“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At first I thought it was a trick of sunlight—which was quite diluted as it came through the room’s east windows—but all of a sudden I stopped to look at the painting as it sat on the shelf I’d built high up on the south wall just inside the door. For a moment I was almost transfixed—for the painting, I suddenly saw, was alive. The girl’s violet eyes stared down at me as though they would move behind their violet glasses at any moment. I stared. She stared back. And I felt life there. The flesh and hair and sweater looked alive even though they never moved. Yet I half expected them to. It was a meeting of eyes.

(Beside the girl’s portrait sat another small portrait of a man which I’d also finished this year, early. And when I looked at that one, I received the same wondrous feeling: It too was alive. In this portrait the man looks off to one side—yet those eyes too were on the point of moving. His opaque flesh had the quality of breathing....

You were able to sense for yourself some of the material spoken about in the Rembrandt book, so that the information does not just remain academic: it becomes alive and vital through your own experience.