“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Again, during the break the point that “the answers are within us” was being discussed and the further point that these answers were evolved emotionally rather than wholly rationally. Seth had said that this was true only as long as we give up our misconceptions. Seth interjected the following.)

When an artist paints a painting, you can look at the painting and say, “Ah, the artist was in a certain frame of mind” or: “Look at the dull colors and the dreary landscape” or: “Look at the wild colors and the fantastic forms” or: “See, there is no form and yet there is marvelous vitality.” ...And so are each of you artists and you create the world that you know. And when you look at the world you know you can say, “Look, this is what I have created!” And if you do not like what you see, then there is no point in ripping apart the painting or ripping apart the framework of your life. Instead, you change your pigments. And, in this case, your pigments are your thoughts and your imagination. And then you change your painting.

No. There is a point where you are so imprisoned within yourself that you cannot feel the reality of others. Now, as a teacher, you must be able to sense the reality of others and in teaching relate the self that you are to the selves you sense they are, independently of you and therefore give their integrity full freedom. You can to some extent escape this prison, personally, by attempting several exercises.

The point is: You should dream!

([Brad:] “Up to the point of my early twenties I seemed to have had a purpose and a drive -and I think I was succeeding. And then all at once things disintegrated—coincidentally at the time I met my wife. Is it possible that a person can have such an effect on another?”)

No matter what you do at this point, you will break the thread of activity by taking any step, and you must take the step.