“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This is not to be construed, however, as a statement that all creative acts result from individual problems or neuroses. [...]

[...] Here you have life and death struggles in creative terms. [...]

The old witch doctors operated within the surroundings of nature, utilizing its great healing ability, directing its practical and symbolic qualities in a creative fashion.

(This session is in answer to two highly creative pages Jane wrote between 7:30—9:00 PM this evening. [...]

[...] Identification with the instinct brings compassion, and that compassion and wonder spark the creative instincts. [...]

[...] At least you would be perfecting what you have, and taking steps within that framework, freely redecorating creatively, changing your environment instead of squawking while staying. [...]

[...] What you said today is true: You must learn to understand the creativity and responsibility of consciousness. [...]

[...] They are ready to come close once more, and these represent the times of your greatest psychic and creative endeavors, of highest accomplishment regardless of time, when both of your abilities reinforce the other’s.

[...] In the sort of work you are doing, both creatively in your arts and in your psychic work, the inner activities and developments run below surface and are unseen. [...]

This has to do with communication as it was applied to their drawings and paintings, and to the highly discriminating channels that their creative communications could take. [...]

Now: Their communicative abilities, and therefore creative abilities, were more vital, alive, and responsive than yours are. [...]

(10:39.) Simply as an analogy, look at it this way: Your present universe is a mass-shared dream, quite valid — a dream that presents reality in a certain light; a dream that is above all meaningful, creative, based not upon chaos (with a knowing look), but upon spontaneous order. [...]

[...] Also, as we grew up independently of each other, Jane and I gradually dispensed with conventional scientific ideas that life had occurred by chance; the emotional natures of our creative endeavors led us to question the theory. [...]

There is always a creative strain, in which consciousness attempts to express itself, and this has been explained earlier. [...] In all universes that we know, creativity and expansion are the rules.

(This afternoon Jane held her first creative writing class.)

Remind him that all his nature does indeed work to his benefit, and that signs of creative alterations and feeling begin to surface, like tiny shoots.

(In the opening notes for last Wednesday’s session I described how Jane had started her new book, Psychic Politics, that same day while she had been immersed in a state of high creativity; I added that at the same time she’d become aware of a slightly different Jane in a psychic library from which, it seemed, she was to get much of the material for Politics. [...]

(Pause at 10:01.) Like many, however, he was brought up to believe that the intellect’s function was mainly to dissect, criticize, and analyze, rather than for instance to creatively unite and build, colon: and analysis was thought of as separating the elements of a concept rather than restricting original concepts. [...]

[...] Ruburt was often almost indignant when presented with such evidence, but he also refused to cast it in conventionalized guise, and his own curiosity and creative abilities kept him flexible enough so that learning could take place while he maintained normal contact with the world you know.¹²

I have told you many times that your consciousness is not stationary, but ever-moving and creative, so that each of you through your life moves through your psyche. [...]

[...] Excesses over this survival construction are used in various creative aspects, and represent the basics for culture and civilization.

[...] But this destructiveness in itself serves the purposes of creativeness and arrival. [...]

Ruburt by all means should confine himself to using his best energy for his daily creative work, not draining it by worrying about material which he has sent out into what he considers the cold world.

If you do so, then in the great flow and sweep of your eternal reality there will be an overall current of love and creativity that carries you. [...]

[...] Its great creative power still exists and you use it in your own way, even changing your own symbolism as your beliefs change. [...]

[...] Jerusalem’s arid environment, coupled with its incredibly complex and active history, led us to speculate anew about the mysterious forces of religious creativity that seemingly had always emanated from there, and were still doing so.

(Since last March, then, we’ve been holding our private, or nonbook, sessions twice a week usually: Their regular production came to be a steady, reassuring flow of creativity in back of all of the other, often hectic activities I’ve listed here. [...]

[...] So interspersed in all of that private material are some excellent — and lively — discussions of events current in the world at that time, as well as discourses on connections between creativity and Framework 2, and topics as diverse as psychotic behavior and early civilizations. [...]

The psyche expresses itself through action, of course, but it carries behind it the thrust from which life springs, and it seeks the fulfillment of the individual — and it automatically attempts to produce a social climate or civilization that is productive and creative. [...]

[...] You take it for granted that unless you husband your time, and divide it, what you want done will not be done in time, and so you inhibit creative ideas by your attitude. [...]

[...] First of all you had the inner self, the creative dreaming self—composed, again, of units of consciousness, awareized energy that forms your identity, and that formed the identities of the earliest earth inhabitants. [...]

[...] They created new psychological entities, opened up an area of divine creativity that “until then” had been closed, and therefore to that [degree] extended the experience and immense existence of All That Is. [...]

The symptoms therefore will be released as that energy or concentration is placed back where it belongs, into creative and practical action. [...]

[...] It was obviously one born from your basic creative natures—a challenge rather than a problem, but one that was interwoven with all kinds of social and economic and family connotations.

[...] And I wanted her to be creatively involved with a continuing project. [...]

(9.35.) Each person knows intuitively that his or her own experiences somehow matter, and that there is a meaning, however obscured, that connects the individual with a greater creative pattern. [...]

[...] And yet because of the creative abilities of this mysterious dimension, more than inbreeding would be concerned, for it of itself could provide entirely fresh and new elements out of which further creativity could come.

[...] The sense of ease is, again, all important, the sense of creative play, so that Ruburt does not try too hard. [...]

Foremost, connected with the distortions about creativity and expression, is the belief that knowledge itself is dangerous, evil, and bound to lead to disaster. [...]