“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We had a discussion about my questions, and I expressed pretty definitely the emotional charge I’ve accumulated over the years about the whole affair. [...]

(Sunday evening, October 30, I was approached by a friend who expressed interest in buying a small painting, and I promised to show it to him. [...]

The face, in intense (underlined) joy and in intense terror, may often be much the same, but the emotion still will speak within it, and you will know clearly despite the similarity of some muscular effects, which emotion is being expressed.

The suggestions I gave (in recent sessions) amounted to a “schedule of activities,” calculated to give room to creative and physical expression. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) If you meet him in your own astral body you will have more freedom of expression and communication, for you can speak normally, if you follow me. [...]

[...] I am free to express my joy, for from it springs my life. [...]

[...] The yawn is a spontaneous expression of the body and within that there is joy. [...]

While you continue to exist and develop as an individual, your whole self, or soul, has such vast potential, that it can never be expressed fully through one personality, as somewhat explained in one previous chapter.

[...] In one way this was a highly stylized art, and yet it allowed for both great preciseness of expression in terms of detail, and great freedom in terms of scope. [...]

There is always a creative strain, in which consciousness attempts to express itself, and this has been explained earlier. [...]

[...] As individualized energy approaches your particular field, it expresses itself to the best of its ability within it. [...]

Suddenly I saw Bill’s and Rob’s expressions change. [...]

Once more, as I’ve done often in recent years, I expressed the hope to myself that in another probable reality very similar to this one I opted for the outdoor life in a much stronger way—even to living outside night and day for most of the year. [...] Not that I want to copy Cézanne, for instance [I couldn’t even if I wanted to], but in that other reality I too chose to live the natural life in a more naive or clear-eyed manner—to sublimate myself before nature while at the same time trying to become master of whatever means of expression I can achieve.

[...] Religious drives of whatever nature are much more comprehensible to us than scientific ones: I think it quite safe to note that in ordinary terms our species began struggling with religious expression long before it began recording history. [...]

[...] You and Ruburt should be willing to express your emotions to each other even more than you have, for they have a quickening element, and are highly important in moving you from one state of awareness into another. [...]

This meant, of course, a language (pause) that was in its way more precise than your own, for concepts were routinely expressed that described the vast complexity of subjective as well as objective events. [...]

[...] Although she seldom does this anymore because of the work load involved, such spontaneous expressions of her creativity help my wife as well as the others involved. [...]

[...] I wrote that at the age of 25, nine years before initiating the sessions, Jane expressed the moment point in her poem, “More Than Men.” [...]

[...] (As an example, I doubt if this one will be referred to in the index for Dreams.) But I also think that intuitively we know the truth Seth so briefly expressed here, and that it never has been or ever will be really lost.

[...] Earlier Ruburt would have become alarmed and frightened, felt you were being negative, and discouraged at any verbal and emotional encounter with the feelings that you expressed, precisely because they brought into the open feelings of his. [...]

You (to me) are also seeing what can happen when spontaneity is denied....The badminton or pillow-pounding allows for the expression of freedom, mobility and speed—the opportunity for it, and is therefore important.

([Phil:] “Seth, then is Igor an actual separate personality or am I just expressing what I pick up and relating that energy?”)