“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] He should not pretend otherwise, for such irritability is short-lived, if expressed, and usually directly related to a particular difficulty in manipulation, or whatever.

[...] Do not pretend, be honest, and then you can change the reality. [...]

[...] It had to pretend to dislike and disown that source in the same way that an adolescent may momentarily turn aside from its parents in order to encourage independence. [...]

[...] For his point-of-power exercises have him just playfully for five minutes pretend—knowing that it is a game—that he feels perfectly normal and relaxed. [...]

[...] A child knows something will go away if you pretend it does not exist. [...]

He knew he had access to an amazing amount of energy, but pretended that he did not so that all the energy available would go into the effort to use his abilities properly. [...]

(With much amused irony:) The foolhardy, the brave, the utterly courageous, might even take a step further, and imagine that whatever problem is involved no longer exists, or to pretend that “it will go away,” for in any case “it is not as bad as I thought.”

You must indeed for practical reasons pretend as if the automobile had no reality except the reality with which you are familiar, but this is not the case. [...]

[...] This does not mean that he pretend they do not exist.

[...] (Long pause.) Pretend that you are a fine actor, playing in a multidimensional theater, so that each role you take attains a vitality far surpassing the creative powers of any ordinary play.

[...] Pretend that you have a radio with which you can clearly pick up 10 stations. [...]

[...] Pretend he wanted to add more depth to the show. [...]

[...] There is always some conscious recognition, however, though the individual may play tricks with himself and pretend it is not there. [...]

[...] The physical sciences pretend that the centuries exist one after the other, while the physicists realize that time is not only relative to the perceiver, but that all events are simultaneous. [...]

Play then at another game, and pretend that you are of the opposite sex. [...]

[...] Andrea is then supposed to ask, “Why do I feel so inferior?” If you deny the validity of the emotion itself and pretend it away, then you will never be led to question the beliefs behind it.

Now, though I joke with you because I must speak now through a woman, as I have told you, I have been a woman, and so the strangeness is not as strong as I sometimes pretend. [...]

[...] This of course meant, as we said, that she needn’t go about any longer pretending to be like the normal housewife next door, or whatever inanity—since nothing could be further from the truth: She is not like the normal housewife next door, should not want to be, should not be in alarm at their criticism, and should thank God for whatever abilities she has of her own that do inevitably make her different, superior, talented, etc., with something unique to offer the world—an opportunity few possess, and that should be used with the greatest joy and abandon. [...]

This does not mean he is expected to pretend they do not exist, but he is to give a minimum amount of attention to them. [...]

[...] It does no good to pretend otherwise, and I think there’s a good reason for this sometimes uneasy blend of intuition and intellect.

Pretend that you have seven dreams at once, and you the dreamer know that you are dreaming. [...]