“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] As it developed Jane was somewhat hard- pressed to identify the ribbon, did so eventually, and with Seth’s verification. [...]

[...] It developed that Jane had to think hard in order to tentatively link the object with a hand-knit sweater she had received from her mother as a birthday present. [...]

[...] We believe this data and the parallelogram data are related, since the latter developed into the mention of roads. [...]

[...] It appears that his statements are developing as he said they would.

(While this sensation was developing, I heard many scattered indefinite sounds, music and voices, and had some exceedingly brief flashes of people in various postures, all too vague to identify.

(Then, the feeling of crossed limbs developed in my hands. [...]

There is also an added development with the John Pitre situation, of which I imagine you will be informed.

A note regarding your astronauts and their latest excursion: new developments involving the ionosphere have been made during this trip, and to your scientists unpleasant ones, since they do not conform to previous theories.

[...] We have not been a part of it, though some of us have watched its developments, and interacted within it in other ways.

(After lunch today Jane and I were visited by our old friend David Yoder, who’s been in Florida recuperating from the heart bypass surgery he underwent early this year.¹ David brought news that was at first startling, then quickly developed into several conflicting emotions and ideas for us: He’d just learned from a relative of hers that a few weeks ago Mrs. Steffans [not her real name], the wife of the couple we’d purchased the hill house from in March 1975, had committed suicide at her home in a Western state while her husband was away on a business trip.

The species chooses the best conditions in which to display and develop such a capacity to the utmost, taking into consideration all its other needs and purposes. [...]

[...] The earliest known engravings, printed on paper, date from around 1450; pictorial engraving and etching were evidently developed in Germany in the early 1500s. [...]

Quite ordinary people often believe, then, that suffering itself is a way toward personal development and spiritual knowledge. [...]

(I didn’t think anything immediate would develop, I told her, nor did I expect the session tonight would be on me. [...]

[...] We’d been set for the session to run until midnight if that was the way it developed.

[...] (I’ll bet that he still does, 16 of our time-bound years after Jane’s death!) Jane’s method was her very individualistic way of developing her great, yet consciously unsuspected powers.

[...] After months of letters and telephone calls we met in Elmira, and kept on developing the intuitive and loving relationship we had already begun. [...]

(“How come these early emotional ideas haven’t been influenced, at least somewhat modified by all the intuitive and intellectual activity, and new ideas, that have developed and taken place in the last few years?”)

Because they were formed at a time before the intellectual and intuitive abilities developed, and were not a problem until the intellectual and intuitive abilities seemed to come upon a system of thought that was in opposition to the underlying emotional beliefs. [...]

(Seth smiled because of Jane’s recently developed, rather strong interest in crossword puzzles. [...]

[...] Your understanding of this must be limited because you automatically think in terms of one life experience at a time, and in linear patterns of development. [...]

[...] Within a week I’d developed a group of experiments designed to discover whether or not the ordinary person could develop extrasensory abilities. [...]

When I came to, I found myself scrawling what was obviously meant as the title of that odd batch of notes: The Physical Universe As Idea Construction. Later the Seth Material would develop those ideas, but I didn’t know that at the time. [...]

“The basic idea is that the senses are developed, not to permit awareness of an already existing material world, but to create it. [...]

[...] Instead, particularly in the beginning, I was as much appalled as delighted with each new development.

[...] It is not used by more advanced entities nor by less developed ones than ourselves. [...]

[...] I had to learn to handle more stimuli than ever before, and to maintain overall stability as I learned to develop latent abilities. [...]

With all Seth has told us about man’s potentials, I must admit that we’ve wondered at times why the race isn’t more developed morally and spiritually.

When I say that chemicals alone will not give you consciousness, I am speaking of the theory held that physical matter, chemicals and atoms, that were inert and lifeless, suddenly through some metamorphosis attained the conscious state through an evolutionary development.

I am explaining this matter rather thoroughly because we will be getting to matters concerning the entity and its personality developments. [...]

[...] You are simply blocked in the pursuit of knowledge beyond a certain point as long as your scientists persist in the lines of their present development.

[...] When you develop your time theory and realize that present, past and future are merely effects and distortions caused by your own perspective, then your scientists will realize that cause and effect is a passé and antiquated theory, useful only for a short time—I hope you appreciate the pun with the word time—and should be discarded.

(I think that because of the very nature of the abilities she’s chosen to develop in this life, Jane will always find such manipulations necessary. [...]

[...] A short session did develop however, after we sat for one at the usual 9 PM time. [...]

[...] It developed that he had thought we could shovel our own way out. [...]

[...] Then yesterday morning it developed that the thermostaton the furnace was not working; we got up to a cold house, and this led to more telephone messages, the calling of a specialist, etc.

(The material surprised us, and we had no thought of trying to relay it to anybody. We have no idea as to whether the tax matters referred to are true, and/or will develop. [...]

(Long pause at 4:19.) In most cases, even the most severe illnesses or complicated living conditions and relationships are caused by an attempt to grow, develop or expand in the face of difficulties that appear to be unsurmountable to one degree or another.

[...] You have been led here—you are to develop your abilities. [...]

I have told you that you are born into your times knowing in advance the problems, challenges, and potential developments that are possible.

One of the main issues is the recognition of the fact that energy is good, that its expression is to be naturally encouraged, and that through such encouragement each individual best fulfills his or her life, and also adds to the development and understanding of the species.

On the one hand, man did indeed feel that he had fallen from a high estate, because he remembered that earlier freedom of dream reality—a reality in which the other creatures were still to some degree (underlined) immersed.³ Man’s mind, incidentally, at that point had all the abilities that you now assign to it: the great capacity for contrast of imagination and intellect, the drive for objectivity and for subjectivity (softly), the full capacity for the development of language—a keen mind that was as brilliant in any caveman, say, as it is in any man on a modern street.

[...] He was gifted with strong clear instincts that were meant to lead him toward his own greatest development, to his own greatest fulfillment, in such a way that he also helped to bring about the highest potentials of all of the other species of consciousness (intently). His natural impulses were meant to provide inner directives that would guide him in just such a direction, so that he sought what was the best for himself and for others.

[...] In this case at this time, however, they can serve as valuable springboards to release from your own creative areas new triggers for inspiration and understanding, and hence for therapeutic development. [...]

[...] You should begin such a program as soon as possible, regarding it, however, as not a last desperate approach toward an unsolvable problem, but as a proper step of development in your understanding of the magical approach to life. [...]