicing (underlined) idealist if you are to remain a true idealist for long. You must take small practical steps, often when you would prefer to take giant ones — but you must move (underlined) in the direction of your ideals through action. [...]

[...] I simply want to help you practice your idealism in the acts of your daily life.

You will understand, if you are a practicing idealist, that you cannot kill in the name of peace, for if you do so your methods will automatically undermine your ideal. [...]

Ruburt felt that your idealism could threaten the practical distribution of the books, so that his idealistic purpose—to get those words out—could be held back. [...] You felt Ruburt was being too “practical,” and would put up with almost anything, and he felt that you were being too impractical at times.

[...] “The best” idealist is a practical one—someone who realizes that most men like to work with specifics. [...]

You may not achieve ideal solutions with the law, but it should allow practical specific actualization, at least in part, of an ideal situation. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s seemingly impractical suggestions in the past have been much more practical than some of your intellectual so-called practical conclusions. [...]

[...] Again this did not seem a practical solution. Looking back, can you not agree with me that it was a much more practical solution than the one you ultimately chose?

[...] Dissociation will help particularly in Ruburt’s case, since already it is being practiced and can be relied upon to some extent. It is also easier for Ruburt to practice dissociation since it is Joseph’s parents who are involved.

This sort of experience involves a sudden psychic awareness, straight from the entity, that all boundaries are for practical purposes only. [...] Had the human race for example gone into certain mental disciplines as thoroughly as it has explored technological disciplines, its practical transportation system would be vastly different, and yet by this time even more practical than it is now. [...]

(Malba said the state before going to sleep is a good one in which to receive visions and should also be used to suggest good health to the subconscious, to suggest that it help you as far as your work goes, and to suggest that practical daily matters will be taken care of. [...] Practice will help in seances. [...]

[...] Even the mental enzymes themselves are interchangeable as far as the principle behind them is concerned, though for practical purposes they maintain separate and distinct qualities in their materializations in one plane. [...]

[...] Only from exuberant impracticality do any so-called practical inventions come. [...] It rises above all practicality into those greater realms of emotional and spiritual abundance that gives birth to all worlds.

[...] The rich unconscious is wasteful in those terms, since it seems to you that it contains memories and sensations that are not used in practical everyday life.

[...] When you try to tie a great talent down to a practical end like “making a living,” then you are wasteful (forcefully).