“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your mother did think of Ruburt as a threat, for she recognized at once that Ruburt would not encourage the tendencies that she herself respected.

[...] I want to remind you however that I went to considerable pains to give you some of the important reasons why you both had a tendency, a strong one, toward repression. [...]

[...] Love goes underground, but springs up in distorted forms and exaggerated tendencies. [...]

[...] Tendencies toward lesbianism or homosexuality in children are quite natural. [...]

[...] A warning that after all there had been a recent tendency on your part, though slight, to slide into negative thinking. [...]

[...] If I speak strongly to you at times, it is because this tendency, while much less now than formerly, must be kept very well in control, Joseph.

[...] Ruburt sensed this, and if his own abilities had not been so strong, Ruburt would have ended up in a most unfortunate situation; for he attempted, for a time, to counter the wholesale destructive tendencies open in your house.

[...] The tendency exists to suppose that any true evidence or proof of validity depends upon those effects that can be perceived through the outer senses. This tendency exists simply because you are unfamiliar with other types of validity, whose impact is every bit as real; so real in fact that once such proof has shown itself, even the intellect must be influenced and agree to a validity which it must admit it cannot understand.

[...] The dream also allowed you to see ahead of time beyond the surface of the situation which did arrive on Sunday, and you were much easier on your father Sunday because the dream tipped you off as to the tactics that your mother would use on one level, and also allowed you to punish yourself and your father symbolically rather than actually, for a violent tendency which is now apparent in him toward her, but is not as readily apparent, but repressed, in yourself.

[...] The color black assumes stronger tendencies in its connection with evil — something to be avoided. [...]

[...] Your beliefs of good and evil will become much more clear to you, and you will no longer need to project repressed tendencies out upon others in exaggerated fashion.

While your relationship, that is the relationship between you and Ruburt, is extremely helpful to you both, you have a tendency, each of you, to become ingrown; and psychically you do need a variety, influx and the diversified data subconsciously obtained from others, as you also add to their influx.

[...] His tendency, both for undisciplined reactions and for habitual discipline, seem contradictory, but represent merely counterbalances in his nature. [...]

[...] They are very strong, but you can have a tendency to emotionally color material that is not personally related to others, so simply watch yourself in that respect, that is all. [...]

[...] These could be a smothering effect that you would try to conquer, but in doing so, there would be the tendency that you would try too hard. [...]

Both of you have seen yourselves in the past in a rather specialized light, and interpreted your success, or lack of it, or progress or lack of it, in one particular area only; and you had at least, each of you, a tendency to view the other in the same manner, though this was far more emphasized on Ruburt’s part. [...]

Some of this he is aware of, but all of it was based upon the specializations, the private focuses through which both of you have a tendency to view your lives. [...]

Now with the various people at Prentice, you will have such tendencies often appearing separately, so that one person will be highly conventional and dislike changes, while another might be responsive to work that was emotionally exciting, avant garde. [...]

[...] They also have their own paranoid tendencies, and overworked intellects to contend with. [...]

[...] It does not know what will happen tomorrow, and since it is overly stressed, its paranoid tendencies can only fear the worst.

Now those tendencies are not natural to the intellect, but only appear when it is forced to operate in such an isolated fashion — isolated not only in time and space, but psychologically isolated from other portions of the personality that are meant to bring it additional information that it does not possess, and a kind of magical support.

[...] The intellect, then, can and does form strong paranoid tendencies when it is put in the position of believing that it must solve all personal problems alone — or nearly — and certainly when it is presented with any picture of worldwide predicaments.

[...] The coordinates activate the generating behavior of atoms and molecules, and greatly encourage their cooperative abilities; their tendency to swarm, so to speak, into organizations and structural groupings.

[...] The physical time idea is a product of the ego’s tendency to make finer distinctions in order that it can classify and categorize, and therefore identify and give permanence to its own sensations.

[...] However, when the ego carries its categorizing tendency too far, it may reject whole areas of significant action which has been experienced by the whole personality. [...]

[...] Within the experience of your race as you know it lie all the patterns that would point to some fully developed human being, in which all inherent tendencies were given full play and came to fruition.

[...] A well-educated but misunderstood man, whose childlike tendencies are now in prominence. [...]

[...] For various reasons, not necessary in this discussion, the tendency was carried over with Ruburt’s first husband. [...]

[...] While he insisted upon this rigorous discipline for himself, he was caught between trying to inflict it upon the children, and by his natural tendency to enter into their spontaneous ways. [...]

It may interest you to know that your athletic tendencies are somewhat involved in your out-of-body travel, in that it seems to you that the body must be poised and balanced, and have support — hence the hallucinations you use. You can use those tendencies to help you, however, if you think in terms of a completely free body, able to move unsupported in space, capable of manipulations in the dream state that are denied it in physical reality. [...]

[...] It is almost a natural tendency to personify the gods while you are caught up in limited ideas of personhood. [...]

[...] Not only will these reactions occur, but opposing tendencies will be brought to bear. [...]

In the dream they both stood for completely different attitudes of your own, and here you see them objectified in your separate parents—for you do indeed identify those different tendencies with your parents to a strong extent. [...]

When either of you say that your purposes and Prentice’s merge, or your attitudes merge, you have a tendency to mean that this merging is somehow detrimental—that if you expected more (underlined), Prentice would do more: advertise, or whatever, and that is not the case. [...]

Regardless, there are certain tendencies, mental stances, that you will take about yourself, your body and your life to one degree or another. [...]

In actuality the powerful cooperative tendencies of society have become invisible, so that only the conflicts show.