“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Here is my dream of October 9, that I asked Seth interpret: “Color. I dreamed that I had a cancerous wart or nodule right at the tip of my right thumb, where it bothered me to hold a brush or pencil. Had been there a long time. I believe a doctor told me it was cancer—not very dangerous, could be removed in his office. I had to climb up a long ladder set against a building wall to get to the doctor and even as I talked to him I had to stand below him and look up. He was dominant, round-faced with thick glasses. Wore a white coat, I believe, and peered down at me like an owl.”

You ignored the feeling, and there may have been a slight physical symptom at the same time for this reason. This may have involved a plum—I believe it did, and this was somewhat connected in leading you to thumb in your dream.

(This time I had to work hard before resolving the problem after a couple of days. The painting is almost done now and appears to be successful. It is something of a new departure for me, and embodies a lot of the things I’ve learned doing my portraits for the past year or so. I hadn’t said anything to Jane about my concern with this painting; in fact, everyone who saw it in progress, even at the beginning, seemed to like it, remarking especially upon the form and composition.

(Note that the dream came after I had resolved some of the above-mentioned problems. I was still somewhat uneasy about the decisions I had reached by October 9, but decided to go ahead anyhow, that I was belaboring what were probably rather innocuous points by that time.)

You will know at a later time. You could perhaps at some time paint a portrait of a man who would like to sit within that landscape. You have painted a mind or a spirit as it appears in landscape form. Give us a moment.

I do not mean a big issue, but a very unique contribution. If a particular person’s face was a landscape, what kind of a landscape would it be, for example? Even the planes of the face themselves can suggest mountains or valleys. But beyond this in deeper terms, how would that face be translated if it were not a face but a landscape? What time of day would it suggest? What kind (underlined) of landscape, desert or mountainous, and so forth?

(This above data is excellent on Seth’s part, full of evocative ideas and intuitive good sense. I have at various times entertained related ideas, but never put them in as concrete form. Because of this I know I haven’t discussed them with Jane, as such. The idea of thinking of a person’s face as a landscape is very good. I am already thinking of ways to put the suggestions to work on a conscious basis.)