“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(2. I found myself wondering if my own attitudes might have strongly influenced Jane’s early psychic behavior in ways neither of us suspected—that she may have inhibited certain elements of her abilities because she feared my own ideas about distractions, time, failure, etc. Perhaps, Jane had wanted more physical and psychic activity all along, I thought—more tours, TV, publicity, fame, money, whatever—but all those things she held back on because of my own negative attitudes. I speculated about whether her sitting on such desires, not daring to admit them, say, might have surfaced as fear of scorn and criticism, and so forth. If such factors operated, they’d be the opposite of those we usually hold accountable. I do know that Jane has the abilities to perform all of those activities, and this almost idle realization recently may have triggered the more concrete question.

In a way, then, in certain terms, work as conventionally understood, and creativity, are indeed basically quite different. Creativity is a kind of psychic play, an exploration of reality, and an individual reinterpretation of it, and of the events of Framework 1. The artist might need to know technique and certain methods, and so forth. He may or may not sell his paintings, but the difference between the artist and other people is his or her way of being—a difference in the style of existence.

Ruburt always did realize he was quite different from other people. The initiation of psychic experience deepened that feeling. You both felt he must be very careful. To be creative in Ruburt’s particular way, you need a variety of characteristics that will allow you to probe alone into the nature of your own experience, and yet abilities that will also help you relate to the world—and Ruburt has those necessary abilities. He believed, however, that one set was opposed to the other. Therefore, to keep things orderly, one set would have to go. This is very simply put for now.