“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Mental activity does demand more energy of one kind than does physical activity, and the reason here is a rather strange one, in that in many respects creative work demands the extra energy used in a sort of repression. The ideas, for example, are not directly carried out or fully constructed in a material way.

The idea is bared, not permitted expression in complete physical form. The energy then that would be used in complete physical construction of the idea into material form is, rather, transfixed; held, suspended more or less alive, yet incompleted, and therefore in many respects immortal.

The extra energy needed is that energy that is used to hold back the idea from finding completion in concrete terms, and forcing it to flow into a different channel. The impulse for such creativity within your field is mainly two-fold, although other elements may enter into it; there is the exuberant desire to express, the same desire exhibited by all energy. There is also however a deep dissatisfaction with the universe as it is interpreted, and a disinclination to add to it in its own terms. Hence the search for a condition of existence which will be both within and without the ordinarily conventionalized framework.

Such processes are extremely complicated. The human psyche adds its own distortive effects, and it is of these that we have been speaking. Nevertheless there are important correlations existing between man’s creativity and the inherent impetus of all energy toward creation and innovation; for energy itself forever seeks to perfect itself in precisely this fashion.

Ruburt has added more time to his writing day, and is now also doing more painting. The same kind of energy is being used. It will take a very short period however for him to catch up, and soon he will have more energy by far, than he expected.

Now that you know something about the nature of matter, you will see that all matter is objectified mental action, and that basically such action happens simultaneously in the spacious present, formed by individualized energy through the formation of mental enclosures.

If you recall, when we spoke of the development of conscious individualized energy within your field, we spoke of units collecting material about themselves, and at various points becoming more or less closed systems, accumulating within themselves a more or less stable reserve.