“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When a thought or emotion attains a certain intensity, it automatically attracts the power of one of these subordinate points, and is therefore highly charged, and in one way magnified, though not in size.

These points are like invisible power plants, in other words, activated when any emotional feeling or thought of sufficient intensity comes into contact. [...]

[...] We’ll turn it into power — political power. [...]

([Gert:] “And therefore, in a sense, it is powerful?”)

It is as powerful as the people believe that it is. [...]

[...] He may even hallucinate such a giant onion but all the time the principle of vitality and power and growth is All That Is, and all of it that you can understand at this point, is within the onion. [...]

There is still an exaggerated idea of the power of aggression. It is not nearly as powerful as he imagines. [...]

[...] He must not project an exaggerated idea of the power of aggression. [...]

[...] The great trip, the great fascination, the cosmic energy and power and strength resides within the eyes of a frog, within the body of a suburbanite who mows his lawn. It resides in the housewife as she goes about her chores and psychic power is meant to unite you and not to set you apart as aliens to your brothers. [...]

[...] They concerned the opposing uses of personal power by two individuals whom we’d encountered within the last week: the woman lawyer who had interrupted the session last Wednesday evening, and who is so afraid of her power; and the young classical guitarist who had visited us last night, and who revels in the positive use of his power. [...]

[...] The music itself would have its own sweep and power, and would indeed be beautiful beyond all concepts of good and evil.

[...] But even then we were impressed — awed — by its creative power, over and above the obvious emotional connotations we put upon it.

[...] It is powered by the energy of the universe. [...] You are powered with vitality. [...]

(“Fortunately, the power of constructive action and thought is indeed paramount in nature and in your world. [...]

(“There is a power of growth and value fulfillment within each individual that must be satisfied. It is the power that makes physical growth possible, the power that is behind the fetus. [...]

[...] At times her Seth voice can be very powerful indeed, with an accent I have yet to succeed in describing. [...]

(Those two excerpts from Seth contain inspired thinking — especially portions about the power of value fulfillment, and the joy and spontaneity involved in creativity. [...]

I have thus far stayed clear of many important and vital subjects, involving mass realities, because first of all the importance of the individual was to be stressed, and his power to form his private events. [...]

(We had been hunting through the taped session for particularly strong voice effects so that John could get an idea of the power of the Seth personality. [...]

[...] At these points Seth would remark about using such a position to attain more power, and would talk about how impossible such an effect was for Jane to attain normally.)

[...] You can see the power of this energy in a more or less visible manner when it is demonstrated in this physical way. This same energy is used in Ruburt’s writing and is extremely strong, powerful and stormy often; and he is not, Joseph, trying to get out of his room as I believe you mentioned earlier.

[...] With a power saw one man cut into the base of the tree; pulling on a rope thrown over a higher branch, two other men pulled it down. [...]

(“How about the man who cut down the tree with the power saw? [...]

Important Note: I’ve been following Seth’s instructions fairly well, not completely—and today got more good James on Faith: he mentions the extra-normal or super-normal power again. [...]

[...] His abilities and powers are so great that others, seemingly now, try to rob him of them. Far from living a colorless life, he wanders through the country, in the midst of an exciting psychic chase, pursued by magicians, evil powers, and the most sophisticated weaponry of giant corporations and the government. [...]

You might think of a tragic opera, or a musical composition, and so some lives focus upon intensities whose form is not perceived, and which deals with a kind of power that is itself the experience. [...]

Now: the intensity of the original emotional energy controls the activity, strength, stability, and relative size of the unit; the rate of its pulsation, and its power to attract and repel other units, as well as its ability to combine with other units.

[...] They can, however, lose or gain power, fall back into intensities beneath matter, or go through matter, appearing as matter as they do so and projecting through your system.

(Pause.) What is actually involved is a kind of paranoia, which can become such a powerful response that it can take over a person’s life, and color all projects. [...]

(“I didn’t want to interrupt while you were reading,” Jane said, “but I began to get what he’s going to say about a whole lot of things … He’s going to get into epilepsy, and say that it’s a result of your fear of your own power, and short-circuits it. [...]

[...] Seth had discussed her father’s laxness, and her mother’s drive toward purpose, power, and control, and how Jane had felt that she must make a choice between the two modes of behavior. [...]

[...] Now as Jane paused in her delivery I heard the town sander moving powerfully up Holley Road past our kitchen windows. [...]

(9:00 during a rather steady, emphatic delivery.) Man has within him the need to rest and to explore, to stay by “the hills of home,” (from Thomas Wolfe), and to explore beyond them, but such a relatively accessible second environment does have certain advantages for you and Ruburt over those it sometimes presents for others, and such a willingness to explore the probability alone can give you some excellent results by providing a new elasticity of attitude, and in a fashion by bringing home in a different way the idea that the present is the point of power. [...]

That is, you increase the feeling and intent of power by considering it in such action, whether or not in your world you pursue that particular issue—and I do not mean to consider the issue hypothetically either, but as a quite possible desirable course of action that you may or may not pursue. [...]

His body is engaged in a process in which interchanges of his energies are involved as they change themselves almost automatically into different organizations of power and utility. [...]

[...] In that regard the books are powerful, and their impact cannot be ascertained in mundane ways. You are, then, using your point of power to affect your world—a point you should each remember.

[...] You must convince yourselves that the point of power is now, in all regards.

[...] And in the tip of your toe, in the most minute cell within your little toe, there is an energy and a knowledge and a power that you have not used and have not yet understood. And if All That Is knows what humility is, then it knows what it is to be the most minute cell within your little toe and it knows what it is to be the most powerful hydrogen molecule within the most gigantic star. And the same power is within each. [...]

(By now Jane’s voice was more powerful, her delivery sure and rapid, her eyes open often; they were very dark. [...]

A more powerful connection exists, you see, now; and this means you have reached, as you are well aware, somewhat beyond the personality by which I usually make myself known to you. [...]

[...] In retrospect it was a bit frightening—there was a terrific sense of power and energy. [...]