“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The appearance of confidence, the engaging social self, is indeed a cover-up, adopted to give him time to acclimate to new circumstances of this sort. [...]

[...] His rather hilarious performance in an unaccustomed social gathering is caused by this fear, and the spectacular aggressive behavior represents an attempt to strike before he is struck.

(4:35.) Truly great artistic, creative, athletic and social abilities are inherent within each human individual. [...]

[...] It was Catherine Murdock from social services. [...]

[...] The social and cultural aspects, and even the religious ones, automatically inhibit such experiences from childhood on. There is no social benefit at all connected with projections in your society, and many taboos against it.

[...] Around them are grouped the universities and academies, the social organizations, down to the PTA or the Lion’s Club.

Fellowship is important even to the animals, and your species is highly social. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) People “come down” with colds, or the flu, or some other social disease that is supposed to be passed from one individual to another — yet overall these may be very healthy individuals. [...]

[...] The woman is alone, with many empty rooms behind her, signifying that you set yourself apart from the many worlds of commerce in your day—meaning social commerce—and that such an understanding can also bring loneliness. [...]

[...] And all good works appear meaningless in the terribly exaggerated picture painted of social and world events.

[...] The aggressive social outlook would be good for the mother. [...]

He is slightly worried about the social-worker appointment. [...]

[...] But the idea that each person tries to actualize the idealized good as much as they can through their daily lives — their work, social structures, and so forth — and in the meantime use certain criteria that will help them judge for themselves whether or not their actions are really in line with their ideals. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Your abilities would meet some conflict in terms of religious, sexual, and social beliefs. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] According to Seth, it is from this interior body of knowledge that our systemized, objective, information-storing social processes emerge.

[...] The questions of lesbianism and homosexuality are also considered, along with their private and social effects.

(I finished early so I’d have some extra time to open the account for Jane’s hospital expenses — but wouldn’t you know it, the phone rang at 11:50 a.m. It was someone from social services at the hospital. [...]

[...] Instead you display whatever mask you feel is required, which is after all another part of the social game that you always play. [...]

[...] You get in trouble only when you identify too strongly with the socially inoculated man, so that you can say “With my beliefs, I do not think I can learn to put Prentice in Framework 2.” (See my closing notes for the last deleted session.) The “my” there, in that sentence, refers to the socially inoculated man. [...]

[...] But subconsciously you wondered what social environment your child would really (underlined) encounter, and whether or not you deprived him of the social and economic benefits that you have convinced yourself, consciously, you do not need.

[...] Social discourse lately has been your profundity. [...]

Now, to prove to you that I am a good and hearty fellow and that I do not always wear a long disastrous face with a chin upon the floor, I will leave you and let you partake of your social discourse. [...]

[...] The religious ideas served as social organization, much needed, and many of the monks managed to preserve old manuscripts and knowledge underground. [...] Religious concepts from the beginning kept tribes together, provided social structures, and insured physical survival and the protection that made descendants most probable.

[...] Social services. [...]

It does not matter that Friday night in particular is the time, or that one or two nights, or four nights, in a month are given to social behavior, but that you clearly differentiate, and make that clear.

[...] I was not suggesting each Friday, but some time set aside for sociality, not simply with the Gallaghers. [...]

[...] Yet it did contain indeed, at the time, sexual, social, and work implications, and it was carefully chosen. [...]

[...] He was discouraged from physical activity, and social spontaneity. [...]

[...] Who is to help initiate meaningful changes in our psychological and social orders? [...]

I don’t think our conventional social systems, including our scientific ones, are going to resolve our questions within Jane’s and my personal lifetimes. [...]