“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The one suggestion that can break through is this: “I create my reality, and the present is my point of power.” [...] If you truly understand your power of action and decision in the present, then you will not be hypnotized by past events.

Dictation: Any good demonstration of hypnosis will clearly show that the point of power is in the present, and that beliefs dictate your experience.

[...] Structured hypnosis merely allows the subject to utilize full powers of concentration, thereby activating unconscious mechanisms.

[...] This is only true, however, if you realize the power of your conscious mind in that moment, and understand the ability of your consciousness to mobilize unconscious reactions.

[...] He was afraid of using his own power completely for that reason; and then he became afraid that it would not work if he did.

Now: distorted as it is, and it is distorted, the science of mind book, coming from outside of himself, in those terms, is valuable, for it reminded him of his own power. [...]

The workings of consciousness, however, may seem mysterious to you both, but the decision to continue the book means that Ruburt is ready to accept the power of his being, this will indeed materialize with his health. [...]

I bid you a fond good evening—but I want each of you to sense your own power, and the weakness of the beliefs behind the symptoms. [...]

[...] There in that area he was not sure of his power. [...]

You have only to exert your power in that direction. [...]

[...] He is beginning to understand the validity of the self, and therefore is freer to use his power, realizing that it is a strength and not weakness.

Here, often, and for various reasons, you find a hidden and distorted sense of power that says, “I am so powerful that I could kill you with my thought, and yet I refuse to do so.” No one, and no one thought, is that powerful. [...]

[...] You may be terrified of aggressive feelings because [it seems] others so much more powerful than you could retaliate. [...]

Your emotions then may strike you as highly unpredictable, extremely powerful, and to be kept down at all costs. [...]

[...] Those resources are considerable, for they include the deepest aspects of your creativity, and powers far beneath consciousness of which you are only dimly aware.

[...] One portion of the personality might be whole-heartedly in favor of good expression of personal power, and be stimulated to express and use his or her energy and strength. Another portion of the personality may be just as terrified of power or its uses as the other segment exults in it.

Instead of developing physical complications, in usual terms, sometimes one portion of the personality actually does act with assurance, power, and energy, while another equally valid portion refuses to use energy or power in any way whatsoever. [...]

The individual may act purposefully, with power, energy, and strength, for varying lengths of time. [...]

[...] I have used the different beliefs about power as an example, but any belief may be involved if it and its opposite are held in nearly equal weight.

Now the other individual has no power that Dineen does not possess. [...] As Ruburt pointed out, however, the prayers themselves were merely a weak surrender to the idea that evil is so powerful. They were not based on any real belief in the power of good, but only upon a superstitious hope that if bad forces exist, good ones must also.

[...] She felt she had no power in the moment.

[...] The withheld power is itself transferred, then. [...]

You can project your dilemmas or your abilities outward into other avenues of activity, then, but until you realize that you form your reality and that your power resides in the moment, you will not be able to solve your problems nor utilize your strengths properly.

Now: the present is the point of power. [...]

[...] Animals know that the present is the point of power, of course. [...]

[...] Children also know that the present is the point of power, and that precept is a biological truth, for the physical body in your terms cannot act in the future or in the past, but only in its contact with the present moment.

[...] It can deliver it to you in the same way as your crossword puzzle exercises, but you have not thoroughly understood, in that regard, that the point of power is in the present, and that you do there also create your own reality.

[...] I want you to feel within yourself your own abilities and energy and power. [...] Let the sound of the voice, therefore, bring out in yourselves the power of your own identity and independence, the integrity of your own being. [...] Let the power and vitality and creativity of the inner self within you fill you now with knowledge and creativity and the joy and essence of vitality. [...]

But energy forms depend upon strong, very powerful concentrations of energy whether thought or emotion is involved. [...] They are usually the result of, in your terms, a long term build up of energy although the same effect can be reached by one extremely powerful image or thought. [...]

2. Seth emphatically says: THE PRESENT IS THE POINT OF POWER. According to him, the point of power is where flesh and matter meet with spirit. That juncture embodies the actions and beliefs we choose to draw from all of our previous points of power. [...]

As Seth suggests, through even a five-minute exercise, in which we sit quietly and look about, we can become aware that the present is the point of power. [...] We have the full freedom to insert new creative goals in our point-of-power exercises. [...]

[...] They might do the point of power exercise,² for example. [...]

[...] The main point I want to make is, however, the fact that your private source of power is a portion of that greater field of interrelatedness, in which your being is securely couched. [...]

[...] His abilities and powers of concentration are not ordinary. He has however thus far not nearly utilized the information that he has, and in the meantime he became frightened that his will had little power to change the course of events.

[...] It contains Seth’s material on the present point of power; I came across it while checking out a reference for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] Its power comes from the source that gives it its life.

[...] The source self, sending out all assistance that it can, will still not attempt to override the conscious personality, for such actions would ultimately deny the conscious personality its powers of decision and control.

(Seth reiterated what he had said before about my healing powers.) When you pass people in the street, go to work immediately. (He went on to say that the same power could be applied to plants as well, and that I had apparently used same in my previous existence as a gardening monk.) A plant cannot fight back, (and it would be good to practice on something whose subconscious could not give me trouble. It would be “interesting” to make experiments, using this power, that could be recorded. [...]

Healing powers and the exercises I mentioned earlier direct your energies outward, where you have more control...

Because of the beliefs of religion, the child expected God to show his power through some disastrous act by which sinners would be punished. That child’s life already carries the marks of her beliefs about religion, God, power, and mainly in the belief that nature is a tool in the God’s hands—to be used against man at any time.

Myths are far more powerful than any facts, and they carry with them the great sway of nature’s own emotional force as it is interpreted through man’s experience. [...] That power is little understood, much less its reasons.

The interweaving of “dream reality” with the world of facts, however, is precisely what causes a myth to begin with, and is the source of its tremendous power, for it combines the two realities into a construct powerful enough to charge civilizations with new vitality, and literally to reshape man’s course. [...]

[...] Their identification with nature gave them a sense of man’s emotional power. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s mother meant will, drive, power, for she had power over the household and over Ruburt. But that power went nowhere, for Ruburt’s father was physically free while his mother was not. [...] If will and power meant relative immobility but purpose—and purpose was what he had—then in the past he chose that above what he thought of as laxness, relaxation, and physical freedom that might mean frittering away ability, a relaxation in which nothing was accomplished.

[...] His mother represented will untempered by spontaneity or relaxation, quite frankly a will for power over others. [...]

For the week, take this session and the remarks given, then the point of power as given in my book, done by each of you daily without fail. [...]

[...] Both of us have done the point of power. [...]

Because of its position it has great powers of communication, both as a receiver and as a sender. Unfortunately, science as it has developed in your time has resulted in a mistrust of the individual, and saddled him or her with a sense of powerlessness, subjectively, even while it has added a seeming sense of objective power. I say that it has seemingly added a sense of objective power (intently during a fast delivery). [...] So it seems that you have some power over your environment. [...] It seems that you can seed the clouds with chemicals and bring forth rain when it is needed, and therefore obtain a power over the environment that is quite practical. [...]

[...] Because science has made an effective barrier to that method of approach, the power seems to reside in the gadgets rather than in man. Man no longer identifies with a storm, for example, and has lost his sense of relationship with it, and therefore his natural power over it. [...]

2. Jane and I try to understand both the advocates of nuclear power and those who are against it. [...] Jane and I passionately believe that instead of concentrating primarily upon nuclear power the United States should be making massive efforts to utilize many other sources of energy — at least until the risks and technologies involved with generating nuclear power are understood much more thoroughly. [...] We think such alternate sources should be pursued even if they cost more in economic terms than nuclear power, either initially or continually, for surely none of them could produce the horrendous results — and enormous costs — that would follow even one massive failure at a nuclear power plant.

(Right now, a week after it began to manifest itself, the situation at the crippled nuclear power plant near Harrisburg is still very tense. [...]

Coupled with our reservations about the uncertain state of the art concerning nuclear power, Jane and I deeply mourn the shameful fact that for some 30 years now our country’s government and industry have neglected to develop safe methods for the transportation and permanent storage of radioactive waste materials; some of these will remain highly toxic for hundreds of thousands of years, and thus pose potential threats to many many generations. [...]

[...] A sense of power is any creature’s right. I speak here again of power as the ability to act creatively and with some effectiveness. [...] A man who believes his actions have no value seeks out situations in which he uses his power to act, yet often without worrying about whether the action will have a constructive or negative effect.

[...] On symbolic levels a flood represents a washing away of the old, of course, the sweeping power and energy of unconscious forces and the resulting emergence of new birth. The fact is that your society often involves you in petty annoyances and problems that do not bring out your full strengths; disasters often serve as encounters with nature, in which you can experience the great power and range of your own identities in a situation in which you are pushed to the utmost.

[...] The nature of your conscious mind demands change and dramatic meaning, a sense of power, and aspirations against which to judge individual direction. A “perfect” society, idealistically speaking, would provide these qualities by encouraging each individual to use his potentials to the fullest, to revel in his challenges, and to be led on by his great natural excitement as he tries to extend powers of creative potency in his own unique way.

[...] You will taste your own power through what you make of that company, and then you will use the power for other means.

[...] He will lose his position as far as bargaining power is concerned, or he will let it go. [...]

[...] The balance of power will shift however. [...]

[...] I am seeing movement and shifts of power. [...]

[...] We want to examine, therefore, the inner power of natural occurrences.

[...] Myth involves an intrinsic understanding of the nature of reality, couched in imaginative terms, carrying a power as strong as nature itself. [...]

[...] Their power becomes constrained.

[...] What is behind these myths, and what is their source of power?

[...] But he is amazingly resilient … The power of his will is indeed awesome, and he is just now beginning to feel it. [...] The point of power is in the present;¹³ this kind of material and its understanding [by Ruburt and others] is more important than “past” causes.

There have been a series of challenges that Ruburt has met through using the power of his will, and this [physical one] is simply the next one to be conquered. Again, many people are not even familiar with that power.

[...] All of the power of your being is mobilized by your will, which makes its deductions according to your beliefs about reality. [...]

[...] When that challenge was met he used his will and mobilized all of his power to fulfill his abilities, and to bring about conditions in which he hoped Joseph (as Seth calls me) could also fulfill his. [...]

[...] But what power moves him, and is it the same power that moves you, and that moves those who will look at the painting? [...] Is he only aware of the unseen power or person his lips address? [...]

[...] At the same time the background itself will be alive, so it is difficult to tell whether the living background propels him outward, or whether he himself, from his own power, seems to rise out apart from the background. [...]

The power must fill the image, and the image then fill the painting so that the very force of the figure seems hardly contained within it. [...]

[...] Or you can perceive the movement, the emotion and the power first, and then paint the form that grows about it to form it. [...]