“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Since then, Seth has demonstrated telepathic and clairvoyant abilities on occasions too frequent to mention. [...]

[...] Yes, you can develop your own extrasensory abilities. [...]

[...] Seth often explained problems as the result of unresolved stresses in past reincarnational lives, and gave specific advice as to how the individuals could use their abilities now to meet these challenges.

[...] Through telling my own story and presenting the material, I hope to throw some light upon the nature of such experiences and to show that human personality has abilities still to be tapped, and other ways to receive knowledge than those it usually employs.

[...] When you allow yourselves to be free and use your abilities you will learn it. [...]

[...] Accept what I say, but use your own abilities. [...]

That insecurity has largely prevented him from fully using his own abilities on his own behalf (intently). He is gifted precisely with the kind of abilities that can clear up all of his problems. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Some is difficult to explain clearly, because Ruburt wanted to make sure of the validity of the sessions from the start, and because of other material given in the past, he did not fully accept the sessions or his own psychic abilities as an integral part of his personality—since they appeared relatively late in life, where the poetry, for example, had always more or less been apparent. [...]

Even there you have learned, of course, and Ruburt’s knowledge and yours has helped you both in your health in many ways—but you have not used your abilities in that direction in the same fashion that you have otherwise, and in the newest attempt to help set him free (deeper), I hope to lean you in those directions. [...]

[...] I do not want to speak of great missions, yet it is also true that in its fashion each creature’s life is a mission, with all of its characteristics and abilities uniquely suited. [...]

It is this ability which is ever a strong force on your plane, having to do with the building up of particular elements, atoms, neurons and so forth, into camouflage patterns. On your plane you must use this organizing ability to form the camouflage pattern. There are planes with much simpler camouflage patterns, and some inhabited by personalities too weak or limited in this ability, and others inhabited by personalities strong in this ability to use energy, but who no longer need to use it in such a camouflage pattern.

No potentiality is ever ignored, but given full opportunity to use its abilities. Not only does such a potential depend upon inherent abilities, but also upon a facility to use energy and to gather it together in one field as a unit.

[...] And of course Jane and I were wondering what effect, if any, the interruption would have on her ability to continue the session. [...]

Upon this depends, to a large extent, the strength of any sort of a fragment, and this ability as much as any other is a limiting factor also. [...]

Let him remind himself that he is fearless in his poetry, and commits himself to it fully, and his ability here has always led him onward to further unfoldments and never into betrayal or deceit. It is precisely this same kind of ability he is using now. [...]

[...] Once again Jane gained insights into the problems behind her symptoms, and we planned a course of action as a result; the course merely concerns a way to think about her psychic abilities, with some suggestions given to this end in a specific way.

(As we talked Jane herself made the intuitive connection that her “intellectual skepticism” about her psychic gifts is really a fear, an emotional masquerade that prevents her from being really objective in considering her abilities. [...]

Abilities cannot be developed following a one-sex line. [...]

A chronically ill existence, for example, might also be a measure of discipline, enabling you to use deeper abilities that you ignored in a life of good health. [...]

[...] If you ignore day-by-day opportunities for development now, no one can force you to accept and utilize greater abilities after death, or between lives. [...]

[...] You cannot justify or rationalize present circumstances by saying, “This is because of something I did in a past life,” for within yourself now is the ability to change negative influences. [...]

It does what you want it to do, in other words, but it still contains abilities of which you have little knowledge, and sources of information that belong to the entire entity of which you are but a part. [...]

It is your contact with All That Is, but it is up to the conscious mind of the present individual as to how much its abilities will be used and in what manner. [...]

When the ego is using its abilities in an unfortunate manner the inner self sets up warning systems, sometimes even bringing the physical organism to a physical or symbolic halt to prevent the ego from doing further damage through misdirection.

[...] Do not overwhelm yourself with suggestions before sleep, but it is a very good time to give yourself suggestions concerning your painting in terms of creative intuitions to help you use your abilities.

[...] In doing so you divide your intuitive, creative, and psychic abilities quite neatly from your physical, manipulative, objective abilities. [...]

[...] Creative abilities would be quickened, and the great problem of insomnia that exists for many people would be largely conquered — for what they fear is often the long period of time in which consciousness, as they think of it, seems to be extinguished.

[...] This method of eating and sleeping would greatly help various metabolic difficulties, and also aid in the development of spiritual and psychic ability. [...]

[...] You would become aware of your clairvoyant and telepathic abilities, for example, to a far greater degree, and you would not feel the deep separation that you now feel between the dreaming and waking self. [...]

[...] However he could, it seems to me, show somewhat more confidence in my ability. He certainly shows enough confidence in his own, though not in his psychic ability. [...]

The situation here can be eased, and it is within the ability of the present personality to do so. [...]

[...] However, it is as if the personality stands before another door, where the abilities for communication can turn the knob, but he will not turn the knob. [...]

[...] In whichever direction we focus our abilities and energies, we seem to see new action, but it is merely our focus which has changed; and in changing, has formed new action.

Now I am going to ask you once again to close your eyes to follow me to the best of your ability. You do not have to follow me to the best of your ability. [...] I want you to feel within yourself your own abilities and energy and power. [...]

[...] It was known, for example, that Ruburt would need your support, as it was also known that the work itself would help your own creative abilities.

(10:00.) It goes without saying that on much deeper levels there is no reluctance on Ruburt’s part, or the abilities would not have developed in this fashion. [...]

[...] In periods of severe personality disturbances that can occur simultaneously with great creativity, the ego becomes terrified of the strength of the creative ability, fearing that it can be crushed beneath.

The development of abilities was necessary, and will show regardless of the particular way in which Ruburt may choose to use the abilities. [...]

The earlier drinks of course let down his guard, but it was the caffeine in the coffee that allowed the system to alert and direct the inner abilities on this particular evening. (Impatient gesture.) You should not be so fearful that you attempt to hold down the abilities. [...]

[...] Ruburt did not use his abilities in precisely the same manner in the past, simply because he was unable to do so had he been willing.

His abilities took in one way a giant step forward. [...]

Some portion of you rises up to say yes when your own finest abilities show themselves in whatever form. Later you might see that many of your own decisions or actions that once appeared disadvantageous, and for which you berated yourself, were in fact the very ones that helped bring your own abilities to your attention.

[...] We don’t think that Yale can have much of an idea of what’s involved with Jane’s abilities, or the subject matter of the Seth material. [...]

[...] Your finest abilities will seek to express themselves regardless of the misunderstandings you may have concerning them or the barriers seemingly thrown in your way by family or society.

[...] The possibility had been indicated often: witness Seth’s ability to discuss a variety of subjects with the members of a group, even if they were strangers to Jane. The new step in her abilities would be her conscious awareness of the blocks of material already prepared and awaiting delivery. [...]

1. See Jane’s Introduction for material on the development of her Sumari abilities.

[...] We think Jane combines the resulting spontaneity with her natural psychic abilities in these sessions. [...]

[...] They presented excellent evidence of his own abilities, for they were crystal clear and distinct, and without distortions.

[...] This was an attempt to build his confidence, and to show him how clearly reception can be if his abilities are fully utilized.

He would not accept the responsibility that he felt such ability would put upon him, and so he looked for an outside source of the voices, and dreamed the sequence in which the voices came from a radio, and not his head. [...]

[...] The shock is his knowledge that our material would cease were he to shut off his abilities in such a manner. [...]

[...] People, however, often identify with their seeming mistakes, forgetting (pause) their abilities in other directions, so that it seems that they are misfits in the universe, or in the world. [...]

[...] Feelings of self-worth, self-esteem, and pleasure with one’s abilities promote feelings of well-being, health, and exuberance.

[...] After going inward to some degree, to some considerable degree, you are now using your abilities to manipulate physical reality and turn in your outlook into your physical environment using your abilities to help people that you know, and this is excellent. [...]

[...] You develop the abilities that are yours, the best you can, within physical reality. You may, therefore, for example, choose to be an intellectual giant in one life and an emotional idiot in order that you can concentrate upon intellectual abilities. [...]

[...] So you have not been using your abilities in your family relationships. [...]

[...] You continue to develop your abilities, but you continue to develop them in dimensions of reality that you do not understand now and so in this existence of mine I am a teacher and I visit other dimensions of actuality such as your own. [...]

The same hidden ability that promotes your body’s health and vitality also fulfills and preserves the world in general. [...]

[...] Instead, of course, your intellectual abilities are supported and promoted by that inner mixture of spontaneity and order that so magically combine to form both your reality and the reality of the world.

He is to realize that if he has any duty or purpose in life, it is indeed to express those very abilities (all very emphatically), since those abilities are so natural in his makeup, they also possess their own protective mechanisms. [...]

(4:45.) In other words, Ruburt was given strong creative abilities that he was determined to express — but at the same time early in his life he was given the idea that it was highly dangerous to express the very uniqueness that was inherent in his creativity. [...]

[...] It also showed me that even Jane’s poetry was suspect, where I’d been under the impression that the poetry was the one aspect of her creative abilities that was essentially free, or uncontaminated by fears or doubts. [...]

[...] Therefore you are meant to use your abilities and to develop them, and when I speak of abilities I do not necessarily mean psychic abilities alone. [...]

[...] You use many of your natural and native abilities when it seems to your ego that you are unconscious. [...]