“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

In one way you are the steps leading up to yourself, or the spirals leading in to yourself. The painting spirals outward from your inner reality, and it brings forth energy and previous connections and interpretations. You form these anew, however, adding to them the knowledge and vitality of your present self.

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?

Your painting itself will seem to expand, for the channels will be opened. The symbols that you work with will grow in depth and validity, for they will be symbols that will be recalled to some degree by all men. There may be a definite memory recall, a few curious moments when time dissolves, when even beneath a portrait you have painted you will see another face.

(Smile.) You need not paint one neck with ten heads, but the one portrait can be made to suggest previous structures and characteristics that have merged to produce the present head. You can look through the face therefore, as an archaeologist would look through rock. Such a portrait will immediately be fascinating, particularly of course to the subject, who will intuitively and unconsciously recognize its components.

These abilities have their counterparts to some extent in any creative endeavor. You know when you are on to a painting. Ruburt knows when he is on to a poem. The same psychic directional sense can be perfected, so that as he roams over fields of experience Ruburt will know when he is on to the proper signals.