“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane had been very uncomfortable today, since it had been so hot and humid. A late afternoon shower had helped cool things down, although it didn’t last long enough. Jane waited until the last moment before deciding to have a session, since she was still uncomfortable. “I feel about as much like having a session as a blue hornet,” she said with unwitting humor as we sat waiting for Seth to come through. I replied that I didn’t know any blue hornets with which to make comparisons.

(9:35.) In your painting, you are constantly involved with bringing some event into the world that was not there before. You fill the gap. You recognize the absence in the present of the physical painting you want to produce, and your creativity brings that painting into reality. With ideas, with our books, you deal, both of you, with such issues all the time. There is so much physical evidence in the world. It has been put together through the centuries, in your terms, in countless ways, bringing pictures of reality, each vivid, each contradicting the other to some extent. When man believed the world was flat, he used his thought processes in such a way that they had great difficulty in imagining any other kind of world, and read the evidence so that it fit the flat-world picture.

Ruburt has done well, following impulses, and the altered sleep patterns have indeed been beneficial; for his body, to compensate for the lack of normal steady motion, wanted the extra activity. (Pause.) For another thing, this allows a breakup of certain mental and physical habits—a gentle shock to the mental and physical systems that allows for beneficial change. Some years ago, just before you took on the second apartment, Ruburt complained in his journal that it seems as if the day was gray, or that color had fled the world. His condition had bothered his eyes then, and they recuperated over a period of time.

The lack of motion, however, in the last episode, was more noticeable, the constriction in the neck muscles and head. The situation there is as I have given in the past, and again, the problem is that you find yourselves confronted by “the evidence.” No one symptom exists by itself, but on an overall basis.

It is as if, now, the mental atmosphere was clearer—and you would find ideas flowing into your mind in those hours also, particularly with that playfully, now, in mind. I am not saying that you should make the nighttime hours your own official ones, but they do provide creativity with an additional ease, along with the changes in official patterns. End of session.