“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Working late at night, or rising in the middle of the night, still offers advantages in that there are no conflicts in terms of household chores, or even impulses. There is some conflict there now that did not exist earlier however, because he is afraid that means he is hiding from you again.

[...] The affair is much more out in the open—the conflict between work and other activity.

[...] When the time is come, there will be no conflicts with physical activity, for example, and/or work, for he will have put his priority where he wants it freely, consciously deciding to do so. [...]

[...] To accept uncritically all beliefs that come to you is to open yourself to a barrage of conflicting data at best, in which the clear lines of action and power become blurred. [...]

He was a study, a living example, of the effects of conflicting unexamined beliefs, a fierce and yet agonized personification of what can happen when an individual allows his conscious mind to deny its responsibilities — i.e., when an individual becomes afraid of his own consciousness.

[...] I am discussing it here because it so beautifully illustrates the nature and power of beliefs, and the conflicts that can arise when an individual does not accept responsibility for his own thoughts. [...]

You felt you must make money, and so a conflict developed. [...] You believed that his best work would bring money too, and so you had no conflicting beliefs about money in that regard.

[...] He realized that this was often reinforced by you in your comments, and in this very simple instance you see the result of a joint belief freely carried through without conflicts. [...]

[...] Between the two beliefs however there is some conflict, since you believe you also need money for your self-respect, but that you cannot get it by being an artist, which you feel is your focus of identity, and highly concerned with self-respect.

[...] You felt conflicts at times. [...] Instead you saw them as basically conflicting. [...]

[...] While these conflicts appear highly destructive, and you shake your head at what appears to be some stupidity or stubbornness on Ruburt’s part, the conflicts themselves are creative, and will be used creatively. [...]

[...] They should not be overemphasized however, for the creative personality, by the very standards of creativity that it adopts, becomes a focal point for varying conflicts that in many other kinds of personalities are never allowed to emerge. [...]

They are however conflicts that are deeply a part of the human condition, and that must be faced in one life or another, both for the sake of the individual and for the sake of humanity at large. [...]

This in itself arouses conflicts, again, that the majority of individuals have not yet taken upon themselves, though they do, to whatever lesser extent, partake on a much smaller scale.

[...] A small note: With more physical activity, let him talk to you anytime he feels conflicts between writing and physical activity—and I will speak about that next time.

(Ruburt:) “Starting with yourself, counting yourself, the third person down to your left at that time was in conflict with you. The fourth person beyond them was also in conflict with you and you were frightened of them. [...]

Ruburt is doing more physically, and so now and then he comes up against his conflicts with time, of course, but with your help he is handling that well. [...]

[...] They should be accepted, for they often show conflicting beliefs that are then out in the open and more easily contended with, because a specific incident will usually be involved.

Following his natural impulses automatically brings issues out into the open, so that today he worried about not writing, and so was consciously aware of the conflict and of its reasons. [...]

[...] It conflicts with your natural way. [...]

[...] One small point: as you realize, the adolescent children did represent emotional conflicts in the dream that Ruburt managed to force his way through.

[...] When he is writing and also thinking that he should go for a walk then the conflicts arise more strongly. [...] The conflict itself then prevents the follow-through thrust, so that he does not feel the natural relaxation that would follow, or the natural resulting desire for activity.

[...] Part of the conflict has arisen however also because he feels that what he often wants to do—write many hours—is physically wrong.

[...] The symptoms then are intensified because of the conflict.

Remarks: it has been said that when the imagination and the will are in conflict, that the imagination will (amused) always win. [...]

It might be a good idea to examine that statement, for in the truest sense of human motivation, the fact is that despite all appearances to the contrary, the imagination and the will are never in conflict.

[...] They may state their purpose as often as they wish, and yet their imaginations carry vivid pictures of future deprivation, so it seems in such cases that the will and the imagination are in conflict.

[...] A time of conflict, and emotional turmoil. [...] For Frank was not complacent, but feared that age would make him so—hence a conflict. [...]

[...] He has sought out to some extent the strange and the bizarre, and he believes, now, as he did earlier, in the importance of conflict as a way of keeping a man on his toes. [...]

Thus far we have been dealing with conflicting beliefs, however — and most of those can be tackled in the context of this life alone.

Before we return to a discussion of other physical dilemmas, we will discuss some further unusual psychological events, and their connections with conflicting beliefs.

[...] “I got the heading earlier for the next chapter: “‘Messages’ From Gods, Demons, Heroes, and Other Prominent Persons — or, More Conflicting Beliefs.”)

Then, the strong conflict between the ego and subconscious was the result of home environment. [...]

The conflict between the ego and subconscious, as given, was symbolically expressed in the tying of the hand symptoms. [...]

Understanding of these conflicts will go a long way to ease the symptoms. [...]

[...] If you belong to a minority or if you are black, then you may be caught in a conflict of beliefs.

[...] The beliefs boil down to your ideas of right and wrong, and they involve all of your attitudes concerning illness and health, wealth and poverty, the relationships of the races, religious conflicts, and more important, your intimate day-by-day psychological reality.

Secondary personalities and schizophrenic episodes are also somewhat characteristic — again appearing as sudden explosive behavior when conflicting beliefs are damned up and held back. [...]

[...] Women with such beliefs and conflicts often wind up having hysterectomies, performed incidentally by male doctors, who hold the very same beliefs.

Now on his part it was precisely that conflict that got him into difficulty, and that brought about the ideas of “work.” [...]

[...] But he is now faced with body beliefs that have been built up as a result of the previous conflicts, and those are what you have to combat.

[...] He is learning indeed the use of a different kind of inspirational time, which conflicts with his old ideas of so many hours.

[...] The ideas of financial competition, advocated, came into direct conflict, Joseph, with your own inclinations to be an artist. [...]

Now when either of you, or both of you, feel that there might be something wrong in spending your time thinking, writing, painting, or worse, daydreaming, you feel that way because your way of life meets some conflict from old Darwinian and Freudian beliefs: you should be out there in the world—active, competing, or even just riding bicycles. [...]

[...] Many of your difficulties came as your own natural impulses and natural inclinations conflicted with both Darwinian and Freudian concepts.

[...] This had some advantages, but also many points of conflict. [...]

[...] When that nature is trusted, there are no interior impediments or conflicts, even though the individual may feel himself to be in conflict with certain elements in the world at large.

[...] So he experiences a conflict. [...]

[...] If the ego is not a particularly strong one to begin with however, the conflict will seldom reach these proportions. [...]

[...] In very few cases however does the conflict reach this sort of proportion. [...]