“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are, overall, some processes important in man’s development, and in the development of the species. [...]

Now: Man needs the feeling that he is progressing, but technological progress alone represents a comparatively shallow level unless it is backed up by a growth of emotional understanding—a progression of man’s sense of being at one with himself and with the rest of the natural world.

There are people who are highly intellectually proficient, whose reasoning abilities are undisputed, and yet their considerable lack of, say, emotional or spiritual development remains largely invisible as far as your assessments are concerned. [...]

[...] There are developments within your own identities with which you are not presently aware. And yet we have always given you paths to understanding and have ascertained that within you  some answers could be found. You are in a period of development. [...]

Your own development comes as a result of your own decisions—not when you follow the glib advice of others. [...]

[...] And not understanding the nature of their own abilities, the psychic may then give these back to you as advice. [...]

Many people write requesting that I outline the proper methods for achieving astral projection, for example, or psychic advancement, or spiritual understanding. 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. [...]

(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? [...]

[...] This particular, more advanced telepathy could not and did not occur in its most complicated form until the development within your plane of psychically developed personalities. This development involved separations and concentrations of energy into self-conscious identities. This development was an advancement, yet this advancement led also to a separation and objectifying of consciousness, into dual segments of subject and object.

These clues could lead to proper understanding, so that it would be known that the physical body does exist in many fields of actuality, and through the study of various portions of the body many glimmerings could be received concerning the various fields of actuality themselves.

[...] The ingredients of matter are first of all intangible ingredients, and the study of the mind and a study of the processes by which the mind creates its dream images could lead to a basic understanding of the manner in which man subconsciously produces the physical images of his own material universe.

[...] This is like a young man saying, “When I grow old and retire, I will use all those abilities that I am not now developing.” [...] There are no magic words that will make you wise, that will fill you with understanding and compassion, that will expand your consciousness.

[...] I am telling you again, therefore, that many of your ideas of good and evil are highly distortive, and shadow all understanding you have of the nature of reality.

[...] If you turn the other cheek without this understanding, however, and feel resentful, or if you turn the other cheek out of a feeling of pseudomoral superiority, then the reaction is far from adequate.

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

Your searches toward understanding excellent performance in any area — your idealisms — are all spiritually and biologically ingrained. [...]

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

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. [...]

(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.

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

Some of that understanding should flower this week, so that he grabs more fully a hold of that creative stimulus that can greatly accelerate his improvements. [...]

The vibrator is of definite value, but would be useless, you see, without his own decision and understanding. [...] He needed the rest from it, and had he gritted his teeth and plunged back into it, he could have fallen into old frameworks—but following his inclinations, as I told him, he avoided that, and when he begins it again it will be with the relaxed attitudes that his dreams and his newer understanding are teaching him.

[...] Still, it meant that the body was regaining balance, and was an important development.

[...] You must realize it is futile to say, “Why does understanding take so much time?” or, “Why have we been so opaque?” or, in your case, “Why has it taken me so long to be a good painter?”

There are unpredictable levels of understanding that are the creative results of certain courses of action that you take. [...]

[...] Your deepest natures called it out of the probable sequence into your joint reality — for a reason, because each of you knew that it could best help you to develop all of your respective abilities to their fullest, and also help others.

[...] I’m also demanding the very best insight, an excellence of understanding, from each reader, even though it may not be easy to summon those qualities. But in my opinion they’re vital for understanding what the Seth material is all about.

As soon as I realized that Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment was going to be so long that it would require publication in two volumes, I began to think about how I was going to summarize here all of the material that Jane, Seth, and I had contributed to Volume 1. I developed the hilarious notion that if I did the job the way I really wanted to, this introduction would be as long as that first volume is itself! [...]

—there are hidden aspects involved with creativity, of course—stages of development that do not show. [...]

Ruburt had a reason for not going on tour, for example—one that was certainly acceptable enough in a world of conventional understanding. [...]

[...] He is excellent at communicating ideas in writing or vocally, gifted in understanding people—so those abilities do come to his aid in public speaking engagements. [...]

[...] Instead you share certain patterns of development, images, memories, and desires. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) For you, painting had to be wedded to a deeper kind of understanding. [...]

[...] Not understanding yourself, you will be in a quandary, and the mechanics of experience will appear mysterious and capricious.

[...] A massive snowstorm had developed by noon. [...]

[...] I do not know if I have specifically mentioned it, but you should understand my constant state of growth, expansion, and development. [...]

As I try to increase your capacity for understanding, and to expand the scopes of your abilities, so in other kinds of worlds I do the same thing. [...]

You exist in more dimensions than you know, and your own reality (voice quite a bit louder and stronger) transcends your understanding, and transcends the limitations of your own intellectual knowledge… (pace faster, still fairly loud) these truths must be understood intuitively…. [...]

[...] The person that you seek is here, but he is with you, and has never parted from you, and even though he continues his existence in another dimension you are not divided nor separated; and you will gain from his added development, for he will telepathically let you understand matters that you did not understand before.

You are developing along certain lines, your interest in the outdoors now reflecting your earlier male existences. [...]

You exist in more dimensions than you know, and your own reality (voice quite a bit louder and stronger) transcends your understanding and transcends the limitations of your own intellectual knowledge ... [...]

[...] The person that you seek is here, but he is with you, and has never parted from you, and even though he continues his existence in another dimension you are not divided nor separated; and you will gain from his added development, for he will telepathically let you understand matters that you did not understand before. [...]

You are developing along certain lines, your interest in the outdoors now reflecting your earlier male existences. [...]

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.

[...] 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.

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.

(At session time she sat waiting to see if a session would develop. [...]

[...] Just above us is Seth; above both is the new development that we have come to call Seth’s entity; this is the peak of the cone. [...]

[...] Camouflages spring up (pause) along the coordinates, and moment points offer endless opportunities for further expression and development. [...]

We are attempting in these sessions to develop both of your abilities in many areas, while we still maintain a most necessary balance of development so that one part of you does not get top-heavy, and topple over. [...]

The woman involved could gain immeasurably through the development of her own abilities. [...] At the same time the difficulty experienced by her ego cries out for the sort of fulfillment that could be achieved through the development of these abilities.

[...] As it developed, we had no witnesses.