“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Their discipline and rigidity is considerable. Once you think of a “tree” (in quotes) as a tree, it takes great effort before you can see it freshly ever again, as a living individual entity. Cordellas do not have the same rigidity. Far greater, immensely greater fluidity operates. Inner invisible relationships are allowed to rise, the acknowledged recognized reality viewed through the lenses of these emerging relationships. Then the cordella changes its nature, becomes another new emerging group of relationships, another lens in other words. Do you follow the connections?

Now the Sumari language will avoid specific, indelible, rigid pattern in much the same way. (Pause.) By changing the names of objects you automatically look at them in a new fashion, yet certainly all objects will not be given names, for this would defeat our purpose.

Now you almost automatically translate a feeling into a definite rigid word and image. The two go hand in hand. For physical reasons of course you need that camouflage interpretation, but you also need to learn the difference between it and inner cognizance.

[...] It is a healthy condition of almost complete relaxation, signifying the release of his physical system from the mental hold of fear that has made it comparatively rigid up until now.

The rigidity is literally draining away. [...]

When the ego is a very rigid one however, it will not accept the reality of these rejected patterns so easily, and according to the nature of its rigidity it may restrict so many areas of activity that the inside action, or the inside impetus for expression, almost equally balances the ego force itself.

[...] The ego is fairly rigid, comparatively speaking. [...]

[...] In periods of spontaneity therefore he will sometimes be overly spontaneous, and in a times of rigidity will be overly rigid.

[...] His rigidity of attitude resulted in a trend for self-destruction, tempered it is true, but dangerous. [...]

[...] The treatments being taken did indeed physically relieve nerve pressures and rigidity, but would not have done so had the mental condition not already been relieved.

[...] The sharpness or rigidity or quality of the perceived material depends on the energy which forms it, and the characteristics of matter therefore depend upon the position of the energy that fills the pattern; but by position, I think in terms of the arrival and departure of this energy as it passes through your field.

[...] The filled-up patterns appear fairly rigid and permanent enough to be counted upon as such. [...]

[...] The illusion of rigidity is the result of your own outer senses, a perception which is too slow to catch the constant pulsations, as bits of energy that compose material constantly disappear entirely and are replaced.

Molecular construction is formed from the inside, and is not rigid. On your plane such construction and such electronic and atomic patterns, frameworks and fields, are rigid to a degree, but even on your plane there is constant and apparent change. The pattern on your plane is more or less rigid while you exist on your plane. Nevertheless, the atoms and molecules within that pattern are far from rigid, though the pattern remains more or less the same. [...]

In actuality molecular structures and patterns are not rigid. [...]

[...] I intend to tie this in for you later with a clearer explanation as to how you on your plane form your own camouflage universe, and to elucidate on the fact that form is not rigid, though it appears to be in many cases on your own plane.

[...] The physical system would become too rigid, lose the power of its natural diversity, and eventually bring a dead-end to human survival.

Human consciousness normally experiences wide sweeps of rhythms, varying states of awareness, and its amazing flexibility is partially dependent upon its lack of rigidity, its own spontaneous inclinations, and its capacity for curiosity, wonder, discovery, and emotion.

[...] The “no” being rejected is rigidity.

What you want is not a perfection which is rigid, but the ever-balancing action of spontaneous motion, a balance precariously maintained for a moment through ever-approaching and receding imbalances that result in objects.

[...] The technique that is yours and is excellent should be the point of departure that sends the spontaneous action into new reality, and not a rigid mold to contain it.

Anything rigid breaks easily when any new pressures are applied. Therefore, when such a rigid, psychotic personality suddenly discovers a way for release through opening the subconscious, then the rigid rock at its core explodes into a lava of uncontrollable fantasy; and the terror at the base of such a personality is then externalized, and the individual forced to face under the worst possible conditions, those personal disruptions buried for so long.

A rigid personality pattern, held tightly in a vice of shall we say extremely immobile, subconscious psychosis, is unable to find release through healthy channels, and cannot arise into the mobile world of creation.

The eyes were not held rigid. [...] The rigidity was largely set up in the head and neck regions—arms and shoulders, thus necessitating the bending of the knees and so forth.

Until the very recent past, his body in a way was overdisciplined, so that it maintained a fairly stable but rigid framework. [...]

The messages do not all agree, then, as they would in a smooth locomotion—even a rigid smooth locomotion.

Any material object is being constantly recreated, according to a form that may appear rigid and fairly permanent. [...] It is the passing through of these personality patterns, within a certain field of organization that causes the appearance of both fairly rigid material which then seems to change.

[...] There are instead continuous, for now I will say continuous creations, of psychic energy into a physical pattern that appears to hold a more or less rigid appearance. [...]

Again, no particular material object exists long enough, as an indivisible or rigid or identical thing, to change or age. [...]

[...] I’d felt them, and she was holding them as rigid as bent metal rods.

[...] This came about when I tried to make her arms comfortable, and found her holding herself as rigid as could be — after all she’s supposed to know and have learned. [...]

The situations had changed but the ego framework had grown rigid, rigid enough so that it could in a large degree dominate certain normally subconscious processes, bringing forth the physical symptoms. [...]

[...] Any attempt at rigidity is therefore defeating.

There had been a tendency, as given, for a rigid personality ego framework in any case. [...]

In such cases the ego is too rigid, and does not expand with the nature of the personality’s whole creative experience. [...] In this case, however, Ruburt’s ego gradually began to let its rigidity go, in a gradual process that allowed the whole personality, itself included, to expand.

[...] Otherwise, you could become locked into a rigid conscious stance, one in which both the imagination and the intellect could advance no further. [...]

[...] He adds a flavor to the world that would be missing otherwise, and through his very eccentricity, to some extent he shows other people that their rigid views of reality may indeed have chinks in them here and there.

This rigid control of consciousness prevented spontaneous enjoyment of an everyday variety that would otherwise have had a beneficial and balancing effect. [...]

These measures, incidentally, will refresh you both and are always excellent provisions against rigidity in any form. [...]

We find here now however a fairly rigid personality, with many prejudices, given to literal interpretations.

[...] The rigidity becomes too demanding and the impulse toward freedom is fought vigorously.

Deepest abilities are not being developed because of the basic rigid attitudes. [...]

(“I didn’t want to be rigid in my ideas, and the way I expressed them.”)

[...] It will in itself help break down any inhibiting, rigid factors in any of your work.

[...] Rigidity of attitude, setting up either/ors, is a problem, and you can help him recognize when he does this.

[...] defenses include agility, responsiveness, strength, dependability, good health—and instead I undermined those and set up artificial rigidities; did realize impossible as it sounds that Seth was right—constant anxiety and tenseness caused the whole thing; and DID resolve to let it all go.

Much of the muscular tension and rigidity is caused by such constant mental tension. [...]