“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Through the anima and the animus, so-called, present personalities are able to draw upon the knowledge and intuitions and background that was derived from past existences as the opposite sex. On some occasions, for example, the woman may go overboard and exaggerate female characteristics, in which case the animus or male within comes to her aid, bringing through dream experiences an onrush of knowledge that will result in compensating malelike reactions.

The same applies to a male when he over-identifies with what he believes to be male characteristics, for whatever reason. The anima or woman within will rouse him to make compensating actions, causing an upsurge of intuitive abilities, bringing a creative element to offset aggressiveness.

They are kept in abeyance, so to speak. They are connected electromagnetically to the atomic structure of the present body. To your way of thinking, they would be unfocused. They are a part of your psychic heritage, however. Often you can call up a past strength of a previous body, to help compensate for a present weakness. The body does not only carry memory biologically of its own past condition in this life therefore, but indelibly with it, even physically, are the memories of the other bodies that the personality has formed in previous reincarnations.

The anima and the animus are closely connected with these interior body images. These body images are highly charged psychically, and also appear in the dream state. They operate as compensations and reminders to prevent you from over-identifying yourself with your present physical body.

Actually however, physical extension in space, in terms of even short journeys, will help to expand your psychic and mental horizons, and will help compensate for other freedoms that your house would have provided.

[...] There is a psychic give-and-take here that will partly compensate for the present lack of congenial friends.

[...] Even the regularity, when not overdone, is a strong asset, and in its absence some sort of compensating steps should be taken.

[...] Definitely some freedoms must be achieved to compensate for the freedoms that the house would have provided.

[...] The upper portions have been compensating as the body is in the process of changing its alignment. [...]

[...] As once he would not trust the emotions and does not trust his reason, this being an attempt to compensate. Indeed its purpose is a good one, but any compensation of this sort must be balanced by the personality itself in all cases.

[...] We find here also a balance of strong points and weak points, and again, compensations.

Indeed then here a compensation. He slowed down further in anger at the compensation, or what he felt to be its necessity. [...]

[...] The eye condition did result from fears, and in a way “compensated” for other improvements, but not in any specific manner. Ruburt’s general uncertainty and fears with the progress of his improvements led him to over-compensate, in muscular terms, causing lacks of balances otherwise unnecessary as the large areas of the neck and jaws began to relax and release.

[...] When you do, then you pick up such threats almost as if you believed this would somehow compensate.

(Pause.) Your father’s sentence—the paper-bag reference—was one he actually made in his own mind, in the life that you actually knew him in, and he considered that sons rather than daughters represented his one physical triumph —that is, he believed sons preferable, and they alone compensated for a working man’s life—a life he felt did not befit him. [...]

[...] This had made me change my position while writing in order to compensate—futilely, I might note. [...]

There is hardly any danger of that possibility, however, since it would be nearly impossible to perform such a task even with the most developed of technologies — and indeed, the very attempt to do so might well immediately trigger a response on the part of the whole genetic system, so that new divergences appeared with even greater frequency, as compensation.

The pelvic area, and a large surrounding area, very important, has been constantly loosening, and each release of course means that other portions of the body compensate. [...]

His circumstances of birth made it difficult for him to overindulge in the rich things of life, although his present mother used rich foods as compensation for other things, and this example opened Ruburt’s eyes and actually started him on the road to self-discipline.

These personalities, often talented in many directions and often with past experiences of wealth and power, choose to be born as Jews of their own volition, and this is a karmic compensation, not in any sense punishment but a needed adjustment on the part of the personalities involved.

It will enable you to act and to help without blaming them for shortcomings, since these shortcomings may actually have been chosen by them for reasons of compensation. [...]

(She laughed again.) “I also have an awful feeling that I’m going to get some kind of instructions from Seth about what I’m to do physically in order to get this material, and so compensate for this new way of receiving things … but don’t put that in the notes …

(I said that the near-daily routine of sessions probably compensated for their brevity — but also that we let much time go by that we could use for sessions. [...]

[...] At the same time he let his conscious mind wander, and to compensate saw himself as all-powerful, contemptuous of his fellow human beings, and able to work greater vengeance upon them for their misunderstanding of him. [...]

The greater the feelings of weakness then the greater the compensating feelings of power and strength — but, again, with no attempt at conscious reconciliation.

[...] To compensate—beginning at 10:35 PM —I’ll summarize my notes and concentrate upon the session proper. [...]

[...] He thought ahead of time that the size of the large window would more than compensate, but he carries some of his grandfather’s old ideas that the wind should be able to blow through a room so he has been uncomfortable there. [...]

[...] As you allowed yourself somewhat more freedom in this regard, you both saw to it that in compensation Ruburt in his appearance allowed himself less.

In your relationship as a couple then you set up a framework in which freedoms allowed to one were compensated until certain adjustments were made. [...]

[...] The idea is supposed to be that suffering is good for the soul, is a way of atoning for one’s sins, and in some fashion the implication is made that such suffering in this life will be more than compensated for in heaven.

[...] Otherwise too much strain is thrown upon other areas of the body, which then must compensate.