“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] New challenges were set for the personalities.

At that time old challenges had been met and old debts had been paid, to a large degree. [...]

(11:38.) Assaults upon your consciousness in such a manner challenge the stability of your species, and insult the integrity of your creaturehood. [...]

[...] Only the ego is afraid of challenge, and therefore speaks of such limiting safety.

As you progress the sense of identity will be strengthened to meet, you see, the new challenges. [...]

[...] A number of those deal with my challenges involving the side, groin, taxes, and so forth. [...]

[...] Working with the meticulous temperas, you actually worked out inner problems in a way that was not frightening, and gave you a sense of challenge and accomplishment.

[...] Jane is also recovering from the tooth challenges very well.)

These elements would then be put together in such a way that they would give the impetus and the psychic challenge, the need to know, that could result in work like ours.

Between lives an individual may see flashes of the future existence, not necessarily of particular events, but experience the essence of the new relationship and in expectation remind himself of the challenge he has set. [...]

[...] Now Seth went into the more personal Part 2 of the session, explaining how in her own case Jane could give her past self in this life her current knowledge, so that through the resulting “psychological synthesis” she would be better equipped to handle certain challenges.

(But with a new insight growing out of this month’s series of private sessions, I explained, I now felt that one could more directly get at the heart of one’s challenges, instead of trying to cajole the body into behaving differently—after all, the body’s condition was the result of certain ways of thinking, not the cause of the trouble. [...]

[...] Any challenges, triumphs, or problems must be considered in that light.

[...] To that extent he carried a double burden, or accepted a double challenge. [...]

[...] In periods of stress or challenge the recognized self may sense these other strains of consciousness, and realize that a fuller experience is possible, a greater psychological thickness. [...]

[...] Understand that individuals themselves between lives choose the time of their own birth, adopting ahead of time those characteristics that they feel will best aid their development, and challenge their abilities.

[...] I also told Jane that her reactions were probably triggered at least in part because of her own vulnerable position, due to her personal challenges.

[...] I think it most interesting that the theory of evolution is now challenged by those who, like Jane and I, simply want to know whether it has a basis in scientific fact; and that it’s also come under virulent attack by those who generally believe in fundamentalist religions. [...]

[...] The same applies to Ruburt and his writing, and those are the challenges you have undertaken. [...]

[...] Your remark therefore instantly alerted him, and in spite of company coming almost immediately, and in spite of his worries generated by the projections, he did immediately use your remark in such a way that he was challenged creatively to change his approach at once.

[...] Although I liked the ideas in the session, then, in another way I found it discouraging, for it’s also saying that after all this time we’re still left to struggle with the old challenges; it hardly seems that we’ve moved very far off dead center, I guess. [...]