“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] While others can tell themselves stories, or be content with rationalizations, neither of you could take that road. [...]

[...] Now for once you should rationally feel free in your painting time to paint, released from all requirements of buying or selling. [...]

[...] We did manage at least to hint of some material that almost exists on the edge—the very edge—of any rational understanding. [...]

(With many pauses:) Part of the difficulty arises from the current (pause) scientifically-oriented blend of rationalism. [...]

New sentence: That particular blend of rational thinking with which your society is familiar takes it more or less for granted, then, that man’s identity as a species, and the identity of the individual, is first and foremost connected with the intellect. [...]

[...] Then Jane told me that Teresa is only in her mid-50’s, and that Georgia said she’s quite rational in between her spells of calling for help. [...]

[...] The ego finds such occurrences extremely distracting and annoying, and when forced to admit their validity will resort to the most far-fetched rationalizations to explain them.

[...] Seth said this was rationalization on our parts. [...]

[...] Rationalization is one method by which the ego justifies its acceptance of a reaction which it once rejected as ineffective.

[...] This is because he began to take the pressure off, so to speak, and really began to understand the abilities and limitations of the rational mind in its relationship to the body.

([Brad:] “Does that mean that solutions should come more from an emotional rather than a rational—?”)

(Again, during the break the point that “the answers are within us” was being discussed and the further point that these answers were evolved emotionally rather than wholly rationally. [...]

This is the only basis for any belief, regardless of rationalization. [...]

[...] She is intuitively aware of her position with All That Is, and she does not need to rationalize it. [...]

[...] To one extent or another, then, you learn to constantly monitor your behavior, so that it conforms to the established criteria set up for sane or rational experience.

“It certainly seems that the best way to get specific answers is to ask specific questions, and the rational mind thinks first of all of something like a list of questions. In that regard, Ruburt’s response before such a session is natural, and to an extent magical, because he knows that no matter what he has been taught, he must to some degree (underlined) forget the questions and the mood that accompanies them with one level of his consciousness, in order to create the proper kind of atmosphere at another level of consciousness—one that allows the answers to come even though they may be presented in a different way than that expected by the rational mind.

[...] He also became aware of his limitations, physically speaking: There was not much, it seemed, he could do but work, so he took the rational approach—and it says that to solve the problem you worry about it.”

“Being your own natural and magical self when you dream, you utilize information that is outside of the time context experienced by the so-called rational mind. [...]

[...] You rationalize away quite legitimate intuitive perception at such times. [...]

[...] He was allied with rationalism instead. [...]

[...] If you reacted as Nebene you would later rationalize the results to him—while he would know in that (underlined) instance he was not projecting so he could not trust his reactions toward you.

This deprived Ruburt of the deeply-rooted sense of inner natural unity when he began to rationalize this or examine it intellectually; he already questioned it, and the questioning was on the part of the overly conscientious self. [...]

Your scientists consider themselves quite rational, yet many of them, at least, would be more honest when they tried to describe the beginning of the universe if they admitted that reason alone cannot provide any true insight. [...]

[...] They are looking for a rational pattern large enough to contain and explain and focus their own misunderstood creativity.

[...] But I said to Rob, “Look, Miss Cunningham was as rational and bright as either of us not too long ago. [...]

[...] But I was thinking rationally.

When I said it was not rational (in the 367th session), I spoke relatively speaking. [...]