“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You have tried doggedly (intently) to interpret greater experience in old ways, using “old” (in quotes) channels that are adequate for usual creativity in art—but painfully restrictive as far as you are concerned. [...]

There are many times that our paths have crossed, and that is why I wanted you here, and why you happened onto the art gallery where Ruburt is employed. [...]

[...] Creativity should not be considered as the property of those who work in the arts however, for it is not theirs exclusively.

(Jane is up for a substantial increase in salary at the art gallery where she works part time. [...]

[...] And in other ways to lesser degrees, through abstract thought, through art of any kind, the physical human being, having been formed by consciousness, in his own way then working through and with matter, constructs other fields or planes of attraction, which according to their abilities expand.

[...] “Not only working with patients and using art as therapy, but working with the idea that some paintings in themselves have a healing effect.” [...]

[...] Yet they deal with the young quite directly, and with the arts and sciences in unconventional ways, but within the system.

The music represented your main interest then in several lives, but behind this has always been an interest in emotions translated into some kind of creativity such as music or art; but also, at times an oversusceptibility to emotions so that they drove you, and you could find no escape from them. [...]

[...] Being personally interested in such things, we talked of the perhaps intrinsic impermanence of all of our works of art, whether it be painting, music, literature, etc. [...]

[...] The painting represented a new approach in art for me, and had caused me a good deal of puzzlement at first. [...]

Through all of our challenges, we were aware of at least some of the incredible variety of positive and negative world events in the news—the bombings and the peace talks, the sports contests and the religious controversies, the national strikes and the latest developments in the arts. [...]

[...] Perhaps it was her poetic art of expression that helped me identify so strongly with her emotions, but I suddenly felt that even I had never really understood the myriad depths of her challenges and her reactions to them. [...]

[...] Besides this, Rob was now working in the art department of a local greeting card company in the mornings, and painting in the afternoons. [...]

[...] They come to you in your moments of play and spontaneity and art. [...]

[...] His writing, as much as art does, sprang from periods of deep thinking, isolation, and involved strong tendencies to go inward more or less alone.

[...] He had not told Jane and I this, although we had met the individual in question once, briefly, here in Elmira at an art show. [...]

[...] (We’d obtained both kittens from the janitor at the art gallery. [...]

Seth went on to explain that the more camouflage (physical dimensions) an art object had, the less its validity to the inner senses.

[...] The art room at Artistic, where the envelope photo was taken, is located on the second floor. [...]

[...] In 1961, shortly after we had moved to Elmira, a friend with whom Jane worked at an art gallery gave her two poinsettia plants that we had for several years. [...]

[...] The sculpture Seth refers to above represents some done by students in Bill Macdonnel’s art classes; at the end of the school year the students did not claim their work, so Bill presented us with some pieces. [...]