“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Programs, his weekly programs for example, are often a benefit to him, if they are not too extensive, because they give him a short-range challenge which he enjoys.

[...] In his books he is facing challenges he did not face earlier. [...]

[...] He was used to more frequent creative challenges, lesser ones in a way, rather than long-term projects, and he was not capable in the past of the planning for example that is now a part of his creative endeavors.

[...] Short-term challenges of any kind that are at all practical are excellent to break up for him the longer-term purpose of his book.

Ruburt’s symptoms are not his challenge this time, as you asked (in question 13), but the philosophical connotations behind his difficulties certainly do involve his challenges this time.

I have told you that you are born into your times knowing in advance the problems, challenges, and potential developments that are possible.

[...] He is returning to activity at his creative, naturally therapeutic pace, no longer afraid that he is going too fast—or will—but shown only too clearly that activity and motion represent the only safe, sane, and creative response [to life’s challenges].

[...] And even if all of those sessions had been born out of my own psychic and psychological challenges and dilemmas, I knew they were excellent and deserved publication.

[...] I think that in the following excerpts Seth rather neatly encapsulates her past beliefs, her present condition, and how far she has yet to go in meeting her challenges. [...]

[...] Certainly Jane chose all of her challenges in this life, just as I did, and as we believe each person does, but a major concomitant of focusing upon certain activities involves how one copes with them (often in close cooperation with others) as the years pass: What new and original depths of feeling and idea are uncovered, layer by layer, what insights, what rebellions, and, yes, what acceptances….

[...] The challenges that you and Ruburt both accepted have been discussed often, and to some extent they mirrored the challenges of the world at large. [...]

Now: every individual alive is intimately concerned at certain levels with all of the national and global challenges in the political and social and religious arena.

[...] The challenges are more out in the open now. [...]

[...] Some of the experiments in class gave him confidence, and I gave him confidence and a challenge. The challenge was important. [...]

[...] I mentioned earlier that the rewards, the challenges and the dangers exist precisely because so much freedom is allowed.

[...] You choose your genetic structure so that it suits the challenges and capabilities of the species. You choose your genetic structure so that it suits the challenges and potentials that you have chosen. [...] It is like a splendid ship, the body, that you have chosen ahead of time for a splendid challenging adventure—a ship that you have personally appointed that is equipped to serve as much as possible as a physical manifestation of your personhood.

[...] There are many unsolved challenges here. [...]

[...] I mentioned also Ruburt and dancing, and the way he utilized challenge there, a way that would not be characteristic for you.

[...] At the same time he uses the challenge to activate his imagination constructively and to arouse his enthusiasm. [...]

[...] These challenges were chosen, and you are in the process of triumphing over them. [...]

[...] You do not have to be an Indian guru, or appear and disappear at will, so the books invite instant challenge. [...]

It is not that those challenges would not be met, but in meeting them you would end up with a different kind of work and experience.

On the other hand their ideas are so challenged that it takes them a while. [...]

[...] You will feel personally that you are solving problems that you are meant to solve, problems that are nevertheless created challenges having to do with the nature of painting, problems then and challenges that you consider quite worthwhile.

[...] It was obviously one born from your basic creative natures—a challenge rather than a problem, but one that was interwoven with all kinds of social and economic and family connotations.

[...] I even think that the dust storms the American helicopters had to struggle through to reach Desert One were not only symbols but conscious manifestations of our challenges there. [...] Actually, the proliferations of consciousness on our planet are seamless: In those terms, the overall challenges are ancient indeed.

[...] Our President’s main challengers for his office haven’t publicly criticized him, but neither have they defended him from foreign and domestic censure—and today our Secretary of State resigned in protest of the rescue mission. [...]

[...] But this great split is also a factor in the current challenges being explored by the two nations: Iran is ruled by Shiite Moslems, Iraq by the Sunni.

[...] It’s an amazingly simple luxury to consider a problem or challenge, then say the hell with it and throw it into Framework 2. It is, of course, reminiscent of our behavior right after we first learned about the frameworks, and as I remember it worked very well. [...]

(My own activities, then, have aroused in Jane the urge to try the same approach, and I’ve suggested she think of her own women numbers 1 and 2. It seems that she confronts the same basic challenges I do, I told her, so she could delineate the two opposing portions of her personality well enough to understand that many of her cultural beliefs have been imposed upon her natural, spontaneous, free, creative self, and to such an extent that the acquired beliefs have turned into detriments rather than aids, that she envisioned as helping her obtain what she wants in life. [...]

[...] Obviously he is in the middle of a learning adventure, trying to do far more with his ordinary consciousness than most people, and trying to solve his problems and encounter his challenges without relying upon old structures of belief—healthwise not relying upon doctors or dentists. [...]

Considering Ruburt’s challenges, he has done extremely well in all respects, but one area took the brunt as he cleared away the debris that literally surrounds the lives of most people.

[...] In dreams you restate your challenges and problems. [...]

[...] But when you return to that from which you have come, when you return to what you think of as God, by then new creativity will have already begun, consciousness will evolve in new ways and there will be new challenges. [...]

[...] You will set challenges for yourselves. [...]

There are times in history when the race deals with different kinds of challenges. [...]

You see about you others dealing with life’s challenges, following the old beliefs. [...]

[...] Overall, that dream, and today’s, both represented deep feelings that challenges could be met successfully, even in an adventurous fashion—that he was safe. [...]

Some of the material in the last chapter should help to explain the reasons for frameworks in which violence is built-in, so to speak, and indeed becomes a challenging context through which reality is perceived. [...]

[...] The life challenge is inherent within the problem itself and springs from it. [...]

[...] Often the successful activity represents a challenge on the part of the personality who set it in terms of psychological creativity, and the overall enrichment of experience. [...]

The interior self causes the physical challenges that then seem to spurt further bodily activity. [...]

[...] It does not try to form life conditions that offer no challenges, quite the reverse in fact. [...]

[...] A lack of development, lacking any challenge or possibility for fulfillment.

[...] In their opinions none of the guerrilla resistance organizations would be able to run the country—deal with its growing economic difficulties, say, or its other great challenges. [...]

[...] When she does mourn her impaired state, it’s still never with that tired old question directed at a supposedly unjust and uncaring nature: “Why me?” She just keeps trying to grapple with her challenges.

Through all of our challenges, we were aware of at least some of the incredible variety of positive and negative world events in the news—the bombings and the peace talks, the sports contests and the religious controversies, the national strikes and the latest developments in the arts. [...]

There are plenty of more immediate challenges. [...]

[...] If you understood me, you would realize then that you are highly unique, and that those problems and challenges that you have can be met by no others, and that those private elements of your personal life that seem so uncosmic are, indeed, of great importance. Not only to you, but to other realities that you do not presently understand, and that in working out one simple challenge in this existence you work out other challenges for other selves in other realities. [...]

[...] It is your challenge. [...]

[...] As given [at various times over the years, mostly in personal material], they involve cultural training and religious indoctrinations.⁴ He is challenging, finally, the old beliefs that say that the self’s spontaneity is not to be trusted. He is challenging those ideas emotionally and philosophically, uniting physical action and inner mobility. [...]

[...] The more personal parts of Seth’s delivery aren’t given here, yet enough remains to show Jane’s main challenges some 11 years after she began speaking for him.

[...] Before he could go fully ahead he had to accept the challenges of the past, and this meant he had to examine those old beliefs. [...]