“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

About your dream: (Pause.) You were telepathically picking up some of the thoughts of Joe Bumbalo as he suspiciously wondered about John, because John’s talents and abilities struck him as being too feminine. [...]

At the same time, Joe holds you in fond regard—yet your abilities also were not those that he traditionally assigned to manhood: men did not paint pictures. [...]

[...] Anyhow, on her own she said that the Oriental women further represented to Joe Bumbalo his ideas that son John’s abilities weren’t American—that, indeed, they were unAmerican, foreign to male sexuality, feminine. [...]

[...] When this momentary breakthrough does occur however, then someone with disciplined and developed abilities can explain the situation to him. [...]

[...] He was even then leaning toward our direction, by nature, ability and inner desire.

His writing ability can now begin to develop fully. [...]

There are people who work in art departments as a living, gifted certainly more than most with an ability to visually portray an idea. They sense an ideal, but those ideals and abilities are everywhere distorted by millions of other considerations. [...]

(Pause at 10:06.) He squashed what intuitive abilities he had, and finally considered, for example, poetry unmanly. [...]

[...] His own buried intuitional abilities, however, have always acted as a bridge between you, so that he feels a close affinity that he does not understand. [...]

[...] They presented excellent evidence of his own abilities, for initially they were crystal-clear and without distortion. [...] This was an attempt to build Ruburt’s confidence — to show how clear reception can be if his abilities are fully utilized.

[...] Here he reaches out to turn the radio off and gets a shock; the shock is his realization that the Material itself would cease were he to shut off his abilities. [...] Were he to shut off his abilities as one can turn off a radio, then you would also be deprived.

[...] He said that the green jacket represented a new ability that had been mine in a past life but which I misused, this new ability was now waiting for me to claim. [...]

[...] The system has the ability to heal itself, however, and every opportunity should be given to allow it to do so.

[...] I have consistently advised contacts with the world at large, and told you both to use your abilities to meet outside challenges. [...]

The session lasted until 11:30 P.M. Rob was reassured by Seth’s statements about my ability to handle dissociation, and by his responsible attitude. [...]

[...] Even so, Seth said that my strong ego was an asset to our work when I didn’t overdo it, since it kept my whole personality on an even keel and allowed me the psychological strength to handle and develop my abilities.

[...] Seth was correct: I’ve enjoyed the classes, learned a great deal from them, and enlarged my own abilities as a result, in ways I didn’t know were possible.

(Seth has referred to the ability of suggestion to change experience which has already passed. [...]

[...] It is extremely difficult for a psychological structure to view itself, for in order to do so it must lift itself from the limitations and abilities of its own nature. [...]

[...] These varying perceptive abilities organize so that their perceptive powers are pooled in a gestalt that eventually forms a new identity, a more complicated psychological structure that is capable of perceiving larger areas of reality.

[...] It is the result of your ability to step out of your own system to some small extent, for you cannot do this until you are ready. [...]

Each creature in its way is born with great expectations, and attempts to use whatever abilities it has to the fullest, to exercise them, and simply to thrill in their use. [...]

[...] Your cells have great expectations on their own, and rejoice to use their abilities and perform their functions.

[...] Hence, I’d decided to send her a book on art, derived through Jane’s trance abilities. [...]

As for you, your abilities are latently of the highest quality, but you also bring up inhibiting barriers that I hope will vanish. In some respects Ruburt long ago developed his ability to draw upon basic energy. If we can, and we can, overcome his quite natural fears and inhibitions, we can all use this ability with most beneficial results. [...] Actually he early recognized his ability to draw upon added energy, and somewhat feared it.

[...] For the record, you understand that I am referring to egotistical material as that portion that is concerned with the outer camouflage-oriented personality, and that the stronger inner ego actually represents the power and ability behind the outer ego.

As to the means, the very simplest and crudest but still to be adopted method will prove to be hypnotism, simply because at this point your personalities will not trust their own abilities but must rely upon suggestion from the outside.

Telepathy involves of course a focusing of abilities and energy. [...]

The dream represented a correlation of past, present and future, a knowledge that Ruburt was indeed an artist in a distant life, that he has strong abilities in that direction now; and it represents your inner realization of the type of painting he can ultimately produce in this life if he utilizes the ability. Your surprise in the dream represents your feeling that he is not using the ability. [...]

[...] What is difficult is the ability or facility to change focus from one area to another, always leaving the door open for a return to the usual necessary daily focus point, in order that effective balance be maintained and manipulation in the physical area remain fairly uninterrupted.

[...] Both Jane and I of course have been aware of her artistic ability, and I have made various attempts to get her to use it more regularly. [...]

[...] Or rather, the personality will manifest itself forcibly as a woman in most flamboyant terms, because it has thus far not used its abilities nor expressed the strong intuitive portion of its nature.

[...] Now Ruburt until recently has had the same sort of belief concerning his body and its abilities. [...]

Last summer there were some important improvements physically, plus a rebirth of Ruburt’s creative abilities. [...]

[...] Ruburt needed the experience in order to gain added faith in his own abilities. Both of them needed the assurance that those abilities are natural, and can be used in private dealings with nature. [...]

[...] I speak here again of power as the ability to act creatively and with some effectiveness. [...]

(Pause.) You do not understand the nature, then, of your own energy or your ability to direct it. [...]

A person with several existences stressing intellectual achievement might purposely then decide upon a life in which mental abilities are beyond him, and the emotions allowed a full play that he had denied them “earlier.”

[...] Some artists with great ability may shut out intellectual maturity, utilizing native emotional qualities to such an extent and with such intensity that the mental reasoning faculties are largely shunted aside. [...]

[...] Yet within the abilities of your creaturehood, your current beliefs can change your experience; you can restructure your “reincarnational past” in the same way that you can restructure the past in this present life (as explained in sessions 657-58 in Chapter Fifteen.

[...] If you understand that the point of power is in the present, then you have an inexhaustible realm of ability and energy at your command.

(Jane’s symptoms, especially her walking ability, have become much worse since the last private session was held—so much so that all of a sudden it seems to be a question of how much longer she can continue to make it to the john here in the house. [...]

[...] The discomfort and concentration cut down on his creative abilities, which added to the problem. [...]

[...] You are taught as children to be honest in very literal terms, and often children’s natural imaginative abilities and creativity get them in a good deal of trouble. [...]

(Long pause.) He can help himself beside the sessions by encouraging the use of his own abilities directed toward self-understanding and healing. [...]

[...] You must completely cease inner speculations and regrets and questions as to why your abilities have not come to fruition. [...] Then immediately imagine a time when you painted very well and spontaneously, and tell yourself that you are now free to use and develop these abilities. [...]

[...] You regret past time, and that your abilities, you feel, have not come to fruition. [...]

Your attitude should be, I have the whole afternoon to myself in which to paint, and all the rest of the time I have for creative abilities to bring me inspiration and ideas.

The material on impulses was indeed from me this morning, and in a way that material, coming through as it did, was the result of Ruburt’s dawning understanding that his own abilities can indeed help him solve his difficulties when he allows it. [...]

[...] Briefly: Ruburt has always felt the strength of his abilities, even before he recognized consciously the areas into which they would lead him. [...]

[...] Those who possessed such gifts knew it at once, but they must walk a cautious path while still allowing the abilities expression and insuring their development. [...]

[...] He does have a very strong private nature, along with an ability to communicate to others—and as my material stated this morning, a greater understanding of his impulses would lead to a natural balance. [...]

[...] Your psychic state of nervousness, fear, lack of confidence and lack of focus as far as utilizing your artistic abilities were concerned, began to build up like many encircling walls. [...] Your subconscious healing abilities and the hidden subconscious vitality beneath became dammed up, seemingly with no means of release.

[...] Your artistic ability does not belong to your ego, dear Joseph, though I understand as I speak that anyone on your plane identifies himself with his ego, and when he says “I am,” he means he is his ego, or his ego is.

[...] The ego enables you to use or focus your artistic ability along the lines necessary to make it effective on your plane. [...]

[...] The fact is that the animals caught your emotional contagion, and according to their lesser abilities translated it for themselves.

Again, his condition does represent the one area where both of you have felt cowed, often hopeless, and as if your abilities worked in all directions but that one. The important point is, that that area was the one area in which you did not use those abilities—nor should either of you spend time bemoaning what has happened, or dwelling upon “what people can do to themselves.” [...]

[...] It also implies the ability to respond. [...]

Ruburt’s own abilities he considered represented even the furthest reaches of the creative realm, therefore putting him in twice as inferior a position. [...]

[...] Many of them feel almost the prisoner of abilities that will only extend so far, and no further. [...]

[...] Pleas for help were seen as demands—not as opportunities to use abilities, so he felt hounded. He was not sure enough of his new world, still enough a part of the old one so that he saw his life and abilities often through the eyes of the “old world inhabitants”—the others who might scorn him, or set him up for ridicule.

[...] The creative abilities in one way or another deal with the us-ness, with the inner intersections that everywhere occur within the most singular seeming aspects of your reality. The creative abilities join the creator and created (long pause) in a behavior in which for example, now, the painting that is to be affects the creator of it before its inception and before its form, so that the two are connected in a kind of behavior in which at deeper levels the ideas of cause and effect can have no meaning. [...]