“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you do this you often ignore other contradictory tendencies that are not as apparent. [...]

[...] [Here we go again, I speculated, back to struggling with that contradictory notion of “simultaneous time.”] How does Seth’s instantaneous “beginning processes that formed the universe”—with no time involved—square with fossils in the earth? [...]

It is composed of a conglomeration of quite conscious but unexamined, or rather unassembled, beliefs about yourselves, some quite contradictory, and your “place” in the world.

[...] Now this may appear contradictory, but later I hope that you will understand this more clearly. [...]

[...] Certainly the quality of consciousness has changed through the centuries in many different ways, and sometimes in what would appear to be contradictory ones; but in your present you have nothing against which to compare your current consciousness of experience.

[...] Nor is it contradictory of me even now to note that Jane’s path is quite in accord with her basically innocent, mystical nature—for her acceptance of her nature makes possible her explorations of it in her own unique ways. [...]

[...] Yet, such egocentric characteristics often are sublimated into the seemingly contradictory practice of martyrdom—the two are united within the Iranian interpretation of Moslem theology. [...]

Much of this advice could not be given to you earlier because you would have found various parts of it contradictory; but it is not so, as you know by now.

[...] The records of that historical period are scattered and contradictory.

[...] I say discipline because whenever, individualized inquiring consciousness expresses itself in form, it not only expresses its spontaneity; and this is not contradictory: But even while expressing its spontaneity, it disciplines it.

There is nothing contradictory in the overall in supposing that these multitudinous selves exist simultaneously. [...]

[...] Jane said that at times she is still afraid she’ll give contradictory information involving past sessions—wrong dates, etc. [...]

[...] This statement may seem contradictory but later you will see that it is not.

“There was something very contradictory about the affair: The soldier-self I saw atop the tower was a Roman — whereas, according to the little I know of those times, such a position should have been occupied by a native Jew, who was perhaps a lookout for the city behind him. [...]

[...] It is certainly to you contradictory, your dilemma being this: if you have another self-conscious self, then (with a laugh) why aren’t you aware of it? [...]

[...] None of these things are contradictory to the nature of an apple. [...]

[...] At first I thought it contradictory that such conflicts can arise within nature’s framework—then I realized that they must happen all of the time, and so, actually, are natural after all. [...]

“I do admit that from your standpoint—or viewpoint—that it may be very difficult to accept some of the statements that I make [which] appear perhaps even to be directly contradictory to your observation of Ruburt on a daily basis, and to his own experience of himself.

[...] Personally, I don’t see why the statements have to be contradictory. [...]

(Jane said she too has experienced the seemingly contradictory effects of sleepiness or lethargy, and the sharper vision, during trance. [...]

[...] I want to know what it ‘thinks’ about such a contradictory situation. [...]

Earlier I mentioned several times that we must reach a point at which you are able to see around the corner of seemingly contradictory material,²¹ and this is one of those occasions. [...]

[...] Seth discussed his “seemingly contradictory material” throughout Session 918, which is the last session for Chapter 8 of Dreams, and up to 9:46 in Session 919 for Chapter 9. While researching this little note, I was once again startled to realize that Jane had delivered those two sessions over 13 months ago—early in June 1980.

[...] You are, therefore, sending contradictory messages. [...]