“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Dictation: Your next question is easy to anticipate, of course, for you will want to know the origin of that “interior” universe from which I have said the exterior one ever emerges — and here we must part company with treasured objectivity, and enter instead a mental domain, in which it is seen that contradictions are not errors; an inner domain large enough to contain contradictions at one level, for at another level they are seen to be no contradictions at all.

In science as it stands, it is necessary that self-contradictions do not arise. If a hypothesis is “proven true,” then it cannot be proven false — or, of course, it was never true to begin with.

In a larger level of actuality, then, there is no beginning or end to the universe, and at that level there are no contradictions. There is no beginning or end to the psyche, either. You may say: “Granted,” yet persist, saying: “In our terms, however, when did the world begin, and in what manner?” Yet the very attempt to place such an origin in time makes almost any answer distorted.

To some extent, creativity involves you (pause) in a contradiction with the evidence of reality within your world. [...]

[...] Creativity allows you, while awake, to ignore or even to contradict what seems to be the hard evidence of known reality, either in large or small terms. [...]

[...] It has been put together through the centuries, in your terms, in countless ways, bringing pictures of reality, each vivid, each contradicting the other to some extent. [...]

I want you both to look at Ruburt’s physical condition in the light of what I have just said about creativity always contradicting the evidence to some degree. [...]

Sometimes you act as though one ability contradicts another. [...] To those who feel this way a definite contradiction seems implied. [...] In actuality, of course, no such contradictions apply. [...]

(Long pause.) You can look at an apple and hold it in your hands, so it is obvious that its shape does not contradict its color. [...] It would be clear to you that none of these statements contradicted each other, for in different circumstances apples behave differently.

[...] At times contradictions may seem to exist. [...]

[...] One creative performance does not contradict the others.

[...] They are more effectively used when playfully executed, and when no contradictions are involved. [...] No contradictions are involved, but the imagery involves the assumption of physical mobility.

[...] Just now, reading a letter from the editor of an occult journal I found myself mentally responding in James vein, saying: I am somewhat judicious, and therefore waited before responding”—and suddenly I saw—that I WAS SOMEWHAT JUDICIOUS—I AM SOMEWHAT JUDICIOUS and in my mind I’ve thought that I was if anything overly spontaneous and therefore to be watched lest my spontaneity contradict my “reason” as if on my own I had no “judiciousness”—and not seeing in fact that the symptoms were the result of —over-judiciousness. [...]

[...] He can pretend to be well and flexible if he remembers that, without feeling any contradictions at all.

[...] Some seeming (underlined) contradictions are bound to occur. [...]

[...] Yet there was no contradiction of identities.

[...] The contradiction seems a contradiction only on your terms. [...]

There is indeed no contradiction, though it may appear so, in the fact that all entities existed before your planet was formed, and the fact that fragments form new entities. [...]

[...] Then it is no contradiction to say that entities existed before the birth of your planet, though in your time it seems that new ones are being brought to consciousness.

[...] This again is no contradiction. [...]

[...] Even then the question arises of public response to trance messages when they contradict official thought—and your questions about how the material might be misused as you explained in God of Jane very well, and—How “responsible” is the conscious mind for trance messages?—How responsible are you for Seth’s messages? [...]

(“There are contradictions there, though: if he wants fresh air, it’s bound to be cold because it’s winter, etc.”)

They are surface contradictions, not worth exploring. [...]

[...] It will usually organize ideas in as rational a way as possible, and dispense with those that seem to contradict the overall system of its beliefs.

[...] When opposing beliefs that directly contradict each other are held for any length of time, and little attempt is made to reconcile them, then a “battle” begins within the conscious mind itself.

[...] Still Augustus would not examine his own words, his own thoughts, or see the contradictions so obvious to others.

To remind him, however, that others went up those stairs without a thought, was no help at all (intently), whether or not it is true, for that aroused instant contradictions. [...]

[...] To expect Ruburt to do that the next moment, however, brought up instant contradictions. [...]

I quite realize that many of my statements will contradict the beliefs of those of you who accept the idea that the conscious mind is relatively powerless, and that the answers to problems lie hidden beneath.

[...] It is not that certain answers do not lie openly accessible, therefore, but that often you have set yourself on a course of action in which you believe, and you do not want to open yourself to any material that may contradict your current beliefs.

[...] Without getting involved in contradictions, have him remind himself that the entire process can be easy, and relatively effortless, and will be more so as his faith grows.

[...] When they do so, seeming oppositions and contradictions disappear. [...] Therefore they are more apt to combine reason and emotion, intuitions and intellect, and in so doing invent theories that reconcile previous contradictions. [...]

[...] You both also believed that you must protect your special abilities with all of your might — but you can see the road of contradictions that is constructed in such a fashion.

[...] I hope that this session helps siphon off the edge of any lingering doubts or contradictions.

[...] I added that I was trying to avoid projecting any hassles with Dreams into the future, in line with the session for the day before [February 1], though I was aware that some of what I was saying contradicted elements of that session. [...]

It is difficult to explain some of these issues, for in doing so I have to watch your attitudes, to avoid any concentration upon seeming contradictions. [...]

Ruburt’s desire to walk normally for that matter comes from Framework 2, for it is a natural desire, in harmony with his basic being, that would flow into actuality on its own—had he not put impeding beliefs and contradictions in the way, so that the desire itself was buried beneath, say, debris.

Contradictions, or rather apparent contradictions in terms will arise only out of a false conception on your part, mostly as a result of the erroneous cause- and-effect system. [...]

The spacious present does not contradict the existence of durability, but durability does not imply the existence of a future as you conceive it. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I told you that at certain levels contradictions would certainly seem to appear, but the us-ness of the self represents an important psychic characteristic. [...]