| Many people who speak with the most fervor and idealism are, at heart, filled with the dark side of pessimism and despair. mass-events §850 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| When engaging in black-and-white thinking, one does a disservice to one's ideals; every action that conflicts with the ideal undermines the ideal from its core. mass-events §868 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The fanatic is the reverse of the idealist, typically appearing as a vague and grandiose dreamer, whose plans ignore the full scope of ordinary life and demand … mass-events §850 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| When natural impulses are consistently denied, the idealist becomes a fanatic. mass-events §857 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Ideals are protective mechanisms, built-in survival mechanisms that warn of danger, like invisible fences. early-sessions-9 §446 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Before learning to handle energy more directly, ideals are the only guidance; once the lesson is learned, ideals are not necessary. early-sessions-9 §446 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Actively expressing idealism increases one's sense of personal worth and power; it is a protective mechanism. mass-events §870 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Idealists may be contaminated by negative beliefs, and their wish for good may instead lead them toward self-destruction. mass-events §835 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| When idealism is broad and grandiose, unrelated to any practical plan, and accompanied by a sense of powerlessness, the individual becomes trapped. mass-events §850 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | testable prediction | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| When idealists feel powerless in the world and perceive a gap between ideals and reality, they spread an atmosphere of negativity and despair. mass-events §850 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | testable prediction | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Expressing idealism brings satisfaction, which in turn promotes further expression; suppressing expression leads to a failure to pursue idealism. mass-events §850 | idealism Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Life force cannot be separated from or exist independently of the consciousness that constitutes it; it exists both within and outside consciousness, and is con… early-sessions-5 §218 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Life force is related to the creative power of the individual soul; you can draw energy from your own soul because you are a unique part of it. seth-speaks §527 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Animals are also full of life force; they feel themselves to be part of the drama of the seasons. mass-events §832 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Life force is not entirely "yours"; you are given life and vitality, but you have no right to arbitrarily terminate any given personality. early-sessions-9 §440 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The mistaken belief that the future will inevitably merge with some life force stems from a reliance on time as a series of moments; this is a distortion of tho… early-sessions-5 §218 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Within any given unit of consciousness, the awareness of overall identity is always retained; consciousness does not arbitrarily fuse or merge into one enormous… early-sessions-5 §218 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Seth communicates through Ruburt's third undifferentiated layer, which corresponds to the consciousness of Priestley's Time Three; therefore, at that point indi… early-sessions-5 §218 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | case evidence | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| There is a mechanism within the subconscious that allows ideas or inner vitality to be materialized or projected as material constructs; this ability is inheren… early-sessions-2 §51 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Seth suggested conducting various experiments and exercises on one's own (such as 'homework'), regularly performing 'psychological time' experiments and using a… early-sessions-1 §12; early-sessions-2 §80; early-sessions-4 §153; seth-speaks §527 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | methodological suggestion | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| On January 4, 1964, Jane and Rob conducted an experiment as suggested by Seth, observing their hands and a badge disappearing in the dark, Rob gaining color vis… early-sessions-1 §12 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | experiment record | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| On the return trip from vacation, Rob did an 'expectancy' experiment, suggesting to his subconscious that oil consumption would be reduced, and indeed about two… early-sessions-2 §80 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | experiment record | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Your body is not given a fixed amount of 'life force' or energy at birth that gradually diminishes with use; the body is substantively created at every instant,… personal-reality §625; magical-approach §5 | life force Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The natural person is the magical person, whose creative work is primarily accomplished outside of time, operating with non-cultural time. dreams-evolution-2 §920 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The psyche is distributed throughout the physical body, able to receive data from inner senses and form physical camouflage; the brain can only process camoufla… early-sessions-1 §19 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Early humans had a more direct relationship with Framework 2, did not fear natural forces, projected themselves into nature, and imagined deities. mass-events §828 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| In psychological time practice, one should seek expansion rather than contraction; focusing outward into the universe is equivalent to expanding inward. early-sessions-4 §178 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | methodological suggestion | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The reasoning mind is a creative psychological mask that enables one to perceive only data within a dramatic structure, thereby making free will meaningful with… dreams-evolution-1 §907 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Humans have over-specialized in the reasoning mind, neglecting the different kinds of cognition in the animal kingdom, which knows in another way and shares acu… dreams-evolution-1 §907 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Art is a property of nature, which attempts to transcend itself through its most fundamental artistry; painting is an original and coherent psychic and physical… dreams-evolution-1 §907 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Early humans were aware that the smallest parts of nature also had life force and perceived individualized consciousness that later became elements or elemental… mass-events §828 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Early humans' consciousness was more playful, curious, and creative, and therefore they experienced time in a fundamentally different way than modern humans. mass-events §828 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Science equates rational thinking entirely with thought itself, and insists on what is provable, leading to disciplinary fragmentation and bias. magical-approach §? | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Science regards humans as aliens struggling to survive in their own environment, and seeks to combat genetic determinism and the inherent defects of the body. magical-approach §? | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Science relies on physical instruments and thus becomes its own prisoner; it should use the invisible instrument of the psyche to discover the secrets of the un… early-sessions-1 §19 | natural man Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | methodological suggestion | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Science's use of outer senses and material instruments is the wrong direction, because the fundamental constitution of the universe (vitality) cannot be discove… dreams-projections §2 | oversoul Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | methodological suggestion | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Material instruments necessarily distort raw data, translating it into a camouflage pattern understandable by humans, thereby diluting and distorting informatio… dreams-projections §2 | oversoul Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| When scientists probe ever smaller particles with instruments, they become trapped in a self-constructed cage and cannot touch the essence of the universe. dreams-projections §2 | oversoul Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | methodological suggestion | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The cosmological expansion theory of that time was incorrect. unknown-reality-1 §702 | oversoul Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Because of time constraints, scientists will be blocked and will be forced to consider telepathy as a means of communication. unknown-reality-1 §702 | oversoul Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | testable prediction | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The correct direction for science is to turn inward and use the mind—that "invisible instrument"—the meeting point of inner and outer senses, where the secrets … dreams-projections §2 | oversoul Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | methodological suggestion | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Intergalactic travel is accomplished by shedding the camouflage of the physical body and moving through the psyche and mind (transformation of psychic energy). unknown-reality-1 §702 | oversoul Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Scientists will ultimately be forced to use inner senses; otherwise they will only handle camouflage and walk into a dead end. dreams-projections §2 | oversoul Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | testable prediction | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Value fulfillment is the extension of the inner self as it enters reality; it is an expanding process rather than an externally imposed goal. early-sessions-2 §72 | value fulfillment Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Actions develop in accordance with value fulfillment, which opens the eyes of the ego, enabling the ego to expand and form a whole with other egos. early-sessions-3 §142 | value fulfillment Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Within every individual there exists the force of value fulfillment and growth, which lies behind the fetus and must be satisfied. personal-sessions-5 | value fulfillment Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Through the practice of psychological time, one can experience an inner, nonmaterial "quality depth," which is the perspective of all psychological activity. early-sessions-2 §59 | value fulfillment Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | methodological suggestion | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| Every possibility in the material universe not only exists but is continually encouraged to realize its highest potential. early-sessions-7 §333 | value fulfillment Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | mechanism | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| The philosophical foundation of science at that time denied the very existence of value fulfillment, causing technology to threaten life. dreams-evolution-2 §914 | value fulfillment Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | ontological claim | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |
| When humans use tools in accordance with the directives of value fulfillment, only then are these tools effective. dreams-evolution-2 §914 | value fulfillment Life Motivation and Creative Evolution | methodological suggestion | 2 | not reviewed | 0 |