“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The tendencies are used and developed for the good of the overall personality. [...]

[...] Their own abilities are well developed.

(We were interested in a specific location especially in view of Seth’s mentioning people with well-developed abilities. [...]

[...] Death does not automatically bring enlightenment or development. [...]

[...] He can indeed, but he needs to develop confidence in that belief, and each physical achievement is of great benefit.

You have yourself obtained benefit from this last group of sessions, understanding the reasons for Ruburt’s condition so that your gentle encouragement now can be highly advantageous.

[...] Certainly technological development appears to have been built most securely upon a body of concrete ideas.

[...] Myth involves an intrinsic understanding of the nature of reality, couched in imaginative terms, carrying a power as strong as nature itself. [...]

[...] According to your understanding and interpretation of the word, events, none are predetermined by a source outside of yourselves.

[...] You would be aware of yourself in each of these three roles, and find qualities being developed in each of the separate lives.

[...] There are also reasons why the deep subconscious has allowed such difficulties to come about, and in most cases the basic reason here is a lack of understanding and communication between the various portions of the self, so that seemingly the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

[...] She said Seth’s bravo referred to the fact that she is acquiescing in the new developments during the sessions; namely, delivering the material while sitting down and with her eyes closed.)

He tempers the bitterness with understanding more than he realizes however, and because of his particular sense of right and wrong, he overly blames himself for what bitterness he has. [...]

The arm crookedness developed shortly after he turned down the summer position, though by stages, and is related to the fact that the dream book, a possible means of support, is not ready to be sent out. [...]

He will take particular joy in watching his own children develop, because he did not develop in that past life to maturity, though this of course was not definitely in your dream.

[...] He stretches you, both your sympathies and your understanding, and you both benefit.

[...] Obviously I cannot tell you everything at once, and the man’s abilities are well developed. [...]

[...] The personal associations on his part that do not apply to the test object, do represent the fact that his own abilities have not fully developed.

The impression Rob got from the voice, gestures, and manner was that of an energetic, educated gentleman of the “old school,” in his sixties perhaps, extraordinarily intelligent but aware of his own foibles—a man with a highly developed yet old-fashioned sense of humor. [...]

[...] We didn’t know that this information was geared to our own level of understanding and quite simple in comparison with the elaborations that would follow.

[...] Actually, the structure provided continuity and stability, but also was flexible enough to nurture latent developments of which we were then completely unaware. [...]

It is not just that such an inner universe is different from your own, but that any real or practical explanation of its reality would require the birth of an entirely new physics—and such a development would first of all necessitate the birth of an entirely new philosophy. [...]

It is not [so much] that such developments are beyond man’s capacity as it is that they involve manipulations impossible to make for all practical purposes, from his present standpoint. [...]

The next morning Jane had quite an unexpected insight to add to my own understanding of what those lampshades stood for. [...]

[...] 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 difficulty in understanding this principle is due to the fact that we’ve taken it for granted that the image and sound already exist for the senses to interpret. [...]

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

[...] The ego will always erect defenses, but intuitional understanding has always been able to pierce such defenses.

[...] He received a wound, not obviously critical, which developed blood poisoning.

An entity is composed of what you may call feminine and masculine characteristics, but when all energy is focused into masculine-oriented personalities then a backlog develops, so that the entity is left with only unused, unmanifested, so-far-denied feminine characteristics.

The same sort of situation develops if the male type of characteristic is repeatedly denied fulfillment or manifestation. [...]

[...] 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.]

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. [...]

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. [...]

[...] Jane wrote the question up on a separate list, so that we’ll make sure the inquiries that develop are taken care of by Seth. [...]

In a strange fashion because of his fears, now—and these particular fears can be countered with communications with the unconscious, and with understanding—he was afraid simply that so many people knew of his existence. [...]

[...] I’d mentioned a little earlier an idea for a book she could develop on Seth and the magical approach [she’s had the magical-approach idea for some time], and she wanted material on that. [...]

[...] As I asked Jane the other day when she talked of resuming work on that project: “Can you stand any more complications?” I meant of course, that after 17 books, we’re at our present situation, so I have difficulty understanding how doing another book will suddenly, magically, turn anything around for us as long as we stay on the same old course. [...]

[...] Jane and I had grown very used to living with Seth’s production of his book; we had come to look forward to each development. [...]

[...] The introduction applies to each reader, for I hope that you will now be able to meet yourself face to face with a greater understanding of who and what you are.

You have both moved through many periods of understanding, where others might have stopped, and the going-ahead always involves new challenges. [...] But it also represented a failure of a kind, a stopping-point at a certain level of development.

[...] I guess; it seemed that Jane and I were incredibly dense about understanding what had been going on for the past decade. [...]

[...] There is no law limiting the number of psychological structures available to you, but because of your present development, and because of this alone, you are hampered. Experience or lack of it on various fields has not yet been possible, so practically speaking you have a limited number of basic psychological structures to deal with; and your perception, clear psychological understanding, intuitive comprehension of, and manipulation and psychological constructions of these basic structures, will determine the validity of your material constructions that will then form your environment.

[...] Nevertheless, for various reasons having to do with the development of individual consciousness, as a rule only a small portion of the theoretically possible psychological structures can be utilized at any given point.

[...] The writing self therefore led the way also to the psychic developments. [...]

The writing self knew it needed something to write about, and greater maturity if it were to fulfill its abilities, and here again the psychic development fulfilled a need. [...]

You knew he would not allow it, while you gave yourself time to grow in understanding. [...]

[...] The conscious ego also develops in a strange manner through all this, as I will now attempt to explain.

[...] At your stage of development the inner ego is by far the most self-conscious part of the whole self, and has the greatest ability for perception and organization. [...]

Basic reality is not uncontrolled, savage, undisciplined or chaotic, but if you were suddenly confronted with it at your present state of development you would be like a straw in a hurricane. [...]

[...] We will still take many sessions before you attain any real understanding of these matters, and my dear biggy-boos, I hope to add to our lectures with exercises in the experience of the various inner senses as we go along.

(The surprise, Seth went on, would embarrass scientific personnel, but would also lead to clearer understanding of the Seth phenomenon. [...]

(We now come to a surprising development. [...]