“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The dilemma between expression and protection is a paramount one in your world, and people handle it differently. [...]

You have seldom assured him that one day he would be walking normally, because, of course, you are also caught in the same dilemma. [...]

[...] One way or another, however, you will hit upon some kind of situation—a portion of a TV drama, perhaps—in which a tire is blown; or you will see an item of that nature in the newspaper, or you will hear a story, told directly or indirectly about the same kind of dilemma. [...]

In actuality, the combination of a philosophical stress upon discipline, physical and mental, with the belief in the sinful self, often brings about the most unfortunate human dilemmas. [...]

[...] and if he cut loose he would be too panic-stricken to be an independent thinker leading to a dilemma...which you reached just after 30 in this life.... [...]

[...] His intellectual freedom, he feels, exists only so long as it is cushioned by the feeling of security of the organization—and if he cut loose he would be too panic-stricken to be an independent thinker, leading to a dilemma which you reached just after 30 in this life. [...]

[...] He was left in a dilemma. [...]

[...] The symptoms therefore were therapeutic in nature, in that their purpose was the solving of the dilemma.

This was indeed in your terms a primary cosmic dilemma (pause), and one with which he wrestled, until All That He Was was completely involved and enveloped within that cosmic problem.

This then is the dilemma of any primary pyramid gestalt. [...]

[...] Because there is always action within action, and because of the three dilemmas of which we have spoken earlier, the new personalities projected outward into other fields of perception, or other moment points, these other personalities in turn create new ones, and the cycle is again repeated.

(See the 138th and 141st sessions for material on the three creative dilemmas.)

[...] The material that I have given you concerning the three dilemmas will be most helpful here.

[...] You are also involved in a kind of creative dilemma, since in a manner of speaking you confuse yourself as the actor with the character you play so convincingly that you are fooled.

You say: “I must maintain my individuality after death,” as if after the play the actor playing Hamlet stayed in that role, refused to study other parts or go on in his career, and said: “I am Hamlet, forever bound to follow the dilemmas and the challenges of my way. [...]

[...] Hence your dilemma as to what projects you should do or not do.

[...] When imbalances of a physical nature are removed by the introduction of drugs, however, the body signals say that the inner dilemma must have been taken care of also — while this may not be the case at all (very positively).

[...] You will often become “allergic” to a drug simply because the body realizes that if the drug was accepted, all recourse to the solution of a particular problem would be cut off, or another more severe illness would result from the physical “cover-up” of the dilemma.

All of these instances lead, of course, to severe dilemmas, and often pull an individual in two directions at once. [...]

(I explained to her, as we waited for the session to begin, my dilemma about Note 6 for Appendix 22—my feeling of time wasted after I’d spent a couple of days writing it very carefully—only to have it fall apart at the last moment because I’d forgotten to deal with one crucial point. [...]

[...] [That dilemma has since been resolved.] In the meantime, both Jane and I had forgotten all about the Meredith question.)

There are many other deep psychological connections beneath schizophrenic behavior, but since this book is also devoted to other subjects, we will go on to other ways in which conflicting beliefs bring about mental or physical dilemmas.

Individual psychological mechanisms are activated, sometimes, in terms of neurosis or other mental problems; these bring out into the open inner challenges or dilemmas that otherwise would be worked out more easily through an open give-and-take of conscious and unconscious reality —

[...] And in the natural back-and-forth leeway of the system, exterior dilemmas or problems are worked out in the dream situation, and interior difficulty may also be solved symbolically through physical experience.

[...] Here again you find yourself often in a dilemma of your making, between the ideal and what seems to be; if not the grossly practical, something close to it.

[...] But the main problem is the dilemma caused by the difference between the ideal and a feared, opposing actuality.

[...] It, the machine, rebukes you by its presence, because it represents a dilemma. [...]

[...] Your pendulum help is all important because of what it represents—on emotional levels, and because Ruburt then does not feel so alone in his dilemma. [...]

DILEMMAS

[...] And there will appear an apparent dilemma. And yet the dilemma will lead to a further discovery. And by the time you know enough to throw that question back at me, that I have just asked you, then I will have more to tell you concerning the initial creative dilemma of which I have spoken. [...]

There is a significance in your dancing dilemma that neither of you have come to grips with—having to do with each of your natures and characteristics and ways of looking at a situation. [...]