“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are using abilities in that work that you are not using as yet in your conscious lives, and I want you to become aware of what these abilities are. [...]

[...] The abilities that you show are quite your own, and I would like to see you bring them to the surface and use them but then I am certain that you will do so. [...]

[...] In other words, you may become aware of a far greater reality than you now know, use abilities that you do not realize you possess, know beyond all doubt that your own consciousness and identity is independent of the world in which you now focus your primary attention. [...]

[...] Then to a larger extent you realize your own reality, and are free to use abilities that in the daytime you ignore or deny.

[...] It can poorly help you to survive when you do not allow it to use its abilities to discover those true conditions in which it must manipulate. [...]

I am in somewhat the same position when I try to explain to you the nature of this inner self, for while you can become aware of it in dreams, you cannot truly appreciate its maturity or abilities; yet they are yours in the same way that the man’s abilities belonged to the child. [...]

[...] Any inner journeys should allow you to find greater significance, beauty, and meaning in life as you know it now; but full enjoyment and development also means that you use all of your abilities, that you explore inner dimensions with as much wonder and enthusiasm. [...]

[...] Therefore, when you consider the question of a supreme being, you imagine a male personality with those abilities that you yourselves possess, with great emphasis upon qualities you admire. [...]

[...] They were then fully endowed with individuality, however, but their main task was to clearly manifest within themselves certain abilities inherent within all men.

[...] It shares in those abilities that are inherent within All That Is. [...]

Now: Their communicative abilities, and therefore creative abilities, were more vital, alive, and responsive than yours are. [...]

[...] We usually keep windows closed because Seth’s voice has the peculiar ability to carry well. [...]

[...] Creative abilities of a specific nature, or healing abilities, are often trained in this fashion, only then emerging into physical actuality.

[...] When once it is led to face this, it finds not chaos, or worse, nonexistence, but the source of its own abilities and strength. [...]

[...] You are given the ability to think, as you are given the ability to move. [...]

[...] Before conditioning, children’s play follows the love of performance, of body or imagination, for performance’s sake only; the expansion of mental or physical abilities. [...]

[...] You kept those physical abilities around, though—the feeling for sports—in school, with the idea that you could fall back upon them if need be. [...]

Simple-enough incidents, like shoveling the driveway, can bother you because they arouse old conflicts having to do with your earlier situation and the decision, say, to explore your mental and creative abilities rather than to pursue the physical ones in the excellence of sports.

[...] He is not that kind of person.Misunderstandings of your own abilities and characteristics are responsible for such unfortunate conclusions. [...]

[...] He does have abilities. [...]

As a personality learns to use its abilities it becomes more aware of complexity, and able to operate as an identity within it. [...]

[...] I can also help Ruburt more as he believes in my ability to do so, though again I have helped him in the past.

Two things were involved: a certain evolution of your abilities, using the eye phenomena. [...]

[...] You are well aware of any changes that occur as far as Ruburt’s own abilities are concerned, or any offshoots, say, from our sessions or work; and so though you were not here physically, you did indeed participate.

[...] This time, however, you were aware of what you were trying to do: you were trying to use your ability in a particular fashion and so you did. [...]

[...] You are concentrating your own perceptive abilities and energy almost in the same fashion, for example, as a laser beam concentrates energy. [...]

[...] But that base doesn’t provide the kind of springboard or the thrust you need or your abilities require. [...]

[...] The mind actually becomes more itself, freer to use more of its abilities, allowed to stray from restricted areas, to assimilate, acknowledge and create.

[...] To them are assigned creative musical abilities, for example, but for a long time these were “underground” activities: They gave birth to acceptable musical productions but were not admitted themselves into the concert halls of the respectable nation.

[...] It does mean that you have chosen to diversify functions and abilities, to isolate them, so to speak, in order to learn and understand and even to develop their peculiar natures.

If he is considering his own personal situation, however, let him remember that the firewalker utterly believes in his ability. [...]

[...] He is so sure of his ability that he produces far more books in any given time than the majority of writers. [...]

The Cézanne book, the show, your own interest in Cézanne, and your own painting abilities are also connected in Framework 2, along with the fact that Cézanne himself had a secondary interest in writing, that fell by the board, so to speak. [...]

[...] You simply turn your conscious feelings and perceptions and abilities into different directions. [...]

[...] It is within each of your abilities to do this. [...]

[...] You will seem to draw upon a greater source as you learn to use your own abilities. [...]

Now: Heterosexual love is one important expression of bisexuality, and sexually represents the reproductive abilities. [...]

[...] That basic sexual nature allows you the fulfillment of individual abilities, so that the species does not fall into extinction. [...]

[...] Those same abilities are natural characteristics of people in each race, of course, yet you have consistently made the same kind of distinctions in racial terms as you have in sexual ones, so that certain races appear as feminine or masculine to you. [...]

You will see that in the first mentioned examples the effect would be created by man in line with his abilities, and in the latter examples the effects would be created in some instances by what is sometimes called dead matter, but what we know as other forms of consciousness, according to their ability.

In all cases however, we would have material structure of one sort or another, created by consciousness according to its ability to perceive, manipulate and construct an inner psychological structure, in this case an idea, into material form.

[...] 8/2, 9 PM: As I achieved the desired state [and not a very effective one; my abilities are still evidently at a low ebb] I experienced a mild and scattered thrilling sensation. [...]

This goes on ad infinitum, and yet even the lowest particle retains its own individuality, and is not stripped of any ability. Indeed, its ability is multiplied a millionfold. [...]

[...] Now, although the cells maintain individuality and do not lose any of their abilities, in this formation into cells there is actually a pooling of individual consciousness of atoms and molecules into, and to form, an individual cellular consciousness. [...]

As you know, the cells or atoms in an arm could just as well form an ear, as far as innate ability is concerned. [...]

[...] They will try out the ideas, many of them, to the best of their ability, and learn and gain much, all the time hanging on safely to the banners of conventional beliefs—and Ruburt has allowed himself no such comforts. [...]

In a way his progress has been dependent upon the state of his learning, so that he has been trying to stretch the abilities of normal consciousness by drawing in other “strands.” [...]

[...] You were from a side of the family with French connections and at that time flighty, easily upset, with some ability as a musician in piano, but without the discipline or drive to use the ability,

[...] Your Nebene material is excellent, and shows the development of your own abilities psychically and creatively.