“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We have to go beyond that—the point of problem-solving or problem-focus —back to stressing the creative larger-than-life aspects, otherwise all we have is a better problem-solving framework. Nothing wrong with that of course but we’re still in the same arena only our explanations are better than official ones.

For Seth to comment on our world is okay, but for me to somehow insist that his material offer solutions to all of men’s problems is not— instead it limits the sessions creative thrust. The Seth material is supposed to put us in a different psychic position where the problems are solved automatically or are at least diminished or do not apply.... Only not concentrating on the problems brings in the needed extra material to solve them.

To confine such creativity to solve life’s problems primarily or to direct it primarily in that fashion, limits it and holds it in an improper focus; shackles it.

Your whole civilization is immersed with the idea that the way to solve a problem–any problem, private or worldwide–is to exaggerate it, see its worst projection; and this, then, is supposed to make you take proper action. The approach unfortunately solves no problems, and only compounds them, whether the nation is trying to solve problems of energy, or social problems, or whether an individual is trying to overcome a dilemma.

You are so immersed in that method of problem solving, however, that it comes back to haunt you. [...] I will give you the answers to your questions, but they are not the way to solve your problem—and against all conventional knowledge, reviewing the mistakes of the past does not lead to wisdom.

[...] You felt too sorry for him, and yet angry and embarrassed, and all of that was caused by concentrating upon the problem, projecting it in the future, in the definite belief, for all I have said, that that method of problem-solving works.

[...] All of this, in which left alone it seems natural that the body will always take the worst rather than the better course, and that any problems are to be solved by stressing them.

I want each of you to know yourself—to solve your own problems—because they cannot be solved otherwise. [...] If one problem is solved seemingly in such a manner, then you will simply have to set a new problem of a similar kind and begin again from scratch, in another life or other circumstances in this life. [...]

[...] I would not say you have the ability within you to solve your own problems. I would solve them for you. [...]

And if I solved them for you, then you would go about your way, but you would have no faith in your own abilities and you would have learned nothing. [...]

[...] These abilities will help you solve other problems. [...]

The problems exist in the inner realms—you can solve them there. You help indeed by trying to solve them in your community and in your society. But they will actually be solved in inner reality. Use all of your courage and your brain and solve the problems at their source. [...]

[...] If I solved your problems for you, there would be no need for you to use your own inner resources. [...] I tell you that you have within yourself the ability to solve your problems. [...]

When (to Florence) there is a mathematical problem in which you are interested, you try to solve it. You do not solve it by standing in front of it with your arms crossed and closing your eyes and saying, “Surely the solution must be fearful.” [...]

[...] There are many answers in the material that will solve or help you solve many problems that seem so difficult, but you must solve your own problems. For solving them is a challenge and helps your own development. [...]

([Theodore:] “About problems, I’m wondering whether to make a distinction between a problem which is a personal thing in nature that we must solve on our own, and a problem that is not so personally oriented but community oriented where the decision you have affects someone else and can be a wrong solution. [...]

The very attempt to solve the physical problems brings out inner abilities. The very attempt to solve the physical problems often solves the inner problems that are being projected upon the physical reality. [...]

An inability to face or admit, or solve, physical problems, can also be reflected in the physical condition, and reactivate earlier sensitivities, leading to a sense of hopelessness. [...]

[...] Seth returned almost at once, after I said that I wasn’t interested in solving our problems by simply changing jobs for more money – the problem was that I wanted time to paint, etc., and time for Jane to write.)

The belief that a given problem cannot be solved can cause much difficulty, unless you freely and consciously give it up; particularly when inner organs are affected, this point plays a strong part. A diseased organ that is then removed through an operation often represents an unfaced problem, or one that is considered beyond solving. [...]

[...] The more you handle your conscious beliefs and daily problems and relationships then, the healthier you will be in all areas, even if you do not solve the problems. [...]

There are comprehensions, illuminations, that cannot be verbalized, that arise as a result of … solving problems or challenges that seem to have nothing to do with the original challenges. These, however, are quite unpredictable fulfillments that come about as you solve what appears to be one main problem. They are achievements that arise out of a given situation, while often in your terms the given challenge may not seem to be solved.

[...] 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. And in solving theirs, they are helping others also. [...]

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. [...]

[...] For Ruburt’s benefit: He is being forced to solve his problem now, to find the solution for him. Had he been alone he would simply have been forced to solve it earlier.

[...] The inner problems must be recognized and solved. [...]

[...] It will solve a long-standing problem that otherwise will always be of some concern.

It is a central material problem in your lives, and you have the equipment to solve it, and the opportunity. [...]

[...] You kept the old ideas of problem solving, and were still hampered by old beliefs that told you not to trust yourselves.

[...] They are, however, the results of old hangovers, when he is reacting to conventional, quite limited knowledge filled with distortion, about the nature of the psyche, the nature of time—knowledge further polluted by methods of problem-solving that simply add to problems.

[...] When you put the action of your mind in line with the knowledge I am giving you, you cannot help but solve your problems, because the solutions naturally arise.

[...] That focus inclines him to a quite literal insistence that his creative material should in its way act like some supernatural doctor’s prescription that can be at once taken like a pill to solve each and every problem of each and every correspondent, and of course to solve his own problems as well.

Then he feels that he is in at best an ambiguous position, for the world continues doing as it will, and his correspondents, solving one problem, immediately write with another. [...]

In such a situation, Ruburt thinks of work as work, and finds himself wanting—for a doctor after all heals patients, a lawyer solves cases or whatever, so it seems to Ruburt that his work must—underlined three times—make truth practical, and of course beneficially so. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s experience with you in the bedroom was an excellent example of your enduring loving relationship, and represented your single and joint decisions to utilize your love and devotion to solve the difficulty. [...]

[...] He is solving these problems at his own rate. That is the only way they will be solved.

[...] If he insists upon four to five hours a day of definite work, many of his problems will be solved at an intuitive level by him. [...]

[...] The personality solves the problems, not necessarily in the simplest way, objectively speaking, but in the way that will best benefit the personality as a whole.

You do not give complicated problems to an idiot to solve. [...]

[...] Looking it over, I saw at once that it contained the key to Jane’s solving her challenges with the symptoms. [...]

[...] 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.

([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—

[...] We’ll see how the two work together to solve the challenge—if we do solve it. [...]

[...] to solve your problems and triumph over your challenges.... [...] Now there is no better reason to solve your problems.

So when you are on the way to solving your situation here, I will give you some new ones to solve... [...]

...to solve your problems and triumph over your challenges—and the impetus is this: You must not journey into inner reality until you feel secure in physical reality—for you cannot live in two worlds at once unless you are secure in one. [...] Now there is no better reason to solve your problems. [...]

So when you are on the way to solving your situation here, I will give you some new ones to solve—and I will give you a push along the way, and you can count on it—and you can count on it when you tell me that you are making true progress here. [...]

[...] 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 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.

The rational approach, built up around this framework, insists that the best way to solve a problem is to concentrate upon it, to project its effects into the future, to ruminate upon its consequences, “to stare at the bare facts head on.”

[...] This well-intentioned concentration, this determination to solve the problem, this rational approach, then causes an even deeper sense of inadequacy. [...]

The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.

The ulcer problem can indeed be solved by the personality himself. [...]

An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner. [...]