“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You go along with your life, understanding that you form your experience, emphasizing your ability to do so.

[...] Affirmation is based upon the realization that no other consciousness is the same as your own, that your abilities are uniquely yours and like no other’s. It is the acceptance of your individuality in flesh. [...]

[...] If he must think in terms of responsibility, then the only responsibility he has is to express the spirit of life as it is most naturally felt in his experience, through the development of his abilities in their natural flow (underlined). [...]

He naturally knows what fits his temperament, abilities, and disposition. [...]

Actually, of course, the creative abilities follow a larger vein of knowledge, and are responsible to themselves. [...]

The flexibility and yet the focusing ability of the main sensitive is very important with this method. [...] The amount of contributing energy needed may or may not require many sitters, according to their varying abilities to direct and focus energy.

[...] (Jane pointed toward our kitchen, where we have a small table we haven’t tried.) The small table is particularly good because it was built by its owner, whose own abilities are definite, though untrained. [...]

[...] They were not caused by me, and yet the experience itself, as any new experience, any worthwhile endeavor, any breakthrough, was bound to challenge the abilities of the personality.

[...] A doctor will try to the best of his ability to relieve the symptoms, and most of them, regardless of their plane of endeavor, are content with this. [...]

[...] His abilities are detailed in the book, Healing Hands, by J. Bernard Hutton, published 1966 by David McKay Co., Inc., New York, NY, at $3.95.

[...] He had, as you mentioned, the inner knowledge of his own abilities that had, he felt, to be used. [...] His natural abilities are unconventionally tuned, highly spontaneous, working through intuitive loops; in a certain way, now, from a normally conscious viewpoint, unpredictable.

He was then just over 30, and felt that his abilities had not begun to show fruition. [...]

[...] When the system was set up, for many reasons having to do with relative youth and lack of experience, he did not have any confidence in his conscious ability to say no, to hold to a “line of attack.” [...]

[...] For him the writing abilities had to be allowed freedom. [...]

[...] Philip’s abilities along the lines of electronics have not been developed to near capacity, and it was for his own good that I mentioned them. [...] It is entirely within my abilities to produce such a plum as your Psychic Society is reaching for.

[...] Not only did you come through without the possible bruises, but you have gained in stature, understanding and ability. [...]

[...] But if I do make it a brief session, then I will have you exercise your abilities with the ESP cards until the ordinary ending of the session. [...]

To complete our skeleton outline, and we will go much more deeply into all of the inner senses, I will give you some data on the sixth inner sense, which actually involves a knowledge or ability used by some of the others.

[...] He is quite content with his ability to affect the minds of others. Our other friend, to the contrary, is afraid of this ability, and distrusts it, and is not at all committed to the product that he sells.

[...] They are well-meaning, and occasionally they are able to use their inner abilities.

[...] We also find, in your other friend, boundless energies and a genuine ability to relate to others. [...]

[...] In recent sessions her rate of speaking has pushed my writing ability to the limit, even with the rather elaborate system of symbols and abbreviations I have evolved for taking down the sessions.

Ruburt’s creative abilities still had those classical models, yet because of his mind’s originality and his natural intuitive nature; those creative abilities were also fueled by unofficial information: he was always to some extent in strong connection with the knowledge possessed by his natural person—and that knowledge kept seeking expression. [...]

The creative abilities must revolve largely about man’s definition of himself, his source and purpose, and all of your Western literature and art has revolved about the concept of the Sinful Self in one way or another. [...]

(Long pause at 9:13.) The use of the Frankenstein monster and so forth in television dramas, and the merging of strong destructive tendencies intermixed with the psychic abilities in current psychic horror stories, shows again the potent mixture of religion’s Sinful Self and science’s flawed self. [...]

The emergence of these psychic abilities was indeed resented by his ego, and initiated a necessary overhaul of personality, against which it protested. [...]

[...] This allowed the subconscious healing abilities to work. [...]

[...] You are approaching some excellent periods in your lives, periods that would not have been possible had Ruburt not fully accepted, as he now has, the emergence of his abilities and his responsibility to develop them.

Ruburt did not trust the sessions for some time, since it was the abilities that made the sessions possible that so bothered him. [...]

All consciousness has within it the deep abiding impetus to use its abilities fully, to expand its capacities, to venture joyfully beyond the seeming barriers of its own experience. [...]

The existence of so-called negative thoughts and feelings will not be glossed over, but neither will your ability to handle these. [...]

[...] You have only to use your ability consciously, to examine the nature of your thoughts and feelings and project those with which you basically agree.

[...] The methods given will be highly practical, workable, and within the abilities of any person genuinely concerned with those problems inherent in the nature of human existence.

[...] See that he does not concentrate on the old ones, while however recognizing them, and encourage him in his ability to insert the new ones. [...]

[...] The work, however, would not have been right for you, but upside down in a fashion, because with your knowledge before, say, our sessions, your particular blend of psychic abilities and writing abilities would not have developed; your painting would have lacked, in a way that would be quite noticeable to you. [...]

It is easy to see how people at the hospital, for example, speak constantly of the power of infection, the need to take steps against it before it develops, and so forth, and the little stress laid on the body’s natural ability to ward off such conditions. [...]

[...] The body’s very existence is proof of its own healing abilities. [...]

[...] You have writing ability, as you know.

[...] The book should be fun to write besides, and combine your writing and painting abilities. [...]

[...] The only separation is brought about by the varying abilities of personalities to perceive and manipulate. [...]

[...] These, however, must then develop according to their own merit, using the creative abilities inherent in them. [...]

[...] These abilities of which I speak, therefore, are inherent characteristics of consciousness as a whole and of each personality.

[...] Its own characteristic ways of dealing with nature were frowned upon, so that education does not work with the child’s abilities, but against them. [...]

[...] These sessions, in that regard, came naturally, as the expression of natural abilities and tendencies, finally emerging despite your official views at the time, jointly.

[...] Ruburt accepted the magic of a poem, but not the magic of health or mobility, because he was convinced that mobility stood in the way of his other abilities.

[...] We’d have respected his statements on that aspect of his abilities and intents as much as we did—and do—on any other. [...]

[...] After explaining how a couple of women (among others) had recently claimed that he had been in contact with them, Seth stated: “Now, I did not communicate with those women—but their belief in me helped each of them use certain abilities.”

[...] Being inspired to use one’s own abilities is a perfectly understandable development that we can be very happy about. [...]

When you showed impatience with his progress it was sometimes a natural impatience, and sometimes Nebene’s dissatisfaction with a student who should, with those abilities, do better. [...]

[...] when you were working particularly at Artistic, you could not say he was out gadding around and not using his abilities. [...]

The whole thing boils down to the fact that he thought and felt you would not help him, but demand that he use his own abilities and help himself independently of you. [...]

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

The inner self realizes, however, that potentials are present that would not necessarily be present under other circumstances — abilities that can not only help the present personality but other individuals, and even society at large.

[...] I want you to open up those barriers that you have erected within yourselves; 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.

Many novelists, say, of some considerable ability in writing, flesh out those same stories with characters only a bit more mature, and are considered quite serious artists. [...] That was an acceptable way of using your abilities, but your adolescent mentality was the usual adult mentality, and so you grew out of the framework.

[...] You used your artistic abilities. [...]

For a while your beliefs, ideas, and artistic ability merged at one level. [...]

[...] His books would not have shown the ability that they do now, however. [...]