“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In this case at this time, however, they can serve as valuable springboards to release from your own creative areas new triggers for inspiration and understanding, and hence for therapeutic development. [...]

[...] You should begin such a program as soon as possible, regarding it, however, as not a last desperate approach toward an unsolvable problem, but as a proper step of development in your understanding of the magical approach to life. [...]

[...] You use energy without understanding how it works, so obviously you do not need a detailed map of the inner world to obtain its benefits. [...]

Nor will anything be gained by a patent and speedy program that is not solidly based on understanding, both understanding of the self in particular, and what you may call the mechanics involved in the creation of the illness itself, and in an understanding of those elements which caused the personality to develop the illness.

Nor do we want to rid him of one illness so quickly that he still feels a need for it, for in such a case he would indeed very promptly develop another. [...]

[...] The discipline required in following our program as it develops, that discipline will itself represent the first steps to recovery.

[...] And it is indeed the understanding itself which will allow you to let it vanish.

The motions may not seem synchronized as yet, but those important ligaments are midway along in their release—a highly important development.

[...] In its way the entire summer affair, with people about, is important, so that you can consciously make decisions that once perhaps were unconsciously made, without deep-enough understanding.

I have heard each of you say, at one time or another, that you did not know if you would do it over again—if you knew that Ruburt would have developed his physical difficulties. Unthinking statement, for many people—in fact, most—have in their own ways far more difficult problems, and far less achievement, joy or understanding. [...]

[...] Your friend Larry (Herschaft) was quite perceptive, and your Dialogue sketches and the rock (face) show on your part a growth qualitatively of artistic understanding, and technique used to the service of inner realities.

His abilities are considerable in the healing line, and again for this reason it is extremely important that he is understanding of himself as well as others. [...] We want our friend to have a strong and healthy overall personality balance, for this will allow him to use his abilities well, and then the abilities themselves will further add to his own development.

[...] There will be others, like Ruburt himself and like yourself, Joseph, who will be intrigued by those fuller developments and arguments given in the basic material. [...]

In the past because of Ruburt’s own difficulties, I merely hinted at future developments. [...]

They will be given with great emotional rapport, and I hope of my own depth of compassion and understanding for the human condition. [...]

[...] They have grown with the impetus of intuitional development. [...]

[...] In any case they are not important for an understanding of yourself. [...]

The psychological understanding of yourself is hidden within the reincarnational data that you have. [...]

Your feelings here largely result from a lack of understanding as to the nature of the subconscious. [...]

Any true psychic development of personality, however, is bound to lead to an understanding of the nature of the psyche that is far too large for any such confusion of basic identity with sexuality. [...]

[...] Parallel developments in religion and government always echo the state of consciousness and its purposes. “Pagan” practices, giving far more leeway to sexual identification and expression, continued well into the 16th century, and the so-called occult underground heretical teachings tried to encourage the development of personal intuition.

[...] As this happens, your understanding will allow you to glimpse the nature of the reality of the gods you have recognized through the ages. [...]

He has made gains however in understanding the extent of his repressions. [...]

(To me:) There are several intuitive developments regarding your work that are already in the making, and will bring you great pleasure and a sense of accomplishment. [...]

Ruburt’s condition will improve because of other developments, success in his work and other areas that will automatically bring about a concentration away from symptoms. [...]

The necessity for understanding what is behind the difficulty is still necessary, however, and the steps I outlined must be followed.

[...] Once they were meant to promote your psychological understanding, but now they can only impede your progress; and you are also slightly resentful at Ruburt, feeling that he is somewhat responsible, by still maintaining his symptoms, for your own.

The good news however, has been hinted at but not yet completely developed. [...]

[...] Dissatisfaction, creative dissatisfaction, triggers in you new intuitive developments, and this one will be fairly important. [...]

[...] Psychic and spiritual peaks are experienced by those in the room during such sessions, and the subjective experience of the students can then be used by them as a reminder of moments of psychic understanding that they seldom achieve.

Such understanding simply cannot follow logical lines. The intellect may indeed grasp some of this understanding from the intuitions, but the intellect itself is aware of only minute portions of the whole personality. [...]

[...] The active gestalt of the personality is indeed so complex, the actions that compose it are so intertwined, that only the deep, interior intuitions of the personality involved will ever come close to a complete understanding of the workings of the particular personality system.

[...] In the beginning of our sessions I spoke in a general manner, for example, saying that trees and plant life had a consciousness, but not a developed ego system. [...]

[...] That is, the personality may react to a stimuli in the present that occurred originally twenty years ago, to the ego’s understanding of time.

[...] Efficiency may be developed through understanding, and through the efficient use of psychic energy. [...]

Despite Ruburt’s understanding, his intellectual understanding of his fear of arthritis, he was thrown into an understandable and regrettable emotional state, with which he grappled with at least some success. [...]

[...] I have told him that he will not develop arthritis.

[...] When it is understood that man creates not only matter but his own physical image as well, greater attention will be given so that early fear patterns of such extent will not develop.

[...] The development of which I spoke involved two students who are not now so involved. I certainly expect our “Dean” (Theodore) to continue with his own development. [...]

[...] I would like you to realize that within you always is a strong kinship and understanding. [...]

If probabilities continue, then two of you will develop quite well during this year in two quite different areas. [...]

[...] If the dilemma continued for any length of time, you could then develop a chronic ailment, though not of an incapacitating manner. [...]

[...] It is not possible to say in words what one person or another looks for in life, or what unique features best promote his or her growth and development. [...]

[...] Through all of that Ruburt of course looked for further creative developments and intuitive breakthroughs, for, again, he needed more room. [...]

[...] In the meantime, his own understanding was growing, and his creative capacities. [...]

[...] They were necessary projections of understanding and growth. [...]

[...] His specific art (pause) was both his method of understanding his own creativity, and a way of exploring the vast creativity of the universe—and also served as a container or showcase that displayed his knowledge as best he could. [...]

[...] It is also a method of understanding and perceiving creativity. [...]

[...] Realizing that you are in the position you wanted to be and realizing that your abilities are not in conflict with each other, nor you with them, will automatically fulfill and develop all of those abilities, in a new kind of overall creativity that is itself beyond specifics.

I want you both, then, to understand that in the greater light of creativity, understanding its true meaning, you have taken the right course, and therefore drop from your minds any lingering ideas of conflict and doubt. [...]

There will be some acceleration in the popularity of our books in the next few years—but more than that, you should both be ready to gain a greater understanding of Framework 2 and of the Codicils, which are highly important. It takes some considerable psychological footwork, and yet the direction of your lives is now leading toward certain developments that were inherent from the beginning. This has to do with cycles of learning and understanding, in which maturity is highly important. [...]

Yet the way of your own growth and development demands and yearns for such expansion, and your experiences serve to point others in the proper direction.

[...] Give us a moment … In the life that you know, as given in Personal Reality, your beliefs act to specify the particular probable events that will become “real.”¹⁰ Because you are a probable self, an understanding of your own nature will show you some of the abilities, not used here, but present, that you can indeed choose to actualize. [...] They are being developed in another reality; therefore in this one they can be utilized far easier than you might suppose. [...] When you develop abilities in one system, to some extent they are easier to develop in another. [...]

[...] It is the result of one line of “development” that could be taken by your particular earth personality in flesh. All of the other possible lines of development also occur, however. [...]

Ruburt’s own development makes this possible, for it was necessary that he progress to the point that he has in Adventures,² and reach the level of certain theories so that these could be used as springboards. [...]

[...] It contains within itself innately infinite properties of expansion, development, and organization; yet within itself always maintains the kernel of its own individuality. [...]

[...] The degree of your understanding and development is the result of past endeavors in other lives. [...]

[...] Now he will trust them consciously and intellectually, and this development had to occur for his fulfillment now. It was a prerequisite for other developments and work that will come.

[...] The very fact that you have me here is the result of past experience and development

[...] The intuitive portions of the personality had to have the full cooperation of the intellectual and conscious self at this point in your development and I am speaking of you both here.

[...] Development unfolds in all directions. The soul is not ascending a series of stairs, each one representing a new and higher point of development.

Christian dogma speaks of the ascension of Christ, implying of course a vertical ascent into the heavens, and the development of the soul is often discussed in terms of direction. [...]

Development is therefore considered in a one-line direction only, in Christian terms. [...]

[...] This is like saying that because an apple has a top, it must have a bottom — but without any understanding of the fact that both are a portion of the apple. [...]

Those fetuses that do not develop still contribute to the body’s overall experience, and they feel themselves successful in their own existences. An understanding of these issues can greatly help throw light on the question of early deaths and diseases, and spontaneous abortions.

It also seems that each fetus must naturally desire to grow, emerge whole from its mother’s womb, and develop into a natural childhood and adulthood. [...] They have no intention of growing into complete human development. [...]

[...] I do want to point out that all fetuses do not necessarily intend to develop into normal babies, and that if medical science, through its techniques, ends up in directing a normal birth, the consciousness of the child may never feel normally allied with physical experience.

[...] Developing your own abilities, whatever they may be, exploring and expanding your experience of selfhood, gives life a sense of purpose, meaning, and creative excitement — and also adds to the understanding and development of the society and the species.

[...] When you give lip service to ideas with which you do not agree, you are betraying your own ideals, harming yourself to some extent, and society as well, insofar as you are denying yourself and society the benefit of your own understanding. [...]

[...] Science and religion have each contributed much to man’s development. [...]

[...] Through the geese I want to associate Jane’s and my activities with nature rather than technology, for in nature I sense a great, sublime, ultimate peacefulness and creativity that far surpasses technology, can we but ever manage to approach an understanding of what nature really means for us physical creatures. [...]