“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He still does not completely understand the nature of what he calls Sumari time, in relationship with inspiration. [...]

[...] I’m not claiming the dream inspired his material for tonight’s session, or that it was precognitive, in that I’d “picked up” on his subject matter for tonight, and constructed the dream around a portion of it in order to give myself that particular information. [...]

[...] I believe that this happens not only in the case of ESP, but also in connection with artistic inspiration: we tune into more knowledgeable portion of our own identities.

[...] Each whole self helps and inspires its personalities. [...]

[...] Any sudden emergence of a completed universe would then imply an unimaginable and a spectacular development of organization—that it did not just appear from nowhere, but as the “completed physical version” of an inner highly concentrated endeavor, the physical manifestation of an inspiration that then suddenly emerges into physical actuality.²

[...] (Smile, eyes closed.) I am its inspiration.

[...] They were designed specifically for him and his nature, for when he forgets about work, with its connotations for him, then he is at his most intuitively creative, and inspiration springs naturally and quickly at his beckoning.

[...] The very air is inspiring, so that you will paint more there even if your work area is not immediately as good. [...]

[...] Bill was inspired to ask Seth whether it would be possible to locate Indian artifacts on the lake bottom; he had long been curious about this.

[...] When I’m caught up in inspiration, writing a poem, then I’m “turned on,” excited, filled with a sense of urgency, and discovery. [...]

[...] This evocative idea inspired me to write the small piece which I am including here. [...]

[...] Dreams, inspirations, experiences in mystic consciousness — all, I believe, have their prime source outside of our usual consciousness and mode of activity.

Your attitude should be, I have the whole afternoon to myself in which to paint, and all the rest of the time I have for creative abilities to bring me inspiration and ideas.

[...] In your terms those selves often give you information, advice, and inspiration, planting in their own pasts the events that “will” bring about their present. [...]

Your feelings, however, are based upon personal and cultural background—the unsafe universe, in which inspiration must be guarded and protected. [...]

If you are presently experiencing a life in which you have chosen high emphasis upon physical locomotion, for example, then through vague dream memories of flying you can be inspired toward, say, the invention of airplanes or rockets; but if you actually understand the fact that your own consciousness can indeed travel outside of the body, then the impetus toward physical developments in locomotion is not nearly so intense.

(After supper this evening, Jane had a rather strong reaction, a new determination that had arisen from her encounters with the idea of impulse and inspiration. [...]

[...] This evening’s poem did indeed contain, and was in itself, an intuitional inspiration. [...]

[...] Yet there can be danger that you forget that creative time can produce in an hour magic creations that ten hours of frightened, enforced time can never do—and that a moment’s inspiration in a bar, or with company, or on a walk in the park can bring forth world-changing theories that no amount of fearful economy of time will ever deliver.

[...] That is he will be spontaneously inspired, I believe, to continue it.

[...] Through doing so, I hope to give a truer picture of your own dimension, and to continue our discussion about the gifts and seeming defects that are genetically inspired.

[...] He will find himself writing well—inspired, with time for new work and typing manuscripts, with periods of relaxation and ambition.