“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the AM the dream instantly reminded me of an almost completely different opposite dream, a nightmare that I had just about the time my eye troubles and other difficulties began in earnest: It was in the spring when I was doing James. Frank was doing construction on the porches then, too, and I was worried about the Gallery-of-Silence people bugging Prentice and me. In the nightmare a doctor said I’d have to get a certain shot or vaccine as preventative medicine though he regretted having to do it. I was terrified and ran though he said it was for my own good. They caught me and gave me the shot, mentioning something about aftereffects. In last night’s dream I wasn’t frightened, just refused and gave my reasons. (I think the idea was that increased symptoms were “preventive” medicine against a greater feared event or condition....)

This morning Frank’s brother began work on new construction—enclosing the porch (the opposite too in a way from before). I felt somewhat better all over this AM....mentally more ambitious or something and moved to back patio studio.

[...] I’m not getting this clear but the feeling was like you’re supposed to demonstrate truth through your life and my symptoms sort of were the opposite, or indicated the opposite; not only didn’t I heal others but not even myself. [...]

[...] Man is seen in opposition in the most immediate fashion with his own father. [...]

[...] But I am speaking of releasing within each individual the great human characteristics and abilities that are often denied expression because they are assigned to the opposite sex.

In your present framework, because of the male-female specialization — the male orientation, the implication that the ego is male while the psyche is female — you force upon yourselves great divisions in which operationally the intellect seems separate from the intuitions, and you set up a situation in which opposites seem to apply where there are none. [...]

[...] When they do so, seeming oppositions and contradictions disappear. [...]

[...] It is the opposite way, unfortunately ingrained through cultural upbringing—the opposite of the way that should be followed if you want to help a loved one or yourself. [...]

[...] Turned around however, with even a quarter of that energy used in the opposite direction, you can have a very helpful secondary support for the person in difficulty. You can tell yourself even that the person might after all take the opposite course than the one that you are imagining, and for a moment reverse the direction of your imagination. [...]

[...] You cannot encourage him, saying “I know you can do it, honey, don’t worry about it, you’ll do better next time,” when you are quite firmly convinced of the opposite.

(Drawing in the air, Seth-Jane finished the list, then told me that I was to place a second one, with its own heading, opposite the first. [...]

[...] Note that Seth would give a complete list under one heading, then match its components item by item with their opposites — no small feat, I would say, considering the number of issues involved. [...]

The effect of opposites results, then, from a lack of perception. Since you must operate within the world as you perceive it, then the opposites will appear to be conditions of existence. [...] You are being taught, and you are teaching yourselves to handle energy, to become conscious cocreators with All That Is, and one of the “stages of development” or learning processes includes dealing with opposites as realities.

[...] Opposites have validity only in your own system of reality. [...]

[...] The ideas of opposites also are necessary guide lines for the developing ego. [...]

[...] Suggestion as you know adjusts weight, and heals the body as thoroughly as it can be used in the opposite way.

[...] His imagination can be given full rein, except that when he find himself using it negatively, he uses it as strongly in the opposite direction instead.

[...] Beneath all this, the anima and the animus work together, again not opposites but blending characteristics. [...]

[...] The desire to be swept along, therefore, is as strong with the anima as the opposite desire for rest. [...]

[...] I have to some extent explained the fascination that one has for the other, as resulting from the inner knowledge of the whole self, that strives to attain true identity as it struggles to combine and fulfill the seemingly opposite tendencies that are a part of it.

[...] Help him to trust the spontaneous self, and as you shall see, these ideas are indeed directly opposite to those of your educations, so do not be impatient.

[...] I had to wear them when driving, though, because my driver’s licence bore an “x” opposite “corrective lenses.” [...]

[...] Out of habit, I’d thought the opposite was the case. [...]

[...] However, when the postman delivered my new driver’s license—good for four years—that “x” was still there opposite “corrective lenses.” [...]

I do not mean to imply that you necessarily deal with opposite kinds of behaviors, for there are endless variances — each unique — as consciousness expresses itself through physical sensation, and attempts to explore all of the possible realms of emotional, spiritual, biological, and mental existence.

[...] Religion holds some ideas that are in complete opposition to each other in regard to the nature of suffering in general. [...]

Remind yourself that for all you might have read, or heard, or deduced earlier, it is certainly not inevitable that all unfortunate situations take the darkest of tones, and that indeed the opposite is true; for if such were the case, the world and all of life would have literally been destroyed through disasters and calamities.

Some people possess beliefs that are so in opposition to each other that they are forced into some of the most complicated mental or emotional footwork. [...]

[...] At 9 PM Jane was sitting opposite me at our living room table, where I take my notes. [...]

(Jane still sat opposite me, her eyes closed. [...]

[...] She has not shown outright opposition to experimenting, but from various remarks of hers I know she is still not enthusiastic about giving up any of the props she has become accustomed to—the pacing, the open eyes, etc. [...]

[...] If you would have good health, if you would have good health for the child, then you must imagine this as vividly as, in fear, you imagine the opposite.

[...] You must immediately erase a negative thought or picture by replacing it with its opposite.

She was an activist, so you tried to become the opposite. [...]

[...] Being an artist and being successful were opposites for your inner self. [...]

I should make this more clear: being a fine artist and a success were opposites.

[...] Jane sat opposite me, her eyes closed part of the time, and resumed as Seth at 11:28.)

“Because dreams are such a perfect combination of stimuli from the inner environment and the exterior environment, other events are often used to trigger inner dream messages, just as the opposite occurs. [...]

[...] Maleness and femaleness are obviously not opposites, but merging tendencies. [...]

Through the anima and the animus, so-called, present personalities are able to draw upon the knowledge and intuitions and background that was derived from past existences as the opposite sex. [...]

(Pause.) Fanatics exist because of the great gap between an idealized good and an exaggerated version of its opposite. The idealized good is projected into the future, while its exaggerated opposite is seen to pervade the present. [...]

[...] I have used the different beliefs about power as an example, but any belief may be involved if it and its opposite are held in nearly equal weight.

[...] Joe B may hold the opposite viewpoint most intently — that sex is at least evil, perhaps sent by the devil, and below or beneath the dignity of a good man.