“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Beneath all of the frustrations and upsets we may feel at their surface manifestations, Jane and I are caught up in the deeper meanings of events like those at Jonestown and TMI, for they represent great challenges that our species has set for itself, through this century and beyond. [...] These challenges aren’t just national, of course, but worldwide: The scientific rationale embodied in TMI runs headlong into the western world’s reliance upon energy supplies — mainly oil — from nations that are largely religiously oriented, and that profess all kinds of antipathy for social orders other than their own. [...] We must come to terms with those challenges we’ve created — and are creating.

[...] On the other hand, it is quite true to say that many such questions turn into challenges with a change of mind, and are then used as impetuses to affect social alterations.

[...] Because of different personal characteristics, another individual will hold qualities of the mind, say, inviolate, and work out challenges through bodily illness. [...]

(11:09.) The habit of not facing problems, which indeed are challenges, can be addictive. [...]

(11:32.) Illnesses usually represent unfaced problems, in your terms, and these dilemmas embody challenges meant to lead you to greater achievement and fulfillment. [...]

But nowhere do we see anything about any spiritual dilemmas that may be involved with all of this, or about the enormous social problems — challenges, to be sure — that could soon begin to manifest themselves if anything even approaching “eternal life” comes within the reach of numbers of people. [...] In view of our present world challenges, it might even be said that there are already too many people in the world. [...]

(10:20.) It is quite obvious that people must die — not only because otherwise you would overpopulate your world into extinction, but because the nature of consciousness requires new experience, challenge, and accomplishment. [...]

(11:44.) Others have finished with their challenges; they want to die and are looking for an excuse — a face-saving device. [...]

[...] Finding release in one gives you release in the other, and both of you chose therefore a life situation and framework in which precisely those problems you have tired to ignore should serve as challenges and impetuses.

[...] That aspect of your life would simply be another challenge for the two of you to face together if you admitted this deeper disappointment and did something about it.

[...] The entire affair must (underlined) be considered as a creative emotional venture and challenge.

[...] You form your reality, and so no one is thrust into a position which first was not accepted as a challenge. So you work out your problems and challenges in whatever way you choose, historically. [...] You have comrades, and you come to this earth at a given time and place of your choice, and so do you reap and form the great challenges of your age.

[...] As stated, this makes the second time that I’ve had an experience involving the violent death of a Roman soldier in the earlier part of the first century A.D. (I never did arrive at names for those two militant individuals.) Perhaps both instances are merely my own psychological reflections of present concerns or challenges, although I think that more is involved. [...]

[...] This applies even to my Roman selves in their restrictive military environments (which are also protective), and even if their chosen courses of action result in demands or challenges they cannot surmount….

[...] And that as you challenge me, so shall you be challenged. [...]

[...] You became afraid of challenge.

I am not speaking of the physical challenges of other jobs. [...]

[...] The challenges will further allow you to use your abilities, and you will gain strength from them. [...]

Your own early environment should also be considered for what it was, a challenge set by you to bring out your full potential, through making you face problems from which you would have only too readily isolated yourself. [...]

[...] The ego is pleased, for it now finds itself at the helm of a much stronger personality, and with more challenges, free to use its abilities, to question and wonder at will now that it accepts the basis of the sessions.

The introductory book is still an excellent idea, and a challenge to Ruburt’s own ability.

He needs the challenge, and I am sure that he will meet it. [...]

[...] Those things that annoy you precisely represent the greatest challenges to your personality and abilities.

[...] Since she’s becoming more and more helpless, I said, we can hardly say we’re solving our challenges in ordinary terms. [...] I’m aware that you may be coping with certain lifetime challenges through the psychic method, so the question becomes one of how far you want to carry the thing. [...]

[...] That very infrequency itself is an obvious “symptom” of our psychic and physical challenges.

[...] Not that she uncomplainingly welcomed this physical challenge, but that she overlaid its arrival with a frame of mind in which she kept going as best she could. [...]

[...] Actually, I hoped that our almost childlike trust—which I felt was closely related to at least some of the psychological elements involved in her acceptance of the voice challenges to begin with—would make possible their complete disappearance.

[...] Psychology did not challenge him. [...] The ideas that I am advocating find challenge on side, and you try to implement them—again—amid a tumultuous ocean of counter-beliefs.

[...] They were not caused by me, and yet the experience itself, as any new experience, any worthwhile endeavor, any breakthrough, was bound to challenge the abilities of the personality.

[...] If all illness has been adopted by a personality for a particular reason in this life, then it has been adopted so that the personality involved will understand the illness as a materialized symbol for a challenge or problem that the personality has set. [...]

[...] Looking it over, I saw at once that it contained the key to Jane’s solving her challenges with the symptoms. [...]

[...] The personality—each one—with its own challenges, will seek to solve its problems in its own way. [...]

[...] It takes your time, and his now, to encourage his walking, and if this is in “working hours,” both of your old beliefs are directly challenged.

His body’s improvement directly challenges those old beliefs, and brings them into the open. [...]

[...] No matter what other challenges we had created for ourselves over the last two years and four months, the knowledge that Dreams was in process had served as a comforting foundation in our lives. [...] And we know that as the creation of Dreams begins to recede from our immediate perception other challenges will inevitably move forward. [...]

[...] I think that if one isn’t a mystic, such a state of being can only be approximated: There are obviously many variations possible, but the mystic chooses challenges that the rest of us can really understand only in the vaguest of terms. [...]

I last discussed the cleanup at Three Mile Island, and nuclear power challenges in general, including safety and costs, in the opening notes for the 936th session, with its Note 2. That was almost three months ago, in November 1981; see Chapter 11. [...]

[...] At the same time, Iran’s mullahs want a continuing war with Iraq to help consolidate their total power; they do not want victorious, high-ranking military leaders back home from the front to challenge their undisputed power (as internal resistance groups like the Mujahedin-e Khalq are doing). [...]

(This flexibility also generates some challenges, however, for the great amount of material we’ve accumulated during the Mass Events hiatus gave us the urge to see what we could do about getting at least some of it published, so that others could benefit. The problem — the challenge — would be to find the physical time to do the necessary editing and notes to put such a manuscript in shape for publication; this would be a job that could easily take a year. [...]

As I sorted through the mass of material Seth-Jane has produced these last weeks, I found myself once again charmed and mystified by the challenges contained in the art of writing. [...]

[...] This process is always very challenging and thrilling to me. [...]

[...] During her periods of relaxation she gained a number of insights about herself, her challenges and physical condition. [...]

[...] The lesson is obvious, as I wrote when I got home: Sharing the challenge with those others who are involved helps a great deal, and may be vital. [...]

[...] Since I’ve been achieving considerable relief with my gum challenges the last few days, Jane has become increasingly interested. [...]

Reincarnational challenges need not take a lifetime to satisfy however. Some such problems are settled in mid-life or even before, and new challenges set. [...]

When inner challenges and problems went unrecognized for some time, and became physically materialized, these were the areas chosen. [...]

[...] Because of the tensions and the challenges, however, and for other reasons having to do with this existence, Ruburt became worried that you would not relate to him in the emotional way that his nature demanded. [...]

[...] Yet it was not your problem alone, but a challenge for both of you, as stated earlier in the session. [...]