“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: I finished with the last question, so continue.

(After the sessions began I started a series of portraits of people I don’t “know” consciously. At first I understood little about the possible sources for their inspiration; I simply put my urge to paint them to work. Ideas for the portraits “come” to me spontaneously when I am mentally occupied with something else. I am always surprised. Sometimes I see an outright vision, objectified quite clearly and in full color. The vision is either of the finished painting, or of the individual who is to be portrayed. On several occasions I have “known” the subject was dead. Few of the paintings are of Speakers, obviously, and in no case did I realize I was working with such a personality.

(I recently finished the blue man that Seth refers to. I painted a male in modern garb, but in reality, according to an amused Seth, the subject was a female clairvoyant who lived in Constantinople in the fourteenth century; unconscious distortions in my own perceptions led me to the male figure. Seth has given her the name Ianodiala. The oil is very successful, and is done in blue and green.

(10:35. Of book dictation, that is. This was actually a break. Seth finished the session with several pages of material dealing with other matters. End at 11:16 P.M.)