“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The distortions grew so great that the whole structure crumbled. Many artists relied upon the stereotyped constructions of their age, rather than looking within for their own revelations, so that art could have become the frozen art form—painting could have—that showed clearly the spiritual immobility of a people who finally grew dry.

The world from that initial creative center had to expand. It could not do so by imposing its culture, however admirable in many respects, upon others. The culture had to change, the foundations of art had to change, the old images had to be in your terms (underlined) demolished, for they had begun to freeze the birth of new insights and creative feeling.

True creativity is far more apt to flourish, however, to the extent that you are not trapped by the “mass mind”(in quotes), and not tempted by the inducements. (Long pause at 9:10.) You chose the circumstances against which to pit yourself. The kind of art you will produce is not meant to be the art of youth. It is not what you intended. Your insights and intuitions were to be sifted through earthly years of knowledge and experience. Through these, childlike wisdom will indeed show itself, but a wisdom that has been tried, that is aware of its own integrity through the seasons.