“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I’d received a letter from Tam yesterday, but Jane had trouble reading it after lunch. She had no session from yesterday to read, so went back to the one from day before yesterday—and oddly enough, did pretty well reading that one. She also had a few bladder spasms. I worked on mail. I also described to her another dream I’d had in which I did commercial artwork. This time I’d been hired to draw a comic strip featuring Tom Selleck, of the TV show Magnum, P.I. I saw the Sunday page of the strip quite clearly in the dream, several times. And each time the balloons in the first of the page’s panels were unintelligible to me, for some reason. I’d wanted Seth to comment on my first art dream, the one involving greeting cards, but he hasn’t done so yet. Jane also had a dream involving the death of Sue Watkins that I wanted a word on.

I repeat, I wanted to comment upon your dreams, Joseph. They simply show that the creative elements of the self are rearroused (long pause), and almost in a luxury of inspiration they show you how they can be applied to your artwork and to other areas of your living.

The dream representing the card with the double message can also be applied in a different manner to your painting. The dream involving Magnum showed that like a detective you are making a search—only your search is in the larger area of creativity. The dream also says that like a private eye you are on a search, but the private eye also stands for your own private eye, or your own world view, so that you are in a process of enlarging your own private way of viewing reality. Ruburt’s dream that Sue was dead represented the death of old beliefs about women writers. Those beliefs had indeed been like old good friends—only they had outgrown their purpose, and no longer apply.