“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt directed his will in certain areas. Your will is your intent. All of the power of your being is mobilized by your will, and your will makes its deductions according to your beliefs about reality. Each of you use your will in your own way. Each of you has your own way of dealing with challenges. Ruburt used his will to solve one challenge: he was determined to find the kind of mate that would best suit him, and his own unique characteristics. That intent was in his mind.

When that challenge was met he used his will and mobilized all of his power to fulfill his abilities, and to bring about conditions in which he hoped Joseph could also fulfill his. The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. Ruburt always concentrated in his own way upon one challenge at a time, boring in, so to speak, and ignoring anything else that might distract him.

He did not until today connect up the idea of the power of the will and his body, for he has willed his body down. He sees that the challenge has been won, and now it is time to take up the next challenge, to apply the power of the will to the body.

To his way of thinking he cut out all excess baggage, so he had a spare diet, physically speaking. Because the body has its own sense there were always periods when it rebelled, when physical improvements showed. But the power of Ruburt’s will was not directed in those terms. The power of his will said “We are not ready yet. We are still working on one challenge,” so it seemed, finally, that he was powerless or helpless to alter the rigidity of his body.

[...] He is challenging, finally, the old beliefs that say that the self’s spontaneity is not to be trusted. He is challenging those ideas emotionally and philosophically, uniting then physical action and inner mobility. [...]

[...] The body is already responding, however, to the challenge accepted. Before, he would not accept the challenge. [...]

[...] It is as valid — far more valid — as an orbiting city in the sky, in physical terms, and it challenges your creative abilities much more. You need a good challenge — it is fun! Not because you should do it, but because you desire it … It is a great creative challenge that you can throw down to yourselves from your future selves.

[...] I challenge you now to be as creative in another reality as you are in this one. And if it seems to you, because of your beliefs, that you are limited here, then I joyfully challenge each of you to create a city, an environment, and perhaps a world, in which no such limitations occur. [...]

[...] If you recognized the power of your own being, you would know that it ever seeks greater realms of creativity and experience, in which new challenges are inherent — for all problems are challenges.

[...] Many of you have a tendency to believe that anyone with such abilities as Ruburt has, has no problems or challenges. [...]

[...] You are therefore challenges to me. Your progress is my challenge. Ruburt’s condition now is his challenge, for in overcoming it he overcomes limitations of which he was not aware before. [...]

[...] The intuitions and the intellect are meant to challenge and develop each other, and intuitional knowledge and intellectual knowledge will ultimately lead to the same answers.

[...] Other existences also involve these challenges.

The ego found poetry acceptable and never challenged it. [...]

[...] I challenge you to use all of your abilities and all of your senses. I challenge you to open your inner eyes, to use your minds, to use your inner intuitions. I challenge you to be yourselves and it is the greatest challenge that could be given you, and it is the only way that you will learn. [...]

[...] But now it is time for you to be challenged. It is time for you to challenge your own mind and your own intuition. [...]

[...] I cannot give it to you, but you can take it and I challenge you to do so. [...]

[...] Beliefs can be challenged, examined, changed, with resulting alterations in your experience.

Now: beginning my book as I suggested in the last session, Ruburt has begun to encounter, recognize and timidly begun to challenge body beliefs just in the last few days. [...]

[...] (About Jane and me being essentially alone in that world now after my mother’s death, etc.) In the inner order of events he is walking nearly normally, but the challenge to beliefs must take place on that outer level, and this is now occurring. [...]

[...] His idea of challenging body beliefs is important. [...]

The quality of the challenges is often an indication of the heights that are possible. [...] The development to be based upon problems overcome and challenges accepted and conquered.

[...] You settled upon your particular life situation with certain problems and challenges in mind. [...] That particular problem then is also a challenge and a way of development for you both.

The particular problems were set by the inner self as challenges and learning guides. [...]

[...] Without the past challenge, or one like it, the various elements of the personality would not be sufficiently united, strong enough, to carry the abilities that have been latent within it.

[...] At that point he immediately took it for granted, with a rush of self-disapproval, that this was a sign that he had learned nothing, and that his body was objecting to the whole idea of going out, and therefore challenging him—in other words, that his negative beliefs had risen to challenge new healthier attitudes.

[...] If you want challenges, learn to challenge your self-disapproval, and to question those beliefs that you take for granted as truth. [...]

[...] Ruburt managed to stop worrying for a while, except for a few lapses, and you yourself made strides also there, and met your own challenges. [...]

[...] If not, you both take it for granted that the body is not in the middle of a process, but that some immediate challenge exists.

Ah, there’s the challenge, then — to understand our inherent creativity. [...] My wife’s life and work show that we can even create challenges and goals before birth, then in physical life plunge into fulfilling those qualities as we don flesh and clothing and beliefs. Yet what great, unexpected convolutions we can encounter in those challenges we’ve created! [...]

[...] Not only about Jane’s fine ability to speak in a trance or dissociated state for Seth, that “energy personality essence,” as he calls himself, but about all of the vastly complicated challenges that can, and do, arise in the course of a human life.

[...] The body beliefs however have not been challenged.

The initiating reasons behind those beliefs have been challenged. [...]

[...] Those areas in which you have doubts are of course the challenging ones. [...]

[...] While the main challenge is his, you can help by reviving your own beliefs that he can indeed return to normal physical behavior.

There are comprehensions, illuminations, that cannot be verbalized, that arise as a result of … solving problems or challenges that seem to have nothing to do with the original challenges. [...] They are achievements that arise out of a given situation, while often in your terms the given challenge may not seem to be solved.

[...] Then I realized that a lengthy, elaborate introduction for Volume 2 is hardly necessary, and I began to relax about the challenge.

Some of my descriptive passages in Dreams as I deal with Jane’s personal challenges are harrowing; they strike at the very heart of our fears of illness and disability, and even death, leading us to consciously face those possibilities while at the same time they perfectly mirror our equally profound inner needs and drives. [...]

I learned long ago that Jane’s great creative abilities are so intimately bound up with her personal challenges that they’re inseparable. [...]

In a way, on one level, a personality seems to be operating “blind,” while in another it is aware of its accomplishments and challenges. Often a situation of unbalance is set up that would not exist had the personality not accepted the challenges and hence the potentials for an even greater development.

[...] This has nothing to do with so-called psychic phenomena, but the natural growth and development of a personality whenever it tries to go beyond its space and time context, and takes a challenge of such a nature.

[...] However—give us a moment—errors can also be used as challenges and those of you who are afraid to commit errors, or who are too afraid to face challenges, and therefore, never look upon an error as a deep or dark thing forever beyond repair, for from it challenges spring. [...]

[...] They have their own business to attend to and their own reality to meet and their own challenges to accept, but, they are coming to you so that you will be aware of their continued existence; and also so that you will be aware of the nature of your own inner self which is as free of your physical body now as they are. [...]

[...] They come into reality with problems, but all of you come into reality with challenges that you have set ahead of time, in your terms. [...]

Many personalities do, but when you came into this existence, you came into it with problems and challenges you gave yourself and these probable selves exist in the same manner. [...]

[...] Again, however, creative challenges are set by each individual, challenges that involve achievements, of course, of one kind or another, simple or sublime. [...]

[...] Instead I asked that he deal with the challenges Jane and I still face, and apparently are unable to resolve—her symptoms, and my own feelings of panic, and related symptoms, as mentioned also in the last session. [...]

[...] They are challenges, highly characteristic of all living matter.

In that regard you do not challenge yourselves, and to that extent your work also suffers. [...]

[...] When she actually wrote the poem, she’d had her physical symptoms for some nine years; for her own creative and challenging reasons she had allowed them to gain a deep hold upon her, and I think that she drew her inspiration for this poem from that context.)

(“With all of her mental and physical challenges, my wife could still write a poem of humble thanks to the earth. [...]

[...] I see now that given the lifetime challenges she’s chosen, such thoughts will continue to play a prominent role in the reality Jane is creating for herself:)

[...] Each of you have your own way of dealing with challenges. Ruburt used his will to solve [a series of] challenges.

[...] When that challenge was met he used his will and mobilized all of his power to fulfill his abilities, and to bring about conditions in which he hoped Joseph (as Seth calls me) could also fulfill his. [...] In his own way Ruburt always concentrated upon one challenge at a time — boring in, so to speak, and ignoring anything else that might distract him.

[...] For other contrasting examples, in Volume 1 see the notes closing out sessions 688 and 703, as well as related material in Appendix 4, wherein I wrote about the translation challenges she’s often faced since beginning “Unknown” Reality: “— hence her talk before many of these sessions … about attaining that ‘certain clear focus,’ or ‘the one clearest place in consciousness,’ before she began speaking for Seth.”

[...] On the other it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also ensuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by [conditions in his exterior environment] … He sees that the challenge has been won, and now it is time to take up the next one, to apply the power of the will to certain physical areas.

[...] You chose challenges, then, because despite it all your personalities are the kind that set up such life situations to begin with. [...]

[...] You can, however, choose to accept your challenges wholeheartedly, resolutely—something that you have not really done. [...]

[...] There was work involved in the typing of manuscripts, hours spent, but the success itself was the result of your individual and joint intuitive creativity, curiosity, your sense of challenge and more adventure.

[...] You must realize that you chose this reality, and unconventional challenges. [...]

[...] Many of the events and feelings evoked such deep implications of trial and challenge for Jane and me that we were often left with strong feelings of unreality: This can’t be happening to us. [...]

[...] Indeed, for several weeks following the initiation of the challenges I relate in the essays, supposedly creative activities like writing books and painting pictures often faded into insignificance by comparison. [...]

[...] We adjusted in ways that a few weeks previously would have seemed unbelievable to us—and, ironically, as must often happen in such situations, once we’d moved into our new joint reality, it appeared that those particular challenges had always been incipient for us.