“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It will usually organize ideas in as rational a way as possible, and dispense with those that seem to contradict the overall system of its beliefs.

But, you cannot use this as a rationalization in this plane of activity, which is why I said that this could be misinterpreted. [...]

[...] I see the passive, thinking and unthinking tolerance of animal experimentation as a classical case of a society using ends to justify means—yet in the United States, at least, we carefully teach each generation of our species that such rationalizations aren’t morally acceptable….

[...] Often when he most believes he is being analytically intellectual, he is instead using the intellect in a surface manner to cover rationalizations.

[...] Many such ideas have been held by those relatively innocent of any great creative ideas themselves, in order to rationalize their own deficiencies.

[...] It is not rational.

[...] You cannot expect yourselves to act rationally or altruistically in any consistent manner if you believe that you are automatically degraded, or that your nature is so flawed that such performance is uncharacteristic.

[...] Within Dineen’s belief system she was acting quite rationally — and in your belief system you are doing the same.

[...] Other reasons are found to rationalize away their existence.

In order to rationalize, this personality and all personalities, to give to the present identity a more or less logical explanation for a symptom that is of past origin, the personality will bring forth an actual incident which can then be pointed at by the personal subconscious as a scapegoat.

[...] You are, instead, allowing your intellect to be driven by subconscious rationalization. [...]

[...] Smallpox’s reappearance would undoubtedly be rationalized: It had lain hidden or dormant in some uninvestigated pocket of humanity; or it was a mutation, somehow “evolving” into smallpox from one of the closely related animal poxes.

[...] He is not upset basically (Jane got up from her rocker and walked about the room as she spoke, looking for her cigarettes) believe it or not, with the delay in his book publication, though this is the conscious rationalization.

[...] For next I wonder how the human creature, whose bodily components each possess such a ceaseless, rational integrity, can often function so irrationally as a whole, through the creation of war, poverty, pollution, disease, and so forth. [...]

[...] But the conscious reasons that you have for being annoyed with your automobile, these reasons are rationalizations to hide the deeper causes.

If there is, and there is, stupidity and ignorance and idiotic unfounded pride and rationalizations, nevertheless there is also, at least occasionally, good intent and appreciation. [...]

[...] Seth said Peggy used rationalization in saying that she stood for Willy’s proximity because she thought Jane touched her instead of the cat. [...]

[...] You dream of your own counterparts frequently, but you are so afraid of maintaining what you think of as the rational adult self that you ignore such communications.

[...] The ego finds such instances distracting and annoying, and when forced to admit their validity, will resort to the most farfetched rationalizations to explain them.

[...] If you rationalize any such elements or accept them uncritically, you may fall back into normal dreaming.