“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We talked about Jane’s illness, our insurance challenges, money in general and the medical profession in particular. [...]

[...] He’s given all he can — or wants to — on the negative beliefs we hold as individuals and societies; he wants to start his next book [my emphasis] on how to positively work our way out of our challenges and create a much better world…. [...]

[...] The independence which you have been learning you chose as a challenge and he chose it out of love for you. [...]

[...] He fears that there can be no more reasons legitimate enough to deter you, it is a challenge you know you must face, and that the best service he can be to you is to bring it to a head.

The situation will automatically bring up problems and challenges that you have put aside, but also offer possibilities of development because of the altered focus, not otherwise possible. [...]

Both of you set up problems for yourselves to be faced in this existence, challenges to be met. You do not realize that you could have solved the problems and met the challenges adequately, but without the satisfaction of strong creative endeavor. [...]

More than this however, your abilities and your challenges will appear to you in a much clearer light, and uncluttered focus. [...]

[...] The letter I’d had published recently in the November issue of Coordinate Point International, describing Jane’s challenges, had come to the attention of the reader in St. Paul, MN, who had called Maude with the idea of a fund. [...]

[...] Yet he still expressed sorrow, and asked: “Why?” He’s troubled by the challenges of one who has to live with a so-called deformed wife—and now a child—each day. [...]

[...] Can I count on you both then to face the challenge, and do what I suggested?

4. In Volume 1, see Session 687 at 10:01: Seth discussed how the dreamer and his or her probable selves, having “the same psychic roots,” can share in working out a given challenge in a probable reality.

[...] Jane on the other hand was surprised at Bob’s lack of insight into the challenge of cancer that he’s taken on. [...]

[...] It is vitally important, I said, and her continuing improvement has the power to solve our other challenges, as I noted once some time ago in a session. [...]

[...] You were to work out problems and challenges, but you were always to be aware of your inner reality and of your true home. [...]

[...] Very simply, delta brain waves are connected with dreamless sleep, theta with creativity and dreams, alpha with a relaxed alertness and changing consciousness; beta — the fastest — with concentration, and with an intense focus upon all of the challenges [and anxieties and stresses, many would say] faced in the ordinary daily world.

[...] I thought it much more likely that these sorts of challenges were much more likely to be behind my problems. [...]

[...] As I told Jane last night, there isn’t much more we can do about foreign rights; let’s hope that challenge has been met.)

[...] I remarked that if she had a session today I’d like it to be on what we’d talked about before I left last night — her right leg, and related challenges. [...]

[...] Ruburt set out, of course, to handle his own purposes and challenges, but he chose those in the context of your world, so that in encountering them personally he would encounter them for your society as well. [...]

As they sit thus comfortably ensconced (leaning forward with a smile), they observe dramas in which planets explode, and otherworld intelligences rise to challenge or to help the dauntless captain of the good ship Enterprise and the fearless “Spock” — but none of this threatens our friends, Ruburt and Joseph. [...]

Jane’s connections and challenges with religion across lifetimes are obvious among her dream of being a nun, the “nightmarish experience”⁸ she had two nights later, and the subject matter of the private session she gave on the evening of March 11. [...]

[...] We watched television replays of the shooting over and over again during the rest of the afternoon and into the evening, as for the second time within a generation the overall consciousness of the United States struggled, through our leaders, to meet one of the great challenges to our democratic way of life.

[...] She’d seldom found that reinforcement while living with a parent who had been divorced and become bedridden by the time Jane was three years old, and who had a host of problems—challenges—of her own to meet.

[...] of course, my feelings reflected upon the workings of my sinful self, or upon some similar psychological quality—for how could I be so involved with my wife’s challenges, for almost 26 years, without complementing them within deep portions of my own personality? [...]

[...] My latest efforts to cope with our challenges involve her letting go of Seth’s latest books. [...]

(Perhaps our biggest challenge from now on will be how to deal with the “fallout” from work we’ve already done—those 17 books out there that are constantly drawing a very mixed group of reactions from people “across the board.” [...]

[...] I know that it is difficult to understand, but the challenge is one of growth, one that exists in a fashion because you have moved into an ever-expanding framework —but in an uneven course. [...]