“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt’s symptoms made sense in an unsafe universe. He needed protection, he felt. Your feelings about Prentice made sense in an unsafe universe, where you had to protect the excellence of your vision from incompetence. You can make that leap into the safe universe—just as Ruburt is. The leaping is a process of growth, so in your terms give yourself time, but do not equivocate.

(Long pause at 10:50.) I know the contours of your minds and consciousnesses far better than you may imagine. It is time when all of your efforts suddenly bear fruit, when inner techniques have been practiced, and suddenly click into focus and actuality. So you are at such a springboard when your understanding does propel you into a quantum leap of understanding. Later it seems simple. This can be compared to what you said to Ruburt concerning your paintings today—only instead life is involved. It is the painting that is suddenly simple.

The terms are handy to describe certain affiliations and experiences of the psyche. In greater terms, however, those experiences and affiliations overlap. There are, unfortunately for neat definitions, no definite, absolute, complete boundaries. There are leaping, explosive, volatile, rapidly altering relationships in which psyche touches psyche, forms an attraction or mutual response that can be both eternal and fleeting, never destroyed or forgotten, there as a trace or as an overwhelming experience.

You (me) even arranged it so that the kind of art you wanted to do could not be done in the accepted framework of artistic reference, but would necessitate such a growth of consciousness. You chose problems, each of you, challenges, that would lead to such a development. I will tell you now that that leap is assured—for had it not been assured in what seems to be your future, I would not have emerged in your past (whispering.