“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In other words, to consciously focus his subconscious psychic abilities to perform toward a definite, material end.

[...] This added to the strength with which he focused his abilities; and I will have more to say concerning this attitude, which often but not always accompanies such psychic manipulations, even ordinary ones of which you are not aware.

Prayer has been extremely successful in enabling individuals to manipulate matter through use of their psychic abilities.

He must distort them simply because existence on the material plane necessitates a way of focusing his abilities that will not allow the larger scope of focus to operate. [...]

[...] Earlier in this work I hinted at the hypothetical existence of a truly fulfilled earth-person — with a hyphen.¹ All of the spiritual, mental, and biological abilities would be actualized to whatever extent possible. [...] Bodily abilities, however, would be freely expressed so that one woman might be a great runner, or a man excel at swimming. [...]

(Pause.) Each individual recognizes the existence of abilities or talents, leanings or propensities, that are largely unexpressed. [...]

[...] It does mean that individuals choose to develop certain portions of their abilities, and that such a choice often necessitates ignoring other talents.

Each of those children wants to develop its abilities in a particular manner, translating them into earth experience in such a way that all other portions of the earth are also benefited.

[...] Ruburt was going to use his abilities come hell or high water. [...] You are determined to use your abilities, but you are ever on your guard to see that you use your abilities, and that they do not “use you;” so you set up working habits, but you do not allow yourself a real environment of freedom in which to work. [...]

[...] I can let my ability flow outward through my fingertips and brush, so that I create an entirely new reality upon the board.”

[...] Some of my readers, not being perhaps aware of any psychic ability of their own, might think then that they are in for a long and protracted period of after-death training. Let me hasten to tell you that all such ability is not necessarily conscious, and that much of it takes place during the sleep state when you are simply not aware of it.

[...] In these the nature of reality is explained in accordance with an individual’s ability to understand and perceive it. [...]

Most individuals after death choose a more mature image that usually corresponds to the peak physical abilities, regardless of the age when the physical peak was reached. [...]

[...] He was also using his writing ability, or putting his writing ability at the hand of the material. Then again it had better be legitimate, since it was obvious he was being interviewed as a psychic who wrote, rather than as a writer with psychic abilities.

[...] If you have abilities that you are not using here, they are being used elsewhere.

[...] It is impossible for any being to be sterile, for any idea to die, or any ability to go unfulfilled.

To the extent that you are open and receptive, you can benefit greatly by the various experiences of your probable selves, and can gain from their knowledge and abilities. [...]

[...] You can for a while fake the sort of disbelieving belief required, but your ability to sell is based upon your own confidence as an integrated and principled personality. Practically you would find your ability minimized, and do you speak to me about practicality?

To be practical even in your terms, and they are not my terms, involves the full use of your abilities. [...] You have abilities here not being used, and this could lead to an added lifetime interest of some intensity.

Also in the long run your salesman’s ability, which was partially developed in another life, would play you false under the circumstances which you contemplate. [...]

[...] I am not only speaking in terms of your limited sense of what is practical, but what is truly practical for your personality is the full use of your abilities, and not stunting them through studied hypocrisies.

[...] (Long pause.) The ability to conceptualize is present in the fetus, and the fetus does conceptualize. [...]

[...] The ability to use language is also genetically built-in, through the precise orientation, again, with the physical triggering of the parents’ native language. [...]

[...] Each species comes into being not merely feeling a natural built-in trust in its own validity, but is literally propelled by exuberance in its ability to cope with its environment. [...]

“The other day Jane and I were talking about people who maintain that the universe is an accident, or that it has no meaning, or that there’s no such thing as life after death, or that psychic abilities don’t exist—that sort of thing. [...]

[...] And I would also like to mention the fact that indeed the woman in our gathering, Aniac, does indeed have abilities that are not being used, and possibilities for energy focus which she would do well to explore.

(Seth had also referred to Peggy Gallagher’s undeveloped psychic abilities in the 63rd session. [...]

Tonight’s session, Joseph, is a rather important one, and the woman who is attending our session is also quite important, in that her abilities are helping me to come through with, I might say, crystal clarity.

[...] I would say that tonight’s session saw Jane surpass those voice effects as far as sheer power and staying ability went by some little margin; but I do not think her voice dropped as low. [...]

The writing ability would follow as its handmaiden. In this world the artistic abilities were put first, but the mystical nature was given greater chances to expand and develop. [...]

[...] Obviously, Jane and I did choose to meet the challenges presented by the emergence of her psychic abilities 11 years ago. Those “new” abilities offered creative possibilities so apparent that, given our natures, we had little desire to do otherwise; beneath our doubts and questions we intuitively felt the rightness of our decisions. [...]

The abilities that he possessed, that could be channeled into society as he understood it, were [so handled]. In such an eventuality, fragmentation occurred so that the abilities were dispersed, some directed into school, some into drawing, and others into his models. [...]

[...] She had forced herself to focus all of her great emotional power into the marriage structure as they both understood it; but your father would not concentrate his own abilities into the cultural and financial structure as he had agreed to do in the tacit contract.

[...] You were born with a desire to fulfill your abilities, to move and act in the world. [...]

[...] You are born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can individually contribute to the world, and to attain a state of being that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the world.

“The therapy of value fulfillment will attempt to put individuals in touch with their basic instincts, to allow them to sense the impulsive shapes of their lives, to define their own versions of the ideal through the recognition of it as it exists in their own impulses and feelings and abilities, and to help them find acceptable and practical methods of exerting their natural power in the practical actualization of those ideals.”

[...] The invisible particles that I am referring to, however, have the ability to transform themselves into mass,¹ or to divest themselves of it. [...] To that degree such psychological particles are at that stage unspecialized, while they contain within themselves the innate ability to specialize in whatever direction becomes suitable.

[...] While your reasoning abilities at first may falter, that is only because you have trained your intellect to respond in a limited fashion.

[...] Seth had indicated in the preceding paragraph of the session that such faltering of the reasoning abilities may occur. [...]

[...] By obvious, I mean active, when fantasies occur involving activities far beyond the physical abilities as they are thus far developed.

[...] I am speaking specifically of the brain, as separated from the mind, to emphasize the point that these abilities are of creaturehood. [...]

Man’s creative alertness, his precise sensual focus in space and time, and his ability to react quickly to events, are of course all highly important characteristics. [...]

[...] You will understand situations better in daily life, because you will have activated inner abilities that allow you to subjectively perceive the reality of other people in a way that children do.

[...] It is as if, for example, consciousness of any whole self were compared to a huge, and indeed almost infinite light, with the ability inherent in the light to focus in many directions; to be diffused, as if the light had many switches that would turn it to greater or lesser intensities and directions.

They do achieve value fulfillment, however, and within the limits set by their own abilities they also perform the duties of construction. [...]

[...] In all cases consciousness is first, and it forms its physical constructions according to its abilities, first of all forming its own primary construction, and then branching outward, constructing secondary images of other consciousnesses with whom it comes in contact.

[...] In your physical field value fulfillment consists of the development of the ability of the immaterial to express itself within the physical field.

(In the 185th session Seth dealt to some extent with what he called Jane’s healing ability; one point he made was that the desire to help others would aid the development of this ability. [...]

[...] It has nothing to do with the particular abilities that are being used, per se. [...]

[...] It is for this reason that he now and then does enjoy visitors to sessions, because he instinctively feels that he is thereby learning to manipulate and use these abilities oftentimes, and thereby learn the various subjective feelings that accompany valid perceptions, and to distinguish these from subjective feelings that turn out to be based upon invalid perceptions.

For training is necessary as with all things, and although Ruburt has excellent abilities he needs also, shall we say, such direct laboratory experience.

[...] Tell yourself that you are doing well in the reality, that you are using your abilities, that you are helping your husband use his and that you have brought to birth an individual who will use his very well. [...] You have given them the gift of existence, they will learn how to use it and develop their own abilities in their own way, for you have also given them individuality which means they are not yourselves, but variations on yourselves. [...]

[...] You have all the energy, all the ability, all the power and all the strength you will need within you to face each and every situation and be the selves you want to be. [...]

[...] Is this what you mean by betraying my own ability to do it again?”)

He was a probable self of your grandfather’s and he kept in touch with you, and you were able to see him because of your own abilities. [...]

(Pause at 9:34.) Now, certain individuals glimpse this great natural healing ability of the body, and use it. [...] Some of the body’s abilities will seem impossible to you, for you have no evidence to support them. [...]

[...] This finesse, again, hints at physical abilities not ordinarily used. [...]

[...] In your terms they would seem to be like sleepwalkers, yet their physical abilities surpassed yours. [...]

[...] These experiences can give you some vague hint of the kind of existence I am speaking of.¹¹ There are also physical apparatuses connected with the hibernation abilities of some animals that can give further clues as to the possible relationships of consciousness to the body. [...]

[...] Psychic abilities and fear of ridicule.)

The increased appearance of his ability creatively, as seen in his own writing, should be apparent to you Joseph, and is objectively apparent in the letters he has received. The increased focus of his abilities I predicted during an unscheduled session, if you recall. [...]

[...] That is, we miss instances when his abilities are at high peak. [...]

When a particular situation arises, or when his abilities are unusually attuned, we have in the past held unscheduled sessions, and I have always attempted to compensate by cutting the next one short, or cutting it out entirely.

[...] This sensitivity varies in accordance to the ability of the individual in general in this line, which is why I make the point. [...]

He has several important gifts of character, now, as separate from abilities. [...] There is also an ability to endure unpleasantness, or even pain, if he believes it is for a great-enough principle.

As he saw your friends making adjustments to the best of their ability, he became more frightened. [...]

[...] He felt you were denying your own talent and abilities. [...]

He is also intuitively sure that without the stimulus you will never develop your abilities fully. [...]