“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are not separated from the animals and the rest of existence by virtue of possessing an eternal inner consciousness. [...]

[...] These can be alternative courses to those who believe that there is no other way but to browbeat the ego — either through the use of chemicals or by other methods calculated to strip it of its powers at least momentarily, rather than teaching it to use those great abilities of assimilation that it does possess.

Your nature, beside possessing natural, general healing abilities, has its own unique and particular private triggers arising from your experience. [...]

[...] He does possess natural desires, characteristics and intents that help focus his own activity. [...]

[...] He does, however, possess excellent instincts in certain directions that automatically bring money to you and insures the publication of his books and so forth. [...]

[...] I must perhaps here clear up a point: I am taking it for granted that you understand that I am referring to the “mental attitude” of animals and of the body consciousness, for they both do possess their own mental attitudes—psychological colorations—and above all, emotional states. [...]

[...] But all knowledge is originally direct knowing—a kind of molecular mentality, in which the atoms and the molecules give their own kind of intuitive translation of knowledge possessed by all units of consciousness —for all of the knowledge of the universe is inherently contained within even the smallest, most microscopic of its parts.”

[...] Now until we have done more talking you will simply have to take my word, for the sake of our discussion—our one-way discussion—that any action or energy possesses consciousness seeking to know itself, therefore; and acting within itself it forms new consciousnesses that are individual and independent, and yet connected to every other consciousness.

He was dissociated enough to allow knowledge to come through that he did not realize he possessed. [...]

[...] Each individual person literally possesses far more abilities than can be adequately expressed in any given lifetime. [...]

A belief must not possess. [...]

You will in the future rather unexpectedly find yourselves possessing some Florida property.

[...] This manuscript seems to possess dimensions that place it — and Jane and me — in many probabilities at once. [...]

After making those points, however, I note with some amusement that I find it difficult indeed to believe that many millions of people must wait for a handful of their “superior” peers — philosophers, scientists, psychologists, parapsychologists — to tell them it’s all right to believe in at least a few of the inner abilities that each of us possesses, to whatever degree. [...]

The body, again, does possess such a natural faith, and it has nothing to do with esoteric methods and so forth—but again deals with a kind of self-evident biological knowledge. [...]

[...] I thought the sinful self had to be cooperating in our endeavors, and I wondered whether there might be some scrap of new information it possessed that could help us. [...]

He was at one time possessed of a great desire for power, and led, in those terms now, many astray. [...]

The personality however, tell him, lived according to his lights, possessed a primitive love of nature, and did, now, inspire others with heroism under the conditions chosen In the second existence mentioned, he was again a leader, but had learned the two-tongued nature of power, and allowed the Christians to win. [...]

[...] Seth has said both Marian and Jimmy possess strong undeveloped abilities.

[...] In what may seem to you to be an odd analogy I will compare your thoughts with viruses,¹ for they are alive, always present, responsive, and possess their own kind of mobility. [...]

(The combination of) thought, emotion, and desire creates form, possesses energy, (and) is made of energy. [...]

This consciousness of organs, atoms and molecules, cells and other components, is left undiminished with whatever degree of consciousness and vitality they originally possessed, not enough of course to hold form or organization to any degree. [...]

A fifth-dimensional universe does not have to possess all the attributes of the previous four, for example. [...]

[...] They possess the capacity to enjoy esthetic behavior. [...]

[...] The fact is, of course, that in the most basic manner, now, the man—the natural man—possesses that fine, keen spontaneity and inner confidence. [...]

[...] The splinters are possessed of individuality, and such units will never be dissolved.

[...] Try to be honest with yourselves as to those early experiences in which you forced yourselves to behave differently than you were, because adults told you that you must … You had better understand the beautiful, unique quality of your own individuality lest you project upon the other sex — whichever sex you are — those abilities and qualities that you are afraid are your own, or project upon them those abilities and qualities that you wish you possessed and fear you do not.

Animals also possess independent volition, and while I am emphasizing animals here, the same applies to any creature, large or small: insect, bird, fish, or worm; to plant life; to cells, atoms, or electrons. They possess free will in relationship to the conditions of their existence (underlined).