“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt should continue as he has been, and further blocks of symptoms will drop away. At the same time larger amounts of energy will be restored for the personality’s beneficial purposes. The experiments with the table only represent a beginning for Ruburt. He is in other words at the beginning of a new venture.

(Long pause, eyes closed.) This session itself should aid your understanding enough to allow some improvement almost immediately in the condition itself. Two issues are involved. The painting was an act of defiance against your mother, an act of independence. She approved of the commercial art because it made money. Therefore if you made money through your paintings, then subconsciously you thought that your mother would still be getting her way. You see?

The perfection that you seek is not ever a finished, but a becoming quality. The technical ability gives a poised point through which these realities can emerge. The technique that is yours and is excellent should be the point of departure that sends the spontaneous action into new reality, and not a rigid mold to contain it.

Your potential is now. It did not exist as you conceive of it (Jane, lying back on the couch, turned to face me), until you felt free to let it emerge, and you did not. You should now. (Pause.

Wait. (Pause, hand raised.) I am concerned over your arbitrary idea of age and advancement in terms of what you should expect at your age. (A point I rather deliberately made during discussion at last break.) This is limiting in concept, and rather uncharacteristic of you in larger respects.

Your artistic abilities, because of their power, demand other abilities for their fulfillment, and you are now just becoming free enough to develop these other abilities. Your career should be ahead of you.