[...] The cells serve as patterns of development on the one hand, through which atoms and molecules express their being. [...] So your own consciousness follows a certain line of development that is its own, and that recognizes its own “seasons.” [...]

[...] The violets on our hypothetical mountainside contribute to the life of the mountain even while they have their own independent reality, and the overall cycle of the seasons regulates the growth and development of the mountain and all of its manifestations.

Dictation: The roots of the tiniest plant know the best conditions for their growth, and they reach spontaneously toward the most fulfilling probabilities for development.

“This is our main message to the world, and this is the next line in man’s conceptual development, which will make itself felt in all fields, and in psychiatry perhaps as much as any.

[...] There will be another development, and a good one for him.

(Earlier today Jane had said she thought this development referred to the dream book, now at Ace Publications, and that a sale was quite possible.

[...] He is no longer blocking his own opportunities, so the further development for which I have spoken will shortly come about.

(To John:) There is also a development to come about here ...

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. [...] As a rule the use of psychological time will help you both develop in a fairly balanced manner. [...]

[...] The sessions themselves have helped Ruburt develop discipline.

[...] This clairvoyance is of the easier variety, and yet represents an important step in his development, and should in your own. [...]

[...] Traveling without the camouflage physical form is a giant step, of course, but a possible one according to your development. [...]

[...] Thoughts however are connected with language and with highly organized ego development. [...]

[...] They are necessary to develop communication between nonphysical consciousness and the physical form which it has adopted. [...]

[...] It develops he also writes book reviews for the Garrett publication, Parapsychology, which recently carried a review of Jane’s book. [...]

(9:21.) The human consciousness has not, therefore, developed the best and most proper “tool” with which to examine the nature of reality. [...]

[...] At first I was sorry for the reader’s sake to think of Dreams being interrupted, yet glad for myself, for in addition to presenting Seth’s book dictation I was given the space in which to develop those other personal and secular themes of Seth’s, Jane’s, and my own that I think add even more dimensions of meaning to Dreams.

[...]

[...] There are dimensions of activity, then, that do not appear within time’s structure, and developments that happen quite naturally, following different laws of development than those you recognize. [...]

[...] Any sudden emergence of a completed universe would then imply an unimaginable and a spectacular development of organization—that it did not just appear from nowhere, but as the “completed physical version” of an inner highly concentrated endeavor, the physical manifestation of an inspiration that then suddenly emerges into physical actuality.²

[...] The world of ideas everywhere permeates physical reality, but ideas, even when they are unexpressed, possess their own organizations, correspondences,³ their own spheres of motion and development. [...]

[...] There will be others, like Ruburt himself and like yourself, Joseph, who will be intrigued by those fuller developments and arguments given in the basic material. [...]

In the past because of Ruburt’s own difficulties, I merely hinted at future developments. [...]

[...] There will be developments in your own painting that will follow naturally, and sometimes directly (underlined) from our sessions.

[...] We want our friend to have a strong and healthy overall personality balance, for this will allow him to use his abilities well, and then the abilities themselves will further add to his own development.

[...] Frequent psychedelic-type experiences paralleled Seth’s dictated material, and my own creative and psychic abilities developed into some entirely new areas.

Just before Seth began The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, for instance, I found myself embarked on a new venture I call the Sumari development. [...]

The Sumari development constantly expanded as Seth produced this book. [...]

The Sumari development, along with the experiences connected with The Education of Oversoul 7 and The Nature of Personal Reality, brought up so many questions that I was forced to seek a larger framework in which to understand what was happening. [...]

[...] Biologically speaking, fetuses grow and develop — I am going slowly here because I am being tricky — and when innate consciousness merges with proper form, the conditions are right for the birth of a healthy child. When the conditions are not right, the child does not develop properly. [...]

Now: Historically speaking, early man in his way understood those connections far better than you do, and used language as he developed it to express first of all this miracle of birth. [...]

[...] It did not develop.

(Instead a development took place that left us puzzled, intrigued, and more than a little upset. [...] Now, in fact, I’m veering toward the idea that Monday night’s session marked a distinct step in the further development of Jane’s abilities. [...]

[...] This adventure was certainly a preparation for developments in the 717th session.

[...] Most likely my own interest in James’s work exerted some kind of influence upon Jane’s newly developing abilities, I thought; but still, that didn’t answer my questions.

[...] Many quite modern and sophisticated developments have existed in what you think of now as past civilizations. [...]

[...] Seth is, however, independent, and continues to develop as I do … Simply as an analogy, and only as an analogy, I am what you would refer to as a future Seth, as Seth in a “higher” stage of development. [...]

[...] That important development in her abilities took place four and a half years after she began to speak for Seth, and once it opened up Seth Two came through in the next seven twice-weekly sessions. [...]

[...] I thought her very interesting way of acquiring the information represented another step in the development of her abilities.

[...] Many things, it seemed, were developing at once; we expected that after first break tonight Seth would comment upon them, as well as upon Monday evening’s session. [...]

(As far as I can remember, this will be the first time that we held two separate sessions during the same day—if one develops now. [...]

[...] Very encouraging psychological signs, I said, adding that I hoped they were harbingers of future developments.)

[...] Yet in its emergence it provided the inner self with a new kind of feedback, a different view not only of itself; but through this, the inner self was able to glimpse possibilities of development of which it had not previously been aware. [...]

[...] But as the psyche went through its developments and battled with itself, denying some feelings and characteristics and stressing others, so the historic religious exterior dramas represented and followed these inner aspirations, struggles, and searches.

(Slower now): All of this material now given must be considered along with the fact that beneath these developments there are the eternal aspects and creative characteristics of a force that is both undeniable and intimate. [...]

[...] You are being taught, and you are teaching yourselves to handle energy, to become conscious cocreators with All That Is, and one of the “stages of development” or learning processes includes dealing with opposites as realities.

Without the experience itself these particular abilities would not have developed—that of course or another similar episode. The same sort of development would not have been initiated here in a session for some time, simply because the emotional conditions would not be met. We can use the development however very well.

[...] The fact remains that the circumstances brought about an imminent development. [...]

The development of abilities was necessary, and will show regardless of the particular way in which Ruburt may choose to use the abilities. [...]

[...] This does not mean that more conscious control cannot be used, now that the development is known. [...]

[...] His powers are not yet developed enough, even here, so that he can be aware of this until she is almost completely materialized.

[...] Actually there is choice, but the manipulation of camouflage is not developed along your lines. [...]

[...] The cells are developed to the fullest at this time.

[...] There are laws of development, which are the only real laws, and which govern such matters. [...]

(More developments took place today, before I began typing this session. [...] So we’ll see what develops in this continuing saga. [...] Hardly a “coincidence” that it all begins to develop at relatively the same time.)

When the psychic development began, Ruburt was triumphant, for his abilities were flowering, and intuitively he sensed that direction, but the part of him that also dealt with the world was somewhat appalled, for again, such behavior was not conventional, and it was not particularly “the way to make friends and influence people.”

(Pause.) In a fashion dreams allow for a curious mixture of learning processes, while at the same time serving to introduce surprising developments. [...] They are an aid in the development of skills. [...]

THE MAGICAL APPROACH, AND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN “CONSERVATION” AND SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENTS

Through all of our challenges, we were aware of at least some of the incredible variety of positive and negative world events in the news—the bombings and the peace talks, the sports contests and the religious controversies, the national strikes and the latest developments in the arts. [...]

[...] Beginning of the next chapter (11), which will be entitled: “The Magical Approach (very long pause, eyes closed), and the Relationships Between ‘Conservation’ (very long pause) and Spontaneous Developments”—and give us a moment.

[...] But there are psychic blueprints,⁷ so to speak, wherein each identity knows of its “history”; and taking any given line of development, projects that history. The potential of such an identity is far greater, however, than can ever be expressed through any physical one-line kind of development (forcefully).

(Jane’s material on strands of consciousness² had actually developed because of my experience involving my father while I was in an altered state of consciousness. [...]

His experience appeared to imply that his father’s identity had so much mobility, and so many possibilities for development, that the very idea of identity seemed to lose its boundaries.⁴

[...] It may grow, develop or expand, change alliances or organizations, and it does combine with others even as cells do. [...]

[...] And it did represent another phase of Ruburt’s developing abilities. [...] As his abilities do develop, it is even more important that he take walks, and that some frequency in daily contact with others is maintained.

[...] This allows for an excellent utilization of the abilities already developed, and permits, again, excellent concentrated inner focus. [...]

As far as the sessions themselves are concerned in relation to Ruburt, your love and reinforcement are necessary; and on your part the atmosphere of confidence, which indeed you have always given him, this will allow him the greatest possible development of ability within the sessions, and of course will further the sessions themselves.

[...] It developed that Bill has been troubled by this ailment since childhood. [...]

[...] With Ruburt we should work toward the development of contrasts —deep relaxation and fast heating motions. [...]

[...] Further important developments here will be intuitive flashes as to how the technique may be used. [...]

[...] Now that it is developed let the inner self guide its use, and it will serve you as it was meant to serve your intuitive self.