“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(1. Does Jane’s inherently mystical nature give rise to conflicts with the non-mystical world she finds herself in this time around? She may be so different in basic ways from most of her fellow human beings that conflicts may be almost inevitable—at least until later in life, when the personality has learned what the situation is and can make adjustments. Jane said that she never thinks of mysticism, herself, yet I think such factors could operate easily enough in our world. My question is based upon the environment and situations she found herself in as she grew—not upon any questions about why she chose such circumstances in this life to begin with.

(Jane has written down her feelings each day since we began the new program, and we’ve then discussed them. The system seems to be working very well. We also use the pendulum before bed, with very good results. She hasn’t walked a great deal lately, but our emphasis is now on trusting the body’s own wisdom as to when it wants to perform, and what it wants to do. We seem to know a new kind of peaceful understanding, at least to some degree. Jane reports a continuing series of physical changes throughout her body—from the legs and ankles to the shoulder blades, elbows, ribs, etc. As Seth remarked, nothing is tightening up.)

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’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.

Mysticism itself involves, basically, encounters with the art of being—a kind of creativity that in usual terms may produce no product at all, creative or otherwise. Such experiences may be translated into poetry or art or whatever, but initially they involve a spiritual encounter with reality. This encounter promotes a heightened state of creativity, even though, again, a creative product per se may not show.