“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The conscious mind however is (underlined) evolving, in your terms. It is not the finished product. You may include this information in my book, but it is not book dictation. Creativity as it is generally known represents but a small portion of far more extensive capacities. Creativity as you understand it is the three-dimensional aspect then of greater abilities that belong to our consciousness innately, whether it is consciously materialized or not (period).

When it is so materialized much of the creativity is automatically expressed (pause), the individual being aware of only that ability that the mind can understand. Most individuals therefore do not contend with larger portions of their own reality. An individual sets for himself those challenges that lie within his realm at any given time. He does not tackle challenges that in his terms are too great to be solved.

Earlier he experienced high accelerations of creativity and consciousness (pause). These accelerations and the capacity activated the thyroid gland, not the other way around. He sensed the energy, of course, and considered it one of his characteristics, but it frightened him. He had definite ideas of the ways in which energy should properly be used and channeled.

Now. In your own way you have done the same thing, and for the same reasons, as far as your work is concerned. You have tried doggedly (intently) to interpret greater experience in old ways, using “old” (in quotes) channels that are adequate for usual creativity in art—but painfully restrictive as far as you are concerned. I will have much more to say to you regarding that.

With the development of abilities however the importance of conscious thought became greater than before. The mind in one way was becoming more aware of reality, using greater energy and taking ever greater responsibility, which it did not bear to that degree before. The acceleration of mental creativity therefore meant that the creative energy of thoughts became ever greater in practical terms. Do you follow me?

Old stray patterns of thought therefore, or depressions, became more readily materialized, as did more positive ones, to your way of thinking. Both positive and negative elements were more quickly creatively materialized. It is almost (underlined), at least symbolically, as if Ruburt were born at age 36 into a world with new rules, to which he had then to acclimate himself.

Ruburt must do his own creative work in his writing hours. He must for his health’s sake take at least 15 minutes a day to relax in any fashion he chooses—but mental and physical relaxation. This is not diversion such as television, you follow me.

Now. The creative writing class has served its purpose, provided you keep up your social life. It should be dropped. He needs the time, and it has become a method of helping people.

All of these suggestions will release both of you in important ways. He was never meant to give his entire conscious concentration to (in quotes) “psychic” work. The freedom of his own creative work will enhance those abilities, but also free him for some further expansions of consciousness that are meant to follow. The same applies to you, and in these endeavors you must work together.

Ruburt had to understand his own creative necessities as a person, and accept the mobility of his own consciousness and those changes that it would involve. You also have to be free enough, and will be, to stand on your own position, and you must be free enough to cast aside the shackles that invisibly surround the field of painting, and even your own interpretation of it.