“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt may suddenly have an idea for a book. He wants to write it. In physical terms that book is not before his eyes. It has not been written, it has not been published. The evidence says physically that there is no such book. It is not a part of the world’s physical evidence. The idea for the book may come from a dream, or in that state of creativity where dreams reach toward physical actualization. Now Ruburt could say “I cannot write that book, or wonder how many pages it might have,” or think of the endless impediments that might prevent the book from being written. Instead, he simply ignores the physical evidence of the book’s absence, and creatively begins to write.

To some degree, creativity always involves a denial of life’s daily official evidence, for creativity deals with that which you are about to bring into being. You are quite aware of the absence which you intend to fill. Period. This applies obviously in the case of inventions. Creativity involves productive change.

(9:35.) In your painting, you are constantly involved with bringing some event into the world that was not there before. You fill the gap. You recognize the absence in the present of the physical painting you want to produce, and your creativity brings that painting into reality. With ideas, with our books, you deal, both of you, with such issues all the time. There is so much physical evidence in the world. It has been put together through the centuries, in your terms, in countless ways, bringing pictures of reality, each vivid, each contradicting the other to some extent. When man believed the world was flat, he used his thought processes in such a way that they had great difficulty in imagining any other kind of world, and read the evidence so that it fit the flat-world picture.

[...] And the absence of our friends is a practical absence and yet it is also a symbolic absence. Symbolic indeed of an absence in the past and a journey of which you are all aware. [...]

[...] They are not aware of any gaps of absence as far as the atom is concerned.

[...] The physically oriented consciousness, responding to one phase of the atom’s activity, comes alive and awake to its particular existence, but in between are other fluctuations in which consciousness is focused upon entirely different systems of reality; each of these coming awake and responding, and each one having no sense of absence, and memory only of those particular fluctuations to which they respond.

[...] I will be available whenever you may want to speak to me, if you do, during your absence from here.

[...] Ruburt felt the absence of that part of you. [...]

Your unconscious self is a strong portion of our sessions, and it was for this reason that Ruburt sensed this absence. [...]

It is not so much the actual rhythms that are manifested that make the difference in perception, but the absence of certain other rhythms (intently), upon which perceptions ride.

[...] The ego feels threatened by the extended “leave of absence” it must take, becomes wary of sleep, and sets up barriers against the dream state. [...]

[...] Instead, of course, your society has chosen to recognize and define all of those stages that are detrimental to health — stages that are recognizable because of health’s absence to one degree or another.

Thus far in this book, we have barely begun to touch upon the multitudinous issues involved in good health or in its absence. [...]

[...] A situation may have developed in your absence: You should be advised. [...]

Her subconscious ideas were developing in your absence. [...]

[...] Even so, health to most people means the absence of disease, rather than a state of exuberant well-being, challenge, and fulfillment. [...]

[...] They are so a part of your existence that often you are not even aware of them, yet their absence would show you the relative darkness in which the majority of people live.

[...] By your complete absence, you see, you also led them to suspect that you disapproved, for they knew that in your other activities psychically you worked together. [...]

[...] One will be deliberately not attended, though circumstances will make this absence understandable. [...]

The main difficulty with the arms now is an absence of relaxation in the shoulder area, a tension that is physically demonstrated. [...]

[...] Even the regularity, when not overdone, is a strong asset, and in its absence some sort of compensating steps should be taken.

[...] Therefore in the sleep state, each of you have undergone — to some degree — the same kind of absence of consciousness from physical reality that you experience during death.

(After a good lunch—which Georgia had started feeding her in my absence—Jane said that in hydro yesterday morning, on the litter, both arms “did better than they ever have in the water. [...]

[...] Persons may have been contacted to care for the house during the time of absence. [...]

[...] I had also said that now that her ESP students were quite used to Seth speaking during classes, the absence of this would be resented by them.)