“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The system also provides practice in the methods of transforming energy into form, and of maintaining intensities, of manipulating energy in various aspects.

[...] This information is compared to the ideals that have been reached in the manner I have told you; and the ideals themselves originate in the dream state, and are then translated into terms that are practical physically.

[...] It was practically dark outside the window. [...]

[...] It would certainly be a practical use of such psychic abilities, I thought.

The naming and labelling of “diseases” is a harmful practice that to a large extent denies the innate mobility and ever-changing quality of the psyche as expressed in flesh. [...]

These are quite practical statements. [...]

The very practice of pinpointing the time of physical birth at conception itself errs. There is no point at which you can say in basic terms (underlined twice) that an individual is alive,² though you do find it more practical to accept certain points of life and death. [...]

All of this is fine theory, esoteric but hardly practical — unless you begin to question the nature of your own thoughts, and begin to explore the reality of those events that you seem to encounter.⁵

[...] We’ve ended up feeling that astrology, as it’s presently practiced, is too limited in conception.

[...] The whole personality at any given time, because of its own nature and characteristics, has only a given amount of energy available to it in practical terms, though ideally speaking its energy is not limited.

However, a certain portion of the energy practically available to it is therefore spent in the maintenance of this impeding action. [...]

[...] We will be involved for many sessions to come with these problems, for they are of basic value, and practical value.

This portion will deal with practical considerations, in your terms, and will be a part of a larger portion concerned with the practical utilization of our material. The practical utilization however must follow an understanding of the material.

Practically, your own identities exist electronically, as I have explained, in codified form. [...]

[...] It may be said, for practical reasons, that A and B have identical thoughts. [...]

Our Wednesday evening session may well be somewhat longer than usual, since for this one I was mainly concerned with discussing the practical problem at hand, since it is important that the air be cleared in this respect.

(For many months now both Jane and I have followed a practice of making perhaps half a dozen predictions for the following day. [...]

[...] Since the symptoms have been physical, this is excellent therapy and most practical from a psychic viewpoint.

[...] A complete change of environment would be excellent of course if it were practical. [...]

Now some inner data cannot be perceived or translated by the brain, practically speaking, but as minds develop so the physical brain will develop, and in some individuals to a large extent this has occurred.

[...] This is what you have to work with, and the raw material practically available. [...]

[...] It was the practical impetus of your need at the time, however, that operated as the final emotional trigger—you recall the circumstances.

[...] The muscles need time, practically speaking. [...]

[...] It might take a bit before he understands what that means enough to practice it, but he can understand.

[...] This means that in your inner self you have a clear idea of the goals which Ruburt, for many reasons, some quite legitimate, hides from his practical self.

He thinks he is being practical when he worries about his condition. You think jointly it is only common sense and practical, particularly after all of this time, to remember that any improvements have dead-ended. [...]

He reacts practically, then, by avoiding what he thinks of as conflict, and you do not help in that regard, for by temperament you are not particularly attracted to the world. [...]

Put into practice the last session, particularly with Ruburt playing with his ideas, instead of concentrating upon his work. [...]

(Both Jane and I have lately begun to practice psychological time regularly, if only for a few minutes each day. [...]

Like rats in mazes, with luck you could theoretically travel from one cube or maze to another, though practically this is impossible. [...]

[...] Through constant practice with hypnotism your scientists will discover that it is possible, and definitely beneficial, to allow the conscious ego to retain its memory. [...]

With practice the personal distortive layers of subconscious material could be recognized without difficulty, and even these will give you valuable insights into psychological mechanisms.

[...] This is the true nature of healing, and in the physical situation, practically speaking, you must allow time for the muscles to readjust themselves, and gain their strength. [...]

[...] I do not harp to you about theory simply because I want to spout theory, but because I want you to put these ideas into practice.”

[...] Using it, with practice, you can feel the living emotional element of any living thing, rejoicing in its vitality. [...]

Practically speaking, three other forms are available to you in projections beside the physical, though others are theoretically available. [...]

[...] The consciousness that ordinarily projects in an out-of-body experience could not practically project into one atom. [...]

[...] All of these highly intricate activities were learned and practiced in the dream state as the CU’s translated their inner knowledge through the state of dreaming into the physical form.

[...] In his dreams he practiced stringing the words together to form their meanings, so that finally he could consciously begin a sentence without actually knowing how it was begun, yet in the faith that he could and would complete it.

There are obviously many occasions when his condition is unusually suited to hold a spontaneous session, but when the emotional climate is not for one reason or another correct, or when other elements, practical ones to you, may prevent a session.

When we have gone into the nature of action still much more thoroughly, then you will be able to use such knowledge for quite practical purposes, and to your advantage. [...]

I have often mentioned that the divisions in our subject matter are often arbitrary, and for practical purposes of discussion only. [...]