“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The body consciousness, for example, will react quite differently to, say, two slaps of exactly the same pressure—one an energetic love slap, and the other one delivered in ridicule or anger. [...]

[...] She said the claim denials were “ridiculous,” and that our lawyer “will get a good laugh out of them.” [...]

[...] Nor indeed is the idea behind all this ridiculous in any manner. [...]

Now when I speak to you as I have this evening, my purpose, my one and main purpose, is to let you sense the endless vitality that is mine, though you, in conventional terms, would designate me by some ridiculous word—survival personality, as Ruburt says, or “spirit” or “dead.” [...]

[...] It would be ridiculous to ignore their reality. [...]

[...] If you don’t worry about the world, you are considered unfeeling, and it certainly seems ridiculous to imagine that the world can somehow take care of itself, and even remedy whatever damage it seems man has done to it.

[...] There is no need saying, “What a ridiculous way to feel” —not an attempt to disinherit the feelings, but to accept them as one’s own, and compassionately explain the mitigating circumstances and new knowledge that alter the initial circumstances that stimulated the feelings to begin with. [...]

[...] Their position is ridiculous.” [...]

[...] It is easy for the intellect, as you are used to using it, to see only the antics of such groups, and they can appear ridiculous in that light.

[...] Fear of the kind mentioned (scorn and ridicule)is behind the symptoms. [...]

[...] Even be ridiculous with the use of the imagination. [...]

[...] To deny the existence of air would seem ridiculous. It is just as ridiculous to deny this vitality because it is usually unseen, or because you do not understand how you use it.

[...] Conditions in his own past prepared him for this docility, for which indeed his mother ridiculed him frequently; and yet the symptoms themselves, you see, were a way to fight you. [...]

[...] It was particularly afraid of ridicule, rather say than of hatred. [...]

What Ruburt must learn is that it is equally ridiculous to act as if it is a summer day when snows are falling. [...]

[...] And more ridiculous, you pull up your roots. [...]

In all respects there must be complete honesty here, and conditions should be reached where there is no fear of ridicule on Ruburt’s part, or fear of lack of successful data, or failure.

(I told myself that this attitude was ridiculous; My stomach didn’t clear up immediately, but once again the pendulum informed me that I had no physical illness—ulcers, or anything else. [...]

[...] It is ridiculous to call one side or the other of the brain dominant, for the full richness of the entire earth experience requires utilization of both halves, as does dreaming.

It is ridiculous for him to so punish himself, and does not help matters, as his joyous spontaneity is so important in his working habits.

[...] You felt Ruburt’s psychic abilities, particularly in the beginning, so extraordinary, once you accepted them, that you each felt they must be protected—not only from himself, until you understood the abilities, but particularly from anyone who might scoff, ridicule, or attack. [...]