“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I do intend to begin my own book now, very shortly, for this will give a new organization to the material, and direct the flow of information. There has been a very marked improvement in Ruburt’s condition. There will shortly be another equally remarkable improvement—another stage, in other words, and this one will be followed in a matter of two months or so by complete recovery —that is, two months after the next improvement.

You should recall that I told you that this one would occur.

I will then give Ruburt some suggestions as to normal living habits that if followed will enable him to stay in good health. One of these will be a mental exercise, taking no more than ten minutes, and if done properly, only three times a week, will be of great benefit in keeping joints and muscles loose and free. (Pause.) I should perhaps give you that exercise now.

I am giving you this information because it is useful. I do not intend to keep you long this evening however, being content with the resumption of our schedule. Ruburt’s decision in regard to his classes is a good one. There will be no difficulty in holding students, or in keeping the same income, with only one class.

At one time two classes met certain needs. He needed that extra, outside contact as others came here. Now he does not.

You may take your break and I shall continue. One remark, however. Once we begin my book, there will still be some interruptions for the other personality may sometimes also speak. There are other experiments with concepts with which you will be involved.

I also suggest that when we are holding regular sessions, then for one session a month we deal with a session for someone like your Pitre, Norelli, or whoever needs such a session at any time. This need not be a rule.

There are some remarks about healing, both for you and for our Aerofranz (Tam Mossman) for example. Such sessions will serve us all well, and one out of eight sessions would hardly be too much. In helping others you help yourselves.

The emphasis would not necessarily (underlined) be upon technique nor detail, though it could be, but upon portraying in one portrait, if you will forgive the phrase, the agony and the ecstasy of individual existence. This is what you often avoid facing.

Now. The other approach in many ways is completely opposed to the first one. Indeed it may not seem like an approach at all to you. Using this approach however, for ten days minimum, you drop the work you are doing. You drop the idea of work as work during your usual work hours. You capture as much as possible and in whatever way you choose, a careless, childlike, playing attitude.

The idea, again, art as a spontaneous play of the godlike self. Do not dictate to it. It knows more than you about the game. Now either of these techniques will serve you very well and refresh your creative energies. They are equally valid, and equally geared though in different ways, to your peculiar dilemma. Do not mix the approaches however. Plunge into one or the other wholeheartedly, and underline wholeheartedly fifty times.

This restriction will show in all areas of your work if you do not break it, and you can do so. Its effects literally color all of your painting activities, and serve to reinforce the restrictions of an emotional nature. So solving one issue helps both.

One, you are limiting the time in which you can be creative or get ideas. You are saying, effectively: I can only get my creative ideas in the afternoon. Instead tell yourself that creative ideas for your paintings can come to you at any hour of the night or day, and that creativity knows no time barrier.

Now this information, properly used, plus your use of one of the two approaches given earlier, will be of great benefit. Not only now but for the rest of your life. Do you have any questions?

My heartiest wishes to you both. You have been given advice geared to you and to your needs. If you follow it you will be amazed at the difference in your attitude and in your work. It must not be a willy-nilly trial, a one-or-two day affair, but a wholehearted plunge into whatever approach you choose, and you should also follow the suggestions given later concerning time and your attitude. This is your artistic prescription, and half doses will not do a full job.