“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: there are gradations, of course, to creativity. Certain important kinds of creativity demand incubation periods, during which the conscious mind cannot follow the inner processes. It goes its own way, concentrated in day-to-day reality, while the inner portions of the self amass great information, perhaps, try out new organizations, and utilize the inner senses. The “results” then emerge to the conscious mind, and you have inspiration, and a creative “product.”

He is quite gifted in dealing with people, however, and in that respect he is a born teacher. To some extent that kind of activity gives his conscious mind something to concentrate upon during creative periods of incubation.

In other periods, for example, there were acceptable frameworks through which mystics expressed themselves, and most cultures have such avenues. In times of transition the old avenues no longer serve. Ruburt has no exterior framework to judge his subjective experience against, for even when he was in the church his experience did not fit the mold.

The pendulum suggestions are meant to reinforce the basic trust in the self, and in the self’s abilities to handle experience without enforcing artificial armor. Both of you chose to do what you are doing, and accepted your historical period.