“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

An early acceptance would have tempted you to rely upon the facility before the inner spontaneity even began to grow to maturity. Your early comic book work should have told you that. You were quite facile and could have done well with it longer in other fields of activity—TV for example—had you chosen.

Those minor artists who still continued to follow old patterns often did so because they were honestly not initiators or creators, merely facile. They belonged to the (in quotes) “mass mind” of the time, therefore they did not have to feel apart and were accepted.

(I was very facile—so much so that a large part of my early work consisted of finishing off the work of others so that it would reproduce well. In the comic trade I was an “inker,” and had more work available than I could handle. I also made a lot of money at an early age, in those days before high taxes. A comparable income now would amount to several hundred dollars a week.)

The open is before her, but facile. [...]

(Kim told me Jane is second on the list for admission to the facility now. [...]

[...] Pete ended up getting mad at him—for Fred contradicted himself by saying that Jane required acute care, but that all the other facilities in town said they rejected her for that very reason. [...]

[...] While his beliefs are partially responsible for his astonishing facility, once in various altered states he is in a kind of free-wheeling situation as far as physical reality is concerned. [...]

Ruburt is not technically facile enough even to follow Cézanne’s directions. Joseph is facile enough, but he would not want to follow the vision of another. [...]

[...] The engineers were to gather radiological data to be used in decontaminating the crippled facility. [...]

[...] What haunts many people, especially those living downwind from nuclear facilities, are the horrifying consequences that could result from an accident that released unchecked radioactivity into the environment. [...]

There is within his personality a rather unique facility that makes our communications possible. [...]

[...] Do not be concerned if his reading fluctuates, for the fluctuations are a necessary part of his improvement as various muscles try out their new facility. [...]

[...] The food preparation centers should always be separate, and you do have room for those facilities in one place. [...]

[...] The great facility and adaptability of the human species are dependent upon an amazing interplay between genetic preciseness and genetic freedom. [...]

(Then she told me about a new nurse who fed her breakfast and made her mad by talking about Jane’s going to “another facility.” [...]

Your lack of verbal communication of your exact feelings, plus your learned facility for facially expressing disapproval, only allowed him to reinforce his ideas.

[...] There were many toolmaking animal species, some predating man’s toolmaking facility. [...]

[...] His reaction here depends on several circumstances, including the intensity of the electrical pulsations that compose the thought, and his own inner facility in reacting to particular ranges of intensities. [...]

[...] If you are facile you can call up-on these other sources for solutions. [...]

[...] Beware of facility because you have strong ability, then it behooves you to use them fully and not to settle for less. [...]

This facility, the translation of data to the ego, who would otherwise distrust it, any such translation is nevertheless a secondhanded version of the original reality; and that is an important point.

[...] When he began to cut off his natural spontaneous expression in dream reality, out-of-body travel, etc., he denied himself the acquisition of that facility to some degree.

(10:41.) They learned quickly, and education was an exciting process, because this multisensuous facility automatically impressed information upon them not simply through one sense channel at a time but utilizing many simultaneously. [...]

[...] On the other hand, within these other systems there is a strong innovative group consciousness developing, in which identity is retained but greater inner play allowed between individuals, a large creative interchange of symbol-pools, a drawing upon mental and psychic symbols with greater facility. [...]