“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You have had glimpses, but the two abilities will work hand in hand so that ideas for paintings will occur with greater vividness, and your hand itself will know how to get certain effects that you want, before you are consciously aware of how this is done.

Give your hand full freedom therefore, and it will teach you what you want to know, for it is your way of bringing inner information outward. Then you learn from your own creations, and the physical mind learns by what the hand has done without calculation.

You are so jealous of your own work that you use your psychic abilities most strongly as an aid to your work. I repeat, often your hand, left alone, will give you effects that you want. Then you can study them.

You can try this even in regard to color. As an experiment, with a complete palette set up, then almost automatically let your hand drift over the palette and choose its own colors in turn. The intuitions of course will have guided the hand.

I am not suggesting that you relinquish conscious concern and control, but you will be amazed at how the intuitive self will use your hands, and to your conscious advantage, in experiments.

You will be giving life and vitality to the stock human figure that is often used, so that the hands are as alive as the face, and the figures seem caught in motion, begun but never completed.

The flexibility and spring, the gait, the appearance of living legs will depend upon a special fluidity in the area of the upper thigh. You will feel, I believe, more comfortable with a torso, hands and feet, and that is why I mentioned specifically that you allow yourself freedom with this other area.