“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are dreams of different import, some triggered genetically, that serve as sparks for particular kinds of behavior—dreams, in other words, that literally span the centuries in that regard, coiled latently in the very chromosomes; and no level of consciousness is without some kind of participation in dream states. In that regard even electrons, for example, dream. Dreaming touches upon both microscopic and macroscopic events, or realities, and is not simply a human characteristic, appropriately appearing within your own range or within your own species. It is instead one area of subjective experience that is everywhere prevailing within the universe.

I can only hope to evoke some feeling within you that is reminiscent of your own actual behavior at those hidden levels of dreaming activity, but they have remained highly pertinent in the development of all species with their environments, keeping the intents and purposes of one alive in the other. I have told you that in actuality, now, no genetic knowledge is gone from the earth. It does not vanish. It is retained in latent form within a kind of backup system, so that in terms of probabilities each species carries within its own genetic patterns the blueprints and specializations of each other’s genetic sequence.

(Slowly:) This all involves a lush multitudinous creativity. The pleasure principle can probably be likened most to the latent appreciation of beauty that is everywhere apparent if you look for it: the ecstasy of each form of life for the wonders of its own existence, in which love’s values go beyond themselves, and yet a condition in which each species or life form “realizes” that its own fulfillment adds immeasurably to the existence of all other forms.

[...] These probable achievements will lie latent unless you consciously decide to bring them into being.

[...] Your neuronal structure necessitates a certain focus so that other experiences counter to your conscious assumptions remain probable or latent. [...]

[...] The impetus for any developing and latent action is incipient in the unborn infant. The child’s first steps are latent within the first flickering of the infant’s eyes, for the events follow as naturally as the opening of the petals of a flower.

[...] These require much more effort on your part, but even the physical brain has latent within it the possibilities for many kinds of activities that still remain generally unknown.

These are unfoldings, as the inner self materializes what is already latent into physical actuality. [...]

In your terms, practically speaking, probable events seem to make more sense when you think of them as latent future ones.

[...] The present belief activates “latent” abilities within each person.¹

In daily practical experience, try to concentrate for a while upon seemingly subordinate abilities, ones that you think of as latent. [...]

[...] Great artists by their very works demonstrate other attributes latent in the race as a whole. [...]

The next brief chapter will be devoted to methods that will allow you to take advantage of greater options, to bring into your daily experience events and experiences that have so far remained “latent.” [...]

[...] These lie latent, ready to be focused upon and used; any of them can be brought to the fore when a conscious thought acts as a stimulus.

If you are focusing upon ideas of poverty, illness or lack, for example, your conscious mind also holds latently concepts of health, vigor and abundance. [...]

For example (pause, eyes closed; one of a series along in here), I was about to explain by telling you that these image traces are not, of course, visible physically, but latent. I believe your word latent suggests something that has not yet shown itself, however, and the particular kind of ghost image to which I am referring has instead already been manifested physically.

It exists after death in a latent form, in that (quite animated here) it can be materialized again. [...]

You could have chosen not to develop these latent abilities at all. You could have developed other latent abilities in their stead. [...]

[...] Without the past challenge, or one like it, the various elements of the personality would not be sufficiently united, strong enough, to carry the abilities that have been latent within it.

They remain latent within you and unexpressed within this system. [...] You remain latent in their personality structures, and your main abilities are unused within their systems. [...]

[...] The individual will find himself surrounded by more stimuli than he knows what to do with—but using this as impetus he will learn to handle it, using portions of the brain that now lie latent.

[...] When they are frozen certain changes happen, and when the psychic atmosphere is saturated there will be a metamorphosis of a kind and a release of abilities that have been latent.

[...] The various god concepts that have fallen by the wayside, so to speak, represent areas of development that were not chosen, in your terms, but they are still latent. [...]

The emerging consciousness had to have, latently at least, the capacity to become aware of world conditions. [...]

[...] As he played, it was obvious that any given composition “grew” from the first note, and had always been latent within it. An infinite number of other “alternate” compositions were also latent within the same note, however, but were not played last night. [...]

(10:48.) In that case, you see, there would be in another reality a carpenter or his equivalent with a latent love of words, unexpressed — and that individual would then begin to develop; reading books on how to write, perhaps, and taking up a hobby that would allow him to express in words his love of the land and its goods. [...]

Each portion, by whatever name, contains within it the latent potentials of the whole. [...]

A disease of course is not brought about at any particular point in time, but is latent, and merely becomes perceivable enough to cause danger at what approximates a particular point in time. Psychologically there exists within a given individual the latent leaning toward a multitudinous variety of so-called diseases, these tendencies being picked up through early conditioning and environment.

[...] However all potentialities are latent in each and every unit, regardless of size, and no combinations or coming-togethers are accidental, but are governed by inner principles of organization. [...]

[...] Therefore large portions of the brain, now unused, lie latent for these developments. [...]

Latent potentialities, always present within the system, are activated as they are needed. [...]

[...] They are dominant, but the other characteristics are latent and present, built into the pattern. [...]

[...] But enmeshed within this there are what amount to invisible layers, “shadow,” latent layers that represent previous physical images that have belonged to the personality.

(Jane continues:) In a sense the present individual in any given life could be called a fragment of his entire entity, having all the properties of the original entity, though they remain latent or unused. [...] It contained all the abilities of your friend, whether latent or not I do not know. [...]

[...] You are lucky that the images themselves did not rise up and fight back, since the image fragments have all the powers of their parents, though they may be latent.

[...] And it does have these powers, although they are usually latent.

The powers of the seeds are to remain latent, but many times they bear fruit. [...]

[...] The discoveries and inventions that made the industrial world possible were always latent in man’s mind, and represented an inner glittering landscape of probability that he brought into actualization through the use of dreams—the intuitive and the conscious manipulation of material that was at one time latent.

[...] Some of these will “take,” bringing into your experience opportunities that have lain latent. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It goes without saying that any human being possesses the latent ability shown by a great artist or athlete, or statesman or philosopher. [...] In the same way, every individual possesses the abilities of its entity in latent form. [...]