“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All of these ideas can be put to excellent use now. Along with them, however, again, Ruburt should remember the playful, spontaneous attributes of the creative self. Preparing Oversoul Seven gives him a good point of concentration, yet beyond that he should allow himself the leisure and pleasure of playing with concepts, with poetry, and even with painting. I suggested you do the library together again for that reason—and your dream contest is good for that reason.

Give us a moment.... He attributes hot weather to laziness, leisure, lack of vigor, fruitless activity, and it annoys him. It is not invigorating. Except for a few occasions he has not begun new projects in the summertime. He equates it with vacations and the world’s playful activity—that is my answer.

[...] (Louder:) The Protestants have always thought that artists were decadent, that contemplation was dangerous, and that leisure was a crime. (With continuing amusement:) To enjoy your work was suspect—and if you enjoy unconventionality of mind, some leisure in which to contemplate the world about you, then it is about time that you dismissed such parochial concepts, and realized that there is no moral rectitude given them. [...]

You are afraid you will be thought of as a gentleman of leisure—at the worst a moral crime most certainly in light of the beliefs that originated at the time the Protestants first abandoned the Roman Catholic Church. [...]

[...] They did not work in the field (except for the poor monks), and the Protestants determined, for example, that their ministers would have families, work with the people, and be too busy for licentious leisure activities. [...]

[...] I’m also writing this out in a letter instead of calling so that you can have the record to refer to at your leisure. [...]

[...] Left alone, your creativity knows its own rhythms, and drinks at the springs of Framework 2 at its own delightful leisure. That delightful leisure, that “loafing of the soul,” from Ruburt’s Whitman—the poet—is what ends up producing the kind of great creative “works” that Ruburt searches for.

I thought I would write this out instead of calling, so that you’d have the record to study at your leisure. [...]

[...] As if it could lead to all kinds of extravagant leisure, laziness, or as if it made you like everybody else (with even more amusement), for when both of you are not “working,” you feel lost without your badges of superiority. [...]

[...] Jane’s delivery has been leisurely since the start of the session.)

[...] After death you may, under certain conditions and if you choose, experience the events of those seventy-seven years at your leisure — but not necessarily in terms of continuity. [...]

[...] There is here however a fairly strong possibility (underlined), in connection with someone else she may meet—a male who wears glasses in his leisure hours. [...]

[...] Our other cat, Rooney, had always seemed to be immune to us in such matters, and even now was conducting himself in his usual leisurely fashion.

(Jane’s delivery was leisurely and quiet as the session began.)

(Jane resumed at a more leisurely pace at 10:17.)

[...] Actually, Seth’s own book contained so many ideas for future sessions that our problem would be what to explore first — and we would have the unaccustomed opportunity to carry out these studies at our leisure.

[...] In that system, as he developed it, there was no time for leisurely meals, showers, shopping trips or mundane enjoyments—only the work was important. [...]

[...] They moved leisurely across Holley Road into our own driveway, nibbling at fallen sumac leaves and the bushes. [...]

[...] Jane’s pace had been rather leisurely throughout. [...]

[...] If you will, at your leisure, consider the makeup of your own dreams, you may partially and intuitively understand what I mean, for the distance in dreams is endless, though you may go but a little way; yet this distance as we have said, does not take up space. [...]

[...] It was another hot night, and her delivery was leisurely.)

[...] Now we will include usual session notes, but the reader will have to keep track of the development of the theories or correlate them with previous Seth books at his or her leisure.

[...] As early as the 14th session, for January 8, 1964, he told us: “To me, time can be manipulated, used at leisure and examined. [...]