“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. A few more remarks concerning the center of the self, before I continue with a longer discussion.

You will find evidence of the center of your self in your paintings, of course. There is a continuity that follows through all existences, and shows itself in the endeavors and creations of the individuals involved.

There will be a core within your own paintings, from which the whole composition springs, and it is here that you can find rapport with the center of your self. The center contains condensed knowledge, not only of seemingly past lives, but also of the future. Of this, in your work, you create a new dimension.

That center is like a road that you can follow inward. Remembered faces of those you have known, and remembered scenes from other existences, form the nucleus of your experience; the forms that you bring, seemingly out of nothing, into actuality. Although you are not consciously aware of the past familiarity, nevertheless you use the knowledge to your conscious advantage.

It is somewhat easier for the artist or poet to find this center of the self. The intuitive symbols can be better recognized. Now you can grab a hold of the original inspiration for a painting, and ride it outward, or you can look at your own completed painting and ride it inward to its source. Do you follow me?

In either case when conditions are right, you should feel a sense of recognition, a sense of grasping a portion of the center of your own reality. This is not a nebulous experience, but vivid, powerful, and direct. You will know it at once. When you have achieved this oneness with your own center, then you automatically free additional energy and vitality into your life.

In that respect the landscape has its center. Your own thoughts are like the outward spokes of a wheel. They are not at the center of yourself, but have traveled a long way from the center of yourself. You may therefore follow them backward. We have been dealing so with the diversity of the self that I want to assure you that within all this diversity the center can be found and recognized.

As he almost discovered, such a trance is highly effective for projections. There is a more intense focus of concentration, high use of energy, a merging of capabilities, intent, direction, directly from the center of the self, that can be compared, properly used, to a laser.

In the case of projection, this trance forms a safe channel through which the consciousness may travel and return. It is associated with the pyramid effect, usually going outward from the center of consciousness.