“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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

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.

[...] It follows that instructions may be given to the self, so that various problems can be solved within the dream situation.

This problem-solving aspect of dreams is rather important, and can be utilized with rather impressive practical results. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

It is further inhibited if that sense of responsibility is wedded to solving the problems of the world or of correspondents, or when such an attempt is allowed to tinge any book sessions. [...]

[...] And if you do well, you see, you can solve problems now. [...] The more problems you solve now, the fewer you will have to solve later. [...]

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.

[...] 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.

[...] Your problems have not been solved, then, largely of course because you have taken the wrong approach, and that is because you were jointly not convinced as yet. [...]

[...] I fully agree that that leap of faith could be the key to solving the predicament we’re in. [...] I even agree that such an argument may well be successfully solved in other probabilities, and that in larger terms that’s an entirely acceptable way for things to work within nature’s larger scheme of things. [...]

[...] 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? [...]

Illnesses are in their way inadequate methods of solving problems. [...] At the same time, for many reasons, he had the idea that he was expected to be not merely a well-adapted natural person, but a kind of superself, solving other people’s problems, being a public personality, a psychic performer, and so forth. [...]

[...] The creative work was expected not only to be creative, imaginative, intuitive, to contain the highest elements of conceptual thought, but must also be capable of solving the most concrete physical problem, tuned with some magical tuning fork so that it could serve almost any purpose required of it. [...]

(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. [...]

[...] 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.

(Long pause at 9:23.) I have said this before: the best way to solve a problem is to concentrate upon various solutions vigorously—and then to turn your minds to other subjects, divert yourselves while allowing the creative power some freedom. [...]

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. [...]

[...] On the other hand in many instances the sleeping personality solves a problem, and therefore causes the physical event because it is the result of the dream work involved.

[...] In the intense focus of awareness that occurs within the dream state, the inner self is able to direct all of its energies for the purpose of solving a given problem.

[...] The problem still wasn’t solved as I read the session to Jane after supper, nor was it solved by the time I left at 7:10.

[...] The whole problem however involves your work also, and solving one problem solves the other. [...]

[...] It is not so much that you have not solved them, as that you let communication about them gradually fade away.

[...] Progress can be measured in terms of the particular ways in which those problems were solved or not solved. [...]

[...] When you realize that you do, this knowledge allows you to solve the problems or meet the challenges you have set, quicker, in your terms; and also opens further areas of creativity by which the entire play or production can be enriched.

[...] Those problems which you cannot solve on a psychic and mental level, you will have to solve in the physical system.

It is the world in which you now will live, and if you will not face their problems, if you cannot solve their dilemma, it will be not their fault but your own. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] Problems that seem beyond solution can often, though not always, be solved. [...]

[...] This state can be extremely advantageous when you are trying to solve problems having to do with future arrangements, decisions that will affect the future, and any matters, in fact, in which important decisions for the future must be made. [...]

Reincarnational pasts are known to you here, and if some personal malady cannot be solved from A-1, you may have to go to A-2 discovering that it originated from another existence. [...]

[...] 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.... [...]

[...] The problem will be solved by mankind indeed; but mankind is composed of reincarnational entities. [...]

When you think in terms of mankind solving its own problems, remember that reincarnation is involved, and not a group of persons in existence for only a particular time. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] A very healthy sign, and a sign that after some years you two are solving a long-standing problem concerning Ruburt’s contribution.

[...] You are merely solving them on a different level.

[...] It is a more comprehensive existence in one way, in that while you solve problems that exist in your physical life, you are also free of physical life to some extent within it, and free to travel to other dimensions.

[...] The problems that you solve while in it are quite legitimate. [...]