“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It allowed you to feel that you were capturing the subject, and to assure yourself that the subject was not capturing you. You wanted to be sure that you were using your emotions or feelings and not that they were using you.

In the beginning you could not have painted if you had not allowed yourself to develop this technique, which allowed you to use emotion and yet contain it. (Long pause.) These elements helped form and define your abilities, adding to their particular and peculiar nature.

At times you have been afraid of putting too much of yourself in your work, as if the painting then could imprison you. In the back of your mind you thought of your mother and father, imprisoned in their house. The house an emotional framework, but quite physical.

You did not consider it refined, in terms of process, enough. Neither did you find yourself at home however with the acrylics, that you felt were over-refined, and too far away from basics. Your problem being your overall attitude toward the emotion from which your art springs, for your attitude is then projected outward upon your mediums. To some extent the present dilemma was initiated by your parents’ condition.

Think first in terms of being yourself a medium, through which visions flow. They will each to some degree suggest their own forms which you can faithfully follow. Do not try consciously to settle upon any given medium, oil, et cetera (pause), or consciously try to set up a lifetime program, in those terms, now.

These lines—I mean directions—overall, will give you your uniquely original style. You will not be forcing yourself along certain lines, nor trying to mold a pattern upon yourself from without. The original style and so forth, the original slant and direction that you seek, will be the result of your own inner vision freely followed according to the suggestions I have tried to give you. It already exists and is apparent in some of your work.

Some of this is habitual. You have freed yourself to some considerable extent already, but you must remember to give your vision its own freedom, and then follow it.

Therefore concern yourself with the vision and the other matters will take care of themselves. The vision must always be allowed freedom, for it is greater than its form. That is important. The vision shapes itself. Let your hand follow your intuitions then, and the form will be seen to vibrate, for then the form and the vision are one.

You will, quote, “pick up” visions that no one else can. If you are a channel for these, your development is assured. All of this presupposes of course the kind of technical training and background, and knowledge of the art necessary. This you have. So as Ruburt is to try to be a channel, so think of yourself in those terms.