“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(11:07.) Coping became a way of life in each civilization. Alongside, however, there were always minorities, religions or cultures, who kept out of the main current and experimented along different lines. The idea of a safe universe seems sacriligious and impractical, and yet the next important breakthrough will be based upon that conclusion. In greater terms no coping is or ever has been necessary—for coping implies a resistance. The coping exists first, and brings forth the resistance in experience.

Personally, Ruburt understands however that he exaggerated the negative elements of his condition, thinking that he was being realistic. He did not realize that before. When you look at the world and interpret its condition in the same way, you end up in an impossible situation as a people, for your learned coping mechanisms themselves reinforce the situation.

[...] Certainly we aren’t doing well as a species in coping with diseases. [...] Or there are different reasons for animal diseases — reasons that yield the same results we have to cope with. [...]

[...] The child was to cause its parents much trouble, but they were strong enough to cope with it.

[...] In the episode that we mentioned earlier, and the famine, you are afraid that you could not cope with physical reality. The particular life that we dealt with so briefly made an extremely strong psychic effect upon you for it was nearly impossible to cope, there was no food. [...] You were not equipped, because of your background, to cope with hard reality. [...]

Many deficient individuals in their way are as vital to the development of humanity as geniuses are, for both preserve the elastic nature of human consciousness, and promote its coping qualifications.

[...] Each time the symptoms would return; today, after breakfast, then lunch, etc., so that we spent the whole day coping with them. [...]

[...] I’m aware that you may be coping with certain challenges through the psychic method, so the question becomes one of how far you want to carry the thing. [...]

[...] But that, then, still leaves us with the challenge of coping with something much less than a successful solution here in this reality. [...]

[...] Now the comfort was needed to begin with so that you could make up for other things that you felt you did not have, and to help you cope with problems, as you are aware. [...]

The body is trying to tell you that you have a problem, and because you did not cope with it, and denied it mentally, it is physically materialized in symbolic body language. [...]

The feelings themselves are hardly unmanageable, however, and can be coped with. [...]

People have not seemed to have confidence in the woman, or she does not feel that anyone is confident of her ability to cope with reality. [...]

[...] Naturally my feelings of being ashamed at the whole deal stemmed from my much deeper fright at the situation, and my growing fears that we weren’t getting far in coping with the situation. [...]

[...] It is the body’s attempt to cope in the face of the mind’s confusion.

[...] In our discussion of dependency and aggression I was speaking of potentially dangerous situations, in which an individual shows signs of being unable to cope with these psychological actions through ordinary methods of adaption. [...]

[...] At the same time members of the species had to cope with the natural environment as did any other animal. [...]

[...] Because you are only now learning to verbalize your feelings, this means that he felt, particularly in the past, that you dealt with him opaquely in an area in which he did not know how to cope.

[...] Again, this would lead to a pattern too rigid for the development of the species, and give you too-specialized behavior patterns that would not allow you to cope as a species — particularly with the many varieties of social groupings possible.

[...] I thought such a decision would be simple compared to the ones Jane is trying to cope with.

[...] Left alone, children would learn how to cope with animals by pretending to be animals, for example. [...]

[...] The inner ego does not exist in time as you do, however, so it relies upon your assessment of situations with which your reasoning is equipped to cope.

She told Ruburt that she felt herself to be an inferior person, unable to cope, an individual who was not able to hold her own with her co-workers or the world at large.