“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

However your unbounded enthusiasm this evening made me hesitate to disappoint you. It’s so nice to be wanted. I don’t mean to be sarcastic, it really is. Though I certainly appreciate your interpretation, Joseph, as far as my comment on the lively arts is concerned, nevertheless though I enjoyed Jane’s little performance that is not what I was referring to. Incidentally, I rarely attend your little apartment unless in one way or another you ask me to, and tonight you were yelling my name from the rooftops, so to speak.

This is just a short private little session. I have never completely trusted the written word half as much as I trust the spoken word, and on your plane it is difficult to trust either. But I do not feel that I could be myself as easily if you tried automatic writing, for example. I do not mind speaking through Ruburt’s mouth. Somehow the sound of the words is rather pleasant. But seeing myself transformed more or less into plain black and white words on a page of paper seems dull and uninteresting. And I have always enjoyed conversation, which is the liveliest of all arts. And I am speaking now of the social arts, dear Joseph. Already I can see you yelling foul. I did not mean that conversation was on an equal par with painting.

It is true that Joseph receives much data through inner visions. In the past he has more or less translated this data automatically into a new camouflage pattern, in other words into a painting, without realizing that he had received any vision at all. You can learn, Joseph, to use your other inner senses as I tell you more about them.

It is much more difficult for this data to be transformed by you, Joseph, and Ruburt is right here, because you are sensitive to inner visual data, and pictures that you get in this way would frequently need interpretation.

I am sorry that this involved Ruburt with so much work voicewise, and that it involves you Joseph with so much hand work. I do go along with your individual talents, making use of them when I can, and helping you to develop abilities that you have let lie unused and latent.

Your experience yesterday Joseph was an exercise of the inner senses, and one that you should try for again and again.

I am having my hands full trying to give you material on Joseph’s side without trying to manipulate both of your relatives at once. Do you realize how much time and how much involvement it would cause you to give someone else a rundown on your own relatives, just in this lifetime?

Someday we’ll have a party. If you’re good, you two, and if you will either borrow a recorder or dispense with notes or some such, we will have a good old informal time of it, though not of course like Denmark. And I’ll get down to brass tacks on Denmark one of these days, you old son of a gun, Joseph.

There is so much I could say. I could run on for hours but you would probably catch me. Incidentally, I am not fonder of you, Joseph, than I am of Ruburt, though I hope this doesn’t hurt your feelings.

Well, I suppose I have to say good night. I have such pity for your fingers, Joseph.