Something low and something high, in contrast, to do with an understanding reached. [...]

(“Something low and something high, in contrast, to do with an understanding reached.” [...]

[...] This effect at once reminded me of reading that the quality of a black ink can be judged by its behavior when diluted: If a red color develops it means the ink is of inferior quality. [...]

[...] As in the Introductory Notes, I want to stress Jane’s role as the creative artist, disseminating her personal view of a larger inner reality, and her intuitive and conscious comprehension of at least some aspects of that reality; for such understanding can easily elude our Western-oriented, materialistic, technological outlook.

[...] Jane sensed her grandfather’s feeling of identification with the rest of nature, however, and since as a young child she had not yet developed a strong ego personality, she felt no sense of rejection as did, for example, the other members of the family. [...]

[...] He considered that he aged as a tree will age, but perversely he felt that others aged to spite him … From an early age, however, Jane drank in his feeling of completeness with nature, and it had much to do with her later development …

[...] If you will try to accept the idea that your own existence is multidimensional, that you dwell within the medium of infinite probabilities, then you may catch a slight glimpse of the reality that is behind the word “god,” and you may understand why it is almost impossible to capture a true understanding of that concept in words.

[...] These were all males because at that time of your development, you would not have accepted a female counterpart.

Other realities quite as legitimate as your own, quite as vital, quite as “real,” coexist with your own, and in the terms of your understanding, “in the same space”—but of course in terms of your experience those spaces and realities would appear to be quite separate. [...]

[...] Man does not in his physical development pass through the stages supposedly followed by the hypothetical creature who left the water for the land to become a mammal—but each species does indeed have written within it the knowledge of “its past.” [...]

[...] Within another couple of sessions, however, he began to let “fragment” semantically yield to other terminology as he continued developing his material in ever-deepening discussions of personalities and entities, reincarnation, time, dreams, and other related subjects. [...]

In man, the probabilities of development are literally numberless. [...]

(9:29.) Some s-e-c-t-s (spelled) have believed that spiritual understanding came as the result of bodily agony, and their self-inflicted pain became their versions of pleasure. [...]

Each person seeks value fulfillment, and that means that they choose various lives in such a fashion that all of their abilities and capacities can be best developed, and in such a way that their world is also enriched. [...]

[...] You have given them the gift of existence, they will learn how to use it and develop their own abilities in their own way, for you have also given them individuality which means they are not yourselves, but variations on yourselves. [...]

[...] You have given them a foundation and a history and an identity as a framework, but from this framework they will grow and learn and develop and without your creation of them they would not exist. [...]

[...] You are creating the guilt, and through understanding you can learn to dissolve it for it will simply vanish. [...]

[...] The species developed its own kind of consciousness, as it found it necessary to isolate itself to some degree from its environment and the other creatures within it. [...]

(11:13.) Only an understanding of this inherent bisexual nature will release those qualities in each individual, regardless of sex. [...]

[...] For Ruburt in a way it was an expression of daring, partially the result of your suggestions, and his growing understanding that he had become not too spontaneous, but too conservative. [...]

[...] In between, the healing process still continues, but the overall stage of development may not be such that will allow the kind of overall posture needed for walking without support. [...]

(Pause.) In a fashion dreams allow for a curious mixture of learning processes, while at the same time serving to introduce surprising developments. [...] They are an aid in the development of skills. [...]

THE MAGICAL APPROACH, AND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN “CONSERVATION” AND SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENTS

Through all of our challenges, we were aware of at least some of the incredible variety of positive and negative world events in the news—the bombings and the peace talks, the sports contests and the religious controversies, the national strikes and the latest developments in the arts. [...]

[...] Beginning of the next chapter (11), which will be entitled: “The Magical Approach (very long pause, eyes closed), and the Relationships Between ‘Conservation’ (very long pause) and Spontaneous Developments”—and give us a moment.

[...] And then you can continue, you can continue to enlarge the scope of your understanding and consciousness...and as you do this, you take on a more conscious awareness of your responsibility. [...]

([Jim Crosson:] “How do you develop the power of spiritual healing?

[...] And then you can continue, you can continue to enlarge the scope of your understanding and consciousness—and as you do this, you take on a more conscious awareness of your responsibility. [...]

([Jack Cross:] “How do you develop the power of spiritual healing?”)

[...] What is needed is additional inner confidence, and even the development of inner discipline.

[...] Your son was an artist, and certainly prances up and down now in the person of your Ruburt; and at the time you had no understanding nor use for art as any man’s profession; and let it be said that in this respect Ruburt treats you much better than you treated him.

[...] I am pleased that you have been more faithful in your attempts to use psychological time; and I am most pleased, Joseph, with your development as a whole these past months.

[...] The whole manner was compassionate and understanding and sad.

Development of the inner senses is a much more effective method of perceiving other realities, and, followed correctly, the ego is not only stronger but more flexible. [...] Such development becomes an unfolding and natural expansion of the whole personality.

[...] You can accept such images and play around with them or watch them to see what develops, but only if you realize they are hallucinations. [...]

[...] The unifying elements will be those of your own understanding and abilities. [...]

[...] This would be a nonsensical development to the logical mind; yet, the girl might be the form of the man’s previous or future reincarnated self.

This may hardly be original thinking here, but these proliferations of consciousness imply some pretty fantastic abilities on the part of we humans—for such developments show that even though we live as small creatures within the incredible richness of an overall consciousness, or All That Is, still our actions can result in that great consciousness exploring new areas of itself. [...]

1. Since according to Seth something like a basic religious awareness has always been with mankind, Seth here indicates a few historical and mythological signposts of that intuitive understanding.

[...] As the body consciousness developed itself, perfected its organization, the inner self and the body consciousness together performed a kind of psychological double-entendre.

[...] A twist on an old quote, I believe—but the fact is, you are physical creatures because you do like to live on earth, you do like the conditions, you do enjoy overall the particular kind of challenge and the particular kind of perception, knowledge and understanding that the earthly environment provides.

[...] We’ll see what develops.

[...] The ommm exercises, with his late understanding, relieved the body enough so that the excellent rune exercises began to work, on his mind as well as his body. [...]

You will join me as I have joined others.
No physical form or physical thought
can express my existence.
The term love, with its message
of caring for another,
is the most important of our
messages in the physical.
Seth Two is to me now what Seth was to you.
I am a step higher but not removed.
Yet, I have changed enough since “my
death” that it is difficult,
at times, to relate to your existence.
The love and the emotions you feel are
the connectives between us.
My love for you has not changed but expanded
in a way you do not comprehend.
Physical needs are for physical beings,
and I understand and know this.
Touch is important at your level.
My new or returned mind loves you more
deeply than in our earth time together,
but it is also much more
understanding of physical need.
When I said, “Be for me as I would
be for thee,” I didn’t mean to limit you.
Be the physical person you need to be,
as you are physical for a limited and
for a purposeful reason.
Enjoy physical reality between others,
for the mind endures and exists
beyond your understanding and existence.
I love you as you were
and as we will be.
Your now is for you to enjoy.
I never judge your actions, and this
I repeat with love and utmost understanding.
Be yourself and in being yourself
you will be for me as I would be for thee.
You do well and I watch you often.
Continue to love physical life
while you are physical.

[...] She was still an unknown in the field; by mid-1966 she’d had only one small psychic book, How to Develop Your ESP Power, published. [...]

[...] I think it quite psychologically and psychically limiting to believe otherwise, for such beliefs can only impede or postpone our further conscious understanding of the individual and mass realities — the overall “nature” — we’re creating. [...]

[...] She is developing her gifts through study and practice. [...]

And you knew it is what you are, and what you will be; and as the other developments in the sessions also rose out of what you are and what Ruburt is, so did this one. [...]

[...] There are bonds of affection and understanding that unite this group, and a speaker may or may not be one. [...]

Because of the bonds of affection and understanding and instant intuitional comprehension that allows them to recognize one another. [...]

[...] And again, this development was latent in the early beginning of our sessions. [...]

[...] The quality of life must be at a certain level so that the individuals of a species — of any and all species — can develop. [...]

There simply must be, for example, a freedom to express ideas, an individual tendency, a worldwide social and political context in which each individual can develop his or her abilities and contribute to the species as a whole. [...]

[...] In our imperfect understanding, Jane and I and other family members saw this process go on: We did not feel there was much any of us could do.

[...] We had no idea that it was actually a highly simplified explanation, cleverly geared to our own level of understanding at the time. [...]

[...] Worse, I felt that he was amused but understanding, and felt that my efforts, if basically unnecessary, were still important for my peace of mind.

Still, I was never aware of new developments until they actually occurred spontaneously, and to my own surprise. [...]