“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The resistance is the result of conflicts in beliefs. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Your conflict personally about doing the lawn, or having it done for you, is by the way a minor example of your do-it-yourself tendencies coming in conflict with other ideas—a point I wanted to mention. [...]

[...] The conflict between Easton and Ambrose is primarily of a social nature. [...] To some extent the conflicting ideas represent some of your own—hence your being in the middle.

To begin with, Augustus was brought up to believe that the inner self was dangerous, that individuals reacted because of inner conflicts over which they had little conscious control. [...]

[...] Conflicting beliefs were uncritically accepted. [...]

[...] That attempt, of course, brings him into conflict with whatever doubts still stand in his way. [...]

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

[...] By now she was consciously aware that something definitely unusual had been taking place, and the second touch conflicted here.

[...] This appears to be in conflict with accounts we have read, wherein mediums have no awareness or memory of events in trance. [...]

His own inner belief in the sessions was strong, and is still strong, but the other conflict continued. [...]

At the same time he feared that the spontaneous self could get him into difficulties (long pause), because he had no way of knowing where his own search might lead him—and particularly he feared that it might lead him into conflict with the rest of the world. [...]

The immobility protected him, so he thought, from encountering any such outside conflicts, and insured his continuing creativity by cutting down other interests and distractions, and by organizing his time in a most economical fashion—or so it seemed. [...]

[...] At the same time the so-called conflict is also a result of your new beliefs—but taking the form of events that seemingly make sense to all of you.

In your world, however, and according to your beliefs, some “realistic” events had to prove out the practicality of the safe universe in publishing terms —so you have a creative conflict.

[...] Often it will sift out from the barrage of conflicting beliefs the particular set that is the most life-giving, and send these forth in what then appears as a burst of revelation. [...]

[...] Once the conscious mind has accepted a collection of conflicting beliefs, however, a definite attempt is necessary to sort these out.

[...] They often unite conflicting schools of thought into a more or less unifying structure. [...]

It is already easy to see how the purposes of these various families can intermesh, complement each other, and also conflict. [...]

7. In Volume 1, see Appendix 2 for Seth’s discussion of the conflicts I felt between my artistic, writing, and sportsman selves. [...] You felt conflicts at time. [...] Instead you saw them as basically conflicting. [...]

[...] He was fairly young, then, however, when he first encountered conflicts between creativity as such, intuitive knowledge, and other people’s ideas about reality. [...]

He has held back his inspiration, though, out of confusion, wondering about experiences that cannot be put directly into beneficial use, and also out of concern, again, that the spontaneous self and its intuitional insights will put him in further conflict with the world. [...]

[...] There is no conflict between what I am and what he thinks I am. Any conflict has been a result of his own misinterpretations.

[...] Later, conflicting beliefs often smother such earlier attitudes, so that by the time children have grown into adults they actually hold almost an opposite set of hypotheses. [...]

(After lunch today Jane and I were visited by our old friend David Yoder, who’s been in Florida recuperating from the heart bypass surgery he underwent early this year.¹ David brought news that was at first startling, then quickly developed into several conflicting emotions and ideas for us: He’d just learned from a relative of hers that a few weeks ago Mrs. Steffans [not her real name], the wife of the couple we’d purchased the hill house from in March 1975, had committed suicide at her home in a Western state while her husband was away on a business trip.

[...] You have not reacted to any negative influences in that regard, but in a fashion through your creativity helped reconcile what were conflicting elements.

[...] It does not conflict with the details of any given day, and yet it acts to generate overall impetus, and emotionally places Ruburt out of the house.

[...] (Long pause.) He became disenchanted at a young age with the many conflicting schools of truth, so when he found what he finally settled upon, he would brook no interference. [...]

[...] This brought forth some conflicts, for the writing self had been Ruburt’s justification of your love. [...]

[...] You had received the cover, and the writing self was facing its own conflicts also: was the psychic work its natural fulfillment, or a disastrous side trip? [...]

[...] As I massaged her with Oil of Olay I told Jane that I’d stopped giving her body specific suggestions—say, that a hand could open up—because according to Seth’s material the body had its own order and schedule for showing improvements, and I’d become wary of giving suggestions that might conflict with that schedule. [...]