“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] For example, some individuals do not undergo any such periods, but because of development and progress during their past lives, they are ready to begin more ambitious programs.

Now I have spoken of such development earlier. [...]

[...] Suffice it to say that large fields of emotional focus toward physical reality can hold you back from further development.

Communication, in fact, was one of their strongest points, and it was developed to such a high degree simply because they feared violence so deeply and were constantly on the alert. [...]

[...] They developed, therefore, an even greater telepathic activity, and a rapport with the earth above their head, so that the slightest tremor or footstep and the most minute movements above that were not usual, were instantly noted.

[...] The first followed generally your own line of development and faced many of the problems that you now do. [...]

[...] That is, the abilities are not being developed haphazardly, despite his own inclinations, but in answer to his inclinations. The personality therefore is being highly developed.

Now this development helps me, for I need his development in order that my communications be more clearly presented and received. [...]

[...] Since we do not have a phone, she called a neighbor who relayed the information that Peggy could not come because “something urgent” had developed.

Consciously Ruburt can learn to note various circumstances that seem to facilitate or inhibit his abilities, and our communications, but the abilities themselves develop in accordance with unconscious principles. [...]

[...] When it flows outward, the emotional charges are used in those explosive developments of creative work.

[...] The resentment was not connected with the book per se, and in fact hampered the book’s development.

(9:25.) Your idea of development and growth, again, implies a one-line march toward perfection, so it would be difficult for you to imagine the kind of order that pervades. [...] For perfection presupposes that point beyond which development is impossible, and creativity at an end.

[...] To cut the story short, I’d used the pendulum last night, and it insisted that I’d developed the canker out of worry because I wasn’t answering fan mail.

As mentioned earlier, those concepts can have a hand in the development of would-be suicides, particularly of a young age, for they seem to effectively block a future.

It will also be developed on your part as you let it develop, Joseph, and in your own work. [...]

[...] The turn however is a result of development on your parts, and the development will accelerate now that it has reached a certain level, with of course continued application on your parts.

[...] It developed that some of this material was distorted.)

[...] The full development of his creative abilities however needed the psychic development. [...]

(At a quick scan I thought the ideas answered all the questions we’d had about the symptoms over the years—explaining, for instance, their onset before the psychic developments, etc. [...]

[...] This could not have developed in the beginning, however.

[...] This has not proven true, for many reasons, some having to do with development.

Human capabilities will be seen as what they are, and a great new period of development will occur, in which all concepts of selfhood and reality will be literally seen as “primitive superstition.” [...]

If they become ill, they will do so knowing they choose the condition in order to emphasize certain areas of development, or to minimize others. [...]

Atlantis is a land that you want to inhabit, appearing in your literature, your dreams, and your fantasies,⁸ serving as an impetus for development. [...]

[...] Developed, they can immeasurably enrich the [species] … If some changes are not made, the [species] as such will not endure.”

The blueprints for “ideal” developments exist within the pool of genetic knowledge, providing the species with multitudinous avenues for fulfillment. [...]

[...] They will be fairly easily given expression, so that they add to your own fulfillment and to the development of the society as well.

[...] Even if they appear contradictory at any given time, overall they will be seen to form constructive patterns toward action that point more clearly towards your own clear path for fulfillment and development.

You felt you must make money, and so a conflict developed. [...]

A child might result in your working out full time, in which case you would never, he felt, develop as an artist. [...]

[...] Money used meant that you might have to look for work again and not be able to develop your abilities.

([Hope W:] “Seth, can you suggest what specific daily steps I can take to develop my inner senses?”)

[...] And in all cases, the ego that you know develops and learns, and this alters the nature of the self that you are now, and it changes the characteristics of the ego as you presently think of it. [...]

[...] And that kind of development is growing now in groups like this throughout the world. [...]

[...] By obvious, I mean active, when fantasies occur involving activities far beyond the physical abilities as they are thus far developed.

[...] These must be developed before certain physical faculties can be activated. [...]

[...] His imagination allowed him to develop the use of tools, and gave birth to his inventiveness. [...]

(Actually Jane sat with her eyes closed from 9 PM until 9:10, waiting to see if a session would develop. [...]

[...] That is all right (smile; eyes open), and certainly I have hinted at this development in past material—opaquely. [...]

Even so poor a small fish as I, am not bound by your time, and can be quite aware of what would seem to be future branches and developments that will intimately concern my own identity.

Ruburt’s emotional demands are a spur to your own development. Your resistance is a spur to his development. [...]

[...] (Smile.) Without your feeling toward Ruburt and the resulting urge to emotionally actualize yourself to another personality, your background could have prevented even artistic development. [...]

[...] Today’s physical development represents the beginning of the profound improvement I spoke of, simply surfacing today.

[...] None of our sessions, or his own natural development would ever bother him. [...]

[...] You are, in your terms, in their reality while being “ahead” of them in terms of certain kinds of development. [...]

[...] You need to buy, not rent; there are further financial developments, windfalls.

[...] So I thought I would see what developed in the session.

For these thoughts set up charges that oftentimes cannot be used effectively by the physical organism, and when excesses of such charges occur an illness develops. [...]

[...] This is the first time such a situation has developed in some time. [...]

The development will make obvious certain stages by which the personality approaches such material, and this should be valuable simply from a psychological viewpoint.

The magical approach takes it for granted, in the simplest terms, that the life of any individual will fulfill itself, will develop and mature, that the environment and the individual are uniquely suited and work together. [...] Those ingrained beliefs are, of course, biologically pertinent, providing the impetus of all growth and development.

[...] Then I realized I’d goofed: Last Saturday, our local paper had carried a short article to the effect that a psychic we’d heard of had predicted recently that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia would obtain the Democratic nomination for president, after a deadlock between Carter and Kennedy developed at the convention. [...]

First of all, if you realize that the intellect itself is a part of nature, a part of the natural person, a part of magical processes, then you need not overstrain it, force it to feel isolated, or put it in a position in which paranoid tendencies develop. [...]

[...] In his case also, as given in the past, he felt that the feminine qualities were those opposed to intellectual development. [...]

[...] Your Nebene material is excellent, and shows the development of your own abilities psychically and creatively.

This sort of growth allows also for the development of inner discipline, that will grow simultaneously with inner spontaneity; and a screening process of sorts develops that is indeed beneficial for your own protection. [...]

All of this takes development. [...]