“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This quality has sustained her throughout all of her challenges as well as her successes, and I think it must have been particularly important during her early frightening years with her mother, Marie. [...]

[...] And so, of couse, the sinful self’s own overreactions, although carried out without “malice,” became themselves a portion of Jane’s long-range learning challenges this time.

[...] Perhaps if Jane and I could do that, a great metamorphosis would take place: The closer we moved through probabilities toward All That Is, the more the tensions associated with the subject in question would transform themselves into profoundly joyous answers and challenges.

But that simple statement also means that our dream work relative to Jane’s challenges has often been powerfully abetted by Seth in many of the 347 completely private and 159 partially private sessions he’s given us since November 1965. [...]

[...] You did not meet Ruburt either until you were in your thirties, so the challenges set were not those that would be solved by a conventionally young man.

You could have followed still another course—one in which you did not become involved in any intellectual or challenging concepts but bypassed them completely. [...]

[...] You react differently to the same set of challenges. [...]

[...] Together you can solve both challenges. [...]

His abilities, to be used fully, would inevitably have led him to such a crisis point, or better to such a challenge. [...]

[...] In other words, for the personality to use its abilities fully that challenge would have had to be faced in every instance but the poetry.

[...] The challenge and the conflict were then set.

But without the challenge and the conflict the personality would have had little chance to develop its potential, particularly in terms of understanding. [...]

My present existence is the most challenging one that I have known, and I have known many, both physical and nonphysical. [...]

My work in this environment provides far more challenge than any of you know, and it also necessitates the manipulation of creative materials that are nearly beyond your present comprehension. [...]

[...] I share my field of existence with others who have more or less the same challenges to meet, the same overall pattern of development. [...]

[...] This result stems from the psychic situation set up within any dream drama (pause), and in it the problems or challenges of your existence are worked out. [...]

[...] When new psychic challenges arise, another round of natural therapy begins in rhythmic pattern. [...]

[...] The basic challenge not only is not faced, but is constantly denied the physical expression that, left alone, would bring about its natural solution.

Now the inner problems that you encounter are always constructive — challenges leading you toward greater fulfillment.

As a result then of other beliefs Ruburt withdrew from the challenges of physical activity. [...]

It is precisely the challenge of things like dancing when he is in poor shape, but coming through when others are watching, or a trailer trip, or riding a bicycle when it seems impossible, or climbing a tree, that has the imaginative literal qualities that inspires him to change beliefs, whether or not those issues in that way make sense to you.

In trying to show him his realistic condition in the face of such ideas you end up by making him believe also that they are unrealistic, stupid, and that he should not need challenges but only the simple joy of walking across the floor.

[...] But in the context of that change, the challenge of extremes still appeals to him. [...]

[...] [See session 472 in Volume 9 of The Early Sessions.] Material on Jane’s symptoms, interior and exterior illness, inner-self constructions and challenges, recognizing problems, etc. [...]

[...] The very challenge was made because it, the challenge, aroused him to action in a situation in which he felt your natural inhibitions would meet up against his denied spontaneity.

The two of you in a more intensified framework portray your triumphs and challenges. [...]

Until now you both got enough out of the situation so that you did not seriously challenge it. [...]

[...] That is also a fact, and you constantly reinforce that fact whenever you have difficulty with puzzles—so that difficulty is most usually turned into an enjoyable challenge, with resulting triumph.

[...] Such desires and the challenges mean that you are provided with additional energy and support in Framework 2, but you must have the faith that this is so, and that faith will allow you to draw upon it.

[...] And think of the added challenges of feeling and perception where sexual changes between present and past incarnations are involved! [...] (I wonder whether a long-term past-life sexual fantasy could be connected to a real sexual problem or challenge in a present—or future—life.)

[...] (Doing this always reminds us of additional points to cover, of course!) Putting it all together is an extremely challenging endeavor as I try to summarize our years of committment to the Seth material—for inevitably we end up dealing with ideas lying outside society’s generally accepted frameworks of belief. [...]

[...] Her present impaired condition is certainly generating powerful physical and psychic conflicts and challenges, and it’s my personal assessment that she’s dealing with these in her own unique way. [...]

Jane and I live our physical lives on mundane levels, though, as everyone else does, so it’s inevitable that we often find ourselves meeting our daily challenges within those frameworks. [...]

[...] Now you set these challenges for yourself in a so-called past life. [...]

(Jim H.: “Didn’t you say earlier, referring to the woman who was born in a minority race, that her challenges had been set up by a previous personality, in our terms?”)

[...] I thought you probably meant the challenges had been set up by the whole self.”)

[...] Each of you, in your own ways and on the grounds that you chose, were dealing intimately with challenges as you tried to decipher the unknown reality and bring it into physical manifestation as best you could.

The inner dynamics of being—physically materialized—presuppose challenges, and those are set adventurously, always with the knowledge of creativity, and of various solutions. [...]

So in one century you were Nebene, and Ruburt was indeed the “prostitute” priestess,³ and so did you challenge each other, as in different ways you do now, with tendencies that appear to be opposites, but are instead different ways of approaching the same kind of challenge. [...]

[...] The spirit of Island One realizes that it would find the old conditions quite boring now, and the new alterations fill it with pleasing excitement and challenge. [...]

(6. At the same time, that paragraph contains very challenging ideas; they strongly remind me of the “Miriam” material I obtained about my father last week. [...]

[...] This is all for now, but again, later, you will see where it relates, and how you can disperse your own characteristics into another and they can disperse theirs into you, with your consent and theirs, to form new aspects of reality and to cast new light on combined purposes and challenges.

[...] You set yourselves these challenges, and in all of your lives you have been challenge-oriented. [...]

You are so focused in your roles, however; so intrigued by the reality that you have created, so entranced by the problems, challenges, hopes, and sorrows of your particular roles that you have forgotten they are of your own creation. [...]

[...] The challenge may be different in each play, but the great themes are beacons to all consciousness. [...]

(10:32.) Therefore it creates varieties of conditions in which to operate, and sets itself challenges, some doomed to failure in your terms, at least initially, because it must first create the conditions which will bring new creations about. [...]

[...] When you realize that you do, this knowledge allows you to solve the problems or meet the challenges you have set, quicker, in your terms; and also opens further areas of creativity by which the entire play or production can be enriched.

[...] The gist of it had to do with how far one wanted to carry one’s personal challenges, and that these limits or extents would be different for each individual. [...] Granted that certain individuals could choose to pursue certain goals and challenges even through the point of physical death, never relaxing that focus; still, most did not. [...]

(I wasn’t at all sure, but I wondered whether Seth’s second delivery might have been in response to the talk Jane and I had had recently, in which I’d tried to explain my own ideas about the extent to which one could go with personal challenges like illness, say, or work, or whatever. [...]

[...] “Your readers write asking for help with the idea that you’ve managed to solve certain challenges that they’re still struggling with....” [...]

[...] Those that challenge their own purposes, however, become instant targets of scorn and attack. [...]

[...] A democratic society offers the greatest challenges and possibilities of achievement for the individual and the species, for it allows for the free intercourse of ideas. [...]

[...] And there are always fanatics there to stand for ultimate truth, and to lift from the individual the challenge and “burden” of personal achievement and responsibility. [...]

If you examine your own life now carefully, the challenges that you have set for yourself will become apparent. [...]

Predetermination is never involved, for the challenge and circumstances are chosen. [...]

[...] For example, an excellent, satisfying life with a minimum of problems may be chosen either as a prelude to a life of concentrated challenge or as a self-adopted reward for a previous difficult life. [...]

[...] (I’m correcting the page proofs for Volume 7 now.) We had never called those sessions in Volume 7 deleted, though, and I’m happy now to trust that they may help readers gain insight into some of their own challenges. We deeply appreciated Seth’s insights and suggestions about Jane’s and my visible and invisible psyches, the challenges we had chosen to create for ourselves in our present lifetimes. [...]

Not that those personal sessions in Volume 7 represent the beginnings of Seth’s efforts—always with Jane’s and my permission, indeed encouragement—to offer his understandings of our challenges. [...]

The inner challenges, faced, will be nothing. He will realize his safety and ability, but the challenge cannot be put off. [...]

[...] That was a challenge, and his own did not frighten him, but those of others did. [...]