“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You have indeed many abilities to be developed, and you need to work in order to develop them fully. [...]

[...] On the other hand you cannot receive him clearly enough because your own abilities have not yet been sufficiently developed.

In this respect you and Ferd are both involved in a mutual learning process and development of abilities. [...]

[...] You must have patience while these abilities develop, while Ferd learns to perfect his own communication process, and while you learn to perfect your receptive abilities.

There were also some hints in it that you will use subconsciously, and from which new developments will grow. [...] In your sleep you will correlate recent developments so that better use will be made of them. [...] We more than made up for missed sessions by the recent developments. [...]

The natural development of your abilities in other words already exists. You must merely be ready, intuitively alive, prepared and assured, and these developments will appear to you. [...]

[...] In your present framework however you seem to be waiting for the developments to occur.

[...] In not developing your abilities to the point where you can tune in on these paintings, that belong to your whole self, you impede your progress, and to that extent deny portions of creativity.

[...] Growth and challenge is provided not in terms of achievement or development in time, but instead in terms of intensities. [...]

Now that is the challenge and the ideal, and it is met to varying degrees by personalities at various stages of development. [...]

Now there are personalities developed enough to do this. [...]

[...] Any such self A would, without understanding or shortcuts, development, or even average progression, would travel thread A along the narrow line toward infinity. [...]

[...] Within it fulfillment and development are not dependent upon permanence of physical matter, however, and are not at all dependent upon any concept like that of your physical time. There [are] therefore possible bursts of developments, that have matured within perspectives that are not bound up in time, and that would appear spontaneous to the waking self.

But these developments, nevertheless, are the results of actions that occur in many perspectives at once, and not developments that occur as within the physical system, through actions that happen in a series seemingly strung out moment after moment.

Now basically even the physical universe itself is so constructed, but for all practical purposes, as far as general perception and experience is concerned, time and the physical growth development apply, so that we find the ego portion, particularly of the human personality, is to a large extent dependent for its maturity and development upon the amount of time that the physical image has spent within the system.

[...] Development comes not from a series of actions strung out along a single line, one before the other in lengthwise fashion. Instead development is largely a matter of value fulfillment, which is achieved through the perspectives of action, through traveling within any given action, and following it and changing with it. [...]

[...] To develop its sense of specialization, the ego forgot the great cooperative venture of the earth. [...] In terms of ego consciousness, however, there were stages of growth; and the god concepts that spoke of oneness with nature were not those that served the ego’s purposes in the line of development as you understand it (deliberately).

Now: In one way or another religions have always followed, again, the development of your consciousness, and so they have served its purposes and yours; and they have always reflected, though distorted, those greater inner realities of your being. In historic terms, as you understand them, the “progression” of religion gives you a perfect picture of the development of human consciousness, the differentiation of peoples and nations, and the growth of the ideas of the “individual.”

Because of the ego’s particular line of development, you have experimented with artificial drugs and chemicals, both in foods and for medicinal purposes, as well as for “religious” enlightenment. [...] Still, some of the experiments do give hints of certain aspects of one of the species’ probable developments.

[...] As you think of it, consciousness is barely — barely — half developed. [...]

Therefore with the development of the psychic experience he carried through in the same manner. [...] He was frightened, hence the pattern developed. [...]

[...] The abilities and potentials are not only being developed in this system but in others.

[...] They go on and learn from other realities, granted, but yours is the hardest to manage, and those who accept it go off into a certain line of development where the potentials are beyond anything of which you can presently conceive.

[...] They will continue instead along other lines of development.

[...] I told Jane before the session tonight that I couldn’t give her much of any sort of answer to her questions about the chants or the Sumari development in general. [...]

Ruburt never would have been free enough in the past for such a development to occur, and it was of course, again, no coincidence that you attended class the night the chanting began in earnest.

[...] These developments are at their early stages.

[...] There are important healing aspects connected with the Sumari development, as Ruburt is beginning to suspect—a different kind of breakthrough, or easy access to energy.

[...] This one began, generally speaking, when the species tried to step apart from nature in order to develop the unique kind of consciousness that is presently your own. That consciousness is not a finished product, however, but one meant to change, [to] evolve and develop.” [...]

[...] In all forms of life each individual is born into a world already provided for it, with circumstances favorable to its growth and development; a world in which its own existence rests upon the equally valid existence of all other individuals and species, so that each contributes to nature’s whole.

[...] The granting of those needs furthers the development of the individual, its species, and by inference all others in the fabric of nature.

[...] Each species seeks for the development of its abilities and capacities in a framework in which safety is a medium for action. [...]

[...] It develops through the changes. [...]

[...] (No real pause.) In other dimensions, or if you prefer at other stages of development, the multidimensional personality is aware of its prime identity, and is also aware simultaneously of personality offshoots that it has sent into many realities, into probable systems, as it pursues all of the probable acts and creations inherent in its nature.

It goes without saying that these are not haphazard developments, and that in pursuing literally infinities of probable actions, the prime identity has definite purposes in mind. [...]

[...] There are personalities far more developed than my own; there are personalities that operate in a context that even I would find extremely alien, but no particle of individuality is ever lost, and no experience.

Now some personalities from one system aid other personalities within other systems, but highly developed personalities, those in your terms so far advanced, will set for themselves the task of aiding an entire civilization; of assisting the development of a new system, and sometimes initiating the existence of that system.

His development began in your terms in such ancient times that for all intents and purposes you could say that in terms of value fulfillment he was so far advanced as to be alien entirely.

[...] Now you are aiding in the development of those consciousnesses that compose the cells and molecules within your own bodies.

[...] There are also those who stay within your system, in your terms, returning again and again in order to help its development.

There is no reason why any such development should come between the two of you. In the first place it would only develop when you were ready and entirely prepared, and such a state of readiness and preparation would not occur if you are in a frame of mind where you fear the development for the reasons you have just given.

[...] No development would occur, or should, unless the emotional climate that involves both of you were ready for such a development. [...]

[...] She needs a part to play: something in which you can participate, and develop yourself (directly to Eve). [...] You have your own abilities to develop. [...]

[...] one self higher or more developed than....

The psychic experiences are then used as poetic subjects, and this cycle of creativity is always enriched as the whole personality continually develops itself and grows. [...] The personality could not approach its own promise until the poetic nature led to the psychic development. [...]

[...] The whole psychic development can and should, and was meant, to provide exactly what was needed, and its timing was no accident.

It provides for the deepest spontaneous expression of the subconscious, gives the ego a directive and sense of purpose, and develops the overall abilities of the personality, which in the past were completely denied, for lack of training and out of fear. [...]

To some extent this was indeed a spiteful reaction, but do not forget it had been a good protector in the past, developed during Ruburt’s years with his mother into a strong armor. [...]

(Pause at 10:07.) I understand that it appears that species have vanished, but again you must remember probabilities, and that those species simply “developed” along the patterns of probable earths. You are not just dealing with a one-line development of matter, but of an unimaginable creativity, in which all versions of your physical world exist, each one quite convinced of its physical nature. [...] You choose your time and focus in physical reality again and again, and the mind holds an inner comprehension of many seemingly mysterious developments involving the species.

[...] But what good were the developing stages of a wing, I wondered, and how many uncounted generations of reptiles-turning-into-birds had to carry those appendages, before a fully-formed bird was finally hatched that could fly? [...]

Dictation: It may seem to some readers that the subject matter of this book (pause) is far divorced from any discussion of the specific development of psychic abilities.

[...] In its fashion, however, this book is geared to bring about the development of such abilities, for it is not a lack of methods that inhibits such activities. [...]

Now there have been several developments here in class with these two (Vera and Theodore) and there are other developments which should come in this class. And before I speak to you again, I expect to see that these developments have, indeed occurred. [...]

I told you that the affair would work out well (Rose) and you can, I believe, expect further developments during the next ten days in particular. [...]

[...] Your own ego and consciousness must learn and develop and not be coerced into any kind of submission, for you would resent it, as indeed I would resent and coercion. [...]

Now, only because of the hour and Ruburt constant(ly) probing which I do indeed feel, I will leave you, and it will indeed be some classes before I return, for you have your own problems to consider, your own inner development to consider. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Legitimately, each personality is a co-creator, and part of All That Is, but this All That Is constantly develops, and develops in terms of growth fulfillment.

They will be fully developed best, easiest, in dealing with this material and through his poetry. [...] He will work out the best way of doing this, for it will be a natural development, an alchemy, resulting from the nature of his own writing talents, which are considerable, his own intuitions, and the material. [...]

[...] The exercises which Ruburt is barely beginning will be of great help in our work, and in the development of his abilities. [...]

[...] He will know the first development, an intuitive one, when it occurs. [...]

[...] The personality has been used to depending upon inner intuitions, and knew it had further abilities to develop now. But there was a laxness within, and a lack of inner concentration that in this life hampered earlier development.

With a few years’ further development, and if developments continue smoothly in your own personality, you could also do well as a particular kind of agent, dealing with writers of psychic phenomena, because of your understanding of the subject, and because of the larger knowledge of the business publishing field that you would have by that time.

A relationship in this life can continue to develop along those terms, with some degree of success, but the issue is open. [...] If the relationship is not carried through, then with the probabilities as I see them now, another strong one will develop close to the end of three years from now, involving a woman with whom you will get along very well, although she was merely a third grand-nephew in the past.

In two other lives there was instead the development of inner abilities to the exclusion of others, a closing down of the windows and a barring of the doors, and he would not look out and no one dared look in. [...]

[...] “The development in the last session was latent from our first session, but it was a development that could or could not have occurred. Had it not, then many important future developments would have been blocked. The points where the [Seth] voice was loudest and most powerful—these points often represented openings through which the development could occur. [...]

[...] The information already given to you regarding the nature of personality gestalts should make this development seem a fitting one. [...] Seth is, however, independent, and continues to develop as I do. [...]

[...] There was a lot I didn’t understand—there still is—so I hoped to develop my abilities more fully and to learn more. [...]

[...] This will be a different kind of in-depth learning, a rather unique and original development that will be as devoid as possible of stereotyped symbols, which are usually almost automatically superimposed on such experiences. [...]

[...] She didn’t actually see anything, nor did the effect develop further.)

[...] Now much of this would have frightened you both in the past, and could not have been given until you reached a particular point of development, and achieved a new status both separately and in your relationship.

[...] But at first glance I thought a good case could be made for not opening the doors to psychic developments to begin with, going by the contents of this session so far.

[...] I didn’t consider any such development worth symptoms, for instance, even if they disappeared tomorrow. [...]

There were fully developed men — that is, of full intellect, emotion, and will — living at the same time, in your terms, as those creatures supposed to be man’s evolutionary ancestors. [...] There are parallel developments. [...]

It is erroneous to say that they did not develop, or that their progress was stunted, for it was not. [...] Their development paralleled man’s in many respects, in that they lived simultaneously upon the earth, and shared the environment.

(Pause at 11:29.) There have also been men — in your terms — more developed than you — in your terms — for your ideas of development are highly erroneous. [...]

[...] I know that each smallest “particle” of consciousness can never be broken down, and that each contains an infinite capacity for creativity and development — and that each is innately blessed.

(9:35.) There are, therefore, many other equally valid, equally real evolutionary developments that have occurred and are occurring and will occur, all within other probable systems of physical reality. The diverse, endless possibilities of development possible could never appear within one slender framework of reality.

[...] Now I have been speaking of earthly developments, realities therefore clustered about earthly aspects as you know them.

[...] You are not only creatures of corporeal being, forming images of flesh and blood, embedded in a particular kind of space and time; you are also creatures rising out of a particularized dimension of probabilities, born from dimensions of actuality richly suited to your own development, enrichment and growth.