“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This particular quality means that they resist forming any kind of organization, even though such an organization might help in answering the mail. [...]

Frank, however, takes it for granted that there must be some resistance on the part of the body, that it will be reluctant, and this is not the case.

(Jane didn’t particularly look like she wanted to hold a session, though, and said she felt some resistance to the idea. [...]

[...] I explained to her in the bedroom that part of my initial resistance to Tom staying so long was my desire to start typing this session, which I consider very useful. [...]

[...] I will say more about this later in the book, but it explains for example why a diet-watcher, suddenly determined to lose weight, may meet with veiled or even open resistance from family or friends; why the person who makes new resolutions may find himself baffled by associates’ ridicule; why the alcoholic trying not to drink finds others tempting him quite openly, or teasing him into indulgence by hidden tactics.

[...] How immutable, or resistant to change, are those two endowments, and what parts of either one can we turn off if we choose to? [...]

To our friend over here, we have you still enjoying class and coming here most faithfully and with great determination we have you resisting looking into the inner self—and skimming along the edges of realization—delight ourselves with the outskirts of psychic experience [sic]. [...]

[...] The very resistance you feel, you see, here in this case is significant.

Since the later 1960s, when my own troubles began, I stubbornly resisted medical assistance. [...]

(Today we resumed the vitamin and cod-liver-oil therapies, which we’d let go last week, in the face of what I had taken to be Jane’s resistance. [...]

[...] He was free enough to resist. [...]

Just as the native mujahedin—resistance fighters—of Afghanistan consider it their religious duty to battle the Russian invaders (even while thousands of their countrymen take refuge in Pakistan to the east and in Iran to the west), so do the Iranian fundamentalists think it their religious duty to export their revolution until an Islamic empire extends from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf.

[...] At the same time, Iran’s mullahs want a continuing war with Iraq to help consolidate their total power; they do not want victorious, high-ranking military leaders back home from the front to challenge their undisputed power (as internal resistance groups like the Mujahedin-e Khalq are doing). [...]

As I finish this note—and Dreams—I believe it quite safe to predict that whenever this book is published the reader will find that the general situation in the Middle East is essentially the same: The consciousnesses of the countries involved, then, will continue to resist all outside overtures to “sanity” that do not help perpetuate the exploration of their long-term goals. [...]

[...] A personality, or personalized energy, is never destroyed; but transformation of form remains a necessity for continuation of each personality, and in some cases an emotional denial on the part of the living, of this fact, can lead to resistance in so far as the personality of those no longer connected with the physical field. This resistance must then be coped with, and results in difficulties that could be lessened through understanding on the part of those so-called living.

[...] In rainy weather, there is an added electrical resistance within the atomic structures themselves — a sort of delayed reaction, hardly perceptible in physical terms — a delayed period before the vertebrae come to rest again, so to speak, in the desired position.

[...] The vacation would have automatically given you freedom from these daily charged items of environment, allowing the symptoms to break up completely without the added resistance.

You both knew the tension that would also result, for you would to some strong degree resist. [...]

[...] Jane still lay flat, quite unusual for her; she was not aware of any resistance, she said. [...]

[...] For a while when he feels tired, or when he feels a definite resistance against work, he should do something that he enjoys doing. [...]

[...] I want to know about resistances that may operate, and refusals to cooperate, even on subconscious levels. [...]

[...] I was afraid resistance was still involved. [...]

[...] The recommendations I gave to him should also be followed despite, and precisely because of any physical resistance. [...]

[...] Early this month Willy had picked up a case of fleas that was stubbornly resisting treatment. [...]