“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In your times the individual problems of masses of people are bound up with such issues, and as they work toward their own solutions, then in their own ways they help solve problems at the level of world action. [...]

I have told you that you are born into your times knowing in advance the problems, challenges, and potential developments that are possible.

At the basis of almost all problems of any nature there is a point where value fulfillment is being denied. [...] That is, the individual has a problem because there is a blockage of value fulfillment in a given area. [...]

[...] This applies to human personal problems and to political ones in which entire peoples are involved. [...]

[...] That is, the problem would have popped up in a different fashion regardless of the apparent trigger. [...]

[...] In a like manner, it may seem childish—or worse, futile—when after all this time Ruburt still has the feeling that changing his room around will somehow help bring about the overall solution to any problem. [...]

[...] You should begin such a program as soon as possible, regarding it, however, as not a last desperate approach toward an unsolvable problem, but as a proper step of development in your understanding of the magical approach to life. [...]

[...] Consciously you deal with those problems of one given physical life. [...]

[...] At other levels you have the problems, potentials and responsibilities of many to contend with in the same manner.

[...] As you have mentioned, Ruburt’s egotistical self is now aware of potentialities and problems that did not exist for it earlier. [...]

So while Seth often explains present life problems as the result of past life difficulties, he makes it clear to those that can understand that the lives really exist simultaneously, just as three personalities can exist in one body at one time. But all problems are not the result of such “past life” influences. [...]

[...] But it is an oversimplificaton to say that all present problems are the result of past life difficulties. We are not “stuck” with our problems, whether they come from this life or another. [...]

[...] Again, she has solved the problems that she set, and brought forth in her husband compassion and understanding, qualities that greatly help in his own development.

Doris was having all kinds of problems. [...]

This was not the whole problem. It is merely the portion of the problem that still remains. [...]

The discomfort in the testicle reflects the problem you feel with the masculine role. [...] If the male has natural abilities that happen to fall among those largely accepted by society, then there is little problem—in that regard at least—but if his natural abilities lie in other directions, then difficulties can arise.

[...] You had to take care of him, and it seemed you both saved face; but almost all of your problems come from the unthinking acceptance of conventional ideas that have been allowed to hold sway.

(10:47.) The tax man is a well-meaning individual, far from a rogue, with his own problems, and in the dream this information is realized by you, and hence picked up by Nebene. [...]

[...] And they can often help you solve problems, simply because old associations are broken up.

[...] What seems to you like inner difficulties or problems, or lack of success, like Ruburt’s desolations, serve as the very impetus to development. [...]

[...] Dealing with this is not a simple problem, of course, for the original suggestion of dis-ease was in itself given because of another belief. [...]

[...] Beyond that the whole problem of health and illness becomes simplistically applied, and here food is scrutinized. [...]

[...] Such focus of attention on positive aspects automatically pulls your energy away from the problem. [...]

[...] When you break that focus the problem is solved.

(I explained to Jane that I’ve never felt any aspersions against my manhood; that has never been a problem with me. As far as the idea of doing nothing, I explained to her that I thought saving money would enable us to get our own living quarters eventually, and thus solve some long-range problems. [...]

[...] They are a strong part of your problem, and there is a negative feedback that operates in that regard.

[...] One more problem, I thought, even if only temporary. [...]

[...] You and Jane both have a peculiar problem in that you are creative even when you are destructive.

[...] Speaking about the problem you mentioned, because your aggressions are fairly well controlled consciously, and because in the present your creative energies are in the realm of your subconscious, at this stage they can be, and often are, used to create unhappy image personality situations such as at York Beach. [...]

[...] Therefore more than is normal you must be aware of this problem. [...]

[...] It all depends on which side you are looking at the problem from.

[...] Such a framework may have been filled with potential problems, but there were usually ways in life to get around those ways that were specified according to religion or culture. [...]

In the overall structure, all seeming errors are indeed redeemed, forming syntheses of creativity of their own kind, leading to understandings and future developments that, say, outshine whatever problems you might have encountered. [...]

(Interesting, that we’re not supposed to focus now on the problem, but yet are to study and discuss the old material.... [...]

[...] You believed that together you could achieve what had not been achieved earlier—that you could somehow or other offer meaningful and real solutions to the world’s problems.

There is always the initial attempt to handle problems on a mental and psychic level. Physical illness represents the failure to deal with these sufficiently or effectively, and in all cases the intensity and severity of physical illness is in proportion to the severity and intensity of the inner problem.

The overall psychic and mental problems were concentrated into physical symptoms—

[...] The problem was dealt with physically in other words—always, incidentally, the last resort.

A chronic and longlasting physical symptom therefore represents for example a chronic, fairly enduring inner problem. [...]

(The session was held in our living room again, and traffic noise was not a problem, nor were there any interruptions. [...]

I have endeavored to study rather thoroughly the condition of the other male present in the room, yourself excluded, Joseph, because we find here an almost classic example of the manner in which the individual subconsciously creates physical matter, and the manner in which the psychological and psychic problems of the individual conspire so that the organic perfection becomes disturbed.

[...] I mentioned earlier in another session that the very attempt to seek for an answer to the basic problem will indeed automatically release some of that energy for a constructive purpose.

My thought here was merely that in perhaps four or five sessions we could deliver a basic, if not thoroughly adequate, explanation that would then serve as a basis for those who attended the four or five sessions, so that any problems could then be discussed in such a manner that the witnesses would be familiar with basic precepts and terminology.

(Jane strongly disliked the idea of the large refrigerator in the kitchen, and actively resisted Seth’s concern with the problem. [...]

(She was also concerned because she thought her subconscious might be playing tricks on her, using the Seth approach to problems she or we should solve on our own. [...]

[...] The longer the impeding action is accepted, the more serious the problem.

[...] Often, they point out the existence of inner problems. [...]

[...] Underneath is the problem. [...]

[...] In the next session, Seth explained it and showed how reincarnational background, present problems and personal symbolism were all used in the dream drama. [...]

(9:31.) Now: much of Ruburt’s problem was centered in jaw tension. [...]

It will therefore return once more to the same plane with which it was familiar, where it will meet with new challenges, and develop new abilities that will, however, be of the same basic nature; that is, if we are speaking of your plane, the ego would have new experiences, develop new abilities, perhaps solve old problems, balance out deficiencies, but still be dealing with problems of manipulation and physical construction.

[...] Problems might arise but you are fully capable of handling them if they do. And no problems means no growth, and no growth means no value fulfillment. [...]

Theoretically such an ego could continue reincarnating indefinitely in such a fashion, always growing and developing, but always dealing with problems of manipulation and physical construction of energy. [...]

[...] He needs to turn away from an overconcern with life’s more ‘“weighty problems,” to lose the feeling that it is up to him to solve those problems for himself and you and for the world. [...]

[...] You’re now about 90% helpless, so you’re—we’re—not solving the problems, are we? [...]

[...] Don’t have Seth tell me in the sessions that you’re working out problems and that we’ll soon see improvements, because it doesn’t happen. [...]