“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.