“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] A qualification appeared only under the chocolate headings where Jane’s pendulum said she could use the dry malt mixes now in stores, as opposed to the regular old-time cocoa used in baking, hot chocolate, etc. [...]

[...] overreacted to my version of the social or cultural world as opposed to the natural one—where of course I fit in beautifully. [...]

[...] I think the material is very perceptive, and that I may have begun achieving some kind of equanimity between the two men, or opposing sets of belief, that Seth so aptly described in the deleted session for April l8. [...]

[...] My dreams, those I remember at least, have also reflected efforts at reconciliation of opposing beliefs, fears, and so forth. [...]

This was because he had for one thing watched what he thought of as the two faces of Father Doran, who conned others in his preaching then showed quite opposing characteristics afterward. [...]

[...] The clash with the emotional aspects occurred only when a system of thought seemed formulated that would oppose the early emotional views.

[...] This is often accomplished quite automatically as other portions of the self form themselves into negotiative postures, inserting various thoughts and ideas and feelings to the opposing psychological camp. [...]

[...] The intellect’s reasons, however, were not entirely its own, but only appeared to be because the opposing camps were so out of communication. [...]

[...] Therefore he tried to be either spontaneous or disciplined, or intellectual or intuitive, but with the implied supposition that these were somehow opposing conditions, or opposing elements of behavior.

Religion and science both loudly proclaim their search for truth, although they are seemingly involved in completely opposing systems. [...]

[...] As a group the scientists rigorously oppose the existence of telepathy or clairvoyance, or of any philosophy that brings these into focus. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) They are in their way bridges between the two opposing ways of thought. [...]

[...] Prentice is always, then, to some extent in a state of creative tension, as the seemingly opposed, seemingly contradictory elements are each expressed through these two divisions.

[...] Not only will these reactions occur, but opposing tendencies will be brought to bear. [...]

Now there is a difference between the normal action of such stress hormones in healthy periods as opposed to times of abnormal exaggerated stress. [...]

[...] They cannot bear the expression of tolerance or opposing ideas. [...]

Idealism also presupposes “the good” as opposed to “the bad,” so how can the pursuit of “the good” often lead to the expression of “the bad?” For that, we will have to look further.

[...] Even people who are not so fervently opposed to spontaneity often feel that it is somehow suspect, distasteful, perhaps leading to humiliating actions. [...]

[...] The pressure manifested, of course, held our intense attention, since this is so diametrically opposed to our usual unthinking acceptance of the gravitational force. [...]

[...] Such checking was easy to do; nevertheless conscious deliberate checks were constantly being made to make certain opposing pressures were not unwittingly being exerted. [...]

[...] Determinism is the opposing doctrine that everything, even the individual’s course of action, is determined by conditions outside one’s will.

[...] Opposing determinism is the idea that man has always fought for his personal responsibility—that instead of being controlled entirely by his heritage, he’s capable of forming new syntheses of thought and action based upon the complicated patterns of his own history.

Seth’s material largely opposes science’s mechanistic model of the body wearing down within certain age limits, abetted as that model is by the power of the beliefs that say it will. [...]

[...] At the same time she said she knew the unusually intense feelings were good ones, say, as opposed to a worsening of her situation. [...]

[...] Your own ideas about money and success of course influenced his beliefs: your combined ideas now of virtuousness and thrift, as opposed to license. [...]

It is only when you dam them up that they appear to be opposed to the intellect, or overwhelming. [...]

[...] I had many questions, ranging from the consciousnesses of the ants involved, and their right to life, as opposed to the “destructive” view taken of them by farmers, scientists, and so forth in the conventional sense. [...]

[...] There are many reasons for such actions, but an overemphasis upon what you think of (underlined) as the reasoning abilities, as opposed to what you think of as the imaginative abilities, is at least partially to blame.