“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Because they were formed at a time before the intellectual and intuitive abilities developed, and were not a problem until the intellectual and intuitive abilities seemed to come upon a system of thought that was in opposition to the underlying emotional beliefs. [...]

[...] Setting up a new system of thought that he considered in opposition would make this impossible. [...]

[...] There are various ways of altering the belief by substituting its opposite. [...] You generate the emotion opposite the one that arises from the belief you want to change, and you turn your imagination in the opposite direction from the one dictated by the belief. [...]

In fact, the opposite might appear to be true. [...]

[...] What opposites, what contrasts, what fascinations! [...]

You are willing counterparts (see the 721st session) of each other, and have been in your terms before — each playing out “opposite” aspects of each other, yet merging for common purposes and goals.

So in one century you were Nebene, and Ruburt was indeed the “prostitute” priestess,³ and so did you challenge each other, as in different ways you do now, with tendencies that appear to be opposites, but are instead different ways of approaching the same kind of challenge. [...]

[...] In opposition, he carried the belief that he should go on television, make tours, and so forth, and expose himself in direct opposition to those fears. [...]

Your mother represented the opposite in your mind—the emotionally explosive, suffocating immediacy, a female life and earthly ties, social commitment, homey chores and distractions that seemed to be directly opposed to solitary creativity.

[...] Each parent also represented opposites to them—but different ones, and so they saw your parents differently. [...]

[...] Or the opposite might be the case.

[...] Disastrous events thought to originate in a god’s wrath could at least be understood in that context, but many of you live in a subjective world in which the events of your lives appear to have no particular reason — or indeed sometimes seem to happen in direct opposition to your wishes….

[...] In larger terms, it is as natural for a man to love a man, and for a woman to love a woman, as it is to show love for the opposite sex. [...]

[...] Love’s expression is furthermore permitted only between members of the opposite sex. [...]

Play then at another game, and pretend that you are of the opposite sex. [...]

[...] This has contributed to the survival of the species by not separating any of its mental or psychological abilities into two opposite camps. [...]

[...] In all of his existences he has been of an extravagant nature, impetuous, choosing extravagantly-opposite experiences. [...]

As a result, other individually built-up beliefs that depended upon the existence of such opposites also spontaneously break down.

[...] Opposites seem to occur that do not exist in actuality. [...]

[...] The pity of the world’s present situation is that the methods people use often to achieve their desires, are those specific methods that will bring them the opposite.

Negative visualization, negative imagination, and the feeling that the result will not be achieved, leads to the opposite of your desire. [...]

[...] You know that no self-disclosure will lead to perfection, and yet self-disclosure and perfection can seem to be like opposites. [...]

A friend and I, with some others, staged the ceremony, and from opposite clouds in the sky Allah and I shouted out our claims upon his soul — while he, poor man, cowered on the ground between us. [...]

The two diametrically opposed ideas had to merge or the man would have had no peace, and only when these opposites were united could we begin to explain his situation.

[...] I waved to them as I ran past, opposite them.

(10:30.) On the other hand, if the personality finds that it has so over-identified with its present sex that its individuality is deeply threatened, then it may also bring to the fore the opposite picture, going so far as to identify again with a past personality of the opposite sex.

[...] Well, helper is the opposite, sort of. [...]

[...] Because of death, life is possible, so these two seemingly opposite qualities are simply different versions of the same phenomena.

[...] In some strange quirk of speed and physics, this knife-edged piece had not only been blown into the kitchen, but had managed to turn nearly a right angle, missing Jane, in order to come to rest opposite her legs against the table’s leg. [...]