“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Art is not a specifically human endeavor, though man likes to believe that this is so, and no scientist is going to grant a spider or a bee any sense of esthetic appreciation, certainly, so what you have is art in its human manifestations, and art is above all a natural characteristic. [...]

[...] I am not making value judgments, for each individual has his own purposes, and his unique abilities are so intimately connected with his own characteristics that it makes no sense to make that kind of comparison—but Picasso, for example, was an alien to profound thought. [...]

[...] You are disapproving of your natural characteristics, as if an animal took a dislike or dissatisfaction to its own color. [...]

Suggestion is therefore one of the characteristics of action. [...]

What you call suggestion then is but a small aspect of a larger directive characteristic that is ever part of action itself. [...]

[...] And here it is necessary that we discuss more thoroughly the nature or characteristics of constructive suggestions versus impeding ones, for one may turn into the other.

[...] Energy is active, positive, propelled by what can almost be called an instantaneous pleasure with itself and its characteristics.

The physical body, in other words, exists as an electrical body that is not material, that has a peculiar mass but no weight, whose characteristics are apparent in terms of not varying shapes, but varying intensities and concentrations of electric force. [...]

As within your field inner energy is translated into physical matter through means which I have earlier described, within the electrical system inner energy is translated into the characteristics peculiar to that system.

The “initial,” in quotes, originating emotional energy that sets any given unit into motion, and forms it, then causes the unit to become a highly charged electromagnetic field, with those characteristics of changing polarities just mentioned.

[...] (Pause.) When a unit is in the act of combining with another unit, it aligns its components in a characteristic way. [...]

[...] And in those personality characteristics that I use when I speak to you, I show you that the emotional life continues. [...]

[...] And the, I hope, the delightfully human egotistical characteristics that I show help calm your fears and show you that the self as you think of it, continues to exist. [...]

Much of this is difficult to explain, again, for information and knowledge is constantly transformed — almost completely reborn, so to speak, through characteristics that are inherently a part of thought itself. [...]

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.

[...] If you did not have some trust in yourselves, some appreciation of your own characteristics, you would not have allowed yourselves to develop and use your abilities at all—or, for that matter, you would not have been able to form a vital long-term relationship with another person.

[...] You did, however, both for years believe most firmly that your creative endeavors were dependent upon the need for protection from others, the world, from time, and even from any of your own characteristics that did not seem to fit into that overall pattern.

[...] It is best not to say, for example, “I have always been thus-and-so,” or whatever, and still better not to identify yourself with any characteristics that you deplore. [...]

[...] That “self” is a portion of your being that creates all characteristics, and that can therefore help unify them. [...]

[...] Then rather dramatically but beautifully I tell her that: “Poetry is your characteristic method of expression, your way of translating the data into physical reality and that even its rhythm is the rhythm of your heartbeat.” [...]

[...] The free-wheeling states of consciousness can therefore be of help to him, the free-wheeling characteristic being primarily in relationship to physical reality. [...]

[...] In the meantime, the characteristics of the black hole itself are changed by this activity. [...]

The reemergence, however, again alters its characteristics. [...]

[...] I have personality characteristics by which those who have come to sessions can identify me. [...]

The characteristics of creativity appear most clearly in children. [...]

[...] Here I would like to speak instead of the pleasures of man, for one of the distinguishing characteristics of value fulfillment is its pleasurable effect. [...] Far more is involved in the experience of life, however, than the satisfaction of bare needs, for life is everywhere possessed with a desire toward quality—a quality that acknowledges the affirming characteristics of pleasure itself.

Group dreaming was at one time taken for granted as a natural human characteristic—in a tribe, for example, when new locations were being sought, perhaps in time of drought. [...]

[...] Many other characteristics that might mitigate such behavior are minimized, and can be seen as dangerous by them. [...]

They are closed enough to retain identity and separateness of characteristic natures, but because they are all formed from inner vitality, they are actually interrelated; and when I describe fields or systems I describe many portions of one reality, many faces of one reality.

[...] The individual seems not to know where the thought comes from, because he does not recognize the characteristic mark of his brain upon it. [...]

This has to do with his personal characteristics and inclinations. [...]

[...] His characteristics were such that his energy would carry him beyond in all areas, if they carried him at all. [...]

[...] All of the powers, abilities, and characteristics inherent in the species are inherent in any individual member of it. [...]

[...] See those other elements as characteristics of the image, view them as extended features that belong to you. [...]

Your doubts and fears have their effect, but they do not connect with Framework 2 as securely as faith does, for they do not fit in with the overall, curious and open, courageous elements characteristic of Framework 2’s activities. [...]

[...] This having to do with Ruburt’s characteristic chemical patterns in the first warm weather. [...]