“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: a personal session.

The body itself is responding beautifully. Ruburt went in a very short period of days from doing relatively little physically to giving the legs rather constant stimulation with the chair. The leg ligaments have released and loosened rather considerably even since our last session. The ankles and feet are beginning to respond to the new requirements, and the knee joints themselves, now, are increasing their lubrication, and gently beginning new motion.

The eyes are growing healthier—meaning more active and resilient. It would be a good idea now and then during the day for him to make circles with his eyes, without overdoing it.

The creative artist can be afraid of letting himself go completely in his life, for fear that he will become so involved that he will forget to stand apart, to look or to listen. Now to some degree that is Ruburt’s quandary, and to a lesser extent, your own.

Now obviously, if you cut down distractions, or all experiences, there would be little left to enjoy or examine. You both tried to find a framework in which you could have two lives at once in that regard—and putting those two together is taking some doing.

(9:50.) Most artists, painters now, are lost, so to speak, in the moment or moments of the painting’s creation. The painting becomes the creation, and also it is the passing time of reality. Most artist, painters, do not feel the need, then, to “later” examine the moments of creativity themselves, nor to form still another subjective platform from which to examine the creative process.

I have a few suggestions for both of you. I am not speaking of schedules. You have a responsibility to time and to timelessness. I would like you to make a list of what you want to do in a day—that is, in a 24-hour period, and to think of that period, now, as a gift of time, to be used as you desire.

Do not think of breaking it up into segments, but rather as the rhythmic flow of desired activities. You will want to paint, to prepare “Unknown.” Now painting is in one regard timeless, though it will flow into time. “Unknown” is timeless, yet it will flow into time. Yard work is not timeless. It can be a joyful exercise of the body, the natural life being reinforced, and it can also provide feelings of timelessness, so that in that regard your love of timelessness can be combined with your love of the moment.

Ruburt can begin now with his three hours, this to be a free creative time for thinking, or writing. He likes to paint, but he does not regard that in the same way, so let him allow himself an hour a day for painting, or so many hours a week—whatever he wants.

You determine the time you want to spend with “Unknown”—time you want to spend, say, in the yard. For now the pendulum sessions are involved. You do not need to worry about hurting your friends or neighbors, who will understand quite well. You have only to firmly state your position, and they will follow, expecting this of you.

Ruburt’s feelings after his nap involve the material given earlier, primarily on two lives in one, but also are based upon old feelings you are now handling in your pendulum work, that are in the process of being resolved but the strong time elements are strongly involved.

Now, I want hot towels on the knees. And I bid you a fond good evening.