“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

And from the 521st session (after 10:17) for Chapter 4 of Seth Speaks: “The word ‘result,’ you see, automatically infers cause and effect — the cause happening before the effect — and this is simply one small example of the strength of such distortions, and of the inherent difficulties involved with verbal thought, for it always implies a single-line delineation.”

[...] I am aware that often neither of you thinks Ruburt is improving one whit—and of course that is part of the difficulty. [...]

(Our difficulties made themselves known with a vengeance when I pushed Jane into the bathroom in her chair after 10:30 PM: because for the first time, she failed to be able to get up from her seat on the john, and back to her chair as I stood waiting. [...]

[...] He will learn shortly, and without any real difficulty, that while his new schedule will be, as it should be, followed with discipline, nevertheless he cannot expect a new idea every day.

Your feelings and beliefs that you were not have caused difficulties, and of course your experience.

[...] There were no formal sessions, but there were impediments, for at that time you were momentarily convinced of your own physical difficulties. [...]

[...] and clear up some of your difficulties... [...]

(By now I had learned that she could speak under hypnosis without difficulty, a point we had wondered about to at least some extent. [...]

(Pause.) Here, however, the “deception” brought about certain difficulties. [...]

[...] If you are idealists, and if you feel relatively powerless in the world at the same time, and if your idealism is general and grandiose, unrelated to any practical plans for its expression, then you can find yourself in difficulties indeed. [...]

[...] You are hardly in any difficulties here, nor will there be any.

This has something to do with Ruburt’s difficulty in breaking the trance state. [...]

You have been taught that you are at the mercy of previous events, so your idea of looking for the source of personal difficulty is to examine the past, but — to find what you did wrong there, or what mistakes occurred there, or what inadequate interpretations were made there! [...]

[...] It is the failure of the ego to listen to the inner voice of the subconscious that causes many difficulties. [...]

[...] Many people, however, experience such difficulty in all areas of their lives, with nothing in their own experience that they can trust to give them evidence for a greater reality or control over their own destinies.

(11:42.) Now Ruburt has been concentrating upon the symptoms, imagining this or that, often not responding to the moment as it is, but to imagined future events and moments filled with threat or difficulty. [...]

It was then, when Ruburt found himself at all close to a position of any importance, that he came into difficulties, because people would begin listening to him again, and he had to be sure his message was a true one.

Many instances can be directly experienced by you without too much difficulty, and I will endeavor to help you where I can. [...]

There is some difficulty, I believe, possible for Ruburt’s friend, Blanche Price, in the nature of health.

Now mankind uses but a portion of his capabilities, and when you are along in these experiments, properly set up, you will find that you handle them very well, with no draining of energies or difficulties. [...]