“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt, wanting a certain kind of career, tried to be less feminine. You thought of your father in many ways as feminine—passive, and of your mother—in many ways, now—as aggressive and male, though she was emotional. In any case Ruburt thought of your art as noncompetitive, solitary, intuitive, and opposed to the stereotyped masculine role. So if he gives in to an impulse to cry then he feels he forces you to behave in a stereotyped male way—in a role you have rejected, and rightly so.

He also feels that crying is dependent in a feminine way, and goes against the fact that he has rejected the stereotyped feminine role. With such a small example, however, you see how such roles, even when they are largely denied, have a bearing and limit expression.

[...] The Sumari language in those terms will be used as a method of carrying you further into the nature of inner cognizance, and then allowing you to return again, retranslating what you have learned, not automatically into the stereotyped verbal pattern.

The language will effectively block the automatic translation of inner experience into stereotypes, therefore. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In following this particular line of development, Ruburt for example will be taught to free inner cognition from the recognized verbal patterns enough so that any future work with speakers manuscripts will not be stereotyped out of all proportion. [...]

[...] And to understand what they really did demands that we go beyond stereotyped conceptions. [...]

“But I would think that Arnold as much as anyone else has been browbeaten by the stereotype. [...]

[...] These are the ways in which what I say differs from those stereotyped stories of which Ruburt was speaking. [...]

The larger pattern of human personhood demands a bisexual affiliation that allows leeway in sexual encounters, a leeway that provides a framework in which individuals can express feelings, abilities, and characteristics that follow the natural inclines of the personal psyche rather than sexual stereotypes. [...]

[...] During what is called the sexually active time; the larger dimensions of personhood become strictly narrowed into sexually stereotyped roles — and all aspects of identity that do not fit are ignored or denied. [...]

[...] In your society, however, identity is so related to sexual stereotypes that few people know themselves well enough to understand the nature of love, and to make any such commitments.

[...] In the physical world, such behavior often leads to compulsive action — stereotyped mental and physical motion and other situations with a strong repressive coloration. [...]

[...] Many such simple actions show a stereotyped kind of behavior that results from a desperate need to gain control over oneself and the environment.

[...] Instead, the young person is stereotyped.

[...] If only stereotyped ideas of female-male relationships operated, however, there would be no bond or stimulus great enough to forge one family to another. [...]

[...] Only a basic bisexuality could give the species the leeway necessary, and prevent stereotyped behavior of a kind that would hamper creativity and social commerce. [...]

The Sumari language itself will help Ruburt by freeing his concepts, and release him from the almost automatic process of translating data into stereotyped English terms. [...]

[...] But they must not be limited by the nature of its stereotypes. [...]

[...] For when you do unknowingly, you do what has already been done to you and therefore perpetuate, to some extent, those stereotypes that so upset and annoy you. I understand your feeling and your sense of accomplishment but also remember in your heart that the most stereotyped unoriginal suburbanite, in your terms, has within him all the capabilities of which we speak so that you do not, in your own mind, set him down as a caste system for that is what has been done to you. [...]

[...] And do not yourself fall into the stereotype of setting the establishment apart for it is also composed of exalted and anguished individuals. [...]

[...] Every individual in such institutions or societies is not affected in the same fashion, of course — yet you do have these kinds of closed societies, relatively speaking, and they can indeed serve as cradles for fanaticism and rigid stereotypes of behavior. [...]

[...] It allowed you to release your emotions in stereotyped impersonal ways. Some situations, drawn, might be of highly charged areas—the Spillane strips, for example—yet the release of the emotion was stereotyped. [...]

[...] You should also avoid labels, for these can stereotype your perception of yourself.

I will give you some (stereotypes): Ruburt is stubborn. [...]

[...] In another way, old stereotyped patterns were somewhat broken up. [...]

[...] A belief in a stereotyped heaven can result in a hallucination of heavenly conditions. [...]

[...] The boredom and stagnation of a stereotyped heaven will not for long content the striving consciousness. [...]

[...] You are stereotyped, do not stereotype your thought. The emotions are never stereotyped. [...]

[...] Bill said the description fits the stereotyper at the newspaper, and that the two of them discussed the ad this evening. Murphy, the stereotyper, whom I have never met, is according to Bill a large, rotund fat man. [...]

[...] On Friday night Bill told me my sketch was pretty close to the layout he finally decided upon at the office, and talked over with the stereotyper. [...]

There is also a rather conventional stereotype version of karma that may follow such beliefs. [...]

This will be a different kind of in-depth learning, a rather unique and original development that will be as devoid as possible of stereotyped symbols, which are usually almost automatically superimposed on strong experiences so that they seem—so that the experiences seem—to be made up of stereotypes. [...]

This in itself has led you away from stereotyped portraits, and you could have fallen into that trap with your background in comics. [...] At that time in your development you were afraid of emotions in art to such a degree that you chose in comics to deal with stereotypes rather than individual characters, to follow rigid patterns.

[...] Those societies were, however, highly ceremonial, and quite as stereotyped in their ways as your culture may seem to you.

[...] A relatively strong “sexual” identification is important under those circumstances — but (louder) an over-identification with them, before or afterward, can lead to stereotyped behavior, in which the greater needs and abilities of the individual are not allowed fulfillment.