“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This doesn’t mean that I’m knocking my own abilities in any way. [...] I think that any assessment of her writing and psychic abilities will have to include a close study of her painting. [...]

As he progressed with the series, Seth delved into Jane’s sinful self from a number of viewpoints: its birth and growth during her intense relationship with the Roman Catholic Church throughout her early years; the development of her very stubborn core beliefs; her creative dilemmas after she left the church in her late teens; the conflicts she began to experience after our marriage, involving on the one hand her sinful self and the religion she thought she’d left behind, and on the other hand science, art, writing, and the unconventional direction she discovered her natural, mystical abilities were taking via the Seth material; her growing fears of leading others astray; and the very real necessity for her—and for each individual—to achieve value fulfillment.

[...] Right now I’ll make just one point: The priest, burning Jane’s books in the backyard of the house she lived in, taught the growing girl in most specific terms that she had to protect her natural abilities and her inquiring mind even from the very institution—the Roman Catholic Church—that she had so strongly identified with.

[...] His psychic recognition or initiation represented a remarkable breakthrough, meant to give him that additional psychic room that would insure the continued expansion of the abilities of the natural self. [...]

[...] These first instances greatly increased my confidence in Seth’s abilities and my own.

Yet Seth managed to use the tests to demonstrate his own clairvoyant ability, further my education, and instruct us on the processes involved. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s abilities will expand, or his utilization of them will expand; and your own abilities in the expectation line have really begun to take a rather fantastic leap.

[...] The creative abilities operate in the same fashion, appearing within consecutive time, but with the main work done outside of it entirely. [...]

All of that can be transferred to other areas of your lives, and in particular to Ruburt’s [physical] difficulties, I do understand your joint concern, and in holding the session I know you want specific answers — which I always give to the best of my ability.

[...] This provides an overall reservoir of psychic characteristics, leanings, abilities, knowledge, that is as much a part of the individual’s heritage as the genetic structure is a part of the physical heritage.

[...] Musical ability may thus appear complete—

[...] Learning about our abilities and capabilities is a social and cultural affair, and you—anyone—need help. [...]

[...] I used to think that if a person had a strong gift that nothing would stop the ability from showing itself in that certain way—but now I don’t think so at all. [...]

[...] And you can use your psychic abilities in that line. [...]

[...] Now, your psychic abilities can help you in your daily life if you will let them do so. [...]

[...] It does mean that your probable selves and you share in a body of symbolism, background, and ability. [...]

[...] A few great men have glimpsed those abilities, comma, and their love of the race and their integrity had caused them to trigger the unused portions of the brain.² In their way they sensed the great probable future and its ramifications.

[...] I have initiated the idea of motion, for true transparency is not the ability to see through but to move through. [...]

[...] You can of course train your abilities to some extent in this manner. [...]

[...] It is a continuing experiment in that the material will become clearer as his abilities in the sessions grow.

Now often in such circumstances you can help others and not help yourself, use your abilities to help others but not yourself, simply because you erect barriers. [...]

In other words, we will try to instill a somewhat playful attitude, even toward the most severe problems, for the very idea of play encourages the use of the imagination and the creative abilities.

It seeks outlet and must find it, and must find it a manner that satisfies the creative abilities. [...]

[...] It is as if you set up a small healing station, or platform and from that vantage point the body is then able to use its healing abilities far more effectively than usual.

[...] You must understand that I am not saying that you are passive, fleeting dreamers, lost in some divine mind, but that you are the unique creative manifestations of a divine intelligence whose creativity is responsible for all realities, which are themselves endowed with creative abilities of their own, with the potential and desire for fulfillment—inheritors indeed of the divine processes themselves. [...]

[...] We developed according to our own abilities. [...]

[...] However, her subconscious abilities are well developed.

I certainly admire your enthusiastic discussions, and upon some occasion I will go into matters that are rather close to Ruburt, as far as the innate ability that is not being utilized to full degree by the females in general. [...]

[...] It contained all the abilities of your friend, whether latent or not I do not know. [...]

[...] Obviously we didn’t—yet our reactions were to color our activities for the next several years, and greatly influence the direction in which I would allow my own psychic abilities to operate.

[...] The nature of identity is strongly dependent upon the innate ability to draw upon, utilize and direct psychic energy.

[...] It grows by growing, and by constant use of its abilities. [...]

He has an ability to identify with others, and communicate. [...]

[...] He did not have to examine each one minutely, for his abilities, after some familiarization, left him with the knowledge of their merits. [...]

[...] The ability to draw is a natural outgrowth of this sensing of shape, this curiosity of form. [...]

All of this involved the triggering of innate abilities at certain points in time by the species at large, and on the parts of certain individuals, as their purposes and those of the species merged.

[...] He has doubted his ability for reasons given in the past, and in the past, to some extent you helped him, and you did not reinforce his sense of physical ability. [...]