“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Various core beliefs, not well assimilated, will give you conflicting self-images. [...]

As he worked with his beliefs, Ruburt found himself in a position where he came face to face with two conflicting core beliefs. [...]

The same kind of dilemma can arise in any reader’s experience whenever two strongly conflicting core beliefs meet. [...]

[...] There are no points of conflict. [...]

[...] [I read these sessions daily.] It’s essential that these conflicting beliefs be resolved by the personality, and I’m determined to do so. [...]

(As I told Jane last night, I didn’t realize that I was so tight, so bound up with tensions and stresses, that I was ready to fall ill because of those basic conflicts with self-disapproval, the male-provider role, money, taxes, and all the rest of the daily paraphernalia of living. [...]

[...] He tried to hold himself down because, he felt, that the energy was so strong that allowed freedom in almost any direction, it would bring him in conflict with the mores and ways of other people.

[...] It is only when you make a differentiation, and basically an artificial one, between other natural abilities and psychic ones, that you think of his psychic activities as a conflict.

[...] This is apart from your conflicting ideas concerning success, but colors them.

[...] On deeper levels however there was conflict, and normal enough rebellion considering the situation. [...]

[...] Before one group of muscles on one side would react in one way, while the other side would react in another way, so that the conflict between spontaneity and caution was objectified.

You believed that you should be outgoing, vigorous, somewhat competitive, and you believed you should be socially oriented, while at the same time you believed that those things conflicted in a basic way with other drives. [...]

[...] You feel that conflicts with your subjective interests, and that the two are not compatible. [...]

[...] It is the dilemma behind the whole thing that is important, the implied conflicts between subjective and objective activity. [...]

If you would remember natural selves, and your own characteristics, you would have a much better, clearer idea of what to realistically expect from yourselves, and you would let other ideas go when they conflict with your own quite definite inclinations. [...]

[...] I have myself in the past given a good deal of information about the conflicts that can arise when Ruburt overemphasizes the idea of work as opposed to creativity. [...]

Also, dropping the schedule at my behest, the conflicts are more out in the open, so that anger is actually a recognition of impulse, frustration at not being able to follow through adequately, and the conflict between feeling the impulses and feeling that he should be at his schedule.

Ruburt is finally setting himself free, dispensing with beliefs that he once accepted from the world—beliefs that set up conflicts—and now the unity of his nature is healing him. [...]

For all her talk of desperation, then, Dineen has chosen her field of conflict. [...] Another may choose the severest poverty, projecting into that situation his or her own resolved conflicts. [...]

In these cases there can be some feeling of panic if an analyst, or friend, tries to switch the areas of conflict. [...]

What you have now is a residue in the body of conflict representing mental conflict, when at the same time the muscles are being given signals to let go completely, and also signals to tense, signals of control. [...]

There are tendencies and conflicts that have been with the personality in other existences, that have influenced his nature as he vacillated between spontaneity, usually exaggerated, and overdiscipline; in some lives a great lack of concern for the welfare of others, that could be called an innocent callousness, a joyful, utterly spontaneous personality with little idea of practicality. [...]

[...] This automatically helps resolve certain conflicts Ruburt had involving male-female identifications. [...]

(I said I’d been wondering about the apparent conflicts I’d come up with concerning those two lives; if my intuitions, or recall or whatever, were correct, I’d set two lives simultaneously for myself, one in Italy and one in the Mideast. [...]

[...] As stated, this brought conflict with the church—a painful-enough period for Ruburt, but he was sure in his convictions. [...]

[...] It inclines him to see his ideas as existing in direct conflict to those of your contemporary times. [...]

[...] Religious wars always have paranoiac tendencies, for the fanatic always fears conflicting beliefs, and systems that embrace them.

[...] Involved in her feelings, of course, are her own youthful conflicts with the Roman Catholic Church; these led to her abandoning organized religion by the time she was 18. [...]

[...] The emotional freedom that you have recently shown with Ruburt also results from mastery in larger terms of that conflict. That freedom called for Ruburt’s spontaneity even as Ruburt’s now-releasing spontaneity helped you in the conflict.

Behind all of those instances we have been discussing, however, there is again the need for value fulfillment, that has been blocked largely by conflicting or even opposing beliefs.

(Added conflict when: it looks like I’m getting worse and I get scared; when I’m really improving and get scared, when I feel inferior in stores—the other side of the coin and that keeps me from going out more as it’s supposed to; when I feel I look lousy or see myself naked. [...]

[...] I put up with that conflict and do poetry anyhow now and then; sloppy thinking in here and feel Tam won’t really go for poetry.

[...] Is there a correlation between my conflict between poetry and book contracted for, and Rob’s attitude toward art and money?

How dare any of you, therefore, set yourselves against that, or in conflict with it? [...]

[...] [Islam means “peace,” by the way.] The force of Iran’s upheaval makes the growing Christian fundamentalist movement in the United States seem tame indeed by comparison; therefore I want to concentrate upon the Iranian dilemma rather than the religious conflicts in our own country.

[...] It seemed at different times since our sessions began that there were disruptive conflicts. [...]

Those kinds of conflicts can only exist in a society in which the entire concept of creativity is segmented, in which the creative processes are often seen as inner assembly lines leading to specific products: a society in which the very nature of creativity itself is largely ignored unless its “products” serve specific ends.

(To me:) I want you to specifically understand that there is and can be no conflict, for example, between your writing and painting, for in the most basic of ways they represent different methods of exploring the meaning and the source of creativity itself.