“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“A connection with music” can result from the fact that Bill played jazz on a phonograph at his gallery during the exhibition in which I participated last winter; he plays music also at each exhibition he presents.

(We could make many interpretations of “The number two.” My personal idea is that “The number two” refers to the fact that two items comprise the test object. We did not know what to make of the color green impression. Any painting in Bill’s gallery could be “A representation.” “Two people” is also open to many interpretations. “Yourself a year ago” I regarded as valid, since I had paintings of my own on exhibit at Bill’s gallery on the occasion for which he made these cards; and the event took place around a year ago, although I do not know the exact date offhand.

(The “impression of a seesaw... as a children’s game,” is quite interesting to us, and we believe a good example of the way associative memory can work while also being accurate. At the time of the exhibition I participated in at Bill’s gallery last winter, he had not had the gallery open very long. Building was still going on; in the back room were sawhorses he had borrowed from a carpenter, plus many other tools, scraps of wood, etc. Note that the sawhorse shape and the support for a child’s seesaw would be practically the same. Jane is very attached to playground accoutrements; she has especially fond memories of children’s seesaws and swings. Indeed, playgrounds have an almost mystical significance for her and she uses them often in her paintings.

(“Four, six” did not ring a bell with us. Bill’s gallery, which takes up the entire ground floor of a downtown store location, is certainly “a location with much space.” We are not sure of the “steeple shape,” unless it may apply to some of the modern sculpture also on exhibit in the gallery last winter.

[...] A reference to the Mount Savior Arts and Crafts Exhibit, mentioned in the letter used as object. Many kinds of objects will be on sale at the exhibit, other than paintings. I have a letter concerning this exhibit and sale from the monastery, dated August 27,1966.

[...] Also, the Arts and Crafts Exhibit, featuring displays, or arrays, at Mount Savior is mentioned on the object.

[...] In the letter used as object, I inform Dr. Lodico that I’ve changed my mind about sending the abstracts to the Mount Savior exhibit, and plan to submit other kinds of paintings instead. [...]

[...] A presentation could also refer to the Mount Savior Arts and Crafts Exhibit, which is mentioned in the letter. [...]

[...] These personalities, however, store up their energy so that one personality often exhibits explosive behavior, or makes certain decisions that seem (underlined) to go against the wishes of the main entity. In this way (pause), different kinds of behavior may be exhibited, and while it would seem that many decisions are made by one portion of the self, without another portion of the self knowing anything about it, such usually is not the case. [...]

(The Grand Opening exhibition will consist of a two-man show of sculpture by Harold Spaulding and Walter Buhr, two well-known Binghamton-area artists. [...] Harold Spaulding has exhibited at the Roberson Gallery in Binghamton, and has participated in a two-man show at Two Rivers Gallery in that city. [...] His art has also been exhibited at Arnot Art Gallery in Elmira in group shows, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

[...] He has had his work exhibited in many galleries in Buffalo, including A.M.A.’s Gallery, J.N.’s Gallery, Encores Gallery, and Carl Briedmier’s Gallery. [...]

(By now, Jane’s delivery was becoming more forceful and animated, although she exhibited no voice changes of note.)

You are secure as long as you put a good portion of energy into painting, but this distortive expectation of yours could end up making you bitter even against your painting; because even when you are pleased with your work, it could tend, definitely, to prevent you, in strong terms, from seeking not only financial reward from it, but other satisfactions as well by preventing you from showing it where such showing in galleries and exhibitions throughout the country is important.

Such a veto upon exhibitions for example is not part of your distortive expectation now, but could easily become part of it. [...]

[...] I plan to use his rather spacious walls as a hanging space for my work, rotating the exhibits periodically.

[...] In the early sessions he exhibited some drastic behavior at Seth’s presence and/or arrival. [...] At other times he seemed to exhibit plain panic, running to hide just before session time. [...]

If you shy away from dramatic public exhibitions of emotionalism under the best circumstances, then here you are faced with a situation in which you see it thrust upon you by someone you love, and in your eyes under the poorest of circumstances. [...]

[...] All molecular constructions exhibit that certain kind of introspective activity, as if the inner working of some giant computer was intimately in touch not only with its own programming and the probabilities connected with it, but with a deep psychological awareness of the activities of the electrons and various visible and invisible particles that form its own physical construction.

[...] On the one hand, such individuals receive their unearthly abilities and power from their fellows, contain it, exhibit it in the physical world for all to see. [...]

(The following reference to a portrait concerns an egg-tempera portrait I entered into the annual Chemung County Artists’ Exhibition. [...]

[...] The drawing of the pigeon was among a group I had exhibited at the gallery at the time the Kecks were present; they saw it and admired it. [...]

[...] Bill Macdonnel may have seen the pigeon drawing when it was on exhibit at the gallery; I do not know for sure. [...]

Sat in silent exhibition

The exhibition was open to the public,

[...] Again, remember the two of you have very strong do-it-yourself qualities, exhibited long before the sessions began. [...]

[...] The impulse for such creativity within your field is mainly two-fold, although other elements may enter into it; there is the exuberant desire to express, the same desire exhibited by all energy. [...]

(9:49.) There are qualitative leaps that exist impossible to bridge with the intellect alone that separate, say, well-meaning, adequate-enough attempts toward artistic achievement, and works that are of themselves naturally artistic exhibitions. [...]

[...] Both react, again, by exhibiting exaggerated versions of the characteristics involved, however. [...]

[...] One piece had been written by a brain “researcher” who, we thought, exhibited remarkably little understanding of the human condition. [...]

The kind of dream Ruburt interpreted for you, about the Cézanne exhibition, is an example of an excellent message dream, important enough to come to consciousness because you were ready. [...]

[...] And since she exhibited no voice changes this need not be mentioned for the balance of the session. [...]

[...] Since she has at times exhibited a faulty memory, and suffers from hypertension, Jane and I did not think much, for or against, Miss C’s inability to place Frank Watts. [...]