“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It must have occurred to you that you have writing abilities, and no time, it seemed, in the past to exercise, develop, or use them. [...]

The training involved on Ruburt’s part does result in a utilization of abilities, and for his conscious use. That is, the abilities are not being developed haphazardly, despite his own inclinations, but in answer to his inclinations. [...]

Consciously Ruburt can learn to note various circumstances that seem to facilitate or inhibit his abilities, and our communications, but the abilities themselves develop in accordance with unconscious principles. [...]

A fine tuning of focus takes place here, where Ruburt’s abilities are focused in new directions, directions that are unfamiliar to the ego. [...]

[...] Abilities and energies are released. [...]

You sensed certain characteristics in Ruburt when first you met, and you knew intuitively that certain probabilities could bring the two of you together, both using your individual abilities in ways at that time unknown to you, but that those individual abilities, joined, could together produce a new kind of threshold—an overview through which that sensed excellence could at least be glimpsed, contained in essence at least, and communicated.

[...] All of this cut directly across some of your ideas about success in usual terms, and your abilities fit together in different ways than you originally planned.

[...] You are an accomplished person in painting and in writing, and the characteristics that also give you those abilities merge together to form the framework of the sessions, and the excellent quality of the notes—in which, by the way, you communicate to others very clearly those ideas of excellence, and those visions, that sustain many readers.

[...] It had caught our fancy to some degree and was possibly within our ability to buy, if we could take the word of friends of ours. [...]

[...] Water, that is a body of water, has value for the development of inner abilities.

[...] A house psychically unsound would greatly cut down your ability to pay for it.

I bid you my usual fond good evening, with a small note to Ruburt, though I am sure that his housekeeping abilities need no reminder: that the cupboards must be cleaned thoroughly, and the bathroom, since the rooms are fairly close.

Remember now that the abilities of the inwardness determines the outward form, species and so forth. [...]

[...] You do not see here a sort of partnership that applies to your relationship in general, the reason also for his technical inability in painting, and his technical ability in writing.

[...] And in other ways to lesser degrees, through abstract thought, through art of any kind, the physical human being, having been formed by consciousness, in his own way then working through and with matter, constructs other fields or planes of attraction, which according to their abilities expand.

[...] The circle is indeed important; and traveling in one dimension only about it, on the physical plane even, would require more, much much more, abilities than you have available.

[...] True space, fifth dimensional space, has abilities of expansion that do not need space, not in your terms.

The pulsating that I mentioned earlier as extension and contraction involves the use of certain frequencies inherent in the tissue capsule, and to some small degree represents or is a limited aspect of the ability of the inner self to change frequencies and pulsations in an even freer, less limited manner. [...]

[...] In further experiences of this kind, Ruburt will be able to “see” (in quotes) more as his ability grows.

I hope that you will develop along these lines, but the rate of progress is of course up to you, and your individual abilities will vary as to particulars. [...]

[...] When they are frozen certain changes happen, and when the psychic atmosphere is saturated there will be a metamorphosis of a kind and a release of abilities that have been latent.

[...] He will be forced to recognize, use and develop his paranormal abilities simply to survive, and in so doing will release them finally for his own benefit and the benefit of his fellows.

(I was thinking that Seth was on his way to saying that part of Jane’s own trouble was her conscious struggle to go her own way with her unusual abilities, in spite of her early conditioning—religious and otherwise. [...]

[...] But the real conflict could be that her early religious conditioning especially forbade her working with her natural abilities to their own specified degrees. [...]

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

There is no danger, and I will repeat this: There is no danger of dissociation grabbing a hold of him like some black, vague and furry monster, carrying him away to the netherlands of hysteria, schizophrenia, or insanity… I have consistently advised contacts with the world at large, and I have advised you both to use your abilities to meet outside challenges. [...]

When such abilities as telepathy occur, this telepathic function is carried on continually by this other self-conscious part of you, but as a rule you act upon such data without the knowledge of the conscious self with which you are familiar. [...]

Manipulation of camouflage patterns actually opens up inner abilities. [...]

The Sumari abilities are highly creative ones, however. [...]

Sometimes you act as though one ability contradicts another. [...]

[...] It is as though you had an unlimited bank of abilities and characteristics from which to draw, and yet were afraid of doing so — fearing that any addition could make you less instead of more. [...]

[...] Now many people have done this in very simple, mundane ways by suddenly deciding to use abilities they had earlier ignored. [...]

(Seth repeated several times that we wouldn’t regret this burst of psychic energy, or the time involved, because it meant an increase in Jane’s ability to focus energy. [...] Seth stated that such gatherings increased Jane’s ability to utilize energy on different levels. This ability is still increasing. [...] Her ability to draw upon others would be very valuable in the “near future.” [...]

[...] There is much about energy and cycles and Jane’s abilities that he hasn’t explained to us yet. [...]

[...] He then can avoid putting his “talents and superior abilities” to the test, where he feels he would certainly fail. [...] His abilities are not really that grand. [...]

[...] Instead, Jane insisted upon trying to use her abilities to help herself. [...]

[...] He told her he’d been hospitalized several times for mental problems, and demonstrated his ability to speak very fluently a “nonsense” language he cannot decipher. [...]

[...] They are usually extremely idealistic, but for various reasons they do not feel that the abilities of the idealized self can be actualized.

He is also however somewhat anxious to develop his abilities, and if he is to do so we must progress. [...]

As it forms new fields of activity then, it increases its own ability for such renewal. [...]

Ruburt’s idea of writing down his daily predictions is an excellent one, and will help him develop his abilities. [...]

[...] I do expect all people to be different, to display abilities and characteristics of a highly diverse nature, and to be highly creative. [...]

A man may be a fool, so to speak, in his spiritual or political judgments, as a father or as a brother; or in perhaps only one relationship he may be an artist, bringing out in that other person the greatest abilities and potentials.

[...] For reasons given, involving sexuality, unconventional abilities, and so forth, Ruburt felt more vulnerable than you.

[...] As I wrote in Personal Reality, I believe that Jane’s ability to deliver Seth’s material with so few changes being made in it “says important things about these sessions.” [...]

[...] But given her abilities, I think her speed of production is a close physical approach to, or translation of, Seth’s idea that basically all exists at once — that really there is no time, and that the Seth books, for example, are “there” to be had in final form for just the tuning in. [...]

[...] Jane’s books are records of her use of certain abilities that we think are very creative; the questions she raises present us with larger fields to investigate. [...]

[...] When they were held I wondered (as I still do) why the human animal, of all the creatures on earth, felt it necessary to construct laboratories in which to “prove” what it really is, what its abilities — telepathic, metabolic, or whatever — really are. [...]

[...] All of these abilities are not ours alone. [...] As you will see later in this book, you exercise your own inner senses, and multidimensional abilities, more frequently than it might seem, in other states of consciousness than the normal, waking one.

[...] In not developing your abilities to the point where you can tune in on these paintings, that belong to your whole self, you impede your progress, and to that extent deny portions of creativity.

The natural development of your abilities in other words already exists. [...]

[...] There were many throw-away messiahs (with gentle amusement) — men whose circumstances, characteristics, and abilities were almost (musically) the ones needed — who almost [...]

[...] (repeated at my question) his religions, and in the power of the creative abilities themselves that bring them into birth (all quite intently). [...]

You returned as a squaw many centuries later—in Quebec, outside of Quebec—in the 1700’s, where you learned the intuitive knowledge of the female and applied these abilities to your search for truth. [...]

[...] You could also use your abilities for more if you were not so frightened of them, and there is no need to be frightened. [...]

[...] The book that you have just received from Prentice (Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain), will have an important effect upon Ruburt, and a beneficial one, helping to increase his confidence in his own abilities.

[...] You feel with some justification, that Ruburt in his own concern forgets your lingering symptoms; and he should make an effort now to use his abilities to help rid you of these.