[...] As a practice teacher, however, you are doing very well and I wanted you to know it. [...]

Now, in our friends dream of probable reality what you have, though none of you will admit it for some time particularly this one (to Molly), is practical experience with probable reality as it exists with people that you know. [...]

You felt to some extent that you had fallen down in taking advantage of the sessions, that you were not putting into practice certain behavior there suggested. [...]

[...] Short-term challenges of any kind that are at all practical are excellent to break up for him the longer-term purpose of his book.

[...] In some civilizations, as mentioned earlier in this book, they played a much stronger part, practically speaking. [...]

I do not make it a practice to observe. [...]

[...] This is good general practice. [...]

[...] The correct statement is that you have truly and practically inexhaustible stores of energy to draw upon. [...]

This will be one of the very practical contributions of these sessions to daily life. [...]

It is indeed a good practice to hold even a brief session in the afternoon, for you set up a certain kind of healing structure in which healing is accelerated. [...]

[...] In the situation in which you find yourselves, however, eyeglasses become a more practical alternative because you do not possess the proper mental methods to offset the current belief system.

[...] Practically, the gums are being regenerated, as the rest of his body definitely is. [...]

I am trying to give you some practical advice. [...]

Again I want to give what practical advice I can to begin with and then we shall slowly get into deeper reasons and past implications.

[...] Because you feel you are in the body and manipulating organs, you feel that you are being quite practical. [...]

[...] You are doing well, in your terms, practically speaking, but I would like to see some more experience that is not so physically directed. [...]

[...] In spite of her horror at the medical practices and suggestions she’s encountered, and in spite of her dismay at the physical damage the arthritis has caused in her temporal body, Jane will give up nothing until she—and/or her whole self—get out of the entire illness syndrome exactly what she wants to get. [...]

Until she became so ill that she was practically forced to go into the hospital, I’d always felt that my wife’s single-minded yet literal focus of intent was capable of lasting however long it took to reach a particular goal—whether for five minutes or fifty years. [...]

[...] It is, I remarked somewhat bitterly, another sign of the frustrating, mixed results one must learn to expect, at least in some instances, from the imperfect practice of medicine. [...]

The fact remains that the outer senses induce a conscious focusing along certain limited lines, grouping perceptions and comprehensions in a narrow fashion, and limiting the practical and imaginative range that consciousness might otherwise take. [...]

[...] When so-called space travel becomes truly popular, truly practical, it will come along these lines.

[...] For practical purposes, theory aside, you could not maintain allegiance to your plane, live out a normal life span for example (and this is necessary) while separate from the physical body.

While all of this may sound quite esoteric, it is highly practical, and we are dealing with the nature of creativity itself.

[...] Ruburt with his practical mind interpreted this more literally than you did, and physical restriction was a part of his natural early environment [because of his mother’s chronic illness], as it was not in yours. [...]

6. In Volume 1, see Practice Element 1 (in the 686th session) for Seth’s description of Jane’s projection into a probable past of her own — her “Saratoga experience,” as we call it.

[...] However it is imperative that the idea be understood thoroughly, for here we have no vague and nebulous theory indeed, but a most practical and definite explanation of the manner in which you yourselves construct not only your own physical image, but indeed your own physical environment.

The following basic subjects are necessary for an understanding of what we are trying to say, particularly for any practical application: the construction of physical matter; the psychological and electrical gestalt that results in the formation of a self; the nature of the dream universe; the electrical system, as it is related to both the physical universe and the inner psychic gestalt; the nature of action; mental enclosures; mental genes; and again, all of these subjects in relationship to their reality as action.

[...] Seth uses witnesses as “practice” for Jane. [...]

[...] You are usually as unaware of this process as you are in normal practice of the ways in which you form your sentences, which seem to flow from you so automatically.

[...] The American novelist was laid on as a more acceptable and practical framework. [...]

You both had more questions at that time than you had ever had in your lives before, and your growing practical knowledge of the world made you each realize how little the species knew in vital areas. [...]

[...] For such research is carried out in the name of progress and the practical common good, of course—and that progress applies also in the remedial treatment of other animals, let us remember. We think that every reader of this book has benefited, and still does, from animal experimentation, some of it most cruel, in ways that he or she can hardly suspect, let alone specify: even benefiting from the use of animals in the study of medical and chemical, beauty and recreational products that can be found in practically every home in the country. [...]

It has taken you some time to understand this in practical terms. [...]

[...] But neither of you took me to heart in practical terms. [...]

[...] At 9:37 Jane said impatiently, “Come on, Seth … Hmm; I’ve done this a lot lately, haven’t I?” Then: “I feel him vaguely around …” And Seth continued his material on Practice Element 1.)

PRACTICE ELEMENT 1

1. See Practice Element 16 in the 721st session.

7. See practice elements 15 and 16, plus related material, in the 721st session.

Within your particular plane of activity, and speaking practically, no one fully or completely can use all the energy available to them, or completely materialize the inner sensed identity that is multidimensional. [...]

In our final discussions we will, in a practical manner, discuss the ways in which conscious goals can be achieved with the help of the sleeping personality. [...]