“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] All of these issues are responsible for the bathroom difficulty, and once again I maintain the steady attempts of the body to recuperate. [...]

[...] The philosophical issues, involving truth or nontruth, and so forth, are highly important in practical terms, and should be discussed freely. [...]

As you know you are apt sometimes to use a problem with technique as a substitute problem, as a way therefore of escaping from, rather than facing, certain issues concerning the nature of emotion. [...]

[...] So solving one issue helps both.

[...] Now there is nothing for you to fear but remember, whenever you feel strongly, very strongly, against any given issue, there are usually more reasons behind your feelings than you know. There are always obvious reasons that you can point to, but the emotional charge that exists within you on these issues is highly important and should be examined and investigated by you in the same way, you see, that you would investigate it if you saw it in someone else. [...]

[...] You know what physical issue is (intently), because you see the children of your loins, but you do not experience the children of your dreams in the same physical way, nor understand that your dream life is continuous. [...]

[...] In waking life there are fluctuations in your consciousness, periods when you are more or less alert, in your terms, when your attention wanders from issues at hand; or when, instead, you are certainly brilliantly focused in the moment. [...]

One important issue is to forget “the world,” and instead deal with specific instances. [...]

As long as you rely upon Ruburt’s physical condition to say “no” for you, then Ruburt is still using it to avoid facing such issues or making decisions in that regard.

[...] You do not have to say “yes” to people, issues, or to events with which you are deeply disturbed. [...]

[...] Nevertheless, we will begin with issues in which it is very possible that contradictions may seem to occur, since your own definitions of an event are so simple that they ignore larger ramifications—ramifications that would reconcile any seeming contradictions in an overall greater unity of structure and action. [...]

Following the accident at TMI, and aside from the great fears “generated” by it, a host of problems began accumulating for the nuclear power industry—involving everything from poor plant design (as Seth commented in the 914th session for Chapter 7 of Dreams), to enormous cost overruns and the fear of default on bond issues, shoddy construction and quality control, human and mechanical error, the disposal of radioactive waste, conflicts with antinuclear and environmental groups, arguments over evacuation plans at various nuclear-plant sites, a greatly expanded list of steps (numbering in the thousands) that the NRC is compiling for utilities to take in order to increase the safety of their plants, and even governmental concern over the possible manipulation and falsification of plant safety records. [...]

Following his natural impulses automatically brings issues out into the open, so that today he worried about not writing, and so was consciously aware of the conflict and of its reasons. [...]

[...] Do not let issues go underground. [...]

Avoid what-is-wrong issues. [...]

[...] This conflict would in a certain fashion sharpen the issues. [...]

[...] You chose to grow, to experiment, and to face whatever issues were involved. [...]

[...] I said I thought both she and Seth had avoided my questions about the sinful self, which I saw as part of the sinful self’s power to cover up issues it didn’t want to face, or considered threatening. [...]

[...] The panic has to do with many issues involving Ruburt’s earlier experience, particularly with his mother and the church when he was a very young person, very determined to survive in life, and trying to learn what kinds of behavior added to or threatened that survival. [...]

I am trying to mention situations that you have to deal with practically, so that your way will be easier and you will not lose time over such issues.

(Time article appeared on Monday, November 6, 1972, issue for November 13, 1972.)

[...] Because of his particular nature, these agreements on your part to avoid such issues, and the resulting lack of positive encounters, was more damaging to Ruburt.

You went to some good degree toward breaking some of those patterns last evening and today, but the issues of your lives should be clearly discussed and not hidden. [...]

[...] Here, we are discussing such issues only because they touch upon the multidimensional aspect of personality. [...]

[...] In a way, singling out particular attitudes or habits can at times be helpful, for it gives him particular issues to deal with. [...]

[...] It became obvious to us later, of course, that even her first doubts and questions about things psychic made it inevitable that she would confront such a basic issue. [...]

[...]  It will be of great benefit to you in fact, to face the entire issue for it will make your relationship with one of your children in particular much easier when you do. [...]

Nothing you can say, vocally, can be as severe as Ruburt sometimes imagines your reaction to him, so do not feel that you must remain silent on any issues. That only compounds the issue.

He therefore did not discuss any issues with you concerning his own discouragements or fears as they happened. [...]

(Jane had called me last night, saying that the issue of transferal hadn’t been settled after all, in spite of what Georgia had told us yesterday afternoon. [...]

(Yesterday I received in the mail a copy of a long article that Sam Menahem, a psychologist in Fort Lee, New Jersey, has written for a summer issue of Reality Change. [...]