“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Now, I will give you additional data as to the source of the material. (Seth promised to do this last session.) I prefer we wait a short time, since our friend is only too willing to return and speak his own piece, and Ruburt has had sufficient experience for a fortnight.

There is a subjective feel to such a state that he is beginning to recognize. It is like a strong beam, and he must learn how to use it, and how to change its direction. In this case he must learn to be in command of it. It is like a tool of perception. It turns on brightly and intensely, and has a boring quality. In many ways it is an aggressive tool that the consciousness uses to pierce through time and space as you know it.

(At various times in the past I have heard Jane mention this same sort of intense focus in trance, but not to this extent previously.