“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We spend more and more time on affairs connected with symptoms, it seems—and those problems, connected with the construction going on in back of the house, where Frank Longwell is building Jane’s writing room in half of the garage, have combined to cut our production a good deal.

[...] This was quite necessary, for you were in danger of thinking of conventional people as symbols only—not as individuals with their own problems and concerns.

[...] It would be of help if your bed had a north-to-south orientation, decorating problems to the contrary (8?). [...]

[...] He was also afraid that his fears about physical reality now and in the future were so drastic that you would also be terrified, and that together you could not solve the problems. He was terrified of doing anything that might make you ill, and determined to bear any worries or problems alone.

You understand that the weight problem is also a symptom that will clear up as the fears are released. [...]

[...] For other reasons having to do with the chemical reactions during the dream state, bodily health would be improved; and this particular schedule would also be of help in schizophrenia, and generally aid persons with problems of depression, or those with mental instability.

[...] Creative abilities would be quickened, and the great problem of insomnia that exists for many people would be largely conquered — for what they fear is often the long period of time in which consciousness, as they think of it, seems to be extinguished.

The problems of senility would also be reduced, for stimuli would not be minimized for so long a time. [...]

[...] “They show that you’re not ensconced on high, telling everyone else what to do through Seth, telling them how to handle all of their problems while you live a life of wealth, talent, and happiness, free of all worldly cares and responsibilities,” I added. [...]

[...] In other words, I said, we’d been approaching the problem backwards: Jane wasn’t sick so much because of her past as she was because of what we were doing every day in present reality—reinforcing and/or perpetuating the symptoms because they served a number of beliefs about present-day reality. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) There were certain deep questions about life, certain pressing problems about man’s condition, with which you felt you had little experience, since your primary goals had been to examine life, to stand apart from it to study it, And therefore you both felt that you had few of the same concerns as those that led other people (quietly intent). [...]

[...] When your parents were alive, their problems could be used somewhat in a second-handed fashion for the same purposes. [...]

[...] Taken for granted also is a life relationship with another, and a determination to work out problems within that context; again, a loyalty and love that many have not yet attained. For all of your problems, each of you take your life relationship and your life journey as your lot, accepting the loyalty of the other without question.

Again, many have not been able to attain that kind of relationship even in which to work out problems. [...]

[...] One thing I can give him; buy time for him to do whatever he wants, be free of family and money problems, if he worries about me he isn’t going to feel responsible to get a job and my symptoms give him an excuse not to socially (old ideas) and the symptoms cut down on my flamboyance which has class to express itself in. [...]

[...] Epidemics by their public nature speak of public problems — problems that sociologically threaten to sweep the individual to psychic disaster as the physical materialization does biologically.

[...] Literally, individual mental problems of sufficient severity emerge as social, mass diseases.

[...] Your problem there rests with the will to live, and with the mechanisms of the psyche.”

“Your set of problems are of the most creative kind. [...] Your full energy for work and your creative drives are released, and will be, as you creatively use and understand your problems. [...]

[...] You cannot expect a blissful time innocent of problems. [...]

[...] They can also have insurance and employment problems (as can many other cancer patients).

[...] Money applied liberally, however, to a poverty-stricken group of people can increase their problems if the basic social and individual causes are not resolved. [...]

[...] It was only because he went so far in certain directions, because he grew so much in certain areas, that the problem of physical stance with the world arose.

[...] Whenever possible, minimize the importance of a problem. Forget a problem and it will go away. [...]

(Long pause at 7:46, one of many.) If Ruburt once found himself imagining that he must be strong and perfect enough to help solve everyone else’s problems, now he found himself relatively helpless, and “undefended” —that is, his physical condition put him in a situation certainly where he felt helpless. [...]

[...] “I felt a little strange before the session,” she said, “but it was no problem.... [...]

What the body cannot stand today is the stress thrown upon it by the imagined stress or problems that it might be asked to face tomorrow, or next week, or 20 years from now. [...]

Some personalities are drawn to enter at conception as a result of seemingly less worthy motives — greed, for example, or an obsessional desire that is partially composed of unresolved problems. [...]

[...] They work out their problems in immediate, sometimes impatient, tangible ways. [...]

[...] Some personalities simply prefer in-between-life existence and are much more concerned with the theoretical solving of problems than the practical application necessarily involved. [...]

[...] By being so careful with the abilities—actually because I valued them, I end up being their servant, but actually end up using my abilities at the service of others—to help save the world, solve problems, etc.... [...]

Now: I will end the session, but what I have said is far more important to both of you than your refrigerator problems.

Both of you set up problems for yourselves to be faced in this existence, challenges to be met. You do not realize that you could have solved the problems and met the challenges adequately, but without the satisfaction of strong creative endeavor. You are managing the problems, though it may appear to you that you are not, in such a way that enduring creativity results.

Now, some of these problems are simply those of the creative personality emerging, in Ruburt’s individual case, in their own way. [...]

[...] Your private psyche is intimately concerned with your earthly existence, and in your dream state you deal with probable actions, and often work out in that condition the solutions to problems or questions that arise having to do with probable sequences of events.⁴

On many occasions then you set yourself a problem — “Shall I do this or that?” — and form a dream in which you follow through the probable futures that would “result” from the courses available. [...]

These images continue to work out problems that you have set for them, in the same manner that you work out problems as your present personality in one incarnation after another. [...]

When this material begins to tally, when under trance many of the same answers are received, when it is discovered that the knowledge of the basic universe is contained within the living individual, and when there is no doubt that the solutions given are the same, then and only then will you begin to solve the problems that are before you.

In your dreams, when the conscious ego is stilled, you often and continually work this transformation, and we have gone into this problem. [...]

[...] Secondary personality problems that cannot be taken up by the personality in regular life, for various reasons, are worked out as you know. [...]

(To Giselle.) Now, I am aware of the problems of which Ruburt knows, and we will discuss them at a later time whenever you can get up here and discuss it. [...]

In the case of each individual with which you were concerned the basic problem was the same. [...]

[...] Again at the risk of repeating myself: Many of your problems result from the fact that you do not accept the responsibility of your own consciousness. [...]

[...] Natural guilt is a creative mechanism, meant to serve as a conscious spur in the solving of problems that, in your terms, no other animals ever had. [...]

[...] You would go to sleep to solve certain problems … There is an overall general difference, nationally speaking — that is, people of various nations do differ to some extent in their prevalent brain frequencies … All in all, however, the beta has predominated, and has been expected to solve many problems unsuited to its own characteristics.