“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He also comes through as a young woman with some problems, with a repressive tendency that is physically materialized, with dogmatic and somewhat rigid distorted ideas that have only lately really been understood by the personality. [...]

[...] Retracing (in answer to my question at break) will not occur in any predetermined rigid manner, as it has been described unless there is a psychic or mental return to the mental patterns that caused the difficulties to begin with. [...]

[...] Only at your level is it “relatively rigid.” [...]

Ruburt saw himself as a writer, and judged himself through that focus, and other accomplishments that did not rigidly adhere to that focus were not considered successes, or even were jealously regarded as detriments. [...]

Sex became dangerous—not to protect your persons—which would be delighted, but to protect your rigid, limited ideas of your “artistic selves”—the writer and the artist might be threatened, and so your personal lives must suffer, and the persons be shoved away.

[...] The personality in many respects has been rigid, in that its purpose was so undeviatingly certain and severe that it allowed no room for levity or diversion.

[...] The rigidity, while conducive to the development of creativity, also has temptations, in that a certain pride can become psychically sterile or ingrown. [...]

There must be no rigidity here. [...]

The molecular structure indeed is fairly rigid. [...]

[...] I hope it explains the comparative (underline comparative) rigidity of pattern which composes the body, which allows it to maintain apparent constancy; and one of the prices it must pay for this is a stabilization of a kind that the inner self is not bound by.

[...] The more rigid an ego is, the more danger there is that the individual will have difficulties in all kinds of adjustments.

[...] The ego within your field is limited because of the nature of its rigidity. [...]

No, except that rigidity and closed minds can be detrimental. [...]

[...] Here we do not have a rigid bark, as you should not have a rigid ego. [...]

[...] “I mean, suppose that’s really what I think, subconsciously — the idea that your ego is too rigid at times and closes you off. [...]

[...] Rigidity is drained from the body by such methods. [...]

[...] Momentarily, the gesture of rigidity for one of strength, where of course flexibility is always required.

In the face of possible rejection, which old attitudes now and then make him expect, he adopts a rigid rather than flexible stance. [...]

(Pause.) The rigidity that was a general characteristic is breaking up, you see, so that by contrast portions of his body do feel vulnerable to him—soft, unprotected—but those feelings were to a large degree covered over before. [...]

[...] Talking with you is highly important now, many of the feelings that the rigidity hid, you see, now come into consciousness—an excellent situation because they can be and are being encountered. [...]

[...] When the ego is too rigid, it will even attempt to censor dreams. When the personality in general is too rigid, freedom of action is not entirely permitted even in the dream state.

[...] The reasons were obvious, I thought: This morning she’d awakened with her neck, back, and so forth in a very rigid state—so I wanted to know what had happened yesterday, or recently, to bring about this state of affairs when we’d thought we were making at least a modest kind of progress. [...]

(We had attempted to find reasons for her rigidity this morning through using the pendulum, with some success, we thought, but as the day passed there was little response physically on Jane’s part.

(I do not know if our attitude toward this type of thing is too rigid; that is, if it would seem so to others; the Gallaghers, for instance. [...]

[...] Or is that too rigid? [...]

[...] What appears rigid to your perception will not appear as rigid from other viewpoints outside of your system. [...]

Reincarnational influences are not nearly as rigid as many believers in the concept think. [...]

[...] When one set of rigid beliefs threatens to make action appear meaningless, then another set of buried, repressed beliefs may surface, providing new impetus precisely when it is needed — but also forming a secondary personality with characteristics almost opposite to those of the primary self.

[...] You could not be burdened if you thought them through with these deep questions of criticism for they could send you back to a rigid attitude. [...]

To this point it is serving its purposes, there is no need for it to be rigid, however. [...]

([Joel:] “A substitute instead of nondescript—what I was trying to say was rigidly defined. I can’t accept that we are rigidly defined and structured as personalities.”)

(She showed me, then, how the flesh of her forearms has turned soft and flexible, whereas up until yesterday it had been quite rigid and wooden, and she’d had no feeling in it. [...]