“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the same fashion, the person who hallucinates the voice of God or a demon actually does so to preserve the idea of sanity in his own mind. As long as he or she believes that a god or demon is involved, then the person can consider the entire affair most extraordinary, decidedly apart from usual experience, but valid.

If the therapist tries to convince such a person that the hallucinated personage does not exist, then this threatens the person’s concepts of personal sanity.

[...] Such beliefs are apparent in statements such as: “Madness is the other end of sanity,” or “All genius is touched with madness.”

[...] I explained how I’d had to back off from worrying in order to save my sanity and get some work done. [...]

[...] Often the contact is really enough, and the reply, whatever it is, for it assures them that someone, somewhere, is trying to operate within a circle of knowledge and sanity.

[...] Those who were led by their hopes into gullibility could relate to his experiences—yet he would pull them back to “sanity” by his doubts. [...]

[...] Their problem will seem so gigantic that only some interference from an outside source will be sufficient to give the individual a sense of wholeness and sanity. [...]

[...] There is a wisdom and an understanding operating, a beautiful give-and-take in life between the intensity of a desire and its fulfillment—an underlying exquisite sanity. [...]

[...] The system itself would appear insane without them, and only they impart any sanity. [...]

[...] Your ideas and beliefs, however, about the nature of reality, and sanity, have resulted in such a schism.

[...] (Almost with a laugh:) Under certain conditions it may be a mark of sanity—but it is highly self-defeating to put yourself in a position where you cannot go out into the world—or more importantly, where you cannot navigate as a creature.

[...] Your system has frowned upon many experiences, considering them eccentric behavior in an adverse fashion, since your belief systems have so regimented behavior, and so narrowly defined sanity. [...]

[...] In your world, conventional and practical sanity and physical manipulation are dependent upon your ability to discriminate, accepting as real only those events with which others more or less agree.

[...] The younger man was, when you met him, afraid himself of schizophrenia, and had a great need to establish his own sanity at the expense of anyone who showed any but the most conventional characteristics.

[...] In some fashion, in order to maintain sanity, I end up laughing at what goes on in the world—probably a last resort. [...]

In your mind you creatively envision the ideal—the sanity of some future culture that, hopefully, our work and others will bring about: if not tomorrow, some “time.” [...]

It is now important that he relearn the objective nature of your reality, the simple sanity of an apple as an apple. [...]

At the time the sessions began (pause), the world was beginning to seem senseless, truly incomprehensible, to anyone who held any sense of poetry or sanity. [...]

[...] This may mean the incidence of a disease, but the disease may save a person’s sanity. [...]

The young man is setting himself against society, against its ideas of sanity. [...]

And as autumns fierce / moods have their /
reasons—in nature’s / deeper sanity / so must…/
my undeviating / direction— /
Though my thoughts’ leaves singly / seem separate /
they ride in one elemental / force / carried weightless— /
Then with them let me / be so supported /
though my tumultuous journeys carry me, / like them, /
above stormy treetops. [...]