“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You all dwell in dimensions that know no place and no time, and so Ruburt is correct for when you ask me of places and times I answer you in terms of places and times, and when you know enough to ask me questions that do not have to do with places and times then you will understand more of your own identity, the nature of your existence and the abilities that are inherent within you. [...]

[...] Consciousness releases its abilities in ways that you do not understand and yet from your own mind, springing from your own dreams, other systems of reality emerge as you have emerged from our dreams. [...]

[...] You like the word warm-blooded, but where do you think your emotional abilities come from. [...]

[...] I am interested in helping you develop your own abilities—therefore, I answer those questions that I think you will not be able to answer for yourselves for a while and those answers that you will receive yourselves I leave open. [...]

The inner self, however, realizes that potentials are present that would not be present necessarily under other circumstances and that abilities can be brought to the foremost that could not be met under other circumstances. Abilities that can be a help, not only to the present personality, but even perhaps, to the society at large and to other individuals involved. [...]

[...] I have not said that you will necessarily escape and conquer them, but it is within your ability to do so. [...]

[...] To use those abilities that are still yours and to make from a seemingly chaotic pattern of personality and environment a product of joy and fulfillment. [...]

[...] I want you to open up those barriers that you have erected within yourselves and this voice is only used as a symbol of the energy and the strength that is available to each of you as you utilize those abilities that are your heritage. [...]

[...] All the abilities that I have now I have always had. And you have abilities that you are not using, you see, and the sooner you learn to use them the better it will be for you. [...]

Ruburt has always had a difficulty—if he will forgive me—in integrating the various abilities that are his. [...]

[...] To the extent that you do not develop your abilities and project them into physical realities are you sorrowful. [...]

[...] The energy that you are not using and the abilities that are yours. [...]

(After lunch we discussed her own notes on the morning’s work, and stressed that she should use the word “flamboyant” as part of her own true nature, attaching only positive meanings to it, being proud of it, realizing that it gave expression to her abilities in a way that few could match. This of course meant, as we said, that she needn’t go about any longer pretending to be like the normal housewife next door, or whatever inanity—since nothing could be further from the truth: She is not like the normal housewife next door, should not want to be, should not be in alarm at their criticism, and should thank God for whatever abilities she has of her own that do inevitably make her different, superior, talented, etc., with something unique to offer the world—an opportunity few possess, and that should be used with the greatest joy and abandon. [...]

[...] Since Ruburt’s nature was rather—rather—extravagantly different from what he considered the norm to be, and since he possessed abilities that were not common generally and specifically to his sex, he became even more unduly suspicious of his own nature. [...]

The inner order of the body is hidden within its great spontaneous abilities. [...]

(I also stressed that our changing attitudes would be sure to change our attitudes toward others—that instead of trying to act “normally” toward strangers when they came here, especially when they were unannounced, we should simply be ourselves, secure in the abilities of our own natures; if any of these actions could be taken as “flamboyant” in a negative way, then so be it. [...]

I consider the book “mine” in that I don’t believe it could have been written without me and my particular abilities. [...]

[...] Frequent psychedelic-type experiences paralleled Seth’s dictated material, and my own creative and psychic abilities developed into some entirely new areas.

[...] This led to another group of poems, The Speakers. To me this all means that there is a rich vein of creativity and knowledge available to each according to his abilities, just beneath the surface of usual consciousness. [...]

I love to go full-blast ahead, using my abilities as freely as possible. [...]

[...] His creative abilities were growing and developing, his concepts enlarging, but he was for some time so convinced of science’s viewpoint that the ideas of the Sinful Self were looked upon as unworthy and superstitious. [...] When his creative abilities found contemporary scientific thought also too narrow, however, and his natural intuitions had led him toward a new framework—one that, again, introduced values having to do with the nature of consciousness, or soul—then the new ideas began to conflict directly with the old buried ones, particularly those that had to do with the conflicts between creative expression, the church, and “forbidden knowledge.” [...]

The creative abilities will instantly begin a new attempt to reconcile the entire affair, given a freer hand than before. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self does not identify as well with the creative abilities, for it does not trust them. [...]

[...] In each life we experience conditions that we have chosen beforehand, circumstances and challenges tailored to fit our own needs and develop our own abilities.

[...] Sometimes it holds me back from using my abilities fully.”

[...] He will not return, but go on now to another reality in which his abilities can be used to more advantage.”

[...] At one time he was tempted to use his abilities to gain power, and to use the priesthood for gain. [...]

Now the powers were your own and the face that you saw was a materialization of your own angers because you are not using your full abilities and so it was one part of the self, angry, yelling at another portion. [...]

[...] The main point of the dream, however, was that a portion of you was reminding you of abilities that you had. [...]

[...] You turned away from yourself both from the anger and from the implication of the abilities. [...]

Ideally speaking, your impulses lead you in your own proper direction, knowing the shape of your life, and your abilities and your needs. [...]

[...] His creative and psychic abilities emerge precisely when he is relaxed. [...]

I am developing, or helping him develop, his abilities with all caution. Your abilities are indeed developing and even now growing, in a different manner, beneath the surface, but they will show themselves, and much to your benefit.

I am somewhat taken back to discover that Ruburt, upon learning to use his abilities, would also attempt to censure the direction of their use.

As awareness develops, so do the abilities develop that enable the whole self to handle ever-varying data, and therefore to manipulate it and function within the perspective of its meaning. [...]

There are here in what you call the subconscious, abilities and realities of which you know little, and as you see how the subconscious projects itself into other dimensions, so will you see more clearly how energy is projected outward to form your own world of matter. [...]

Now, the television screen represented your abilities—it transmitted the messages. [...] Underneath you are frightened that these abilities will lead you along the paths that you have lead, that despite all your deliberations you will lead to another religion signified by the Buddha. And you are tempted at times to close these off for that reason, but you are also afraid that you have gone so far so quickly that the abilities cannot be closed off, and you cannot close the channel. [...]

Now, I will give you the information now or later, or you may find out the information for yourself using your own abilities and sources. [...]

[...] You may be able to get further information through your own sources and abilities. [...]

(9:25.) Even the mortal self, you see, is far more miraculous and wondrous than you perceive, and possesses far more abilities than you ascribe to it. [...]

[...] To the extent that it realizes this, it learns to unfold in creativity, and to use those abilities that lie inherent within it.

[...] The fact is that while you hold limited concepts of your own reality, then you cannot practically take advantage of many abilities that are your own; and while you have a limited concept of the soul, then to some extent you cut yourself off from the source of your own being and creativity.

Now these abilities operate whether you know it or not, but often they operate in spite of you rather than with your conscious cooperation; and often when you do find yourself using them, you become frightened, disoriented, or confused. [...]

You take your artistic ability on trust. [...] There are people highly gifted with artistic abilities, who have never trusted those abilities, did not consider them a part of themselves, and practically speaking have been unable to use them.

The abilities have always been present, however, latent as within each man health is there, though perhaps latent in the same way. [...]

[...] She has great respect for your painting, and for Ruburt’s abilities, and you knew her when she was a soldier in Rome. [...]

[...] It may seem to you that ideally one should be so highly proficient that in one life you are gifted with excellent health, great abilities, power and wealth. [...]

[...] Try to be honest with yourselves as to those early experiences in which you forced yourselves to behave differently than you were, because adults told you that you must … You had better understand the beautiful, unique quality of your own individuality lest you project upon the other sex — whichever sex you are — those abilities and qualities that you are afraid are your own, or project upon them those abilities and qualities that you wish you possessed and fear you do not.

[...] Later, as we discussed her use of Sumari in the material for this appendix, I asked her if she could describe the subjective feelings involved with her ability to go so quickly from Seth to Sumari, as well as to reverse the order.

[...] Remember also, that any abilities that you see displayed by the personality of Ruburt are abilities of human personality, latent in each of you, are to be used as you will and as you wish for you are possessed, possessed by ideas that are limited and that restrain you. Ideas that prevent you from using your own splendid energy and abilities. [...]

[...] Some of you would be only too glad to follow them for you would not have to face your own responsibility and your own responsibility is to look within and to use your own abilities. [...] You will develop in ways you cannot now understand and you develop as you unfold, as you use your abilities. [...]

[...] Hell is being blocked and knowing you’re being blocked from using your abilities; your abilities of creativity. [...]

[...] He has abilities that he uses. [...]

You however are not so afraid of your own abilities. I am speaking now of psychic abilities and the reason is again personal, since you have been aware of them in a somewhat different manner. [...]

[...] I am quite dependent upon your Ruburt-Jane, not in my own perceptions but in my ability to communicate them to you. [...]

[...] Ruburt is attracted by and yet doubtful of his own abilities. [...]

He knows that his particular abilities are very well developed on a subconscious level, and actually fears that they might carry him away. [...]

[...] Working with it Ruburt can use his own creative abilities as he attempts to make a work of art from any given book. [...]

[...] Addressing himself as a writer to ordinary people will enlarge his own creative abilities. [...]

[...] Speaking to the reader releases his intuitive and emotional and creative abilities.

Another dimension in your terms is simply added, a more extensive one, and when this training is done properly, as I have tried to do, then the medium’s personality is not only strengthened but its abilities used far above the usual normal. [...]

Obviously, the mind can use its reasoning abilities, for example, to come to the conclusion that there is a single god behind the functioning of the world, that there are many gods, that divinity is a fantasy, and that the world itself springs from no reasonable source. New sentence: Like statistics, the reasoning abilities can be used to come to almost any conclusion. [...]

[...] It is amazingly resilient, in that according to the belief structures of any given historical period, it can orient itself along the lines of those beliefs, using all of its reasoning abilities to bring such a world picture into focus, collecting data that agree, and rejecting what does not.

(8:54.) The intellect, then, helps your species translate its own natural purposes and intents — the purposes and intents of the natural person — into their “proper” cultural context, so that those abilities the natural person possesses can benefit the civilization of its time. [...]

[...] Some Speakers confine their abilities to the dream state; and, waking, are largely unconscious of their own abilities or experience.

[...] In some incarnations, the abilities might be used so powerfully that all other aspects of the personality remained in the background. [...]

[...] They can move from inner to outer reality with easy ability. [...]

[...] They are individuals, doing their best to develop their abilities and their lives—but your indignation was moral in narrow terms, rather than in quite acceptable artistic ones. [...]

I have told you time and time again that but for a few exceptions you have not used your creative abilities to help solve your problems. [...]

I know the extent of your creative abilities. [...]

Creative change, some playful indulgence, the use of the creative abilities, and some simple reasoning with yourselves, will be of great benefit. [...]