“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I want to add here that our real challenge in knowing our own species, and others, may lie in our cultivating the ability to understand the interacting consciousnesses involved, rather than to search only for physical relationships supposedly created through evolutionary processes. The challenge is profound. [...]

[...] Although she left Appendix 6 unfinished, it contains many ideas worth more study: “Some of the experiments with man-animals didn’t work out along our historic lines, but the ghost memories of those probabilities still linger in our biological structure … The growth of ego consciousness by itself set up both challenges and limitations … For many centuries there was no clear-cut differentiation between various aspects of man and animal … there were parallel developments in the emergence of physical man … there were innumerable species of man-in-the-making in your terms….” [...]

[...] I’ll digress here for a moment to note that we expect to be so occupied for the rest of our lives: The intellectual and emotional challenges posed by the Seth material are practically unlimited.

[...] Each of us is seen to be truly unique — but at the same time those studying biological evolution express concern about whether their discoveries will challenge Darwinistic beliefs. [...]

[...] Indeed, they wouldn’t have the time or the talent to make consciously known to themselves all the details of their challenges that had made them ill to begin with. [...]

[...] Yet I still felt questions and statements going around in my head as we retired—and as is often the case in such situations I wondered if I’d gone too far in my reactions, and needlessly interfered with Jane’s attempts to probe into and understand a most difficult challenge. [...]

[...] He is working with your help, and yet privately, as each must, with his challenges. [...]

As your present situation with all of its challenges, joys and problems is contained in condensed form within each of your days, so the same applies to your life. [...]

[...] And both were given the opportunity and the challenge of shattering old, historic frameworks, and of rising beyond them.

[...] The challenges are not there, either — only in latent form.

[...] Obviously, Jane and I did choose to meet the challenges presented by the emergence of her psychic abilities 11 years ago. [...]

[...] Yet the conflict that developed between her writing self and her mystical self, as explained by Seth in Personal Reality, was only one facet of her intuitive drive toward that expression: As Jane matured, she realized that there were other challenges for her to contend with too. [...]

“And that, though Seth spoke about some matters being almost impossible to explain, he enjoyed the challenge, and felt a sense of achievement rather than frustration….”

In ordinary terms that challenge, that achievement, are Jane’s own, as she seeks to bring to consciousness information from the creative Seth portion (whatever its source may be) of her psyche, and unite it with her “usual” creative accomplishments. [...]

[...] I’ll summarize the central challenge of Jane’s life, and of my own, by presenting in Note 1 the private, or deleted, portion of the session she held last Monday night. [...] Our struggle, our challenge, and one that’s most difficult for us, is to understand his material as much as possible.

[...] Perhaps her challenges were too much for her. What were her limits, how much more could she take after some 17 years of ever-increasing struggle, whether or not those challenges had been chosen—some of them far in advance—for whatever reasons?

[...] I could also tune into Seven for help with personal challenges, I discovered.

The Nature of Personal Reality not only enriched my creative life but challenged my ideas and beliefs. [...]

[...] As of now there are no solutions in sight for these extremely vexing scientific and political challenges. [...]

[...] We want our world — our living world, the very planet itself — and every life form upon it, to exist in the greatest cooperative spirit possible, so that individually and collectively we can investigate what surely must be a myriad of still-unsuspected interior and exterior challenges.

[...] Growth and challenge is provided not in terms of achievement or development in time, but instead in terms of intensities. [...]

Now that is the challenge and the ideal, and it is met to varying degrees by personalities at various stages of development. [...]

[...] All of that, we gradually learned, proved to be one of the major challenges we had created and participated in, mixed in as it was with our other successes and failures.

[...] When I went out to see what Jane was up to I was greeted with her breakthrough accomplishment—one that, to put it mildly, was to lead to very unexpected challenges and growths in our lives: Jane held up a sheaf of typewriter paper upon which she had scribbled in large handwriting an essay that had come to her as fast as she could write it down: The Physical Universe as Idea Construction. [...]

[...] Jane was living her challenges just like each one of us does, and her efforts were inextricably bound up with the world even as, I was sure, we were creating our human versions of the earth and its own reality. [...]

[...] I’m still amazed by the challenges two human beings can create and resolve for themselves within the inconceivable beauty and mystery of All That Is. [...]

(10:59.) Your joys and challenges, and his, jointly form your realities. [...]

[...] Each challenge we have to meet and surmount is at a lower level, and simply to break it or surmount it leaves one only back at the next level from which the fall took place. [...]

(Louder for the next several paragraphs:) Your joy, your challenge, should be in the expression of the ideal as you see it, whether or not you can in your terms count upon the consequences, or the impediments—whether or not the expression comes to fulfillment in your terms—and even if it seems to fall on ground on which it will not grow.

[...] Your challenge, then, if you believe in the photographs, is to send them out even if it means risking them, rather than refusing the expression of the ideal, which is always self-defeating. [...]

[...] Jane and I were slow: we didn’t realize that such thinking should have been challenged by us on the spot. [...]

[...] The ideas that we are promoting would indeed change your society—and to some extent they are—for they are altering your readers’ ideas about reality, and challenging the concepts of science, religion, and to a lesser degree, of government itself.

[...] Each aspiration presupposes the admission of a lack, each challenge presupposes a barrier to be overcome. The more adventurous will often choose greater challenges, and so in their minds the contrasts between what they want to achieve and their present status can seem to be impossible.

Ruburt has the same kind of challenges, and each of you have helped the other in portions of your lives together. [...]

It is foolish to say “Why does it take so much time to learn?” For each learning process is highly unique, and contains within it particular achievements that you yourself want; and these achievements not only rise above the difficulties, but in the greater view the steps are seen as steps “upward”—the individualized problems understood as the same kind of challenges you might set for yourself to conquer in a painting, or as part of the entire creative process.

An examination of your conscious thoughts will tell you much about the state of your inner mind, your intentions and expectations, and will often lead you to a direct confrontation with challenges and problems. [...]

[...] They will also challenge you, and bring into your life expansion and alterations of consciousness of a most rewarding nature.

[...] They feel that at any time they might be caused to face the greatest challenge, to rely upon their strongest resources, their greatest forbearance, and faced by a test of endurance. They use — or they often use — such a psychological and physical backdrop to keep those qualities alive within themselves, for they are the kind of people who like to feel pitted against a challenge. [...]