“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. To you ... (Long pause, eyes closed.) Your paintings are your own, and I am no artist. If I read your inner intent correctly however, your prophet will dominate the background, and seem almost to come out of it. At the same time the background itself will be alive, so it is difficult to tell whether the living background propels him outward, or whether he himself, from his own power, seems to rise out apart from the background. Or whether he has been thrust outward from the background of which he is part, a living focus rising out of the background, a part of consciousness rising out of a larger, undifferentiated consciousness implied in the background.

(Seth here refers to a large painting I have planned and made a pen-and-ink drawing for in small scale. Tonight I explained to Jane the problem involved in determining the correct relationship between background area, and the prophet, who is in a standing position. In this particular painting the background will play an important role, since it is designed to indicate a play of light and shadow. The prophet looks upward to the left, lips parted in speech.)

(Jane had no visions while speaking, but sensed some things. She felt the background in the projected painting as being alive, she said, with the figure being the important thing and materializing out of the background, while yet a part of it .

Do his words go back into the background from which he himself emerged, and does the answer emerge also? Or is there any clear answer to his question? (Smile; pause, eyes closed.) Or is the question itself the important thing, whether or not there is any answer to it in the terms in which it is asked? All of these issues are a part of your painting, implied in every line of its conception, but I want you to see consciously the implications of the figure, and the overall implications of the figure in context with the background.

The flow of thoughts during the day, the background current of thoughts, is highly connected to dream activity. Sometimes they spring to the surface of the mind, but often they are in the background, beneath the thoughts to which you are currently giving attention.

Nevertheless, you react to those background thoughts, and often they serve as a springboard for those in the front of your mind. [...] Yet in this period certain thoughts or images will be experienced in the background area. [...]

[...] Now you are both afraid of making a move, but it is much easier for Ruburt to adopt the physical symptoms of immobility, because of his own background. [...]

[...] In your particular circumstances, because of Ruburt’s background, you see the physical manifestation of both of your fears—an incapability of motion.

[...] Ruburt has been afraid, because of his background, to accept the negative aspects of your exterior circumstances. [...]

All of the material given concerning Ruburt’s background and motives is highly legitimate, but it shows clearly why he was willing to take on this role. [...]

(Long pause, one of many, at 9:36.) Ruburt’s background formed its own relative uniqueness—the household was charged. [...] Ruburt picked that background because it afforded certain opportunities. [...]

(Long pause.) In that background Ruburt saw firsthand an example of many of the most unfortunate issues with which we have been presently concerned, to at least some extent, as he followed his mother’s adventures through the medical system, for example, through the welfare process. [...]

[...] Even in that background and with Marie’s behavior, Ruburt received a grounding in poetry, you see. [...]

The priests introduced “good” music, poetry, and a high educational background, even if it was a limited distorted framework. [...]

Your morning discussion, concerning Ruburt’s past, was also beneficial, for it is good to remind yourselves of your own (underlined) backgrounds, rather than ever comparing yourselves with other people whose own backgrounds may have little to do with yours. [...]

[...] Your own relationship is itself quite extraordinary, precisely in the light of your own backgrounds—not as you think those backgrounds should have been, but as they were. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Then you lack trust in yourselves because you try to live up to images that are not connected with your backgrounds, and often ignore them. [...]

[...] You have taught yourselves to respond to certain neural patterns, and to ignore alternate ones that now simply operate as background activity. That background activity, however, supports a million forces: the neural stimuli that you accept as biologically real. Those other background stimuli are now quite difficult for you to identify, but they are always there in the [hinterland] of your waking consciousness, like dream chatter way beneath your usual associations.

The sportsman that you might have been would have gathered, from that same available background, other attitudes and ideas that would have fit in with his concept of himself, and with his core focus. The childhood camping background served as a rich source material, to be used in any way you chose. The sportsman, the writer or the artist — any of them would utilize that background differently, but well, and in such a way that it peculiarly suited each of them.

[...] If Ruburt’s mother had been fixed Ruburt would have had a different mother and different background, granting Ruburt had come alive.

[...] (Very important.) Rooney however is free of a distrust that he had carried with him, having to do with his background in that house, this time, across the way, and was grateful for those additional years you gave him.

She also helped provide a background that Ruburt wanted and chose. [...]

[...] He relied upon the intellectual abilities therefore as the stronger, because in his own background he believed the male to have the greater strength.

[...] As a youngster he had no family background or money, and his need to be looked up to and held in esteem could not wait.

[...] Because of his own background this precipitated a situation in which one portion of the self was constantly scrutinizing another portion with a jaundiced eye.

[...] Without the psychic development, your combined background could have quite undermined your creative abilities entirely. [...]

Such images have little to do with your own basic or natural personalities, or with your own individual backgrounds, but you apply such images upon yourselves like overlays. [...]

(Pause at 9:35.) Such ideas, then, prevent you from enjoying your own accomplishments, as you should more properly do, and from enjoying their growth through time, from the background that was your own. [...]

[...] It also causes feelings of self-disapproval, where a constant reminder of one’s background puts current situations at least into perspective. [...]

[...] You are changing their lives, or allowing them to do so, of course, helping them release their own abilities—accomplishments that should be considered in line, again, with your own backgrounds, and not compared with hypothetical ones. [...]

[...] A black or dark color against a light background. [...] The object is however printed in black, against a light background. [...]

[...] A black or dark color against a light background. [...]

[...] All the copy on it, except for Nate Goldsmith’s name beneath the caricature of him, is in this dim yellow against the black background.

[...] The front cover of the object contains five lines of large type against the black background. [...]

[...] Because of his own background you knew that he would not push you in this respect. [...]

[...] His background was unfortunate. [...]

[...] The background of Ruburt’s personality was unfortunate, and fortunate.

(“His personality chose this background, didn’t it?”)

The entire Sinful-Self syndrome should remind him of his own personal background, so that he can see the growth of his personality, for in the large he has of course grown out of that framework. If he had not, he would not have done any of his creative work, and in the light of his background his achievements become even more outstanding. [...]

To some extent Ruburt’s panic is also the result of trying to live up to an impossible image, while forgetting his own personal background, and by expecting himself to behave as if that background was unimportant. [...]

The Christian-Science background with the father was also important, for it was this inner belief of the father that did sustain him, and that inclination of the father and his mother (Mattie) that Ruburt chose in his background to temper his own mother’s beliefs and lead him in our direction. [...] The same applies in its own way to each individual, where the conditions and challenges and solutions as well are given in the chosen background. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s background with his mother and his beliefs in will then merged with your feelings for isolation from your father. [...]

[...] With that as background, what do you think about communication?

[...] The reasons, as given many times, lie in his background, where it was not safe to express disapproval or aggression. [...]

Now let us look at yesterday (Sunday) morning, and for background remember the bodybuilders, who purposefully shut out all annoying distractions. [...]

[...] You, incidentally, are afraid of expressing verbal states, et cetera, for fear of being made to feel a fool because your background with your father was so loaded with such connotations.

Ruburt provided himself with a background in which a parent was steadily, chronically ill, and in which the medical profession with its beliefs was in constant sight. [...] His background included far more than illness, however, and the medical profession, but Ruburt knew that the conventional medical framework was not the answer to human ills.

[...] Ruburt’s own background and questions were highly vital as such initiating impulses. [...]

The anima, therefore, is an important safeguard, preventing the male from over-identifying with whatever cultural male characteristics have been imposed upon him through present background, environment, and education. [...]

[...] The particular way in which he does so, can tell him much about his own reincarnational background in which he operated as a female. [...]

Through the anima and the animus, so-called, present personalities are able to draw upon the knowledge and intuitions and background that was derived from past existences as the opposite sex. [...]

[...] If entities like myself form the background of your own existence, so do entities like yourselves act as the background psychological structures in which other such organizations exist. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking they are in the background, from which the foreground of your experience emerges. [...]

[...] But as Jane enthusiastically put it when we were discussing where to divide the six sections of “Unknown” Reality, Volume One, provides the general background and information upon which the exercises and methods in Volume 2 depend.” [...]

[...] He explains in some detail how we live more than one life at a time, how “the greater self ‘divides’ itself, materializing in flesh as several individuals, with entirely different backgrounds — yet each embarked upon the same kind of creative challenge.” [...]

It is your background. [...]

([Arnold:] “You mean my background has lead me to do this?”)

It has to do with their own background and environment and it does not apply unless the woman is strongly identified in terms of one sex only. [...]

[...] Your cultural background specifies, however, certain directions that you follow. [...]