“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now when you met Ruburt, and I will give you connecting points here, you recognized the strong creative abilities, and appreciated them, encouraged them. [...] The abilities were to be used. [...]

[...] He was appalled that your ability, while disciplined, lacked the intent and purpose, the search for truth and meaning, he felt being adulterated. [...] Nebene felt the purpose would save your abilities.

In whatever situation you find yourself, in whatever “life,” (in quotes) there will be different focuses of abilities, conflicts of ability that are all challenges. [...]

[...] The same applied to your own creative abilities, where for some time a divergence from a literal pictorial illustration was felt to be wrong, or off. [...]

[...] And you all have human personalities, so therefore the abilities that are shown in this room are examples of the abilities that you have within yourselves waiting to be developed. [...] The ability to open yourselves up enough so that you can bear to understand the reality of another individual. [...] Now, using psychological time and learning to be spontaneous, you can free these abilities within yourself. [...]

[...] You need a feeling of release, you need to be friends with yourself so that you can let your abilities flow freely. [...]

[...] You have the knowledge and the ability. [...]

[...] It does not occur to you, however, that there are literally countless, countless probable egos within yourself, numberless abilities that could come to the foremost of your consciousness to be latched upon and used. You are unaware of these buried selves, these buried abilities, these buried creative functions and combinations, and yet in other layers of reality these come to the forefront and you allow these their play and the characteristics that you think of now so securely as your own, these are buried. [...]

[...] Instead, if the abilities are used, and used widely, you will find you will come closer together and not further apart and without the security of knowing that you are there he would not use the ability. [...]

[...] Now you have enough sense to know not to go overboard on the one hand, and not to inhibit your abilities on the other, and your own personality and your own true feeling must dictate where that point is and no one else can tell you. [...] Now he is an apprentice as you are an apprentice, and to some extent, you will learn to use your abilities together. [...]

[...] You wanted a circle of safety however, before you would allow yourselves to use these abilities. And your present personality will have to learn to deal with these abilities. [...]

As he himself suspected, there has been a personality reorganization on Jane’s part, and for the abilities to be used fully, such reorganization was necessary. A reorganization would have occurred in any case, only it could have resulted in diminution of effective ability, instead of a magnification. [...]

Neither of you realize the strength of the abilities as yet, and the need for forging a strong personality who could learn to handle them wisely, and hold its own while using them. The ego feared that the abilities could sweep Ruburt away in the past even before our sessions, sensing the great but as yet unfocused energy. [...]

[...] His diverse abilities had to be gathered together and focused. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s ego would have avoided the questions and taken the easy road, and this easy road would not have developed the full potentials that were necessary if the personality were to use its creative and intuitional abilities in any important manner.

He must see that the writer’s freedom and ability is dependent upon his being a free person. [...] The creative abilities have a power that can be confusing, overprotected, or on the other hand run from. Ruburt was trying to do double duty—protecting his abilities and your own. [...]

The same can often apply to those with strong abilities in any field. [...]

[...] Abilities must then be protected against “spontaneous” desires, which, it is taken for granted, will lead in another direction.

[...] An artist is free to use his ability as far as his person is free. [...]

[...] Your ability to draw upon that channel is endless. The certain-amount-of-ability idea is highly limiting. [...]

[...] Instead people have varying abilities to use any of an infinite number of channels, any one of which in your terms leads to an inexhaustible source. [...]

[...] When you think in terms of having (in quotes) “a certain amount of ability,” then you become concerned that you use every portion of it, when in greater terms no such “it” exists.

[...] Your own (in quotes) “psychic abilities” now give you easy (underlined) access to inspiration. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Whenever you use abilities that to you seem supernormal, you are drawing upon the ability of the supraself. [...]

It however retains its identity, you see, while partaking to the extent of its desire and ability in the superior aspects of this greater gestalt. Even as you, according to your desire and ability, can partake of the superior qualities of your supraself.

[...] At various times more of the abilities of the whole self intrude, so to speak, upon the ego system. [...]

[...] Largely due to its abilities are the creative processes used, but hardly understood by the ego. [...]

[...] There are many reasons for such actions, but an overemphasis upon what you think of (underlined) as the reasoning abilities, as opposed to what you think of as the imaginative abilities, is at least partially to blame.

[...] Your experience of the world is largely determined by your imaginations and your reasoning abilities. [...]

In recent times the trend has been in the opposite direction, so that the abilities of the imagination were considered highly suspect, while exterior events were considered the only aspects of reality. [...]

I have taken two contrasting examples of the many ways in which the powers of the imagination and those of the reasoning abilities can be used. [...]

It is also possible that these secondary personalities, emerging, give access to buried abilities and benign constructive abilities which had been buried beneath heavier fears that weighed them down. [...]

This is entirely within Ruburt’s natural ability. However controls adopted during this life made his abilities late in showing themselves, and now training and confidence must be given before he can spontaneously adapt himself.

[...] It is only because his abilities and his faith in you are so strong that we can put the material safely to the test, and he will become more freely accessible to the use of his own abilities as time goes by.

What was once the subconscious of these individuals once more united with the inner ego, which always represents the true individual, and these then advanced according to their own abilities and desires.

[...] The more you read the more you will understand of Pete’s ability, and the more indeed that you can develop your own abilities. [...]

[...] Ruburt has endeavored to speak to Pete and explain to him how his ability should be used and should not be used.

[...] If they are attained they will be attained through your own development and through the use of your own abilities.

[...] When you have achieved reachable goals then you will have the strength and freedom to follow through, and ability to achieve goals that are more difficult. [...]

[...] The creative abilities do follow your conscious intents to some degree. [...] The creative abilities are quite capable of helping your physical survival, economically speaking, when they are freely followed. [...]

In Framework 2 your abilities from birth seek their fulfillment, not at your expense, not despite your own best interests. Your biology, your abilities, your mind and your emotions, are not conflicting elements, one battling the others so that you must fight to attain your goals. [...]

[...] The change of beliefs and feelings, the acceptance of freedom mentally, will vastly accelerate both of your creative abilities, releasing on both of your parts energy that has been withheld.

[...] Your own are obviously not limited to art, per se, or art would have satisfied you so completely, and taken your attention so completely, that you would not have looked in other areas at all, so there is a place meant for you, in which your artistic—meaning painting—writing, and intellectual capacities form a synthesis in which all those abilities take part, and are fulfilled. [...]

[...] Joint psychic endeavors should be very successful and help you both develop your abilities further. [...] You do not realize the extent to which your own intuitive abilities have been awakened by your contact with Ruburt. [...]

[...] The classes however will be a means of Ruburt developing his abilities, and of helping others, for the development of these abilities is meant to help others.

Ruburt’s ability to allow me to speak without distortion has grown. [...]

[...] His writing ability has always been based on intuitive leaps. [...]

His own mother in this life had, and has, abilities. He was frightened of her, you see, and therefore frightened of the abilities. There is a growing acceptance on the part of the whole personality now; as he sees these abilities help others, his students for example, he grows to trust them more.

[...] He misused such abilities in a past life, and this time he is having to work for them.

(“How much of a part is Jane’s past-life misuse of her psychic abilities playing in this life?”)

Simply that this time he must work harder to accept the abilities that last time he took so for granted, and misused.

The personality is always pleased with its abilities. If those abilities are extraordinary, or if they do not fit into the social structure, a personality can approve and disapprove, use the abilities, and yet feel the need for protection. [...] Extraordinary ability may seem extreme behavior when compared to the mundane lives of many people. [...]

[...] His unusual vitality, abilities, and intelligence were apparent, but they were not conventional abilities. The ability alone did not win friends and influence people.

[...] Jane’s ability to deal with others is obviously better. [...]

Now, what would that extreme behavior consist of “at its worst?” He felt that if he were a person given to extremes, then to use his abilities he must apply due discipline so that his head was not turned, so that he did not become a victim of fame, as many other writers and artists did—or so it seemed. [...]

[...] Jane achieved these mostly on her own, and wondered whether the Seth personality would gradually fade away as “her own” abilities increased.)

[...] His abilities are being further developed, however, and other facets will also make themselves known. [...]

(In recent weeks Jane’s abilities have seemed to be developing at an accelerated pace.)

[...] The development of his abilities is now showing in definite terms because the improvement in health is freeing much energy that had been bound up in his dilemma.

[...] You believed in the importance of developing your own abilities, because those abilities so naturally manifested themselves as strong elements of your personalities.

You both felt that the development of those abilities must be protected, lest the need for financial security lead you into full-time work on a long-term basis. You felt that you must to some extent allow your love for each other to nourish those abilities, and yet not jeopardize them lest it lead you into parenthood.

[...] If you did not have some trust in yourselves, some appreciation of your own characteristics, you would not have allowed yourselves to develop and use your abilities at all—or, for that matter, you would not have been able to form a vital long-term relationship with another person.

The creative abilities, of course, do not think of bodies-of-work. [...]

Then however the abilities want to grow and thrive, and the economic factors must no longer be a prime incentive. [...] The personality will try to develop its abilities further in a freer, more mature fashion, but the old habits will hold the personality back. “Will this sell or won’t it?” That question was more or less imperative when Ruburt was learning to use his abilities. Not only that, but the economic need itself was important, helping to focus those abilities to some degree, to the needs and desires of others as well as himself.

In your society talent, even genius, tries to ally itself, at least for a while, with your economic needs, for if the body does not eat the abilities will not survive. Left alone, the abilities will see to it that economic survival is achieved. [...]

[...] Then you immediately disentangled your abilities from economics in a particular fashion. [...] Ruburt did not know that his abilities could ever bring him money.

[...] It is as if Ruburt said “Aha, I must have the sun, or economic security, so my abilities can grow,” and became so concerned about that that he forgot the need for watering.

(9:32.) Again, his natural abilities kept leading him, so it seemed, away from the straight novel framework into the science fiction format, where at that time he discovered that science fiction was not given any particular honor in the literary field. [...] At the same time his abilities were examining the world at large, and your own worlds, as they were unfolding. [...]

[...] Those issues were encountered at that time because Ruburt’s abilities thrust them through their surfaces. His abilities grew despite the society’s inhibiting factors. [...]

[...] (Pause.) It will serve to inspire others, but each person is responsible for his or her own life, and Ruburt does not have a private clientele, nor is he temperamentally suited to use his psychic abilities to track people down or to serve as a therapist. That narrows his abilities too specifically and holds him down from other kinds of explorations for which he is highly equipped and quite proficient. [...]

[...] It was, simply, that we were wrong to blame imagined excesses of the spontaneous self for her problems—that really the trouble lay in her discovery that with the psychic abilities she was destined to find herself outside conventional creative authority: a person who learned that she would have to protect her very integrity as a person against charges of fraud. [...]

If you became wealthy, you would then be in danger of losing your ability, since in your realm of expectation ability of this nature and wealth do not exist simultaneously. To protect your ability then, you would rigorously fight to retain your poverty.

[...] It has been said that oftentimes men’s expectations are too high for their abilities, but indeed expectations form abilities; and if expectations were higher, so would abilities flourish.

[...] A man’s expectations are the result of his emotional heritage, and his own ability to understand and manipulate that heritage.

[...] This is put very simply and yet there is nothing, in practical terms, more valid, since expectation has behind it the motivating force of the personality, and utilizes on a subconscious level strong abilities and comprehensions.

[...] It is to bind you with All That Is, to open your abilities so that you can comprehend and comprehension never excludes. The greater your comprehension, the more your ability and understanding can include. [...] Use your abilities to find out your reality but do not deprive another of his reality and do not allow yourself to become impressed. [...]

[...] Now, you also often develop abilities in the dreaming and sleep state and perform work and creative activities of which you are not aware. [...] There are other ways of obtaining clues in psychological time, for example, but if I were you, I would be much more curious about what I do in my dreams for you can utilize these abilities in the waking state. [...]

[...] There are many people, many personalities, who have strong abilities. [...]

[...] To the extent that you extend yourselves, your abilities will automatically be developed, as you read and study the material. [...]