“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There is a resistance here on your part, a resistance to the kind of material that I am giving you this evening. A rather stubborn resistance that has its roots in your childhood in this life. The resistance is allowing you to cheat yourself in more areas than one. While you are somewhat better about this, there has been no profound change in your attitudes in this one particular area.

(I think that whatever fears of life Jane has are the result of conditioning early in life, and that they have successfully resisted all attempts to dig them out. [...] When I saw that she was giving up on those movements after a couple of months, I took it as another sign of resistance on the part of deeply entrenched parts of the personality.

[...] But more importantly, that they, too, reflected a dogged resistance to change on her part — of certain portions of the personality, that is. [...]

[...] I took that as another sign of resistance. [...]

These incidents in the past, that appear as the original initiation of an illness, they represent points, or kinks, where energy is not smoothly used, but tends to bunch up because of a resistance. Now obviously the particular energy does not bunch up, but a pattern remains in the personality where energy is spent in resistance, and not in efficient action, and not in effective idea constructions.

You have indeed been trying too hard with the pendulum, which sets up its own kind of resistance. [...]

[...] Even in your desire to discover such original causes of physical ills, a part of you sets up resistances, new ones, which take additional energy.

[...] The resistance is obviously necessary, however. It is this same sort of resistance, on a much simpler level, that he uses to block me whenever his ego becomes overly concerned.

[...] The personality is already immersed in a dimensional transformation; when the emotional need of those within the physical plane call out for communication, they add to the pull or force of the attraction still present, binding portions of the personality to the physical field, and can add to the resistance encountered by personalities in transformation.

The psychic organism is much better equipped to handle such transformations and translations than is the physical organism, and there are also influences, quite natural, from surrounding psychic environments within your system that can act as resistances.

[...] Because they are units or systems, they do possess at their outer limits a resistance which serves to give them unitary identity, a resistance which tends to attract like and repel unlike elements.

Yet also at this point of resistance will be found, in the case of your system, particles that are part of your system and also part of another system. In other words, where two systems merge the outer resistant edges of each are the same.

[...] And while these particles act as resistant boundary forces, they are also uniting forces, forming so to speak the connective tissue that both separates and unites.

It will be easier (i.e., there will be less resistance; put that in parentheses) for a given individual to accept certain ideas or emotions therefore, and more difficult for him to accept certain others. [...] While no system is closed, each system has at its furthest reaches sufficient resistance to form sufficient-enough boundaries, so that its own identity is retained.

[...] Uncharacteristic thoughts or emotions must then meet with some resistance. [...]

[...] It will accept most readily those thoughts and emotions, or electric actions, which attract it, which have a similarity to its own charged emotional climate; and it will have greater resistance to those which have the greatest dissimilarities. [...]

[...] The resistance is the result of conflicts in beliefs. [...]

[...] The effort to eat more will be as resisted by the chronically underweight, as the effort to refrain from eating will be by the obese. [...]

[...] There is however a resistance about or around such units, large or small; and it is this resistance through which a mental action must appear, and within which the characteristics or camouflages of the units operate.

For all systems, so-called time is measured with the entrance or projection of any given mental action through this resistance barrier. [...]

[...] Other systems, by their very nature, set up a resistance, that resists. [...]

[...] Little resistance is encountered with them. [...]

[...] The earlier resistance against exercise was quite understandable, for it was a symptom of the inner resistance.

[...] There was resistance against it in the past. [...]

(Putting off Dreams, it seemed to me, was a necessity at the moment because I now believed that the long interlude in her dictation was, again, a clear sign of resistance to the project on Jane’s part. The idea is an attempt to at least call a halt to something that she has resisted from the start, or so it seems in retrospect—and I mean the start of the sessions, not just Dreams. [...]

(As I covered her up for a nap at 4:30 this afternoon, I asked her “how one person could raise so much hell?”—meaning that in line with our talk today I now believed that the whole Seth business, and especially the books, had been conducted in the face of a steady, fierce resistance. [...] That resistance is the state that we absolutely must dissipate, I think.

[...] And to me, as I began to put all of this together, it meant that although she did the Seth books, which we think so highly of, she also drags her feet in resistance with each one—hence the long intervals of non-work that crop up during the production of each one. [...]

It is all there is black and white, including suggestions in the sexual area, why it would be advantageous, the various emotional points of resistance that would appear during such encounters, and their significance, and much more.

There are definite points—and check the old sessions—where emotional resistances will be reached and he will want to cry during the sexual encounter. [...]

(Jane said she now believes her traditional pacing about has become a distraction largely; she thinks she no longer wishes to pace, except when she feels brief periods of resistance at the ego’s surrender on this point. On the whole she feels there is much less resistance to delivering the material while less active physically. [...]

(Jane said that when she delivers material while sitting and with her eyes closed, she is aware of a feeling of resistance at going into the dissociated state. [...]

[...] In greater terms no coping is or ever has been necessary—for coping implies a resistance. The coping exists first, and brings forth the resistance in experience.

[...] I mentioned and suggested his rising very early for several reasons, knowing full well a challenge and resistance would result. [...]

[...] The resistances are two. [...]

Some resistance then can be expected. [...]

[...] I personally witnessed Bill Gallagher pushing heavily down upon the resisting table a few seconds before it broke. My estimate is that the third, resisting leg, was perhaps an inch or two off the floor. [...]

(At the same time the table was performing so well, Jane was standing a few feet away, talking to it in a loud voice very intently, rooting very strongly for the table to resist Bill and Pat’s really strong efforts to level it out. [...]

I cannot resist—it is my own sense of humor—you make your own reality. [...]

The woman has strongly resisted the hypnosis sessions, and has suffered relapses rather than suffer the intense psychic and psychological reorganization that would be necessary for any meaningful recovery.

The hypnotic sessions still represent her best chances, if the resistances can be conquered. [...]

Those desires that are in keeping with your nature meet no resistance. [...]

The way of least resistance is always followed for desires that are fulfilling and fitting to your nature.

[...] I thought she was probably tired from this afternoon’s upset, and also encountering resistance to the session. As I’ve mentioned recently before, the fear itself could have by now—must have—acquired a life of its own, after all of those years, and it would as an entity resist being dispensed with, or transformed. [...]