“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As I try to increase your capacity for understanding, and to expand the scopes of your abilities, so in other kinds of worlds I do the same thing. [...]

Your intents and concerns, your interests, your needs and desires, your characteristics and abilities, directly influence our material, for they lead you to it to begin with.

(Jane started a new book today, and she’s exhilarated — intoxicated — by this development in her creative abilities. [...]

He does not trust his own self-structure, or his ability to act effectively. [...]

You had a strong drive to use abilities, and not usual ones, where rules of conduct or professionalism were outlined. [...]

[...] It increases all healing functions, and despite churchly tales to the contrary, it regenerates and inspires the creative abilities.

In such cases, while one portion of the personality is expressing itself, and in command of the usual conscious abilities, the other portion lies acquiescent, latent, and unexpressed.

[...] Then sometimes without warning the frightened, inactive portion of the personality will take over the normal abilities of consciousness — acting depressed, taciturn, and communicating very poorly with others.

(Jane dictates:) However, you had no way of knowing what had happened, and your abilities at that time would not give any permanence to the image. [...]

[...] Man simply cannot use all his abilities on the earthly plane indiscriminately. [...]

Those human abilities that you consider to be characteristic of your species are, again, dependent upon the existence of infinite numbers of variations that appear in the aggregate, to give you often obviously opposing states. [...]

(Long pause.) I am not simply saying that genetic activity can be changed, for example, through something like a nuclear accident, but that highly beneficial alterations can also take place in genetic behavior, as in your terms the genetic structure not only prepares the species for any contingency, but also prepares it by triggering those characteristics and abilities that are needed by the species at any given time, and also by making allowances for such future developments (all quite forcefully).

The reasoning mind, as you have used it thus far, roughly (underlined) since the birth of Christianity, has used—instead of used, confined—has confined its reasoning abilities to a very narrow spectrum of reality. [...]

[...] You form this and then perceive the world, but your viewpoint is very small and the garden you perceive very intimate, but within yourself you have far greater abilities of perception and you are not limited to Wednesday or Thursday. [...]

[...] For if you believe you exist only within the context of this life, that you are born only to death and annihilation, then you will not use your freedoms in this existence, and you deny their abilities when they show themselves, and no one forces this bondage upon you but yourself. [...]

[...] Surely, it has occurred to you that you have abilities that you are not using. [...]

[...] They are psychic, spiritual and physical exercises that will let him handle energy more effectively, and release his abilities smoothly. As a part of his daily life they will facilitate the development of his abilities, and therefore help in our sessions.

[...] He has some abilities of his own, incidentally, of which he is not aware. [...]

[...] As mentioned earlier, each person will also try to fulfill their own unique abilities, and to “fill out” the experience of life as fully as possible.

[...] More and more your creative abilities are being challenged, stimulated through our work, and they will flow naturally from it.

[...] He has not been using his full abilities but he is now learning that he must do so if he is to develop, and if he is to do his best by you, for you are my students, you see, as well as his. [...]

[...] You have been led here—you are to develop your abilities. [...]

[...] You are learning step by step how to gain access to abilities that you have always enjoyed, always used to some extent, and which have helped mold the exterior circumstances of your life and given your personality much of its meaning. [...] You can use these abilities in a practical manner and you have already begun to do so to some extent. [...]

I dislike the use of so many terms; since the brain is observable, I am tempted to use it to cover all abilities pertaining to mind in general. [...] Exercising the brain exercises the mind also, but the mind has abilities of which the brain is ignorant.

[...] Ruburt has increased his abilities, or rather learned to handle them more competently since that time. [...]

[...] It would be impossible for you to experience such inner abilities to the degree that I mentioned, while on your plane. [...]

[...] Recalling this statement as I had first recorded it, I had wondered about its accuracy more and more as Seth gave us additional information on the much wider abilities of the inner senses. [...]

[...] It takes a peculiar set of abilities and interests for such work to be even partially successful or even accepted by the personalities involved; and for many personalities it would be difficult to maintain discipline and balance, while allowing for the necessary freedom that is necessarily involved. [...]

[...] It will be forced to recognize the innate ability of all cells for what we may call telepathy, for there will be no other solution in answering many questions.

[...] This in itself is a complicated subject, and yet when I am finished it will be shown that telepathy is an intimate, innate ability within all cells.

[...] The sessions have greatly increased your ability to use your inner visions and intuitions, and to free them so that they can be directed into your paintings.

[...] Any such separation of action from itself only adds to the totality of action, in that it increases action’s ability to perceive itself from as many viewpoints as possible. [...]

[...] Accepting the problem of aggression and of the use of strong energy necessitates rather quick reactions, strong unconscious mass communication, quick abilities to transform energy from one kind to another.

[...] It may be also used to bring forth a gigantic constructive event of equal proportion, according to the inner abilities and intent of the race at the time.

[...] These books, however, initiate quite physical events as readers learn to take better control of their lives, expand their consciousnesses, and become aware of their own greater abilities.

[...] In dreams it uses all those splendid energetic abilities freely, without the necessity for physical feedback, caution, or questioning. [...]

When people are convinced that the self is untrustworthy, for whatever reasons, or that the universe is not safe, then instead of luxuriating in the use of their abilities, exploring the physical and mental environments, they begin to pull in their realities — to contract their abilities, to overcontrol their environments. [...]

[...] This requirement for fullest use of capabilities has nothing to do with opportunity in the social sense, although of course the particular social framework will have much to do with the particular development of certain abilities.

[...] Since their potential has individual variety, it depends a good deal upon the personality’s ability to utilize energy as a unit, or to transform energy into unit patterns.

The ability to do this is not predestined in any way, shape or manner, but it seems to be inherent, unpredictable; but one of the basic characteristics of any given fragment.

[...] And so the ability to use this vitality well is as necessary to life as is the necessity to use air for breathing.