“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

The psychic developments are also interbound in your own work, because you doubted yourself the preparation time was extended by you. The final period was and is to be one in which your energies are directed to your work without the outside job, for finally you began to feel that you were not doing what you should do; this itself inhibited your trust in yourself further, and therefore the development of your work.

(The idea of letting the painting fill itself with color “as blood fills the body” is excellent.

(9:55. Jane’s trance had been good, her pace mostly fast. I explained my second question to her now, to save time: Is what Jane gets a literal translation of what I write in Sumari, or does my Sumari act just as an impetus for her to get her version of it, etc.? Resume at 10:19.)

—yet the question itself limits the answer I can give you. It does not have to be an either-or proposition, for example. There is no contradiction between the two alternatives you gave me. The covenant exists quite vitally within the depths of your being.