“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We expected Seth to speak tonight, and to deal with material Jane and I had been discussing just before session time. This was the case. Seth plunged in, in a most animated way, without preliminary greeting. Voice loud, eyes wide open, very active and intimate, pace fast and very humorous.)

When you are bothered by noise and tumult, by traffic and the sound of neighbors’ voices, by lawn mowers and other irritating sounds, try this: do not fight them. Purposely plunge into them; go along with them as action, and they can refresh you.

Various sounds rush at you. From one inharmonious high-pitched yell for example, if you listen, you as an artist can sense the self that was forced to make that sound, perhaps emerge with a prize, an excellent portrait, or simply an unique and individual mouth. Or a landscape that screams out as the voice did.

Very good. It will help also at times if, when hearing various voices that have annoyed you in the past, you try to think of them in terms of images and colors. At other times simply go along with them, without such ideas, and your intuitions will deliver their own product.

Now voice, by its definition, is aggressive, and it presupposes barriers, for you hear only within certain ranges. Now imagine what these sounds would sound like from the other end. There you cannot hear them. And imagine the impact made within space, and the infinite dance of atoms that result.

One note: Within your system sounds do form structures, that your eyes do not perceive. It would help you to think of painting these structures, for in some other systems voice is perceived in this manner.

You can do this in the opposite manner, building up from sounds visual frameworks that are completely original portraits, created from the sound of voices. Even landscapes, elemental but fragile, built up from the ebb and flowing voice of traffic as it passes by your door. As an artist use everything.