“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The president finished speaking. As the minutes passed and we sat waiting, I asked Jane what she was thinking about. She said she’d decided to hold the session because she “should” have it—whereas last night’s session had been quite spontaneous: she’d wanted to do it. Which raised some intriguing questions about the sense of responsibility she would still feel—indulging that very quality we’re supposed to be so on the lookout for. On the other hand, given our present work orientations the sessions would have to happen sometime during the week—at least twice—and it didn’t seem reasonable to think that Jane would have every one of those on the spontaneous spur of the moment. Somehow, somewhere along the line, some sort of responsible decision to have them would be made....

(Pause at 10:08.) So true art must in a vital fashion be divorced from utility, or from its function outside of itself, or you will end up with something else entirely. Left alone, Ruburt’s creative life falls into inspirational patterns that spring from their own secretive sources. If the “products” help people, that help is an additional feature flowing naturally from the art itself, and not applied to it with a heavy hand.