“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] To deny this is to try to force consciousness into some rigid form from which it cannot ever be freed, to apply rules to it that make a very neat psychological landscape.

[...] (Pause.) Some such methods are very advantageous, yet they have also become too rigid and autocratic, allowing little room for deviation. [...]

[...] We are not dealing with rigidities. [...] I do not want to set up a fear that is an exaggerated fear of distortions, since this might well make him so rigid that he would block perfectly valid material, fearing he was adding distortion.

[...] An ego that is overly rigid will inhibit the intellect from perceiving various portions of physical reality, and therefore distort the appearance of reality, limiting the intellect’s abilities.

When the ego is of such a rigid nature that it distorts physical reality out of all context, then however the personality had better rely upon the subconscious even in this respect, for the subconscious will at least perceive those elements of physical reality that immediately threaten the whole self.

[...] They are actually rather rigid limiting devices, yet in many inner explorations you will automatically translate experience into terms that the senses can use.

[...] (Long pause.) When any system of reasoning becomes too rigid, however, there are always adjustments made that will allow other information to intrude — otherwise, of course, your belief systems would never change.

[...] “You were very rigid in the way you made lines, in your work. [...]

This fact is responsible to a large degree for your death shock, and for the more powerful birth shock, when the new personality awakes to the prisonlike clutch of rigid camouflage pattern. [...]

[...] The outer senses dealing with rigid camouflage patterns could not be as fluent as the inner senses.

[...] At once, I told Jane, I thought that science and religion would be violently opposed to the idea, at least in the beginning, for it would challenge many rigid beliefs held by each of those disciplines. [...]

[...] They automatically interact against any kind of rigidity.

[...] Again, however, there is no rigid rule. [...]

[...] It is particularly beneficial for those who have a too-rigid mental framework.

[...] We haven’t used the vitamins, or cod liver oil, for several days now, and as usual I feel a sense of frustration over this, coupled with an unsureness as to whether any such routine should be too rigidly adhered to. [...]

[...] It is relinquishing its former rigidity. [...]

His rigidity prevented the spontaneity necessary for any true great religious release. [...]

[...] It is the ego that is rigid, not the subconscious.

[...] Applied with a heavy hand they become unnecessary dogma, rigidly limiting experience. [...] Conventions are the results of stratified and rigid “spontaneity.” [...]

[...] It is not natively as rigid as it seems. [...]

[...] I was eager to get Jane started on a program of self-therapy through the Seth material in order to help her counter—or at least supplement—the standard rigid medical framework we’ve been encountering for the last month, or since she went into the hospital on February 26, 1982. [...]

[...] Your own consciousness has its particular unique qualities, in that like other comparatively long-lived species, you associate your identity with your form far more rigidly. [...]