“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) All societies basically need the insertion of fresh challenge and knowledge, however, or they stagnate. [...]

[...] You will have more challenges and problems. [...]

(Jane, perhaps Seth can tell us next time how we could have reacted even better yesterday to the insurance challenge. [...]

Now the challenges you both have can indeed be met within the framework of marriage, and can perhaps be best worked out in that fashion. [...]

[...] Tempermentally, however, I have never gone for such a framework, but I will have to think one up, it is a fine challenge. [...]

[...] You are also presented, whether you know it or not, with certain artistic challenges that the landscape itself will provide, and that you have chosen.

That challenge was difficult, but offered, and still does offer the opportunity for a kind of personal exploration of reality to which few have access. [...]

[...] You did not challenge one another. [...]

[...] Also an accomplishment that clearly stood out as a direct challenge to religion and science, that not only contradicted their theories but offered an alternate framework through which reality could be experienced. [...]

Under Prentice’s auspices, however, you also have Parker Books — books that are devoted to quite anti-establishment ideas and concepts — to all brands of psychic, scientific, or religious eccentricities, given to matters that contradict the establishment and challenge it at every point. [...]

However, let us remember that when creating and experiencing a challenge, on any scale, consciousness may choose a predominantly positive or negative focus, or it may seek to achieve a balance. [...]

The fears are not hidden in the past, but are obvious in each day, remaining buried only when you choose not to challenge them. [...]

[...] She gave him sons hoping to pacify him, but he always felt that the sons challenged his vitality and position.

[...] At the same time, I said, I was curious as to whether I did have an ulcer, for instance—that if so, I could see that I’d created that situation in order to contend with certain challenges.)

There was a challenge involved, implied perhaps, and I assume it will not be taken up but it will be understood. [...]

[...] You chose problems, each of you, challenges, that would lead to such a development. [...]

[...] In present terms I think that situation is just another example of the workings of the sinful self —to avoid challenge, to have its own way at all costs.

[...] He needs that challenge, as I told you, so it was not Ruburt blocking.

[...] Some personalities, survival personalities, because of their personal characteristics, are more able to directly manipulate physical matter than others, more temperamentally suited to it, and consider it in itself a challenging endeavor.

[...] The sympathy brings with it a sensitivity that is strong, challenging and intense. [...]