“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Out of the goodness of its heart, all of its scientific procedures would be put at my disposal. [...]

[...] Some, had they lived in your century, would have been able to outperform computers (just as some are outperforming computers these days!). In most cases where such accomplishments show themselves, they do so in a child far too young to have learned scientific mathematical procedures to begin with, and often such feats are displayed by people who are otherwise classified as idiots (idiot savants), and who are incapable of intellectual reasoning.

[...] And most certainly, it may appear, no scientifically pertinent data about the nature of events can possibly be uncovered from such a source.

[...] But on other levels, through the contrasting focuses of poverty and wealth, scientific accomplishments or the lack of them, opposites are brilliantly apparent. [...]

[...] Now this is somewhat understood in your scientific circles.

[...] The idea of a knowledge of future lives becomes even more threatening from a cultural, religious, and scientific viewpoint.

[...] You think of physical history as beginning with the caveman and continuing up to the present, but there have been other great scientific civilizations; some spoken of in legend, some completely unknown — all in your terms now vanished.

[...] This is physically obvious in scientific terms. [...]

[...] You tried to fit the sessions into the scientific context, as you thought was right, with the testing and so forth. [...]

They are smaller than small, to be sure, but soon your scientific instruments will detect them; though I do not believe their significance will be understood. [...]

[...] And it contains dimensions and gradations and varieties that cannot be recorded by scientific instruments, and this comes near in its own way to the infinite varieties present within one electrical action.

The scientific framework of reference has become equated with the term “rational thinking,” to such an extent that any other slant of thought automatically seems to be irrational. [...]

Under Prentice’s auspices, however, you also have Parker Books — books that are devoted to quite anti-establishment ideas and concepts — to all brands of psychic, scientific, or religious eccentricities, given to matters that contradict the establishment and challenge it at every point. [...]

[...] These challenges aren’t just national, of course, but worldwide: The scientific rationale embodied in TMI runs headlong into the western world’s reliance upon energy supplies — mainly oil — from nations that are largely religiously oriented, and that profess all kinds of antipathy for social orders other than their own. [...]

There are variations, and actually James has explained the natural background there, for it is all tied in with religious, psychological, and scientific beliefs.

[...] At the gallery, for example, when your psychic work began, he did not speak out, and you encouraged him not to, and you both considered this as a scientific kind of breakthrough. [...]

[...] You were able to do something few people can: leap intuitively and mentally above your own period—to discard intellectually and mentally, and sometimes emotionally, the shortsighted, unfortunate religious, scientific and social beliefs of your fellows.

[...] He would have discovered much more had he been able to trust his intuitions even more, and able to leave more of the so-called scientific proof of his theories to lesser men, to give himself more inner freedom.”

[...] These “guys” then will be doctors, parapsychologists, psychiatrists, and members of other scientific disciplines.

[...] The concept was shifted over to the flawed self of scientific vintage. [...]