“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We talked to him for an hour (while, alas, dinner got cold), but he was one of those people pleasantly gifted in a variety of fields who hadn’t yet settled down to concentrate on the development of any one or two abilities in particular. [...]

A young man from a nearby town came here recently — a highly gifted, intelligent young person. [...] He is an idealist, given to great plans for developing novel mathematical and scientific systems, and he is highly gifted in that area. [...]

Five objects in particular, and one of them is a gift, or was a gift to him. [...]

(Now slowly at 9:13:) Ruburt is very highly gifted—extraordinarily so in many respects. The nature of his gift generally speaking, however, presupposes or implies the existence of vast reaches in the psyche—reaches that if (pause) unwisely compared to the usual portions of the self, can seem to leave the usual self in a position of inferiority by contrast. [...]

[...] I said that she would have probably used her psychic gifts in some fashion in her writing, but that the Seth books might very well have not come into existence except for my own interest—hence my mental insight this morning that Jane did the Seth books to please me. [...]

[...] In this session Seth referred to Jane’s need for value fulfillment as she explored her psychic gifts. [...]

[...] There are people highly gifted with artistic abilities, who have never trusted those abilities, did not consider them a part of themselves, and practically speaking have been unable to use them.

[...] It may seem to you that ideally one should be so highly proficient that in one life you are gifted with excellent health, great abilities, power and wealth. [...]

[...] He is excellent at communicating ideas in writing or vocally, gifted in understanding people—so those abilities do come to his aid in public speaking engagements. [...]

Now this idealized self was primarily Ruburt’s—but to some extent also you contributed to it, feeling that anyone as gifted as Ruburt, if he were sure enough of himself, would indeed want to go out in that arena and press forward. [...]

(“I’ve thought more and more lately about what happens when a person is born with very strong gifts—but can’t stand to use them, or has to pay a very high price indeed if they do try to use them. [...] I used to think that if a person had a strong gift that nothing would stop the ability from showing itself in that certain way—but now I don’t think so at all. [...]

[...] In your own case mankind is forming his reality through the use of these gifts. [...]

[...] It is about as factual as the “fact” that God sends illness as punishment, or that illness is the unwanted gift of mischievous demons.

[...] The church’s concepts at least gave suffering a kind of dignity: It did (underlined) come from God—an unwelcome gift, perhaps—but after all it was punishment handed out from a firm father for a child’s own good.

[...] The mother frequently took away gifts that she had given the child, when the child misbehaved, making it clear that even these were not the child’s by right.

[...] The sessions were on the one hand a gift to you, by which means your health could be restored. [...]

[...] The more often you use these mental implements, the more proficient you become in developing and fulfilling your own unique gifts. [...]

While it may not seem so at the present, the greatest gift I can give you is to reaffirm the integrity of your own being. [...]

[...] No news about Blue Cross — but he had said that we had no worries about gift taxes should anyone contribute to the fund Maude Cardwell is presumably organizing for us. [...]

(“and a present, or gift.” Besides selling painting supplies, the Art Shop sells a variety of gifts—ceramics, books, frames, paintings, prints, sculpture, postcards, etc.

[...] Four vertical lines, and a present, or gift.

[...] They are also gifted with an almost astounding resiliency and exuberance.

[...] Often such individuals are highly gifted, yet they feel as if that promise will never blossom.

[...] Even then, however, all creatures are sustained by that innate gift, that inner sense of security that not only propels creatures toward life, but safely conducts them past physical life and past death’s doorway.

(The booklet explains much — all of the multitude of sittings and standings and kneelings that we went through in the pews; the gifts carried to the altar by the Bumbalo grandchildren; the hymns we listened to; the selections from the Bible read by the various priests; the responses we gave to the appropriate passages recited by the head priest, who read from the Gospel of John and other Biblical passages.

[...] This applies to some extent to each of you, of course, precisely because you were gifted strongly both intellectually and intuitively. [...] The rational line of thought finds creativity highly disruptive, so in those terms as highly gifted creative people, you would have encountered some difficulties in any case.

[...] As gifts for me because of my interest in their great creativity, Jane “tuned into”, on her own and without Seth, excellent books on the artist Paul Cézanne in 1977 and on the philosopher William James in 1978. [...]

(Several years later Jane gave me another gift—a book on the artist Rembrandt van Rijn. [...]

(Another approach we want to try is to play the tape a friend had sent us several months ago — a reading by someone whom he considers gifted psychically. [...]