“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In such instances, often the personality will insist upon focusing his perceptive abilities and energies toward physical existence. [...]

They are extremely superficial and largely the result of misused intellectual abilities. [...]

It may outrage your intellect, and the evidence of your physical senses may shout that it is untrue, yet a belief in good without a belief in evil is actually highly realistic, since in physical life it will keep your body healthier, keep you psychologically free of many fears and mental difficulties, and bring you a feeling of ease and spontaneity in which the development of your abilities can be better fulfilled. [...]

[...] In them individuals creatively and purposely create realities, knowing how to do so and giving full rein to the creative abilities of consciousness.

The luxurious creativity displayed by Seth’s and Jane’s work raises more questions about the abilities of the psyche than it seems we can ever hope to answer. [...]

[...] Jane and I, for instance, have never particularly cared for the term “ESP,” or extrasensory perception (my emphasis), since to us it implies misleading conceptions about certain inner abilities. [...]

After making those points, however, I note with some amusement that I find it difficult indeed to believe that many millions of people must wait for a handful of their “superior” peers — philosophers, scientists, psychologists, parapsychologists — to tell them it’s all right to believe in at least a few of the inner abilities that each of us possesses, to whatever degree. [...]

[...] A new blending of inner and outer consciousnesses — a new, more meaningful coalition of intellectual and intuitive abilities — will be the latest step in the process of “consciousness knowing itself,” as Seth has described it.

[...] Each species seeks for the development of its abilities and capacities in a framework in which safety is a medium for action. [...]

[...] The quality of their lives is such that their abilities are challenged. [...]

[...] But each self must go its own way and develop its own abilities and explore the possibilities which it creates itself, otherwise the whole would stagnate.

[...] The knowledge here gives you benefits that are beneficial in highly (underlined) and significant ways; and do indeed enable you to draw upon abilities that you did not realize you possessed.

[...] I want to develop your own abilities. [...]

[...] It is the ability to effectively handle energy in a constructive way for your own benefit and the benefit of others. [...]

[...] His implication was that the product of good health was the ability to do good more efficiently. [...]

[...] You are working toward this ideal, and the ideal is—and you will achieve it—to use all your abilities, all of your capabilities... [...]

[...] The desire is not in keeping with her own abilities. It may have been triggered by envy of another person, or for the sake of fame, but it does not fit her abilities. [...]

[...] This ability is quite ancient, though little known.

[...] It is the ability to effectively handle energy in a constructive way for your own benefit and the benefit of others. [...]

[...] His implication was that the product ofgood health was the ability to do good more efficiently. [...]

[...] You are working toward this ideal, and the ideal is—and you will achieve it—to use all your abilities, all of your capabilities—and in doing this, you will help others automatically. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s own abilities are growing, for as he is allowing himself release in his work, so he is allowing release of his abilities.

[...] He must escape his occasional glibness, for he could use it to fool himself and not use his full abilities.

[...] It is the developer of all abilities, and at the risk of being trite, it is the responsibility of even the most minute particle of consciousness to use its own abilities, and all of its abilities, to the utmost. [...]

Since Seth mentioned predictions in connection with the photograph, this is a good time to present a few of the things he said in an earlier session about his own ability to predict, and about the subject in general. [...]

7. As an artist, my intuitive reaction to Seth’s remark that an atom can move in more than one direction at once was to associate that ability with his notions of simultaneous time and probabilities. [...]

[...] It’s further said that our attempts to describe or visualize such nonphysical qualities inevitably cause us to misinterpret them; so the artist wonders whether the atom’s movement in more than one direction at once may not be perfectly “natural” in its own environment — some sort of ability quite separate from any play we may indulge in with words while trying to consciously comprehend it.

[...] The body’s ability now to cure itself is the important point, however.

All of your physical, mental and spiritual abilities are focused together, then, in the brilliant concentration of “present” experience. [...]

[...] One person may be completely free physically and in excellent health, and yet, because of certain experiences, begin to doubt his ability to get along with others. [...]

[...] Feel and dwell upon the certainty that your emotional, spiritual and psychic abilities are focused through the flesh, and for five minutes only direct all of your attention toward what you want. [...]

[...] There is a constant interaction in this multidimensional point of power, therefore, so that in your terms one incarnated self draws from all of the others what abilities it wants, according to its own specific, localized beliefs.

(Tom D. spoke of his ability to teach the lower classes easier than to teach the average middle-class children.)

([Ron:] “To a certain extent, you know, you can always— you can bring my motivations into question, but I have like one overriding feeling and that is—I feel that within my own experience I have seen certain indications just from the things that I might be capable of that I could do this myself if, if when and if, because I have entertained the challenge of developing this ability but I in this situation here, I am confronted with kind of a different type of ramifications. [...]

[...] Without strong subjective proof of your own, without the full ability to travel inward and the doorways to inner knowledge closed until you receive the kind of proof that you are after. [...]

[...] He quickly found, however, that that was not the answer, that people merely said, “He has the answers, and I have none,” that they projected upon him abilities that they thought they did not possess. [...]

[...] Your own interests, desires, and abilities are not predetermined by your membership in a given psychic family. [...]

[...] Yet that joyful use of ability will be their intent. [...]

[...] Their recognized artistic abilities may predominate or be fairly minimal.

[...] But each time Jane gets this kind of confirmation of her abilities, it seems that both of us are surprised anew.

[...] That would not mean, for example, that Ruburt was not using his abilities. [...]

[...] Remember the use of the playful creative abilities, because again they can lead you to further ideas that would trigger unanticipated positive results in Ruburt’s condition, as per your chair idea, the table in the kitchen, and so forth.

[...] The last session should be read again, for it can reawaken both of your psychic abilities to a greater degree. [...]

[...] But I am speaking of releasing within each individual the great human characteristics and abilities that are often denied expression because they are assigned to the opposite sex.

[...] The world felt the result of his great intuitive abilities, and of his devotion.

[...] You will discover an identity, a psychological and psychic identity, that is in your terms male and female, one in which those abilities of each sex are magnified, released, and expressed. [...]

[...] You can help most by reminding him of our resolutions when, say, he feels blue—for when he remembers them he does not need the reminder (with amusement)—and simply by reassuring him of his body’s good intent, and in its ability to follow through.

[...] As you attempt to use your abilities, so does the entity use its abilities, and he organizes his various personalities and, to some extent, directs their activities while still allowing them what you could call free will. [...]

[...] Yet Rob always managed to help me see things in perspective, and this time, he again helped me maintain faith in myself and my abilities.

[...] That is, I have contacted you in the past, and now he is gaining the ability to contact me.

That ability is also growing on your part, Joseph, and with you, it will involve visionary data, as you call it. [...]

[...] It is the developer of all abilities and at the risk of being trite, it is the responsibility of even the most minute particle of consciousness to use its own abilities, and all of its abilities to the utmost. [...]

[...] It is a matter of inherent strength and ability and also of desire. [...]

[...] There is no coercion put upon the cells, because each cell is what it is because of its innate ability and strength. [...]

[...] The shop within the apartment had to do with the physical dimension and various physical abilities which are based on past-life experiences.

[...] It represented what will seem like a new ability to him, when he will shortly discover it in himself.

He will however then realize, or he should realize, that this ability was his in a past life, but unused, and is now awaiting him. [...]

[...] The ability represented by the jacket however represents the fairly immediate future.

Value fulfillment itself is most difficult to describe, for it combines (pause) the nature of a loving presence—a presence with the innate knowledge of its own divine complexity—with a creative ability of infinite proportions that seeks to bring to fulfillment even the slightest, most distant portion of its own inverted complexity. [...]

In those terms, then, there was in the beginning an almost unimaginable time in which energized consciousness, using its own creative abilities, its own imagination (underlined), experimented with triumphant rambunctiousness, trying out one form after another. [...]

[...] They sensed a kind of value fulfillment that required of them the utilization of their own creative abilities. [...]

2. I’ve always liked the way Jane uses the word “eccentric” in relation to the abilities of any portion of consciousness to create new versions of itself; she’s added her own original interpretation of the word to the dictionary version of “eccentric” as meaning out of the ordinary, or odd, or unconventional.