“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Through the years the personality, for example, tries different methods of interrelating, while the overall characteristics are still maintained. You had your fling relating to your times, and of speaking to them, when you were a cartoonist. You used your artistic abilities. You enjoyed the work. To an extent you reached millions—and as a young man.

For a while your beliefs, ideas, and artistic ability merged at one level. You moved out of that level. Millions of people consider that the ordinary, accepted mode of existence. The story lines that went with those cartoons amused the people. You did your best to illustrate those stories. You could have stayed in the field. But even from the beginning you knew it was a transitory part of your development.

Many novelists, say, of some considerable ability in writing, flesh out those same stories with characters only a bit more mature, and are considered quite serious artists. But you did have a fling at meeting your times directly, and of reaping those rewards, personally, socially, and financially. Your parents were pleased. That was an acceptable way of using your abilities, but your adolescent mentality was the usual adult mentality, and so you grew out of the framework.

Through his art, Ruburt never had that sense of fitting with the times, or of receiving its ordinary recognition. In any of these discussions, however, remember I am specifying certain important points, for there are, again, many realities. In terms of mental, philosophic, esthetic, and artistic terms, however, you each decided to go ahead even if it meant leaving your times behind.