“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The idea had come to me intuitively while I was at work at Artistic. I made the pen-and-ink drawing then. I hadn’t tried to consciously decide what the prophet might be saying as he looked upward. The only conscious decision I had made was that I would let such designs remain in the subconscious if they did not spontaneously present themselves.)

Now as men wonder about what was Mona Lisa thinking, so let them be so intrigued and so involved that they want to hear your prophet’s unspoken words. Put yourself in his place, and with all of his capacities, and with his wisdom, and what would you be saying, and what emotion would move the muscles of your face?

(At this moment I then consciously knew what my prophet was saying in the painting; the words came clearly to mind: “My God, my God, what am I?” I was tempted to speak them aloud next chance I had, but did not. I hadn’t tried to conjure up these words; the emotional climate set up in the session by Seth had made their release from the subconscious effortless.

Now there are several ways of taking care of such matters. You can build form or a structure with lines, or a face, and leave it and wait for the emotion to fill it up, and then quickly with a touch here and there bring out that which has appeared, the movement that was within the form, that you barely sensed. Or you can perceive the movement, the emotion and the power first, and then paint the form that grows about it to form it.

(9:45. Jane was rather slow coming out of trance. She said “Seth really put me out. Like a thunderbolt. He always does put me out strong when I talk about anything to do with you and paintings.”

(She was on the whole quieter than usual at break, as though not quite all the way out of trance. Resume at 10:02.)

(At break of course I had told Jane about the answer I had received concerning what the prophet was saying. See page 246.)

(“I guess you’d better elaborate a little bit.” This is one of those instances where Seth was speaking rather rapidly; I was so busy writing that I had no real time to think about the content of the material. Later upon reading it over it became clear.)

(10:25. Jane was out of trance more easily, but it had still been a deep one—she remembered nothing of the material just spoken. Resume at 10:30.)

(“Well, I’ll get them all together...” I didn’t ask any questions here because I knew Jane was tired. “Have you been in touch with Van Elver lately?” See the 414th session.)

(10:34. Jane was soon out of trance, but again it had been deep. Her manner had been strong, active and emphatic. She said that before the session she didn’t “have the slightest idea of what I was going to talk about tonight.”

(Jane said she was “little and tiny inside the voice,” which always means that Seth’s presence is strong and immediate. To Jane while in trance, the voice seemed “to be booming all around, with me inside.”)