“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your problems are caused by your own doubts. [...] Let me reinforce faith in your innate ability to find joyful acquiescence, and to rise above any problems that you have.

Our books, and I am including Ruburt’s, fall into no such neat category—presenting publishers with problems. [...]

[...] I am, therefore, dictating this letter, while it will be sent to many of you, it is written to each of you, and I only regret that I cannot go into your aspirations, challenges and problems on a more individual basis.

[...] My purpose is not to solve your problems for you, but to put you in touch with your own power.

[...] I would demand that your husband know why (to Rose) and rid himself of the problem that was causing the symptoms. [...] For the problem must be solved now or later. [...] But problems within a personality and [sic] itself will manifest itself in one way or another unless the problem itself is solved. [...]

Now, only because of the hour and Ruburt constant(ly) probing which I do indeed feel, I will leave you, and it will indeed be some classes before I return, for you have your own problems to consider, your own inner development to consider. [...]

[...] As Ruburt’s notes also mention, the “magical approach” means that you actually change your methods of dealing with problems, achieving goals, and satisfying means. [...] They are not esoteric methods, but you must be convinced that they are the natural methods by which man is meant to handle his problems and approach his challenges.

I want it understood that we are indeed dealing with two entirely different approaches to reality and to solving problems — methods we will here call the rational method and the magical one. The rational approach works quite well in certain situations, such as mass production of goods, or in certain kinds of scientific measurements — but all in all the rational method, as it is understood and used, does not work as an overall approach to life, or in the solving of problems that involve subjective rather than objective measurements or calculations.

[...] It gathers all of experience together and transforms it, so many of your problems have been caused by applying the wrong kind of orientation to your lives and activities.

[...] He also became aware once again of his limitations, physically speaking: There was not much, it seemed, he could do but work, so he took the rational approach — and it says that to solve the problem you worry about it.

Now this is highly simplified, but the problems set are open problems. [...] The individual does not set himself problems for which no answers exist.

[...] It has solved one problem and decided to use the method to solve another, or it has decided that from its particular vantage point it would rather close the books and begin anew.

In other circumstances, though the problem is solved, the physical body, being physical, is in such poor condition that the personality decides it much better to discard it completely.

Legitimate response, legitimate aggressive—(It is interesting to note that Jane stumbled over the word aggressive, even speaking as Seth)—response, is no problem, for there is no buildup behind it. [...]

It is able to use all of its vast information, gained through previous experience, and all of its knowledge, to solve the problem at hand. Literally, the whole inner personality is able to focus upon any given problem, completely free of distractions, using the subconscious language of symbols. [...]

In the dream reality you have the opportunity to work out solutions to problems within a larger framework in a psychic environment, where there is no immediate necessity for physical construction.

This function is extremely important, and represents one of the main ways in which problem-solving is dealt with by the personality. [...]

[...] There is some leakage from waking-life experience to dream experience, but this leakage usually represents the material needed, or the problem to be solved. [...]

[...] It was all too obvious that she had reacted to her problems about as far as she could go, at least in that direction.

[...] I knew they were due out soon, but slipped up in my own awareness that their publication could—would cause her additional problems; my opinion was based on her paper of last December, in which she wrote that from its very inception she had been concerned about the reception Mass Events would be accorded by various elements of the public.

(1. We are going to have sessions nightly, or at least several times a week, in a last-ditch effort to get to the bottom of the problem. [...]

(Long pause.) I have remarked before that part of the problem lies in discrepancies of growth. [...]

(4:16.) Another life, for example, might deal with exquisite health and vitality, and as mentioned, still another life might be devoted to the arts of healing — but overall, few people take health problems per se as frequent reincarnational themes, though they may be implied strongly in situations where one is born into a large populace of poor, underprivileged people.

If you do have health problems, it is much better to look for their reasons in your immediate experience, rather than assigning them a cause in the distant past. [...]

If you are concerned about any given problems — mental, emotional, or physical — there are certain facts you should hold in mind. [...]

“On one level the personality attempts to solve problems through dream constructions … and often gives freedom to actions that cannot be adequately expressed within the confines of waking life. If the attempt fails, then the problem or action [as we’ve seen before] may materialize as an illness.

[...] … When aggressiveness is the problem, for example, the preliminary dream suggestion should include a statement that the aggression will not be directed against a particular person. In all cases, it is the intangible element [aggressiveness, here] that is the problem, and not the person against whom the individual may want to vent it.

In this session Seth also mentioned John F. Kennedy, and had some comments to make connecting racial problems with dreams. [...] It was also one of many solutions to several problems. [...]

[...] Psychoanalysts use dreams to delve into subconscious motivations, but few people know how to utilize dreams creatively: to improve health, gain inspiration, restore vitality, solve problems, and enrich family relationships.

[...] He had problems to face, then, that resulted in his symptoms—but (louder) they are nothing like the problems he would have had to face had he not found this greater framework for himself and others. [...]

[...] Indeed, our only problem was keeping him from constantly nosing after Mitzi, since she usually ran away from him each time he tried to investigate what must have been changed bodily odors of hers. [...]

At the time of your problems, you seemed to be facing a dead end, for very little in the world that you saw or experienced seemed either sane or rational. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s main problem was that he tried too hard to protect himself because he believed it was necessary. [...]

(10:07.) In dreams you solve the problems. In the daytime you are (only) consciously aware of the methods of problem solving that you learned in sleep. [...]

If it is your own thought-form, then, in fact, you may learn from it by asking yourself what it represents, what problem that you have so materialized. [...] You will work out your ideas, problems or dilemmas at your own level of understanding.

[...] You may speak with dead friends or relatives, revisit the past, greet old classmates, walk down streets that existed fifty years earlier in physical time, travel through space without taking any physical time to do so, be met by guides, be instructed, teach others, perform meaningful work, solve problems, hallucinate.

[...] The urinary problem still plagued me no end, and tonight the pressure was heavy; hence, I gave in and asked Jane for help. [...]

[...] I thought it much more likely that these sorts of challenges were much more likely to be behind my problems. [...]

(I am merely making these observations here to get them on the record for possible later reference, and to give some background to my own personal problems of recent days. [...]

[...] I added that I wouldn’t put up with the kind of hassles involving Prentice-Hall beyond a certain point—that I’d take some kind of drastic action in order to rid myself of the problems connected with dealing with someone I no longer respect. [...]

[...] He cannot expect no problems with his classes; I hardly promised that. [...]

This is an excellent way for him to handle many issues which in the past have caused problems, such as the financial aspect. [...]

Do not stop your efforts, you see, until complete health has returned, for only then will the problems be completely conquered, and this complete conquest is your best insurance against any reoccurrence. [...]

[...] Your attitudes have been along the lines of self-accusation at any such problems. [...] Its problems are the results of your own inner ones, and meant to lead you toward inner comprehensions. In the same way, the Jonestown suicides lead the society to face its inner problems.

[...] Unless you believe that the problem is insoluble, out of your control—and if you believe that you had better immediately examine that belief, for it is false. You cannot concentrate upon the problem as a problem. [...]

[...] Above all do not concentrate upon the problem, and in your minds to whatever extent possible, minimize it.

[...] Ruburt did not concentrate upon the problem of, say, possible poverty. [...]

[...] You have accepted certain impediments of a normal nature, Ruburt’s health difficulties, your problems with chores versus work, or hassles with Prentice—because you believe that in some strange fashion these connect you with others of your kind, and with physical existence itself.

[...] Each of you therefore maintain your “hassles” stubbornly, so that you can say to others “We have our problems—it is very difficult for us.”

[...] You are concentrating upon the problem in order to solve it, often scaring yourselves into further depressions. [...]

That is the way you have been taught to solve problems. [...]

It is true that the Sinful Self carries with it a group of patterns or reactions; methods of dealing with problems, and so Ruburt’s beliefs along those lines have colored his reactions, his plans, his dealings with you through the years. [...]

[...] They were the way the problem was stated. [...]

[...] And you can both realize that as far as any of your problems are concerned, you have been fighting paper dragons. [...]

The problems arise in response to ideas that you once accepted as facts of life —ideas that have indeed exerted great sway—ideas that are responsible for much of the world’s woe. [...]

This necessitates finding the causes for the symptoms, backtracking, really, to the point before the symptoms’ appearance, and facing problems now that would not be faced then. The symptoms represent in all cases one attempt, one method, of solving the existing problems. [...]

[...] The desperation caused by the symptoms became greater than the problem behind them. [...]

[...] Their decision has to do with their own problems and solutions. [...]

[...] A good deal of the weight problem is not a problem. [...]

One had to do with the in quotes “problem” of artistic creativity versus womanhood, and this along with personal background brought about a distrust of the feminine organs. [...]

When inner challenges and problems went unrecognized for some time, and became physically materialized, these were the areas chosen. [...]

[...] Some seek and achieve wealth simply to learn the lesson that wealth alone is not the answer to life’s problems, so they are wealthy and unhappy—though they need not be wealthy and unhappy. [...]

[...] I have told you that the answers to your problem, and to your problems, must come from within yourself. [...]

[...] To run pell-mell into another relationship will be no answer—for you will not have solved those problems that have caused your present dilemma. [...]

Look out—do not think of your problems—think of what you are experiencing at the time. [...]