[...] You may not think of your artistic abilities as serving any practical purpose, insofar as survival is concerned, and yet they have been your main security, and in very practical ways.

(Jane has been practicing psychological time regularly. [...]

[...] Actually what happens here is that the ego sells the personality short, out of fear, and denies those very abilities that are needed, and in practical terms.

[...] I have spoken to Philip about practicalities, and indeed you have both agreed. Now I speak to you both about practicalities.

[...] Ruburt is indeed correct, and I am concerned for you both, in that by now you should be able to put this material to practical ends—that is, by now these basic ideas should make your practical existence improve.

I realize that such a course does not seem practical, in usual terms. Yet it is in truth the most practical step that you could take.

Concepts, however, must be put into living knowledge and into practice or they are not meaningful and so the concepts that are received will also be translated in such a way that you can use them and put them into daily practice so you will at sometime be able to speak your body with more effectiveness than you do now. [...]

[...] And in practice in making concepts flesh in using them. [...]

You can perceive the moment’s reality as it exists for your intestine, or your hand; and experience, with practice, the present inner peace and commotion that exist simultaneously within your physical body. [...] With practice you can become as intuitively aware of your internal physical environment, as [of] your external physical environment.

(Pause at 9:43.) With greater practice, the contents of your own mind will become as readily available. [...]

[...] You must also realize that I am speaking in practical terms. [...]

[...] I will give you a practical example here. [...] While you have been imagining the dwindling accounts and pessimistically thinking that after all the book may not sell, and to be practical you cannot be sure that the outline will sell and your efforts therefore have been knocking each other out.

[...] Now these exercises will prove themselves out in practical terms, but you must give them the opportunity to prove themselves.

[...] I am giving you advice in very practical terms. [...]

Actually, in practice, Psychological Time leads to development of the other Inner Senses. [...]

[...] As you practice, you will learn to tell one from the other.

The idea [of democracy] expresses the existence of a high idealism — one that demands political and social organizations that are effective to some degree in providing some practical expression of those ideals (emphatically). When those organizations fail and a gulf between idealism and actualized good becomes too great, then such conditions help turn some idealists into fanatics. [...] The businessman who believed in Darwinian principles and the fight for survival, who justified injustice and perhaps thievery to his ideal of surviving in a competitive world — he suddenly turns into a fundamentalist in religious terms, trying to gain his sense of power now, perhaps, by giving away the wealth he has amassed, all in a tangled attempt to express a natural idealism in a practical world.

[...] The desire for suicide is often the last recourse left to frightened people whose natural impulses toward action have been damned up — intensified on the one hand, and yet denied any practical expression.

[...] Each person is fired by the desire to act, and to act beneficially, altruistically (intently), to practically put his stamp, or her stamp, upon the world. [...]

[...] Practice is all that is required, but the practice itself will show results. [...]

[...] Also, although the room was well lighted the shades were closed, a practice Jane and I do not indulge in otherwise.

[...] This is very practical, and works without much difficulty.

[...] The reader is invited to experience his or her own “unknown reality” through the study of dreams and practice elements, and to try for psychic travel into other realities. [...]

[...] He also lists more practice elements, and discusses language, personhood, physics, and some of my own reincarnational experiences. [...]

[...] Seth’s information and my own notes detail the interdependent, yet spontaneous, psychic and physical relationships within which each of us elects to move; they reveal how a conscious understanding of such factors, some of which may reach back into one’s childhood, can help greatly in practical daily living. [...]

[...] You tried to shove the discontent aside, hoping that you could continue it to practical beneficial ends. [...]

[...] A concentration upon your individual and combined work, your practical plans in that direction, will promote an enthusiasm that you have not felt jointly or individually in years. [...]

The symptoms therefore will be released as that energy or concentration is placed back where it belongs, into creative and practical action. [...]

Because of your attitudes, ideas do not seem as real to you as objects, or as practical. [...] You do not understand the great mobility of thought, nor grasp its practical nature. [...] The manipulation of thoughts is far more practical. [...]

[...] But in greater, more vital issues, the sick doctor does not know as much about health as an “uneducated, untrained,” but healthy person — and I am speaking in quite practical terms. [...] In your framework it seems that his or her understanding can be of little practical value to you if you are, for instance, unhealthy. [...]

You attend to matters that seem to have practical value. [...] Your practical locomotion is involved with it so you recognize it. [...]

There is something highly important here concerning your technological civilization: As your world becomes more complicated, in those terms, you increase the number of probable actions practically available. [...] (In parentheses: I am speaking in your terms of time.) Watching television, you are aware of events that occur on the other side of the earth, so your consciousness necessarily becomes less parochial.⁸ As this has happened the whole matter (smiling) of probabilities has begun to assume a more practical cast. [...]

[...] When the question of probabilities is a practical one, then scientists will give it more consideration.

[...] You will discover in practical terms how you move and affect physical matter before we are finished, and discover quite practically that you create it.

Ruburt and you can practice by touching various objects, getting the feel of them, so that you can recognize their psychic makeup, and feel it as strongly as you feel the physical composition. [...]

[...] As a rule, (underlined) I leave these practical lessons to others, for the mental considerations have always intrigued me more. [...]

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Ruburt is operating in an area in which there are few such specifications, simply because no one knows what can or cannot be done, practically speaking, at psychic levels. [...] Then within the realms of your practical reality they learn to utilize that ability. [...]

(Long pause at 9:14.) Now how do you practically interpret such an intention? [...]

[...] It is important that Ruburt define what is expected of the practical self, and what falls outside of its realm. [...]

It is true that it is difficult for you to take me at my word when I suggest action in the practical world, particularly when such suggested action may seem neither practical nor possible. [...]

I will endeavor, because of your reactions, not to discuss aspects of your practical existence, though you should be told that regardless such discussions are to your benefit. [...]

[...] As it is, on his own with your help, because of quite practical events, he has chosen to leave, after having accepted the assistant directorship. [...]

[...] We will be dealing with practical direct experience. It will do you no good if you are simply intellectually aware of what I say, but practically ignorant. [...]

[...] Many valuable and quite practical insights that could be utilized go astray, therefore. [...]

[...] You have simply specialized in one of the many arts of consciousness, and that one can be vastly enriched by knowledge and practice of the others.

[...] For reasons I will not go into now, and speaking simply, you are coming into a fertile period, each of you—in part because of changed beliefs, so that your relationship with Framework 2 is more intimate, practically speaking, now—and I would like you to take advantage of that.

It will take little extra effort on your part to remind yourself of the significance of your dreams again, and to bring those into a more workable, practical focus.

[...] She seldom does, though, so the record furnished by notes is practically always from my viewpoint. [...]

[...] He had a lot of other ideas that are contrary to generally accepted medical belief and practice, and we wished he lived closer. [...]

[...] The interview ended up as a highly-charged psychic and practical version of a reality as seen by medical science. [...]

[...] The conscious mind, with its normally considered intellect, is meant to assess the practicality of action within your world. [...] That is one thing; but if an individual believes that it is literally impossible for him to travel from one end of the continent to another, or to change his job, or perform any act, then the act becomes practically impossible. [...]

[...] The structure of probabilities provides on the one hand a system of barriers, in which practical growth is not chosen or significant; and on the other hand it insures a safe, creative, rich environment — a reality — in which the idealization can choose from an almost infinite variety of possible actions those best suited to its own fulfillment.

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