“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color. [...]

Give us a moment … Some inventors, writers, scientists, artists, who are used to dealing with creative material directly, are quite aware of the fact that many of their productive ideas came from the dream condition. [...]

[...] From many sources—literature, psychology, religion, biography, he felt that creative or artistic people, those highly gifted, were persecuted by others, hunted down, misunderstood, and poorly equipped to deal with the social world. [...]

Now, what would that extreme behavior consist of “at its worst?” He felt that if he were a person given to extremes, then to use his abilities he must apply due discipline so that his head was not turned, so that he did not become a victim of fame, as many other writers and artists did—or so it seemed. [...]

The authoritative world offers security and a certain amount of safety even in the spreading of new ideas, provided they remain in the artistic realm. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

Artist George Rhoads also attended ESP class. [...]

[...] It is as if an artist found the last painting showing up over and over in the next one. [...]

(In the second part of the dream, I was confronting the youngish director of a funeral parlor—this after I’d made my exciting breakthrough into complete mastery and control, yet freedom, as an artist. [...]

[...] We work together at Artistic Card Co. [...]

You (me) even arranged it so that the kind of art you wanted to do could not be done in the accepted framework of artistic reference, but would necessitate such a growth of consciousness. [...]

[...] The web, however, in its way represents an actualized ideal on the spider’s part — and if you will forgive the term, an artistic one as well. [...]

A brilliant mathematician or scientist, or even an artist, or an accepted genius in any field, can be an emotional incompetent, but no one considers him as retarded. [...]

4. As an artist myself, I’ve occasionally wondered if some abstract paintings could have such origins. [...]

[...] It purported to come from the “world view” of Paul Cézanne, the famous French artist who died at the start of this century.

[...] You may not think of your artistic abilities as serving any practical purpose, insofar as survival is concerned, and yet they have been your main security, and in very practical ways.

[...] You did not like to face morning at the Artistic Card Company, but Ruburt had the symptoms, you see. [...]

[...] Your work as an artist will be well-known. [...]

[...] She herself suggested the idea, that I take her to Sayre for the day so she could go to the hospital with my mother, while I returned to work at Artistic Card Company in Elmira. [...]

[...] Both share also the possibility of accelerated creative vitality—activity that the elder great artists, or the elder great statesmen, have always picked up and used to magnify their own abilities. [...]