“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That will-to-be triggers all bodily activity, which then operates automatically, with the same power from which the will itself emerged.

[...] But the will’s power is impressive, and it is “distributed” throughout the body. [...]

(9:02.) Man, then, has sometimes stressed the power of the imagination and let its great dramatic light illuminate the physical events about him, so that they were largely seen through its cast. [...]

I have taken two contrasting examples of the many ways in which the powers of the imagination and those of the reasoning abilities can be used. [...]

[...] She is making her own list of things to do for 1979, including the point of power. [...]

[...] Ruburt should definitely resume the point of power. [...]

[...] To utilize future probable events, the physical brain would be forced to enlarge its function while keeping the individual in clear relationship with the present moment of power, or corporeal effectiveness. Affirmation always involves the acknowledgement of your power in the present. In greater terms, denial is the surrendering of that power. [...]

[...] The very belief allowed him to use those abilities, and as muscles became more resilient with use, so do psychic and intuitive powers.

Thus you deal often with events in which men are touched by great illumination, isolated from the masses of humanity, and endowed with great powers — periods of history that appear almost unnaturally brilliant in contrast with others; prophets, geniuses, and kings shown in greater-than-human proportion.

[...] On the one hand, such individuals receive their unearthly abilities and power from their fellows, contain it, exhibit it in the physical world for all to see. [...]

[...] She did not want children, yet giving birth gave her a sense of power, the only sense of power she had experienced in this existence, and so she used this power as a weapon when she felt a weapon was needed.

[...] Close your eyes after having read this chapter to this point, and try to sense within yourself the source of power from which your own breathing and life forces come. [...] When you feel within yourself this source, then try to sense this power flow outward through your entire physical being, through the fingertips and toes, through the pores of your body, all directions, with yourself as center. [...]

(Suddenly loud and powerful): I could dictate all night, one night, and then you could take three sessions off.

Sound was utilized far more effectively, not only for healing and in wars, but also to power vehicles of locomotion, and to bring about the movement of physical matter. [...]

Not only did it make no attempt to “civilize” the rest of the world, but it did everything in its power — which was considerable for a long period of time — to impede any such progress.

(10:41.) Their god symbol was a male one — a strong, physically powerful male figure who would therefore protect them since they could not protect themselves. [...]

[...] There are a few lapses, but overall he is changing that habit—and the point of power has helped him considerably there. [...] There is a line in the point of power material to that regard.

[...] But truth involves insights of a most peculiar kind, for they cannot indeed be truly specified, and the more specific you try to make them the more you distort them, or the more you dilute their original power. [...]

(“I heard Seth’s voice, very loud and powerful, as I lay asleep in bed last night [Saturday]. [...] At first I thought he was angry, but then I realized I was interpreting the power of the voice that way. This wasn’t part of a dream, but I awakened almost at once as I tried to make out the words. [...]

[...] Your state of mind, freed from its usual physical focus, creatively expresses itself in all of its power and brilliance. [...]

[...] All of its dimensions are faithfully and instantly produced as experience when you learn to take your “normally alert” conscious mind with you; and when you are free of such limiting ideas, then at those levels you can glimpse the inner powers of your own psyche, and watch the interplay of beliefs and symbols as they are manifested before your eyes. [...]

[...] The female principle then became connected with the earth and all those elements of its life over which you as a species hoped to gain power.

[...] In such a way, religion, echoing your state of consciousness, was able to harness the powers of love and use them for purposes of domination. [...]

a rush and a power and the voice,

with a fury and a power

[...] The individual would be called ill for thinking the world was against him, but the organization’s similar beliefs would be more unthinkingly accepted because of its sheer size and power in the society.

[...] The [name] Johnson brings in the woman’s sense of strength, and yet says that she is of ordinary heritage—a person of the earth, a powerful person in her way—and the connections with your associations have to do with the late President Johnson. [...]

[...] You are given your powers of decision for a reason. [...]

Our books are attempting to insert new ideas into the world as it now is, by combining the powers of the intellect and the powers of the intuitions — in other words, by closing the two ends of Prentice’s extremes.

[...] Seth has told me that as a physical creature I’d be overwhelmed if ever I came even close to facing that awesome conscious and creative power.”

(9:45.) When you try to control power or people, you always copy. [...]

(All emphatically and joyously:) In your terms, the world is intensely different from one moment to another, with each smallest portion of consciousness choosing its reality from a field of infinite probabilities.³ Immense calculations, far beyond your conscious decisions as you think of them, are possible only because of the unutterable freedom that resides within minute worlds inside your skull — patterns of interrelationships, counterparts so cunningly woven that each is unique, freewheeling, and involved in an infinite cooperative venture so powerful that the atoms stay in certain forms, and the same stars shine in the sky.

[...] In them he discussed at length the “agonized search” for expression of the powers of creativity and existence, and how the beginning of that search “may have represented the birth throes of All That Is as we know it.”

Once again, your help has been invaluable, rising also from a new sense of peace and power that is emerging in your psyche.

(Very long pause at 4:20.) In many, even most upsetting experiences, there has been a resourceful power. [...]

[...] He does not care for position or power. [...]

[...] It must give you a sense of belonging, accomplishment, emotional support, at times exhilaration, be intellectually and emotionally satisfying, give you financial success, and some power in the world.

[...] Your television news program (on ABC) is now producing a series about your nuclear power, and that of Russia. [...]

[...] If the paranoid might feel that he [or she] is pursued, by the government or “ungodly powers,” then at least he feels that his life must be important: otherwise, why would others seek to destroy it? [...]

[...] They have been taught that energy is wrong, that power is disastrous, and that the impulses of the self are to be feared.

[...] I am not speaking here of any obsessive need to find order — in which case, for example, a person might narrow his or her mental and physical environment — but of a powerful drive within the species for creativity, and for the fulfillment of values that are emotional and spiritual. [...]

(Intently:) Now: In those terms you are the power of God manifested. You are not powerless. [...] Through your being the power of God is strengthened, for you are a portion of what He is. [...]

[...] Only the power of God has any ability.”

[...] Its great creative power still exists and you use it in your own way, even changing your own symbolism as your beliefs change. [...]

[...] Then these materializations of panic and pain play about the physical body, projected by the ego and stealing the powers of the subconscious mind from their natural constructive tasks to do so. [...]

Dissociation puts the power back where it belongs. [...]

When your own personalities are more or less in balance you have no trouble at all in looking out for these creatures, and actually reinforcing their own existence with residues of your creative and sympathetic powers. [...]

From Ruburt you are receiving needed freedoms and necessary confidence in your own intuitional powers. [...]