“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

No coincidence here either, the difficulty of establishing definite sexual role. The painting always struck the personality deeply, reminding him, because of the face portrait and the background, of the bare and ancient land from which he had once come, and to which he returned.

When Ruburt attempts his paintings he tries to catch the inwardness before its moment of construction, with the form not yet fully in appearance, but between. It is for this reason that he has so much difficulty with his perspective.

He is concerned with inwardness just before it materializes within your perspective. You, Joseph, look through the outward in its physical completion and perfection, through to the inwardness which fills your paintings of physical objects, as it fills physical objects themselves.

He hints at the object, looking from the inside out. You do not see here a sort of partnership that applies to your relationship in general, the reason also for his technical inability in painting, and his technical ability in writing.

Allegorically speaking, from the inside he reaches outward, his hands full of inwardness, but it is you who form the inwardness. In the past you have been afraid of what you considered, but no longer consider, the chaos of inwardness. And he was afraid of what he considered the frozen nature of the inwardness, once formed.

He is now more able to deal with this, and you are much better equipped now to grapple with the inwardness, so that you have both helped each other immensely in this way.

(See the 54th session, May 18, 1964, Volume 2, page 91, etc. Seth deals with this fact to some extent as far as his relationship to Jane is concerned. Jane is not Seth now, he states, not his subconscious mind; nevertheless Jane’s entity Ruburt is, now, an extension and materialization of the Seth that he was at one time, centuries ago. See also the 63rd session for a brief mention of the same theme.)

I am afraid that I will have Ruburt continue with the shorter psychological time period again until our next session. This will keep things in proper balance, and whether he realizes it or not, he is becoming accustomed to controlling energy acceleration, and automatically adapting himself.

(Both of us have kept strict records of our psychological time studies, for example, with the hope that Seth will eventually discuss them. The records have now piled up to such an extent, however, that we do not really understand how Seth can ever cover them, as he has promised to at various times, in very much detail. Even if he began a discussion of them they would still accumulate. The same problem arises with dreams, with material on the inner senses, etc. So we settle for what we can obtain each session. Actually the time set aside for gathering material is quite limited, yet it keeps us busy.

(I am not sure that Seth’s statement on page 150 constitutes a distortion, when he mentions that a communication between our universe and the universe of negative matter is possible. In the 63rd session, again, he deals with the two companion universes to ours, calling them a beforeimage and an afterimage, and lumping them under the general terms of negative or antimatter. In the 63rd session Seth states that our universe and the two universes comprising the universe of negative matter can never meet. Perhaps the point here is what kind of a “meeting” he was referring to in the 63rd session. He is referring to a psychic communication in the present session.)