“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane had no idea of the material for the session tonight. Again she was quite tired. She has increased her writing day an hour recently, and is still not used to the change.

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.

A tree reflected in the water is still the same tree, and unchanged as the mental act is unchanged. As the reflection of the tree, however, gives a waving and distorted appearance, so as the idea is projected into another field it also is seen in a distorted fashion.

This discussion may require more understanding than you or Ruburt possess, but I do not believe so. In all of this, when I use the word original or initial, I speak only to make certain ideas clear, because you think within a reference of continuity.