“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I don’t. This hasn’t really been a point with me, although at times I would get mad at Artistic for at least not offering me something more. At the same time I told myself the low pay prevented me from ever deciding to make a career of it there, and let it go at that.)

(All of this is very acute artistic information, and embodies the use of good technique even today. Again, I don’t believe Jane knows these things consciously. The varnish data is very good, also the fresco material. Many frescos were ruined in those days through poor techniques. Quality control was not what it is today re paints, varnishes, etc.)

(In those days, tubes for paints did not exist—all color had to be prepared fresh each day by the artist or assistants, from dry pigment. Varnish was often used as an ingredient in mediums. There are and were, many kinds of varnish. A slight lead content in a varnish sounds quite possible.)

(A note added 31 years later, while I prepare this Volume 2 of The Personal Sessions for publication. As gifts for me because of my interest in their great creativity, Jane “tuned into”, on her own and without Seth, excellent books on the artist Paul Cézanne in 1977 and on the philosopher William James in 1978. Both works have been published.

(Several years later Jane gave me another gift—a book on the artist Rembrandt van Rijn. This hasn’t been published—but will be in the later volumes of The Personal Sessions. I’ll explain the circumstances of her producing Rembrandt when presenting the first passages of the book.)