“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The problem of aggression is simply the problem of using your own energy constructively. [...]

[...] The problem of how to handle energy constructively was put in far simpler terms. [...]

The only way to avoid facing the problem you see was to limit the amount of free energy allotted to the individual, and available en masse. [...]

[...] Accepting the problem of aggression and of the use of strong energy necessitates rather quick reactions, strong unconscious mass communication, quick abilities to transform energy from one kind to another.

To a large extent you ended up concentrating upon the problem, so that it loomed ever larger in your minds, and therefore in your experience. Regardless of everything that you have been taught, and your own beliefs to the contrary, I still tell you that to mentally minimize a problem is to minimize it—to minimize it in fact. [...]

[...] Events began to come to a head last week with the professional visit of “our” optometrist, Jim Adams, to check Jane’s double vision problems.

[...] He decided against using prisms to unify her visions because of frequent problems people had with nausea, etc. [...]

[...] Seth has said often that just because one has physical difficulties does not mean those problems are fated to get endlessly and progressively worse, but this hasn’t been born out in Jane’s case —so far. [...]

In this existence however the personality of its own free will chose to understand in a different context, and work out problems faced so poorly in the earlier life. [...]

The problem is a challenge set up by the entity for one of its personalities, but the outcome is left up to the individual. [...]

His wife chose to solve several problems this time, rather than string them out. [...]

Such a situation allows John’s present wife to telescope the experience needed into one life-situation, to delve deeply, and face at once problems that could otherwise take several existences.

[...] And in this life his failings are more apparent simply because they represent old leftover problem remnants; and you have had a lot to do with your father’s ability to face these problems all at once, so to speak.

You, Joseph, were necessary, but we had to have this particular sort of intuitive intellect that could also deal expertly with words before we could actually begin; and it took Ruburt a long time to achieve this state because his conscious problems, and family relations and preoccupation with them, held him back.

You had no problems with parents in the past, and my dear Yo-yo, you were an excellent father to me at one time, and if I may say so at one time I was an excellent father to you.

[...] They involve something entirely different, problems that they themselves have not worked out in the past.

[...] Pitiful or not, the two of you have been concentrating too much upon your physical problems. This has drained your creative energies, and also led you to overestimate the problems themselves.

(Also, I took exception to some statements made in the session this evening particularly that we concentrated too much upon the physical problems—granted that we created the problems, I could not understand how we were not supposed to pay any attention to the difficulties Jane had walking, etc, There was much more, and it’s not necessary to detail it all here.

Now running away from problems, literally in space, had always been his answer to everything. [...] But he loved you deeply, and there was no place he could run to, nor from the problems presented by your parents.

[...] Concentration upon the problem to such an extent does not allow the inner self the freedom to help you solve it, and a condition arises where you expect the worst and bring it therefore about.

The problem of war will sooner or later teach you that when you kill another man, basically you will end up killing yourself. The over-population problem will teach you that if you do not have a loving concern for the environment in which you dwell, it will no longer sustain you — you will not be worthy of it. [...]

You have set up the problem for yourselves within the framework of your reference. [...] You will not annihilate the consciousness of even one leaf, but in your context, if the problem were not solved, these would fade from your experience.

Your friends and acquaintances will be concerned with the same problems, for you will draw to yourself those with the same concerns. [...]

Oftentimes members of various groups — military groups, church groups, hunting groups, will in another life form family relationships in which they will then work out old problems in new ways. [...]

The trouble is that when you refuse to deal with such quite available conscious problems, you begin to organize other pertinent material about the problem, and it also becomes taboo. [...]

[...] He was ready to face the problem, to bring it out into the open, and the whole issue was finally brought out into the open through those symptoms. The critical period is over because of his recognition of the problem and his determination to face and solve it.

[...] He chose not to deal with it however because he was not ready to face the problem, he did not feel himself capable. [...]

The unacceptable conscious problem therefore collects great charges of correlated emotional feelings that also go unexpressed. [...]

(See the attached material that Jane received on February 6. It’s very good, of course, and as far as I can tell contains the key to Jane’s problems. [...]

[...] I remarked to Jane today, then, that what we need is more insight into the phenomenon of such thinking itself—for after all, that approach to life’s challenges has led to our problems, it seems to me. [...]

[...] Difficulties arise, however, in book dictation on those occasions when he becomes too heavy-handed and worries about the responsibility of helping to solve the world’s problems—about his or my capacities in that regard, and when he considers the possible and various objections that any given subject matter might activate on the part of any given group of people. [...]

[...] He would also be far more capable of helping people solve their problems through some kind of therapeutic framework. [...]

These questions are worked out by entities between lives, and each entity has many problems to consider. In your technological age such problems are easier to solve than in the past. [...] The basic problems are necessarily kept from the personality by the entity simply because so many psychological undercurrents would sweep the ego off its feet, and pull the rug of sanity from beneath it.

[...] There are always varieties of personal problems to be worked out, but the time, place and relationship is left to choice. For that matter, a personality can choose to ignore the problems completely, though this is at best a cowardly solution and simply holds the personality back. [...]

[...] Also on many occasions the personality escapes the problems entirely. What happens here is that the subconscious communicates with the entity through the inner senses, to the effect that the present personality is not strong enough to handle the problem.

[...] Some, but not all, cases of insanity represent the personality’s inability to handle a particular problem, while at the same time it refuses to obey the orders from the inner senses to change course. [...]

([Rachel:] “Seth, let me ask you—I have a feeling though—if I don’t solve this problem before I quit it, I won’t have the self-satisfaction of solving a problem.”

If you don’t solve the problem before you quit work—

([Rachel:] “I follow you, but internally I feel it’s my determination not to quit before I lick a problem. [...]

[...] This portion of yourself, despite all your problems, keeps you alive as a physical organism. [...] If that portion of yourself can make all the scientific and biological deductions necessary to maintain your physical organism, then indeed it has the abilities to solve these other problems. When you fully realize this, and you can if you remind yourself of it often enough, you can draw upon this knowledge to solve your problems. If you accept answers from others, you will simply run into the same problem again and again, and you will have solved nothing. [...]

[...] But as long as you believe that you kill a man and that you kill him forever, then you must work out that problem. [...] Some of you will face two generations from now problems that you do not now accept, and you will be the younger generation once more, out with fine, bright and gaudy banners to show your elders and fight for right, and I wish you luck! [...]

[...] You are not here to accept ready answers; you are here to use your abilities, to consider your problems as challenges and to work them out. [...]

Now, I have said this before: On the physical level, your problem is to find a position. [...]

[...] Both of you have a tendency to concentrate upon the ills of the world—and so that applies also to the mail, for you remember the letters of those who are in difficulty far more than other letters—and Ruburt thinks that he is simply one more person with a problem that seemingly cannot be solved. [...]

[...] The personality—each one—with its own challenges, will seek to solve its problems in its own way. [...]

[...] That knowledge, in other words, consciously assimilated and used, can solve any of the personal problems.

[...] He has been emphasizing the problem, which adds to the feeling of hopelessness. [...]

This brings about an atmosphere in which the problem is compounded. The intellect on its own — so it seems — must deal not only with the problem today, but with its effects in the projected disastrous tomorrows. This well-intentioned concentration, this determination to solve the problem, this rational approach, then causes an even deeper sense of inadequacy. The concentration upon the problem brings about a kind of mechanical repetition, a repeated type of hypnotic focus.

[...] That method of problem-solving, need I say, is a poor one, and if anything it causes far more problems than it ever solves.

The so-called rational approach to life, as it is practiced, is a highly pessimistic one, carrying along with it its own methods and “solutions” to problems, its own means of achieving ends and satisfying desires. [...]

[...] The intellect, then, can and does form strong paranoid tendencies when it is put in the position of believing that it must solve all personal problems alone — or nearly — and certainly when it is presented with any picture of worldwide predicaments.

On one level the personality does attempt to solve problems through dream construction.

In many cases these problems are not those belonging to the ego, but to other layers of the self. [...]

In dreams the personality first attempts to solve many problems, and to give freedom to actions that cannot be adequately expressed within the confines of the physical universe.

If the personality handles his dream activities capably, then the problem action finds release. [...]

[...] The problem must be worked out by her, and she must find the support within herself, you see. [...] I will also go into another matter of which you have spoken, and it was I indeed who gave Ruburt the insight today into a certain aspect of that problem. [...]

Your own entity knows your strong points and your weak points, and it gives you life situations and it hopes that you will solve these problems. No one makes you solve these problems. [...]

[...] This is their last reincarnation, and I tell you it is much easier to solve your problems now than to solve them later, and they are solving theirs now. [...]

[...] In dreams you restate your challenges and problems. [...]

[...] This application has been after the event in many instances, of course, and we hope to continue to improve in using it in a practical way to forestall various problems.

Disturbing the image in two ways at once is indeed difficult and I would suggest, as I believe you suggested Joseph, that the smoking problem be tackled. [...]

[...] To take focus away from the smoking problem, our Ruburt suddenly decides to go “a la naturel” as far as hair is concerned.

[...] You will work out your problems in the last group, and I will help you do so if you want me to. [...]

[...] There are many probabilities and there is no problem. [...]

[...] If you remember that you have no problem, then that is the answer. [...]

[...] Some problems may be put off, for example, for several existences. Some personalities want to solve their strongest problems and get them over with, perhaps in a series of rather trying existences and exaggerated circumstances.

Others of a more placid nature will take their problems one at a time. [...] For example, an excellent, satisfying life with a minimum of problems may be chosen either as a prelude to a life of concentrated challenge or as a self-adopted reward for a previous difficult life. [...]

[...] Families may be composed, then, of individuals who disliked each other in the past and come together in a close relationship where they are to work together toward a common goal, learn to understand each other better, and work out problems in a different kind of context.

(Eddie Albert calls again today telling me he just finished Speaks, asking about world problems, starvation, good and evil, etc. [...]

[...] what Eddie wanted were answers to those weighty problems, and I come up with switch plots, that any other writer could do... [...]

He did not think you wanted him to be free of symptoms, because he thought that then you would be faced with problems of emotionalism that you wished to avoid at all costs.

He felt you did not want him to get well, because you would then have these problems to consider, and they bothered you. [...]

[...] It bothered and annoyed you, since it was a demand, and he did not believe in demands, and one that brought problems up within you.

[...] We had asked for the session yesterday, in light of what had come to the surface regarding our problems in previous days this week. [...]