“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt’s creativity is highly individualistic—and not, however, narrow in scope. As given in some old sessions, certain difficulties began when Ruburt tried to make his creativity fit the conventional work patterns. The creative person often is not wanted at a job, because their creativity by contrast with others’ behavior shows the vast difference between what I will now call joyful work and the usual variety.

The paper Ruburt wrote was excellent. He should do a follow-up on it. For some insights in this area I would like to come through his own experience of direct feelings. The entire issue, however, involving both questions, I would like to save for our next session. Hopefully, Ruburt himself will have insights in the meantime that will make my material pertinent.

(10:20.) The creative self, however, is not nearly as specific in nature as Ruburt once thought, when he considered himself a writer only. The attributes of the creative self are those of the personality, so that these attributes cannot be accepted under certain conditions and repressed otherwise, without difficulties resulting.

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.

Your own ideas suited your temperament, but many of them did not particularly suit Ruburt’s. Again, I will elaborate on all of this at our next session.

This one will be brief. The pendulum suggestions are, as you supposed, too bulky (in the morning), and Ruburt should reorganize and cut them to some degree. Main points should be the trust of the body—that is paramount—and the expression of the creative spontaneous self in all areas of daily life. You helped him considerably today by reminding him to trust his body.

Drunks often need someone to reassure them, so they will not drink, and your reminders when you think Ruburt has forgotten can be most helpful.

The body itself is further changing, and in the most beneficial of ways, so that reminder is important. The evening suggestions have been shorter and to the point—and to some extent took effect almost immediately. I do, however, want some material from Ruburt before I cover that material myself.

Add to your question, to read before our next session, the implications of private creativity and public distribution of creative work. I will also have something to say about Ruburt’s own insights involving the secret aspects of his nature.

(10:35.) Give us a moment.... There are, as Ruburt supposed, learned patterns superimposed upon his basic nature. This is of course natural with each personality. The creative self, however, left alone, and being in a Framework 2 reference, will take all aspects of life into consideration. It lights up all aspects of life. When Ruburt hampers it by trying to make it too specific, and ties it into distorted ideas of work, then divisions occur that need not occur.

Ruburt got so he wanted such encounters only if they fell into his ideas of work. I wanted to begin this material this evening. The main point for now that I want to make is that Ruburt does indeed perceive the world differently, and he cannot try to force that vaster kind of perception into the narrow confines of ordinary work ideas.

He is not just being creative when he is writing. He is being as creative when he contemplates the kitchen table in his own fashion, and is enjoying then a state of consciousness that is to some extent uniquely his own. The creative state of mind cannot be shut off and on, yet Ruburt has approached it only as it related to his ideas of work.

I simply wanted to get the material started—get an early start for our next session. Continue your program, and when the suggestions have been pared down into a clearer kind of statement, then Ruburt should indeed—alone this time—read that material after lunch.