“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As a change of environment affects twins, Twin A becoming something different again through a given environment from Twin B in another environment, so twins born in different times also develop different portions of a basic personality pattern. [...]

This son is basically a psychological twin of the mother, but developing a more spacious personality, and a more giving nature. [...]

Many who write want to develop and use the same abilities, yet it is obvious from their letters that their beliefs prevent them from trusting the inner self enough. [...]

(10:49.) Now: In ordinary terms, this book has included no esoteric instructions to help you achieve what you may think of as spiritual development or psychic expertise. [...]

[...] Such a need wouldn’t have developed, of course, until she became aware of her psychic abilities to begin with. [...]

[...] Ruburt is now coming to that kind of realization, and that kind of development—which is of course the only possible answer. [...]

[...] Nothing developed.

Two weeks later, on March 3, Jane and I really received a surprise through a friend who lives on the California coast: news of a Spanish-language translation of Jane’s first book, How to Develop Your ESP Power. [...]

[...] His information on the sinful self opened up a very important development in Jane’s [and my own] search for an understanding of her symptoms, and I’m presenting excerpts from that session in Note 9. [Before long, I realized that I could use notes to carry portions of several more sessions on the sinful self.]

As he progressed with the series, Seth delved into Jane’s sinful self from a number of viewpoints: its birth and growth during her intense relationship with the Roman Catholic Church throughout her early years; the development of her very stubborn core beliefs; her creative dilemmas after she left the church in her late teens; the conflicts she began to experience after our marriage, involving on the one hand her sinful self and the religion she thought she’d left behind, and on the other hand science, art, writing, and the unconventional direction she discovered her natural, mystical abilities were taking via the Seth material; her growing fears of leading others astray; and the very real necessity for her—and for each individual—to achieve value fulfillment.

[...] And once more I had to guard my own expressions of frustration and anger; those emotions were so mixed up with my love for my wife that I even developed a perverse, almost black humor about the entire situation. [...]

[...] She felt this way because of our rather long rest, and the recent developments in the presentation of the sessions themselves. [...]

(As it developed she did both. [...]

[...] For his own development he chose to make up, because of a past lack of sensitivity, because of a certain exhilaration felt in those days in cruelty, and because in those days his emotions held no sway, but what he considered cold reason led him on. [...]

This time we see the development of the personality. [...]

The ego would if it could, stop personality’s motion and development for the security of stability. [...]

I will have more to say concerning this after I have developed certain subject matter that is important. [...]

It took some time before such a framework began to develop—a kind of double one—represented by my work and by his own—an excellent accomplishment, of course. [...]

[...] It is when dogmas distort the natural goodness that trouble develops. [...]

I have mentioned before that play is essential for growth and development. [...]

[...] It goes without saying that physical play automatically helps develop the body and its capabilities.

[...] You cannot leap out of the craft in midstream, so to speak, nor have the craft develop serious difficulties when you are far from shore. [...]

[...] At the time the course was set and the personality was developed, that had taken a wrong course, for it.

[...] They are friends, it developed, of Tom Hartley, a fact totally unknown and unexpected by me.

[...] Seth could develop this material, since I do not know how one of these men “influenced my life at one time,” etc. [...]

[...] Now I do not want to tell you all the answers to the Sumari development, for some of the answers you are to find out for yourselves and some of the answers cannot happen unless you discover them for yourselves. [...]

[...] And all of you have only to relax and let yourselves realize what you know and follow the Sumari development when our friends here are not physically with you. [...]

[...] Now impulses, however, help you to develop events of natural power. Impulses in children teach them to develop their muscles and minds [each] in their own unique manner. [...]

[...] The work, however, would not have been right for you, but upside down in a fashion, because with your knowledge before, say, our sessions, your particular blend of psychic abilities and writing abilities would not have developed; your painting would have lacked, in a way that would be quite noticeable to you. [...]

[...] It is not just, again, that man does not live by bread alone, but that his life is intimately bound up with his need for creative expression—his need to develop as an individual, and therefore to affect his world. [...]

[...] In doing this he develops his own abilities also. [...]

It is easy to see how people at the hospital, for example, speak constantly of the power of infection, the need to take steps against it before it develops, and so forth, and the little stress laid on the body’s natural ability to ward off such conditions. [...]

There is a curiosity however that is highly redeeming, but there is not a well-established pattern that has been developed, by which the personality can consistently learn and grow. [...]

Deepest abilities are not being developed because of the basic rigid attitudes. [...]

(I gave her the note finally on Sunday, and she answered it, so we’ll see what develops, if anything. [...]

In Framework 2, your writing abilities were also known, of course, and they continue to develop, continue to seek for outlet, continue to search for a pattern; despite your relative abandonment of them, they came to the fore. [...]