“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is not that an understanding of your psyche is beyond you: It is usually that you try to understand or experience it in one of the most difficult ways — through the use of daily language.

[...] The emphasis is never static, but ever-changing In some periods, then, the normal behavior was “more dreamlike,” while more specific developments occurred in the dream state, which was then the more clear or specified of the two. [...]

[...] Karma is merely in the physical plane, the result of personal development, and represents the maturing realization that we are all psychically and physically part of All There Is, and that when we wound, it is not another that we wound but ourselves.

[...] During the conversation at break it developed that Louie in this life does not use his right hand for all things, but is somewhat ambidextrous. [...]

[...] He does not owe the father any more than that, and to seek the father’s pleasure superficially, or to try to please the father in fields where he has no interest, will not lead either to personal development or success, and will not help the father in any way.

The son is even now coming to an inner understanding. [...]

[...] Using concepts, I can relate my understanding of your time pattern to others clairvoyantly. [...]

[...] The fact of the letter shows that he had reached a certain level of acceptance and understanding. [...]

[...] As a part of his daily life they will facilitate the development of his abilities, and therefore help in our sessions.

[...] The inner ego is formed about characteristics and abilities that have been dominant in previous personalities, characteristics which the entity has developed through its experience in various lives.

[...] A lack of understanding concerning tension will always lead an organism to fight against itself.

The inner ego, however, through the subconscious, may at times encourage the development of abilities that will better allow the whole self to achieve balance and fulfillment.

Your closest approximation of the purpose of the universe can be found in those loving emotions that you have toward the development of your children, in your intent to have them develop their fullest capacities.

[...] If true, this proposition means that for all of that time, all of those people lived pretty useless lives as far as having any real understanding of their universe goes—hardly a natural situation, I told Jane. [...]

[...] The decision is your own according to your understanding as the individual personality. [...] Each of your personalities are free to develop, to accept, from the miraculous bank of reality those experiences and emotions that you want and to reject those that you do not want. [...]

(To Joel) The word “unfold,” that you spoke earlier, is far nearer to any understanding of the truth. [...]

The man to whom I have referred is approximately 62, but filled with energy, and would have intuitive understanding of your work. [...]

[...] Both of you had psychic abilities to use and develop.

[...] Such secondary systems also point toward the probable developments possible for individuals or species.

All of the probabilities practically possible in human development are therefore present to some extent or another in each individual. [...]

[...] The physical body is basically equipped to maintain itself as a healthy long-living organism far beyond your present understanding, medically speaking. [...]

(Pause, in a slower delivery.) Many people, without knowing it, have developed cancer and rid themselves of it. [...]

[...] These values, intuitions, or insights are given each to each according to his understanding, and so the stories told about them will often vary.

[...] Through the development of these abilities, the sacredness of all life will be intimately recognized and appreciated.

Paul also represented the militant nature of man, that had to be taken into consideration in line with man’s development at the time. [...]

(10:27.) In the next century, the inner nature of man, with these developments, will free itself from many constraints that have bound it. [...]

As in many cases an old man will appear womanish, so a personality reincarnated steadily as a male will develop strong and overlycompensated-for female characteristics, as is the case with Loren in this existence. The very fact that the personality evades a female reincarnation is evidence of an already developed fear. [...]

Because of the fact that bad weather has often saved man from wars in the very early stages of human development, man misconstrued this to mean that sacrifice to the elements could save him from calamities of this kind. [...]

[...] Your painting, Joseph, is beginning to show the results of greater psychic understanding, which will transpose itself into content and technique. [...]

[...] Seth is, however, independent, and continues to develop as I do … Simply as an analogy, and only as an analogy, I am what you would refer to as a future Seth, as Seth in a “higher” stage of development. [...]

[...] That important development in her abilities took place four and a half years after she began to speak for Seth, and once it opened up Seth Two came through in the next seven twice-weekly sessions. [...]

[...] I thought her very interesting way of acquiring the information represented another step in the development of her abilities.

[...] Many things, it seemed, were developing at once; we expected that after first break tonight Seth would comment upon them, as well as upon Monday evening’s session. [...]

This discussion may require more understanding than you or Ruburt possess, but I do not believe so. [...]

If you recall, when we spoke of the development of conscious individualized energy within your field, we spoke of units collecting material about themselves, and at various points becoming more or less closed systems, accumulating within themselves a more or less stable reserve.

[...] The development of tools gave man options in the way and manner of killing his prey.

[...] They are not triggered as easily under conditions alien to the mouse’s understanding of its and the hunter’s biological natures.

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. [...]

[...] Furthermore, each cell contains within itself a belief and an understanding of its own inevitability. [...]

You are to develop your own abilities, and he will help you develop them now. [...]

[...] He only came to show you what was possible, and to bring the both of you to an understanding of inner reality. [...]

[...] Before you can develop your abilities fully however you must have the inner strength that comes from your own inner learning. [...]

[...] Society as you know it, not understanding the nature of normal aggression, considers it violent. [...]

[...] You are developing properties of consciousness that are in their own way uniquely your own, as your environment is. [...]

[...] The recognition of personal feelings and the working through of beliefs — all of this will expand your understanding of yourself.

[...] No other species developed in that manner, either. Instead there are parallel developments. [...]

[...] As I show at the end of this appendix, Seth allows for a much greater range of simultaneous origins; in our reality these imply growth and development out of that “basic” group of species for the most part, with multidimensional purposes operating inside an enhanced time scheme that includes probabilities, reincarnation, counterparts,²² precognition, and other concepts, meanings, and beliefs. [...] Probabilities aside, when Seth talks about cells [or their components] recombining as parts of plant or animal forms, as he does in the 705th session, Jane and I don’t take that to mean the evolution, or alteration, of one species into another — but that a unity of consciousness pervades all elements in our environment, whether “alive” or “dead.” With the concept of probabilities in mind, however, much of the “thrust for development and change” that Seth also mentions as existing inside all organisms, could just as well take place in those other realities. [...]

[...] I’d say that just understanding the complicated relationships between mass beliefs and illness alone, for example, will require much material from Seth and much time invested upon our parts.

[...] Although she left Appendix 6 unfinished, it contains many ideas worth more study: “Some of the experiments with man-animals didn’t work out along our historic lines, but the ghost memories of those probabilities still linger in our biological structure … The growth of ego consciousness by itself set up both challenges and limitations … For many centuries there was no clear-cut differentiation between various aspects of man and animal … there were parallel developments in the emergence of physical man … there were innumerable species of man-in-the-making in your terms….” [...]

[...] There are married couples who meet in their daily lives with a good measure of honesty, compassion and understanding and the two people that you mentioned relate in that manner. [...]

[...] There are portions of your own identity, in other terms, that dwell in these probable systems that have not known physical reality and that come to observe those portions of itself that have so developed in that fashion. [...]

[...] She finished with the tentative understanding that by midnight she’d receive another call, after there had been time to check her second set of impressions. [...]

[...] The inner impetus toward development, however, came from the innate comprehension of future probabilities. [...]

[...] the books themselves—mine as well as his—are themselves indications of achievements (pause) that are not easily broken off, since they represent the natural, creative development of his own abilities and growth. [...] That is, they provide you with that larger framework of understanding, for the old frameworks of understanding force you to continue to explore your reality for larger definitions. [...]

[...] Seth has said again and again that these changes represent improvements growing out of our better understanding of our beliefs, our artistic/creative work, and indeed our whole life-style. [...]

[...] It bothers him that some people, he thinks, consider that our books make up another bible or its equivalent, and it seems to him that their lack of understanding in that regard hampers his own creativity. [...]

[...] He also stated that our old frameworks of understanding force us to continue to explore reality for larger definitions. [...]