“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You do not understand that your own abilities give you a far clearer picture of the “ideal,” for example. [...]

[...] People in it have their own abilities and drives. [...]

It would be nice if you learned to appreciate your own abilities both as an artist and as a writer (louder). [...]

I would give some thought then to my self-image, and to the image of an individual who is highly gifted as a painter, as a writer, as a thinker, and I would endeavor to loosen myself from any bonds that prevented me from using those abilities—in particular any sexual ones that defined my identity in terms of money alone.

[...] At your stage of development the inner ego is by far the most self-conscious part of the whole self, and has the greatest ability for perception and organization. [...]

[...] In ordinary circumstances you will only let through as much of the actual experience as you have knowledge and strength and ability to deal with. [...]

[...] That ability now is channeled into his excellent facility in rhythmic poetry.

[...] This ability was used once with the lyre. [...]

[...] What I call the high intellect then took over, a superb blend of intuitional and intellectual abilities working together so that they almost seem to form a new faculty (intently).

[...] Yet the immensities of your own abilities speak in your dreams, in your private moments, as even inaudibly in the knowledge of your own molecules.

[...] Ruburt was often almost indignant when presented with such evidence, but he also refused to cast it in conventionalized guise, and his own curiosity and creative abilities kept him flexible enough so that learning could take place while he maintained normal contact with the world you know.¹²

“He [Ruburt-Jane] has an ability to identify with others, and communicate. [...]

[...] This evening, however, Seth used my interest in the question of protection beautifully as he discussed a facet of Jane’s abilities that’s strongly related to his concept of value fulfillment. [...]

[...] The knower is of course always present, but the part of your culture that is built upon the notion that no such inner knowledge exists, and those foolish ideas of rational thought as the only provider of answers, therefore often limit your own use of inner abilities.

[...] It’s an excellent point, I said, that in her ability to tap into a seemingly endless amount of Seth material, she strikes a parallel with early man and his capacity to carry all personal, cultural, and historical information within himself. [...]

[...] The focused intellect can indeed activate the intuitive abilities — and the healing abilities. [...]

[...] You caught yourself in the act of acting naturally, of demonstrating abilities that your society to a large degree does not admit. [...]

[...] No God knows the word or the meaning of control, nor does he exert control as far as his abilities are concerned, for it would lead to dead alleys, and spirituality would go and leave him dried up as a fruit pit. [...]

[...] But I know when you wander from your purpose and when you leap spontaneously toward it and when in the depths of your being you realize the depths of your abilities and deny them. [...]

[...] You can consciously retrain yourself to use the ability more freely and directly, and in many instances one individual can help heal another easier than the person can himself. That is, the suffering person, to whatever degree, already mistrusts or distrusts the nature of his own abilities, but usually can and will accept such a loving attention from another family member, or even from a friend. [...]

(Today I looked over a Time-Life book on the ancient civilizations of the Americas—the Aztecs, Incas, Mixtecs, etc, and once more was impressed by their amazing abilities as far as architecture, carving, weaving, astronomy, etc., went. [...]

This barrage is meant to push consciousness in its official stance nearly to desperation, so that it opens other doorways of awareness, and extends itself into the intuitional realms, giving itself greater insight, and providing “an extra band” of communication—the merging of man’s innate “psychic” abilities with his normally attuned consciousness. [...]

[...] The strength and ability is there. [...]

[...] I’d say that I could use my abilities far more fully even in those areas already being explored—Seth, the library, Sumari, etc., even if I wanted to leave other areas alone (seances, etc.). [...]

[...] His abilities are vibrant, but the discipline of which I spoke is needed to enable him to focus and concentrate his abilities along constructive and purposeful lines.

[...] His abilities are natively strong in this respect. [...]

[...] Now like Joseph and Ruburt, you give away parts of yourself, fragments of yourself, made more or less into living psychological forms that according to your ability are free from not only time, but free from many of the defects of your own present personality.

You draw upon your own entity’s hidden abilities and knowledge, and therefore transcend the limits of your own present personality. [...]

[...] If you and Ruburt have certain abilities to perceive, receive, translate and communicate that which some others cannot, many also have other abilities that neither of you do have.

[...] Her duties have been changed somewhat, and will include lecturing to the children’s classes on art history; Jane likes to teach, and many sessions ago Seth said this ability was a carry-over from a previous life, and was so far not being used in this life.)

I want you to try and imagine a situation in which (long pause) there exists a psychological force that includes within its capabilities the ability to act simultaneously on the most microscopic and the most macroscopic levels; that can form within itself (long pause, eyes closed) a million separate inviolate unique identities, and that can still operate as a part of those identities, and as a larger unit that is their source—in which case it is a wave from which the particles emerge. [...]

(Jane delivered that whole paragraph with great flowing intensity, and I’ve punctuated it to the best of my ability just as it came through her. [...]

The intellectual abilities as you know them (pause) cannot compare to those greater capacities that are a part of your own inner reality.

[...] You need to compensate by direct and aggressive physical action, either in a job that will relate you with others or in some aspect along those lines that will allow you to untangle the inner self and release your creative abilities. [...]

You badger your creative abilities too much. [...]

[...] This will automatically release your inner abilities. [...]

[...] To do so it chooses between actions, for the very choice, or act of choosing, and ability to do so, represents the nature of identity. [...]

[...] The very effectiveness and nature of the personality, and health of the personality, is dependent upon the manner in which it handles its ability to choose between various kinds of action.

[...] The exaltations and triumphs of the personality are as much a result of this ability to choose between actions, as are its illnesses and disasters. [...]

[...] This is obviously still very much in the future, but it is well within the abilities of human personality, and within the realms of your own abilities.

[...] Some of the questions were suprisingly acute, and involved aspects of the existence of Seth, and his abilities, that Jane and I had not thought of.

[...] She thought Seth was trying to use her abilities as best he could, in order to present the material without mix-up.

[...] These include, to begin with, the original intensity of the thought as A possesses it, A’s ability to duplicate the thought as far as possible, the relative stability of the electrical thought unit as it is formed by A, the familiarity or unfamiliarity of the range of frequencies that compose the new thought to any intended receiver.

[...] We have never told anyone to do anything, except to face up to the abilities of consciousness. [...]

[...] His abilities and powers of concentration are not ordinary. [...]

[...] The reasons have to do with the particular way in which mankind has chosen to evolve and use his abilities; and I will have more to say regarding this point, but it does not belong in this chapter.

[...] Symbolically speaking, the two together represent the whole self with its diverse abilities, desires, and characteristics.

[...] It stemmed from his material in the session for June 5, when he said that “letting go” could have its frightening aspects for Jane, especially when she relied on such actions to improve her physical abilities like walking. [...]

[...] The great artists did not use their abilities so much through the utilization of will and effort as they did through following their own natural impulses, desires, and intents. [...]