“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Let Ruburt remember the playfulness of games. And above all remember that pretending is not a lie (re Cinderella). He can pretend to be well and flexible if he remembers that, without feeling any contradictions at all.

Now, pretend that you are on a lighted stage, the stage being the room in which you now sit. Close your eyes and pretend that the lights have gone out, the setting has disappeared and you are alone.

[...] For now pretend that they correspond to your physical ones. [...]

[...] Pretend that there is an inner world, and that it will be revealed to you as you learn to perceive it with these inner senses.

(10:58.) Pretend that you have been blind to this world all your life, and are now slowly gaining sight within it. [...]

[...] Pretend that there is a world within as vivid and real as the physical one. [...]

[...] Or you may pretend that the worries themselves have images and then “see” these vanishing away.

[...] Waking or dreaming, children “pretend.” In their pretending they exercise their consciousness in a particularly advantageous way. [...] To some extent they become what they are pretending to be, and in so doing they also increase their own knowledge and experience. Left alone, children would learn how to cope with animals by pretending to be animals, for example. [...]

[...] Just before you sleep, see yourself as you are, but living in a past or future century — or simply pretend that you were born 10 or 20 years earlier or later. [...]

[...] Within your reality it is as foolish to deny the existence of certain thoughts as it would be, say, to pretend that deserts do not exist. [...] It does mean that within nature as you understand it, nothing is meaningless or to be pretended out of existence.

[...] When a crisis situation arose or when he became lost in despair, an acceleration began that he pretended not to notice, and Augustus Two would appear.

You with your conscious mind are to discriminate among those thoughts as to which ones you want to form into your system of beliefs (intently), but in so doing you are not to pretend blindness. [...]

[...] So you do not have to pretend that a “dark” thought doesn’t exist. [...]

You need not pretend that the foggy valley does not exist. You would be equally foolish to pretend that you were there, or to go about with a raincoat and umbrella underneath the clear highland skies and warm sun.

You are teaching yourselves the value of consciousness and vitality and strength and life, by pretending to yourselves that death is death and that your consciousness will not continue and that your parents who die are forever still, by pretending that the voices you have heard in childhood will be heard no more. By pretending that when you breathe your last breath here, your consciousness is forever still. [...]

Once they are recognized then they can be met and dealt with, but they cannot be intellectualized away, and denied while smothering them and pretending that they do not exist.

You think such fears foolish; Ruburt does, so he tried to talk himself out of them while at the same time pretending that they do not exist. [...]

Now in this children’s tale pretend with me. Pretend with me that you sit here in a physical reality in one tiny unspeakably and unutterably small dot upon the physical planet called Earth. Pretend with me that you are presently sitting in a room in a town called Elmira, in a state called New York, that you are seated in a circle and that you are listening to me speak, and pretend with me that at the same time you are in a circle about me in another space and another time. Pretend with me that, in your terms, we were in another circle and in another star in a past inconceivably distant so that your physical brain cannot imagine it and that together, being nonphysical, we had a great dream. [...]

Pretend, pretend that yourself...your whole identity, is a tape, such as being used here, but in stereophonic. Now, pretend that you have eight channels on this fantastic machine. [...]

[...] Pretend that you hold a flashlight. [...]

The conventional conscious mind pretends, and pretends well. It pretends that accidents are possible, that death is an end, and it tries to ignore all of the great threads of feeling and intent that do not fit into that picture. [...]

[...] Your conscious mind perceives these clearly, while you pretend that this official version is all that exists. [...]

[...] They constantly pretend, and they quickly learn that persistent pretending in any one area will result in a physically-experienced version of the imagined activity. They also realize that they do not possess full freedom, either, for certain pretended situations will later happen in less faithful versions than the imagined ones. [...]

[...] After Marilyn left Jane and I discovered that both of us had been alarmed by the child in some vague way; his actions had been quite overtly strong, we thought, involving such things as pretending to kill our cat Willy, taking swings at Jane and me, etc. [...]

[...] Pretend that the future one came before the past one.

Some night as you fall to sleep, try telling yourself that you will pretend you are awake while you sleep.

(10:58.) Sometime as you walk down a street, pretend that you are seeing the same scene from the sky in an airplane, yourself included. [...]

[...] Each of my readers plays a game in which the egotistical conscious self pretends not to know what the whole self definitely does know. [...] In its intense focus in physical reality, however, it pretends not to know, until it feels able to utilize the information in physical terms.

They are not forgotten, but the people involved simply close their own eyes, so to speak, to those decisions, and pretend (underlined) that they do not exist, simply to make their lives appear smooth and to save face with themselves, when they know very well that the decisions really rest on very shaky ground indeed.

(“I also got that he’s going to say that in ordinary terms we don’t have access to all the information we’ve got at one time because consciously it would be so hard to sort through it — but that we really are conscious of it, and for working purposes we just pretend that we aren’t. He’s said that before — that the so-called unconscious portions of ourselves are in themselves quite conscious.”

[...] You must pretend that you are learning a new language and indeed you are. [...]

[...] You know that the physical floor does not support you, but you must pretend that the physical floor supports you or you would be dizzier than you are. [...]

[...] You pretend to agree that it does; we meet in no place of space or time. [...]

[...] You hide it from the present self simply to insure the fact that the present reality is not a pretended one.

[...] But what you have is a learned pattern of face-saving self-deception and nefarious (with amusement) techniques, taught by parents to children; so often you pretend to want one thing, and you may say that you “will it” to happen—perhaps because what you really want is unacceptable, or so you have been taught: it is demeaning, or evil, or whatever. [...]

(10:03.) Ruburt thinks it is beneath him to be frightened of the world, so it is easier to pretend you cannot go out in it than to feel you are a coward—which in your society is the interpretation placed upon such feelings. [...]

[...] Nowhere did I tell you to hide or ignore your feelings or pretend that something did not annoy you when it did. [...] Do not pretend they do not exist, or you will run into trouble. [...]

And mean it, but do not pretend that the bumps do not exist. [...]