“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Because of your fears, going out has become an issue. Not walking properly is the issue—otherwise there would be no problem. [...]

[...] When you make an issue, however, you manufacture a crisis.

When Ruburt does not go out, however, it is never a simple issue of the body’s condition at any given time, but a moral dilemma in which, basically you see, you are misinterpreting events. [...]

[...] One event or another would serve to connect all of those issues. [...]

[...] The idea of activity, of the body wearing down—all of those issues contributed. [...]

[...] It simply will help you sidestep issues that arise only in that context. [...]

Such issues, however, while obviously of concern, do not touch upon the greater events behind dream activity, or begin to touch upon the mysterious psychological actions that are behind the perception of any event. [...]

Behind all of these issues are far deeper considerations. [...]

[...] But in the dream state, then as now, all such issues were contemporary, acting as models from which the species then chose the practical events that formed its physical experience.

[...] I want to discuss some of these issues, because they are related to your questions.

[...] You are as good as anyone else (#1 of 11 suggestions): a simple enough statement, yet behind it there are other issues. [...]

Your new suggestions, however, are more potent than you realize, for you geared them yourselves to specifically cover those issues that have still bothered Ruburt, and also added to your own concern.

[...] You understand many issues intellectually, but have not gained their emotional comprehension. My last session in particular mentions those issues. [...]

[...] Resolutely I replaced the issue in my mind by trying to compose a limerick.... [...]

[...] So obvious once I realized it, but the insight made several issues clear at once.

The last issue had a part to play in the side.

[...] Woven in all of this was the communication issue, and to some extent the symptoms served another allied and complementary purpose. [...]

A concerted effort should be made, either to have him face the issue and solve it, or to avoid it completely. [...]

At the risk of being repetitive: if he concentrates upon his work, the morning issue will take care of itself, and by work I mean not only his writing, but his own individual psychic endeavors. [...]

I would like to explain more clearly a few ideas that came to Ruburt concerning certain kinds of correspondents, and to explain more clearly some important issues regarding his own situation that also began to come into his mind. [...]

First of all, many of your correspondents’ “predicaments” appear particularly disheartening, upsetting, or otherwise psychologically incomprehensible because your general (underlined) belief systems are not flexible enough, and do not reflect many important issues concerning human behavior, motivation, emotion or feeling. [...]

[...] It is not simply that for some time seems to go faster or slower than for others, but that time is used in different fashions according to the value fulfillment issues with which each individual is concerned and with those of the species as well. [...]

These issues do all fit together, but they can be unscrambled, brought into the present, and reconciled. [...]

[...] This is a part of the main issue.

This session does tie issues together quite well — and can be used to advantage for free association also.

[...] (Pause.) The major issue is indeed the reminder that he can trust his own native rhythm and motion—that it is safe to express himself in his natural life. [...]

[...] Ruburt is working through many issues now well, however I do want to mention that Framework 2 often involves such “displaced” targets, when one desired event may be blocked in one area, but a beneficial event of like consequence instead happens in an area seemingly quite divorced from it. [...]

[...] He is sleeping better—all issues that should be remembered. [...]

[...] You need not force an issue, but remind him.

The rooms bear the brunt of beliefs also as mentioned earlier, but the inhibited anger against the conditions and against himself, for feeling powerless to change the conditions—these bring him face to face with issues he has hidden. [...]

[...] Often a simple discussion with you of any such episode will clear the issue for him, where before in his secrecy he would hide it even from himself.

Such issues must be dealt with consciously now, and state your willingness to help. [...]

[...] It is the spontaneous self, of course, as much as any other portion of the personality, that often spontaneously holds back when such issues are considered—the part that is somehow spontaneously offended—a very important point to remember. So the reasoning: “Get better, then you can go out into the world to go on television or whatever,” or “Once you get better, you will be delighted to go on television and tell your story”—those directives simply make the issues more muddy. [...]

Added to that you have the issue mentioned earlier, of my relationship with him and vice versa, and his idea of an idealized self. [...]

(“The issue is, basically, that Jane feels and fears that Seth—the Seth phenomena—could overwhelm her and take over eintirely if she ever permitted it to—subjugating all else that she holds dear; her own talent, her own personality even, so that she would become merely a spokesperson for Seth.”

[...] You should both take some time each day to freely discuss whatever personal issues are involved, to express your selves personally to each other on whatever issues you want.

[...] Whenever he thought anything differently than the opinions you voiced, he felt inward and refused to express himself regardless of the issue involved—its triviality or its importance.

The symptoms, beside other issues, have been a crying out to you for a love he feels he does not deserve but needs, a love he feared you could forget. [...]

[...] Now for the reasons given, and the developments earlier tonight, all of those issues met, since Eleanor’s previous visit.

[...] At the same time the hiding-from-you issues that had developed, and are given tonight, had come into full force. [...]

[...] In the meantime however, because of these issues all meeting, and his reactions as given, his condition worsened. [...]

[...] He now sees that he must exert his abilities in that direction, and your own understanding of the issue in that area will be of help to him.

[...] Played old Safe Universe Seth tape for them, was struck by Seth’s discussion strongly and saw how back in ‘75 he had the issues already organized for the future.... [...]

[...] If any demonstrations occur they will occur only when the moment is right, and they will happen as a side issue to demonstrate certain points which should be made. [...]

[...] When circumstances are at their best then he allows me to come through clearly, but he is concerned over issues that are only of surface importance as far as the volume of the voice is concerned, and he is only now learning control. [...]

Many subsidiary issues fall into place there—the attempt at time to follow along the lines of sports, to cooperate, to hide the womanly nature of which you are basically ashamed. [...]

(To Carl:) Now, many of your own personal problems have to do with two main issues. [...]

[...] You do have the abilities to solve these issues. [...]

[...] An understanding of these issues can greatly help throw light on the question of early deaths and diseases, and spontaneous abortions.

These are all part of the continuous undercurrents of life, and the same issues apply to many other species whose offspring are lost in very early life.

I choose to speak on such issues this evening because it is highly important that you are both assured that Ruburt’s physical condition can indeed improve, and furthermore that it is improvement. [...] At its basic heart there is the assurance that despite all appearances, say, to the contrary with any given issue, the present can suddenly be changed for the better in a remarkable fashion. [...]