“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This kind of displacement can occur, but in practical terms, the terms by which you judge time, this is unusual. [...]

However, the Sumari are practical in that they bring creative visions into physical reality, and try to live their lives accordingly. [...]

There is no particular reason why others could not hear me, but practically speaking the ego is usually on guard to prevent such communications. [...]

(Pause.) For various reasons already given, concerning your joint relationship, and your own purposes (to me), it has taken some time for a newer, suitable framework to form itself — one in which Ruburt is free to pursue mystic experience in a practical structure; one in which unconventionality of thought is allowed to continue freely. [...]

[...] He would keep it safely inside a “play” structure — not play necessarily in basic terms, but a structure in which he would work with models, cleverly, never applying his creative abilities in certain ways to a practical reality. [...]

In other words, he enjoys the practice, whether or not he knows it. [...]

[...] Your free will is highly curtailed for all practical purposes. [...]

(Practically as soon as I finished speaking to Seth, Jane’s eyes closed. [...]

[...] Practically speaking, you must close one door before you can open another. [...]

[...] It is to be put into practice or it is of no use. [...]

Your loving encouragement therefore helps ease the transition into action, again, quite practically, regardless of the reasons for the self-hypnosis—

He felt that in your world and interpretation his ideas were Pollyanna, but I tell you that is practical creativity—and it can wipe out many negative beliefs, more in a moment than you can realize.

[...] However as far as sleep is concerned alone, he would sleep best in the back room or the front room, neither of which I believe is practical at this point. [...]

[...] When possible I will endeavor to close our sessions before 11:30, for practical reasons, so that while you are learning to draw upon additional energy you will not be tired the following day. [...]

(4. Seth also said that it would be “not practical” and “boring” for him to relive his life as a pope, then added: “In those terms, many people do choose to reexperience what you would think of as a past existence in order to change it as they go along.” [...]

[...] Any cell has practical use of precognitive abilities,⁴ for example, that quite escape you, yet many of you assign such abilities to “higher” souls. [...]

[...] She did so, I quickly learned, for both practical and intuitive reasons.)

[...] Note that the sawhorse shape and the support for a child’s seesaw would be practically the same. [...]

(Before what we expected to be our regular session for Monday evening, Jane told me that she’d awakened in the middle of the previous night with insights about two practice elements¹ Seth would discuss — but we didn’t hear from Seth even though she felt him “around” as we prepared for the session.

1. Jane remembered part of one of the two practice elements she’d tuned in to Sunday night; perhaps we’ll get them later. [...]

[...] We’d considered the Sayre episodes finished last year; yet today the echoes of those earlier events were so prominent that I came to think of them as actual projections from the past into the present, and so into the future, in a most practical manner. [...]

Both houses, therefore, still exist in your practical present as probable acquisitions, because you have not dismissed them. [...]

[...] In practical terms, they have to do with the seeming permanence of an object. [...]

Perhaps this mental event was Jane’s way of “practicing” for the physical one that was to follow a month later, in the 612th session. [...]