“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“What is the mind as opposed to the brain?”)

(Pause at 10:00.) The brain, as opposed to the mind, needs this correlation. [...]

[...] No effort had been made to reconcile directly opposing beliefs, until the personality itself was quite literally polarized.

[...] Sometimes the framework includes another method of cure, in which portions of each conflicting side of the personality break off to form a clearer psychological structure which can communicate with the other two, act as a referee, and reconcile the opposing beliefs held by each.

[...] For you will find that you are uniting abilities, so that writing and painting no longer seem “opposing” abilities, with a distance between them. [...]

[...] Yet as the approach of the scientific age appeared, before its blossoming, so new tendencies are now showing that do indeed signal a new era, in which the emotions and intellect are no longer regarded as opposing tendencies in man.

[...] Ideas of virtue, spareness and artistic single attentiveness as opposed to the idea of extravagance, the scattering of energies, or pleasure as a tempting disruptive force; all such beliefs are suddenly shaken up in a new bag, so to speak, so that you can distinguish between them with some new understanding. [...]

Some of the very attitudes considered good by the spontaneous self were diametrically opposed to the ideas of good held by the overly conscientious self. [...]

[...] In between may be a grouping of opposing symbols, representing your hope — a spring flower, a table loaded with food, a new suit of clothes, any sign of abundance that would have meaning to you. [...]

[...] He believed, however, that one set was opposed to the other. [...]

[...] I would hardly then impose responsibility as opposed to joy upon Ruburt. [...]

However scandalous or unrealistic this proposition sounds, the fact is that people do not “will” a specific outcome of events while their imaginations vividly portray the opposing outcome.

Now: Ruburt felt that you were more naturally disposed toward solitude and so forth, discipline, more naturally opposed to distractions than he was.

[...] The ideas are so opposing, and such equal adversaries, that the conscious personality can hardly bear to be aware of both at once —

[...] At once, I told Jane, I thought that science and religion would be violently opposed to the idea, at least in the beginning, for it would challenge many rigid beliefs held by each of those disciplines. [...]

[...] It is true, nevertheless, that many of the world’s organizations are formed around a completely different, opposing concept—taking it for granted that the worst possibility rather then the best one will be activated in the lives of its members. [...]

Hitler preached on the great value of social action as opposed to individual action. [...]

[...] I believe, for example, that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

Here the division was set between the idea of owning property, as opposed to being an artist. [...]

[...] That affiliation is a mixture of ‘female’ and ‘male’ elements that are complementary, not opposing. [...]