“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Some will refuse to accept the idea of further work, development, and challenge, believing instead that conventional heaven situations are the only possibility. For some time they may indeed inhabit such an environment, until they learn through their own experience that existence demands development, and that such a heaven would be sterile, boring, and indeed “deadly.”

[...] This kind of sexual identification, however, also impedes personality development during physical life.

It may outrage your intellect, and the evidence of your physical senses may shout that it is untrue, yet a belief in good without a belief in evil is actually highly realistic, since in physical life it will keep your body healthier, keep you psychologically free of many fears and mental difficulties, and bring you a feeling of ease and spontaneity in which the development of your abilities can be better fulfilled. [...]

[...] Sarah has abilities, and she is banking on them, developing them in a practical way. [...] Through developing those abilities personally, she will contribute to the enjoyment of others. [...]

[...] He is an idealist, given to great plans for developing novel mathematical and scientific systems, and he is highly gifted in that area. [...]

[...] Mice, for example, are inbred in a sanitized environment for many generations until genetically “pure” strains are obtained; these ideal “models” for research into human defects may be born with — or develop — obesity, various cancers (including leukemia), epilepsy, different anemias, muscular dystrophy, and so forth. [...]

[...] There will also be an improving of company prestige, and this development hinges, believe it or not, one man who is at present considered relatively innocuous and unimportant. It will be in the nature of a new scientific development. [...]

There are also other areas with Sumari, and other developments that will follow. I also suggest, only, class twice a month—a small one, in which you should find some most interesting developments involving experiences of your own. [...]

(But while we were eating those portions, another new development in Jane’s progress occurred —and an important one. [...] She said she’d asked mentally that she have some new development to show me on Christmas Day. [...]

Ruburt is still dealing with spin-off material following or resulting from his Sinful-Self data, and this material generally follows the lines of development that are fairly obvious in the poems and notes that have followed since that time. [...]

[...] The solutions will automatically lead him not only to a solution in practical terms, but toward the areas of development that he has been seeking (emphatically) while being afraid of them at the same time. [...]

[...] I concluded somewhat wryly that if such things developed we’d probably end up running for shelter—hiding in a cave in the hills somewhere....)

[...] Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.

[...] The purpose is always knowledge and development, rather than punishment, self-punishment. [...]

[...] She is adding to his development, and working out very grievous flaws that existed in her own personality in the past.

[...] This means obviously that you must be at a particular stage of development before the author’s suggested techniques will be of any great benefit.

At your point of development now they will be extremely helpful, and do not be deceived at their seeming simplicity. [...]

[...] The death of the old grouping now allows for the birth of a new grouping, this time a grouping that will effectively deal with the problems at hand, and that will allow the personality to develop and expand. [...]

[...] There were several developments during break, and I’ll try to discuss them in order before we get into Chapter Three. [...]

[...] “How about going back to the book?” I thought doing that would help her control the proliferation of channels until we could learn more about the development. [...]

1. See Jane’s Introduction for material on the development of her Sumari abilities.

[...] The night before last, then, I told Jane about my idea of asking Seth to comment upon early photographs of her parents, Marie and Delmer,¹ to see what would develop in the material.

[...] If you find a line of development that you now wish you had pursued, but had not, then think deeply about the ways in which those activities could now fit into the framework of your officially accepted life.² Such musings, with desire — backed up by common sense — can bring about intersection points in probabilities that cause a fresh realignment of the deep elements of the psyche. [...]

[...] That species has as many offshoots and developments as you have privately. [...]

While we are still developing, the specifics that we have picked up in these tests with others show me that Ruburt is developing as I would like. [...]

[...] In it Seth mentioned developments to come within John’s family, involving his mother particularly. [...]

[...] That didn’t develop into a session; Seth did’t speak. [...]

[...] They are reading the early sessions now, and so what developed was a rather condensed review of some of the main tenets of the material, for their benefit.

[...] But Ruburt still needs to develop his abilities further, Seth said. [...]

(Bill’s mother, who was also an arthritic cripple like Jane’s mother, was a very aggressive personality, a masculine one, who developed arthritis in order to lose her mobility and thus avoid harming Bill’s father and the children. [...]

Had your abilities been developed sufficiently, you could have seen through these probable futures into the actual physical future event that would come to pass. [...] The development of your character and of Stephen’s would be drastically reduced.

This is simply a matter of time and development. [...] Your material will come in a slightly different manner, and the psychological framework that develops about you will be of a somewhat different nature than that which exists between Ruburt and myself.

Our prospects for the immediate future will involve discussions of our threefold universal fields, their development, interrelationship, correlations and reference points.

[...] They are important however; and from what you now know you realize that these energy forms represent mental enclosure units, operating in the same manner as our earlier ones of which we spoke when discussing the early development of energy within the physical field.

[...] It is from the inwardness then, operating through its forms, that all innovations come, and from which the most seemingly unexpected developments can be expected.

[...] Perhaps we’ll learn more about the situation as it develops. [...]

[...] To an extent you develop habitual patterns of reference in that regard, so that certain cues in the environment automatically trigger the familiar neurological activity. [...]

From a very small amount of physical data, then, certain kinds of developments are deduced, and almost automatically such passageways are activated. [...]

[...] Knowing them at this point will not help your development. [...]

[...] They have their own in quotes “reasoning processes” of which you are little aware, since at your point of development you use the intellect as a rule in its place, and make a clear distinction between the two areas.

[...] Now this information is helpful to your development, and we shall continue to discuss it, for you can to some degree, with my aid, understand how this emotional intellect works if you try to understand the material intuitively, use your imagination with it, and try to feel it out.

You are at a particular point in your existence and it is a time for you to learn and to develop. [...]

For some time you have all been searching, and I hope to show you how to ask the proper questions; for in the questions you will find the answers, and in the answers you shall be yourselves; and knowing yourselves fulfill your purpose and expand the limitations of your own consciousness until you can search out the past and the present and see yourselves as you are, and know that you are more than you think you are, and fulfill those abilities which you have partially developed in past lives. [...]

[...] Therefore, they did not fully develop and the personality was at a standstill. [...]

Now: Ruburt himself hit upon the “heroic impulses”—and what he meant was this: that ideally speaking the individual’s impulses were inner directional signals that, followed, would automatically lead to the greatest fulfillment and development.

[...] When he becomes overly concerned about writing as work, or with psychic development as something he should do, then he tangles those impulses, and becomes worried that he will not be suitably inspired again.

[...] The psychic experiences, intuitional developments, and dream activity—these refresh him and lead precisely to the kind of inspiration he wants. [...]

[...] It is as you deduced a waiting plane for personalities at certain stages of development. [...] The midplane or semiplane contains a conglomeration of fragments at all stages of development, except that they have not attained sufficient knowledge or manipulability to progress further at this point. That is, they may be at various stages of evolutionary development but they are on an only fair level of achievement. [...]

[...] At one time in your development I admit your impulses were not of the best. [...]

[...] You have developed somewhat in this area lately on your own, and with Ruburt’s help. [...]

[...] Both of the parents have strongly developed emotional personalities, distorted and actually shoved grotesquely out of shape. [...]