“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(8:32; eventually a one-minute pause.) The symptoms have served to “allow you” a certain privacy, A certain detachment from the world, while at the same time providing a way of relating to others, of sharing life’s misfortunes so that it might not be said, for example, that as artists or people you lived in an ivory tower, untouched by life’s usual dilemmas. [...]

[...] You simply know the interest will come—because you trust the banking establishment and the country’s intrinsic worth, so you need not wonder or worry about what artistic or editorial or legal or economic facts might be involved to bring about the higher interest that you want from Prentice, because you trust the higher establishment of Framework 2—which holds all accounts. [...]

[...] I’d say that I’ve also managed to think of myself as an artist independently of my age, also, though of course not entirely.)

[...] It is true that in this system of which I am speaking, there was a stronger focus upon the arts, and yet there were fewer great artists.

You dream, each of you, but there are few great dream artists. [...]

[...] My wife’s later deleted material even contains a complete and unpublished book that she delivered just for me, about the artist Rembrandt van Rijn. [...]

[...] Here he was a woman of some artistic ability, the mother of two sons, one who had been connected with him in the past.

[...] His poetry was accepted and praised artistically, when the ideas agreed with dogma.

[...] Your leaving Artistic was also an element. [...]

[...] You know, I am sure, that if you are successful as a person and as an artist, then financial success will follow.

The Speakers help you in the formation of dreams which are indeed multidimensional artistic productions of a kind — dreams existing in more than one reality, with effects that dissect various stages of consciousness that are real, in your terms, to both the living and the dead and in which both the living and the dead may participate. [...]

(Long pause, eyes closed.) To some extent great artists not only capture a physical picture of Inner Idea, capitalized, but they also have a hand in creating that idea or inner model to begin with.

[...] To Jane this refers to the fact that Barbara is an amateur artist. [...]

[...] As Seth tells us after break, this is a poor connection referring to the Victorian room at the Arnot Art Gallery where Jane worked a couple of years ago—and is thus another reference to Barbara and myself being artists. [...]

[...] I knew things bugged me — working, being an artist, or trying to, and so forth — but not anything to do with her. [...]

[...] All of the experience an artist has gained is in any given painting, not physically perceived, but strongly perceived by the inner senses.

[...] The connection between black and white thinking and creativity is legitimate, but it exists the other way around: as a rule the artist or creative person is (underlined) creative to the extent that he or she escapes black and white thinking, for the creative person deals with syntheses, original versions of reality and the consideration of different groups of probabilities—groups that appear otherwise very unlikely together from the standpoint of black and white thinking. [...]

[...] As an artist painting human figures, I am often concerned with anatomy, though usually of the head and features. [...]

Such an encounter with the psyche is often met by great artists or writers, or by mystics. [...]

[...] One class member, a close friend whom I’ll call Peter Smith, is an artist and sculptor; after studying my Roman sketches, he had a note passed across the crowded room to me:)

To me, this fact alone lends a credence to his visions that bolsters my own in the most meaningful way: I think our tower experiences of so long ago (in terms of linear time), plus our mutual artistic backgrounds now, with their corresponding social implications, are too closely allied to be explained as “coincidence” in the objective fact world. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) It goes without saying that any human being possesses the latent ability shown by a great artist or athlete, or statesman or philosopher. [...]