“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Language is practiced by infants in the dream state, and it is indeed that mental practice that results in children speaking sentences far more quickly than otherwise would seem possible. [...]

[...] They do not practically intrude into waking hours — the attacking bear vanishes when you open your eyes; it does not physically chase you around the bedroom.

[...] These therapeutic dreams, with practice, can be brought about through self-suggestion. [...] Various old cults have used this method, but it can be quite practical in modern life.

[...] This is not to say however that illness can be treated using electromagnetics though in the future, the distant future, this may be practical.

We shall have more to say concerning this subject, for practically it is of considerable importance. [...]

Your dehypnotizing practice is extremely helpful—and such a practice joins your creative energies so that they work in almost a double fashion on your behalf. [...]

[...] The idea, of course, is only to integrate the two often opposing points of view, instead of having them in conflict with each other, since, as Seth says, we always have some practical need of Framework 1 activity. [...] I hope to revive those early successes, and to make much more practical use of them this time.

For reasons of convenience on your part, completely unscheduled sessions would not be practical. With your permission, we may attempt to take better advantage of such peaks of activity in the future, but if and when we do we will still maintain a general practice of not holding more than two sessions a week.

I told you a while ago that what seemed impractical was practical, and that value fulfillment is the only true practicality.

In quite practical terms also you have been selling paintings, because now you do not hold back, and you will continue to improve; and this improvement will cause others to be drawn to your work.

(It is of considerable interest to me that since I have resumed the regular study of psychological time from October 27, practically all of my visions have involved people. [...]

[...] You cannot afford to keep knowledge at an intellectual level, and not use it practically, for when you do so it is useless to you. [...]

[...] I have given you important and practical suggestions concerning health measures, and I take it for granted that you use them.

[...] (Smile.) It is not practical in your terms. [...]

[...] Practically this is of great importance for it will help break the repressive habit on the one hand, and help end blockages that have been holding back positive and healthy charges of activity. [...]

If possible these discussions should end with the reassurance that you can work out the practical aspects of your life together, and that you are large enough to understand your fears and use them creatively. [...]

You must follow the practical advice however.

But usually you think in your own language, and so in quite practical terms the words and the intent merge. For all practical purposes then the two are one. [...]

[...] You can practice with these ideas by applying them to your body. [...]

On a neurological basis there are unreleased, latent triggers that can be set off, and when they are, your practical experience with time as you know it will be altered. [...]

[...] The growing consciousness had to make such distinctions for practical behavior. [...]

[...] (See sessions 653–54 in Chapter Fourteen.) Even these manipulations must take place in your practical-experienced present, however. [...]

[...] The probable future has caught up with the practical present.

I will give you more material that will be of good practical use when I have answered your questions.

[...] In your terms, and practically speaking, they could be damaged if they were suddenly released out of order, having to bear the body’s weight.

[...] There were alternate neurological pathways that, practically speaking, were more available then than now. [...]

[...] Otherwise, free will would be almost inoperable in practical terms: Individuals would be faced by so many choices that any decisions would be nearly impossible. [...]

[...] The fact that its reality is only limited to your level, and does not extend to other fields, must not tempt you to discount it; and yet while you must behave in a large manner as if your universe were inherently and basically objective, you must still retain the knowledge that this apparent objectivity has great limits, even practically speaking; and a too-great dependence in a world of objectivity can lead to a psychic imprisonment which is unnecessary.

Study and practice with psychological time will show you the validity and strength of that inner self, so that you will clearly see that it is not completely bound to the so-called objective universe by any means. [...]

On a practical level, later, we will go into steps that can be taken to offset such an unfortunate liability. [...]

I know that this next suggestion will meet protests on both of your parts, for what you suppose to be practical reasons. [...]

In your cases, at the very least one weekend a month should be set aside for sensuous immersion in the patterns of nature, when usual practical considerations are dispensed with. [...]

This sort of experience is much more practical when used before you are really driven to it, and you are not at that point by any means. [...]

The practice with the language, and other practices that will be connected to it, will serve other purposes also. [...]

[...] I will make the practice with your approval of commenting more or less regularly for a while.

PRACTICE ELEMENT 11

[...] You will find that this practice, continued, will vastly enrich your normal experience. [...]

PRACTICE ELEMENT 12

[...] For your benefit, Joseph, this entire section will be made up of practice elements, with comments and directions.

The most negative projection or prophecy seems to be the most practical one; when you are reading of the world’s ills, you say in all honesty, and with no humor: “How can I ignore the reality, the destructive reality, of the present?” In the most practical, immediate, mundane terms, however, you and your world are in that moment naturally and physically safe, as your bodily senses immediately perceive. [...]

[...] For you must be concerned with this reality as you know it; in those terms, to condemn man is to condemn the species as you know it, and the practical terms of your world.

[...] Your stance in time is highly important, for it is your practical base of operations.

[...] Practical suggestions.

(“Will our abilities grow as we practice contacting you?”)

Yes, good practice. [...]

Any ability you have, then, can be “brought in more clearly,” amplified, and become practical rather than probable. [...]

[...] Change now quite practically alters both the past and the future. [...]

[...] The present as you think of it, and in practical working terms, is that point at which you select your physical experience from all those events that could be materialized. [...]