“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The power of idea-thrust can also be actually measured, but not in terms that you can now understand, and resistance rates theoretically can be measured. [...]

His powerful basic insecurity was caused by a broken home, and a situation where he was also thrown into alien cultures; not only was he unsure of belonging to a family, but also felt he had no cultural or national belongings.

[...] The gallery represents a unit of community affiliation in which he can exert some power, and yet be within a community unit.

[...] My purpose is not to solve your problems for you, but to put you in touch with your own power.

If I presume to solve problems for you, then I deny you your own power, and further reinforce any feelings of powerlessness that you have. [...]

[...] Whatever mechanisms or methods are used in any illness, they are efficient and productive only to the extent that they convince the patient of his or her power to overcome the condition.

[...] At the last they identify with the power of nature that seemingly destroyed them.

[...] Perhaps in their own collective wisdom the animals will look upon us as though we’ve altogether given up our powers of intuitive understanding.

[...] If such a possibility is ever achieved, I think that on conscious levels the members of the species will come to fear the chance of accidental death more than anything else, and that this powerful concern may seriously circumscribe behavior. [...]

[...] He was after all Ruburt’s mother’s father, and therefore the source out of which Ruburt’s mother came—the higher power, so to speak. [...]

[...] These represented the power of the body not being used, the animal instincts denied. [...]

[...] They represent the power of your conscious intent to change, and the recognition of that power and its use automatically displaces feelings of powerlessness.

[...] Energy was blocked in these areas so that they actually lacked a forceful quality or sense of power.

I do not necessarily mean physical power however, but so much of their energy was used to avoid any meeting with violence that they were not able to channel ordinary aggressive feelings, for example, into other areas.

[...] The villains consisted of the following ideas: that the world is unsafe, and growing deadly; that the species itself is tainted by a deadly intent; that the individual has no power over his or her reality; that society or social conditions exist as things in themselves, and that their purposes run directly counter to the fulfillment of the individual; and lastly, that the end justifies the means, and that the action of any kind of god is powerless in the world.

[...] The disadvantaged and the advantaged alike then joined in a bond of hopelessness, endowing a leader with a power they felt they did not possess.

[...] The point of power is in the present, and when you believe changes can occur, they do indeed happen.

[...] I took comfort in remembering her excellent vocal power when delivering the private session for December 3.¹² Her voice is a powerful and dramatic connective among realities for her, charged with energy and emotion whether she’s speaking for herself, for Seth, or speaking or singing in her trance language, Sumari.¹³ That vocal steadiness and power, coming out of someone whose weight hovers around 100 pounds, has always been most reassuring to us. [...]

[...] As with her speaking for Seth, her greatest power and drama in singing was engendered in class. [...] The same was true of her singing, when she ranged from the most delicate soprano trills and nuances to powerful, much deeper emanations.

powerful singer in Sumari
a fine dramatist
literal-minded
unbelievably stubborn
basically innocent

[...] It is that we cannot make it work for us the way we want it to—that is, to evidently supersede deep and powerful inner goals. [...]

[...] For a moment the power frightened him, for it sounded like a radio turned up to an incredible degree — louder than thunder. [...] For an instant he was tempted to interpret the power as anger, for in your world when someone is shouting they are usually angry. [...]

[...] She also took time to sing very delicately in Sumari, in contrast to Seth’s powerful deliveries. [...]

[...] That evening, through using what I call interior sound,⁵ I let Ruburt become acquainted with the power at my disposal so that he could realize that it did, basically now, come from beyond his personality as he understands it.

New paragraph: Despite all “realistic” pragmatic tales to the contrary, the natural state of life itself is one of joy, acquiescence with itself — a state in which action is effective, and the power to act is a natural right. [...]

[...] They cannot use their full abilities or powers, nor are many of them given compensating elements in terms of a beneficial psychic relationship with man — but instead are shunted aside, unwanted and unloved. [...]

Jane has great energy and power at her disposal when speaking for Seth, and I can often feel those qualities as though they form a collective palpable entity in itself. [...]

[...] (Here, Seth’s voice was powerful and emphatic indeed. [...]

(To my genuine amazement, Jane’s voice became even more powerful. This was an escalation in volume that was based on strength, sheer power. [...]

[...] Her voice did not bother her; indeed it became very loud and powerful and dramatic, very vibrant. [...]

[...] At times the almost deafening power of her voice, and its emotional content, were indeed thrilling. [...]

[...] I would say that tonight’s session saw Jane surpass those voice effects as far as sheer power and staying ability went by some little margin; but I do not think her voice dropped as low. [...]

In my opinion these are hardly predictions, but instead very conservative projections of already well-established phenomena: I don’t for a minute think that any country, let alone our species as a whole, will give up on nuclear power. [...] I think those particular aspects of mankind’s search for answers will grow ever more powerful for a number of years, until their very excesses finally lead to their “evolution” into forces that are much more controlled and compassionate and understanding.

Within a few days we expect to receive from Delacorte Press the first copies of Emir’s Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers.

[...] For to me, and to Jane also, I’m sure, Three Mile Island and Jonestown-Iran represent powerful extremes or directions in large-scale human behavior: certain aspects of religion and science seemingly at opposite poles of the human psyche, as it were.

[...] Nuclear power can do the same thing with a new scientific force that can be even more devastating if not carefully “controlled” [in our terms]. [...]

[...] Now: take any one, any one simple area, like rising from a chair, and using the point of power see Ruburt performing better in that area, whatever you choose. [...] Do not tell yourself, “He will do better,” but see it being done in the point of power. [...]

[...] It realizes in that regard a sense of powerlessness, for to some extent it is philosophically cut off from its own source of power. [...]

[...] That power is working in the world, and in the world of politics, as it is in the world of nature, since you make that distinction.

[...] Ruburt tries to prove that he is reasonable, rational (underlined), where such people, he feels, have never learned to use their powers of reason, and instead trust every stray thought that comes into their heads. [...]

(Long pause.) He also felt that the questioning power of the intellect was not just one of its functions — which it is — but its primary purpose, which it is not. [...]

However it is your duty, and the duty of every individual insofar as it is within his power, to maintain his own psychic health and vitality; according to the strength of this vitality he will protect himself and others. [...]

(For some other examples of the psychic power of negative expectations, see the 9th, 15th and 17th sessions, involving Jane and me at York Beach, Maine. [...]

(Also see the first page of this session for material on the power of suggestion. [...]

His behavior, however, led him of course to quite powerful emotional outbursts, which frightened him. [...]

Dick finds pleasure in golf, because it represents an area in which he has hope of performing with some effectiveness, of acting with a spontaneity that knows its own order, and of experiencing his natural sense of power.

[...] If you are instead white and wealthy and hold such beliefs, you will think yourself quite inferior indeed, and do everything in your power to show how picturesque, and liberal and open-minded, and black or brown you can be, while still being white, fairly well-off, and perhaps secretly addicted to your Christianity.

Ideas of the “wise old man,” and similar legends apply here, as do the mystical concepts of the powerful old woman. [...]

Christendom may well have perished along with the rest of the world, but this possibility would not have been considered, so narrow and evilly self-righteous were the governing powers at the time. [...]

[...] (Pause.) An outburst of electromagnetic power, strong enough to seed a universe. [...]