“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) Ruburt felt that his writing, and writing abilities, justified his existence — that it, the ability to write should make up for all other deficiencies. His mother helped make him feel unlikeable, but his abilities seemed to be his saving grace — and therefore to be encouraged and protected at all costs.

(Jane was afraid of others as a young girl, and even in college — that she wouldn’t get their approval — whereas, I said, the others should have been afraid that they wouldn’t get her approval, since her abilities transcended theirs. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been given abilities. You have been given abilities, both in creative fields.

[...] Your creative abilities, coming into full flower, will maintain you mightily however until the end of your lives, and serve as the same kind of impetus that usually spurs the very young onward.

Few are offered the opportunity to use abilities with which they have been honored, the opportunity to help others, and provided with a purpose in life in one full sweep. [...]

[...] You know now, I do not have to tell you, that you are not actuating all your abilities. [...] It will not be too difficult for you to develop your abilities, but it will be difficult for you to learn the self-discipline that is necessary. [...]

[...] Your teacher, your immediate teacher, has had strong creative abilities and he was very jealous as to how they should be used. [...]

[...] Then in his books he must further use his creative ability to translate what I have said. [...]

There are people who are highly intellectually proficient, whose reasoning abilities are undisputed, and yet their considerable lack of, say, emotional or spiritual development remains largely invisible as far as your assessments are concerned. [...] I will always be speaking about a balance between intuitional and reasoning abilities and, I hope, [be] leading you toward a wedding of those abilities, for together they can bring about what would certainly appear in your world to be one completely new faculty, combining the very best elements of each, but in such a fashion that both were immeasurably enhanced.

Now as far as the species is concerned, all variations are necessary—and it is as if (underlined) in one instance a member of the species—for its own reasons, but also on behalf of the whole—decides to specialize in one particular area, to isolate certain abilities, so to speak, and display them with the greatest tenacity and brilliance, while nearly completely ignoring certain other areas. In your society, however, the capacities of the reasoning mind have been considered in opposition to the intuitive abilities, so that your ideas of what a person is or should be largely ignore the idea of emotional achievement, emotional understanding.

(Pause.) You are, I hope, coming toward a time of greater psychological synthesis, so that the intuitions and reasoning abilities work together in a much more smooth fashion, so that emotional and intuitive knowledge regarding the meaningfulness of life can find clearer precision and expression, as the intellect is taught—as the intellect is taught—to use its faculties in a far less restricted manner.

[...] She said that last night’s dream sequences were her celebration of her bodily abilities — her insistence on the excellent workings of the body. She thinks she hasn’t used the abilities of her body. [...]

[...] Again I activate those coordinates that encourage your own healing abilities, peace of mind, revelations, and understanding — and I bid you a fond good afternoon.

Because they realize that they do indeed innately possess strong gifts and abilities, these people often seek attention for their disease, rather than for their abilities. [...]

[...] Such people are so frightened of the nature of personal power and energy that they short-circuit their nervous systems, blocking the ability for any purposeful action, at least momentarily.

(Long pause at 3:35.) It is not too frequently noticed, but many so-called mentally deficient people possess their own unique learning abilities — that is, often they learn what they do learn in a different manner than most other people. Many possess abilities that are not discovered by others, that are most difficult to explain. [...]

There are individuals who do choose ahead of time — in one lifetime or another — to accept such a divergent genetic heritage for their own reasons — often to experience life from one of its most unique aspects, and sometimes in order to encourage the growth of other abilities that might not otherwise occur.

[...] The exercises which Ruburt is barely beginning will be of great help in our work, and in the development of his abilities. [...]

I will tell you this (pause, eyes open):Neither of you realize as yet the full extent of Ruburt’s inner change of mind, his commitment now to our work, the commitment of his abilities to these matters for his lifetime.

[...] United with the unique nature of Ruburt’s own writing abilities.

[...] He did not know why he had the writing ability, nor what he was to do with it. [...]

[...] The musical ability was picked up again in the 16th century in England, where we find him as a minor composer for organ, where he used the scribe’s ability as well.

[...] It is true that what becomes matter must be dealt with as matter, and yet the inner vitality and the inner self have their own ability to heal. The trouble is, these abilities are little utilized and seldom appreciated.

[...] He died as a young child upon one occasion, a girl with musical abilities. [...]

He worked on tablets of stone, and was given social position because of this ability, though he did not come from well-to-do parents.

(Jane’s increased abilities could already be revealing themselves. [...] According to Seth we are just beginning to use our creative abilities.

Ruburt is making certain rather important inner adjustments, that are resulting, or will very shortly result, in a definite expansion of consciousness and ability. [...]

[...] The increase of ability on his part will be a qualitative one and a general one; that is, not one limited to psychic affairs. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s experience with his friend Marian, was in a strange way also a result of his increased abilities.

[...] Creativity as you understand it is the three-dimensional aspect then of greater abilities that belong to our consciousness innately, whether it is consciously materialized or not (period).

When it is so materialized much of the creativity is automatically expressed (pause), the individual being aware of only that ability that the mind can understand. [...]

[...] Controls were applied as he learned to experience and use his growing abilities. [...]

Now until Ruburt’s psychic experiences and the beginning of this expansion of consciousness and abilities, he was used to relying upon other levels of trust. [...]

[...] In your own way, and according to your own abilities. But that you use you own individual abilities, and learn how to handle them. [...]

[...] And they can tell you what they know to the best of their ability, as I do. [...]

[...] I make him work hard because he has the ability and is working. [...]

[...] Nor do I. Perhaps, even knowing Jane’s unique creative abilities as well as we do, we’re each somewhat daunted by the thought that consciously we might not be able to concentrate enough on two such projects at once. I do believe it possible for Jane to deliver “Unknown” Reality and The Way Toward Health concurrently through Seth, and to carry on her “regular” writing, for I think we have yet to learn the limits of her abilities [although as she continues to develop them she increases our knowledge of human potential]. [...]

(The following material is, in part, an outgrowth of certain effects described in Personal Reality; see my notes for the 616th session, bridging chapters 2 and 3. That session was held on September 20, 1972, and the notes I’m referring to concern a new development in Jane’s abilities: her initial realization that on at least some occasions she would have more than one channel of information available from Seth. [...]

[...] She added that her experience in “getting it” was related not only to her ability to sense that sometimes more than one stream of material was available from Seth, but to the way that she herself had tuned into the information on neurological speeds late last month. [...]

[...] Since that Jane Roberts has no abilities that are not inherent in the species as a whole, then at the very least it must be admitted that human personality has many more attributes than those usually ascribed to it. I hope to explain what these abilities are, and point out the ways that each individual can use to release these potentials.

[...] This ability to perceive and react to unlimited simultaneous events is a basic characteristic of each whole self or entity. [...]

Now I am giving all of this material here because it will help you understand and use your present abilities. [...]

[...] Most of all, there would be far — if you will excuse me — better communication between the subjective layers of the self, an increased sense of security, and, particularly with children, an earlier kindling of creative abilities.

[...] Creative and psychic abilities are thrust into the background simply because of this artificial division. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You believe that the greatest training and discipline must be used to bring about such activity—but that seemingly extraordinary physical ability simply represents the inherent capacities of the human body. In those cases, the athletes through training are finally able to give a glimpse of the body’s spontaneous abilities. [...]

(9:53.) Again, in our material on suffering (see the 895th session, for instance), I mentioned that illness serves purposes—that it has a face-saving quality in your society—so here I am speaking of the body’s own abilities. [...] Age alone never brought about any loss of physical agility, or of mental ability, or of desire. [...]

You were presented—or rather you presented yourself—with a prime example of the abilities of the natural person. [...]

[...] Both share also the possibility of accelerated creative vitality—activity that the elder great artists, or the elder great statesmen, have always picked up and used to magnify their own abilities. [...]

His own clairvoyant abilities have taken a leap forward. You, Joseph, at the least several times a week, should make an effort to embark upon more psychological time exercises, for your own abilities have also grown; but you have not realized it.

When your portrait of the artist was done your own psychic abilities had grown as much as your artistic knowledge. [...]

[...] Do this as if you were starting out to paint a picture, requesting to see the images of certain persons at a given time or situation in the future, and let your abilities then fill in on the imaginative pattern. [...]

[...] If you are looking for a refreshing change, a lighthearted experiment, then imagine what painting you would paint if you were a particular other person, gifted with your own abilities.

(See the last two sessions.) There are various ways in which Ruburt’s abilities can be used, and various purposes they can serve, according to circumstances and conditions. [...]

He is learning to use his abilities now in various ways,, though you have only begun to learn what they are. [...]

[...] The ability is his, and it is he who will use it. [...]

Though he does not understand what he does, he is learning control at other layers of consciousness, and he will be able to utilize his abilities far better in our sessions and in other experiments. [...]

(Pause.) This leads you back into yourself and to a recognition of your own abilities. [...] The infinite abilities of consciousness become individualized, focused into a particular reality which then becomes expanded. Your own temporal creations add to the abilities with which you made them. [...]

[...] They can all work in such a way that you deny yourself the use of your abilities — and this in turn causes you to project them outward upon others.

[...] If you believe that wealth is evil, as an example, you automatically rob yourself of any ability that might bring you riches. [...]

[...] The more powerless you feel, the less able you are to utilize your own healing abilities. [...]

[...] And it did represent another phase of Ruburt’s developing abilities. But these abilities must be trained. [...] As his abilities do develop, it is even more important that he take walks, and that some frequency in daily contact with others is maintained.

[...] This allows for an excellent utilization of the abilities already developed, and permits, again, excellent concentrated inner focus. [...]

[...] I would prefer that he channels his new abilities mainly, though not exclusively, in our sessions.

As far as the sessions themselves are concerned in relation to Ruburt, your love and reinforcement are necessary; and on your part the atmosphere of confidence, which indeed you have always given him, this will allow him the greatest possible development of ability within the sessions, and of course will further the sessions themselves.