“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) Briefly, remember analogies I have made in the past, comparing the landscape of physical experience to the painter’s landscape — which may be dark, gloomy, filled with portents of disaster, and yet still be a work of art. [...]

(Pause.) These portraits, however, are the result of creativity so inborn and miraculous that they are created automatically — an automatic art. [...]

If you remember that beneath all, each unit of consciousness is aware of the position of each other unit, and that these units form all physical matter, then perhaps you can intuitively follow what I mean, for whatever knowledge man attains, whatever experience any one person accumulates, whatever arts or sciences you produce, all such information is instantly perceived at other levels of activity by each of the other units of consciousness that compose physical reality—whether those units form the shape of a rock, a raindrop, an apple, a cat, a frog or a shoe. [...]

[...] Hints of those abilities are always present in the dream state, and in the arts, in the religions, and even in the sciences. [...]

There is a bleed-through now in the making, so to speak, in which the Lumanians’ multidimensional concepts of art and communication will be glimpsed by your own people, but in a rudimentary form.

[...] Though you worked in the art department, you did not want to rub up against your fellows quite that closely (with amusement). [...]

[...] Even art itself seemed to provide but a momentary glimpse of some undefined perfection, toward which you felt intuitively. [...]

[...] You also produce forms of art — fluid living constructs that you do not understand, in terms of societies and civilizations — and all of these flow through your alliance with flesh and blood.

[...] Your Life as Your Most Intimate Work of Art, and the Nature of Creativity as It Applies to Your Personal Experience.”

You may be interested in hearing some information about him, for he is working with art, painting, in terms of therapy. He is not only working with patients and using art as a therapy for them, not only having them paint as therapy, you see, but he is also working on the idea that some paintings in themselves have a healing effect. [...]

[...] Also, the Arts and Crafts Exhibit, featuring displays, or arrays, at Mount Savior is mentioned on the object.

[...] A reference to the Mount Savior Arts and Crafts Exhibit, mentioned in the letter used as object. [...]

[...] A presentation could also refer to the Mount Savior Arts and Crafts Exhibit, which is mentioned in the letter. [...]

[...] As stated, my letter used as object specifically mentions the Arts and Crafts Exhibit at Mount Savior. [...]

9. Yet R.’s work as painter may be greater than either of us know, so on the other hand I feel he should hang onto them, rather than scatter his work, put them in one large room—bedroom?—to show them off well and sell them at high prices; he doesn’t sell many now anyhow and his prices may reflect his ideas of art value in society. Is there a correlation between my conflict between poetry and book contracted for, and Rob’s attitude toward art and money?

[...] Ruburt equates spontaneity with emotionalism, therefore he imagines that his spontaneity will threaten your art.

[...] Your television, and your arts and sciences as well, add up to mass meditations. In your culture, at least, the educated in the literary arts provide you with novels featuring antiheroes, and often portray an individual existence [as being] without meaning, in which no action is sufficient to mitigate the private puzzlement or anguish.

[...] I’d given up my commercial art job before we went on vacation, and didn’t know what I’d end up doing, besides helping Jane as much as I could.

[...] I have mentioned the dream-art scientist and the [true] mental physicist (in sessions 700–1). [...]

[...] So far, Seth hasn’t designated or titled a Part 1.⁶ Jane had received more, but she was vague on it: “… something to do with how each of us could be our own dream-art scientist, mental physicist, and complete physician. [...]

[...] The dream-art scientist, the true mental physicist, the complete physician — such designations represent the kinds of training that could allow you to understand the unknown, and therefore the known reality, and so become aware of the blueprints that exist behind the physical universe. [...]

Dictation: To some extent, each individual who wants to can become aware of the “unknown” reality — can become his or her own dream-art scientist, mental physicist, or complete physician, and begin to explore those lands of the psyche that are the real frontier.

It mirrored your attitudes toward your job, not toward your art in that regard. [...]

[...] But my reluctance was based, I thought, on my resentment at Prentice-Hall over their handling of art work; I really didn’t want to let the photos in question out of the house, for fear they’d be lost, etc. [...]

[...] Those particular aspirations will lead you, and are leading you, to the realization that life itself is an art, composed of the same ingredients of inner inspiration, spontaneity and conscious organization and discrimination.

She thinks it far more laudable that you work in an art department with steady wages, and you know this. [...]

While writing out this statement, I’m reminded that I experienced a milder version of the same sensation last month, while I was working at my part-time job in the art department of a local greeting card company. I was alone in the art room, eating lunch at my desk, when the feeling swept over me. [...]

[...] Like many others, you feared the inner world so strongly, even though you were somewhat acquainted with it through your art, that nothing but panic would force you to try that invisible knob. [...]

[...] Yet it is precisely this struggle between ego’s struggles for stability, and the personality’s attempt to expand spontaneously, that is at the basis of much of mankind’s achievements, and that is certainly the basis for much of his art.

In his art we have the nostalgia of the ego for past time, and for lost control of a self that has already vanished, and changed into something new. [...]

The creative abilities must revolve largely about man’s definition of himself, his source and purpose, and all of your Western literature and art has revolved about the concept of the Sinful Self in one way or another. The Shakespearean plays are an excellent case in point, even when they concern even older heritages, so the creative artist in any field has certain creative traditions that become classic models for his art and that of the world. [...]

In the second dream (on April 4, 1979), Bill Macdonnel, whom you do not consider an excellent artist, reflects your own sometimes confused feelings about what might have happened had you devoted your work primarily and exclusively to art, or played the artist, as Bill does. [...]

[...] You should have produced much more and much better art than you have. [...]