“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now that is the main reason why you have not tried to make a living as an artist per se. You have been convinced that it would never work. Even as you could not imagine depending upon your mother for a livelihood.

In your relationship as a couple then you set up a framework in which freedoms allowed to one were compensated until certain adjustments were made. The creative aspects were given so much leeway, until out of fear one of you applied restraints of a restrictive nature. The painting to you had such strongly feminine connotations that subconsciously you felt your studio was like a womb, out of which the paintings were produced. You felt that this had some (underlined) terrifying implications, many of them threatening your sense of masculinity since, because of your misconceptions you were convinced ahead of time that they would never be used as a means of livelihood.

Ruburt on the other hand felt he could use psychic books as a means of livelihood, for in the books at least he felt the masculine and female tendencies merge; the intellect making use of the intuitive information.

[...] When his battery shop closed and the public turned to the new inventions, that made his livelihood passe. He disliked the public from that moment on, and felt resentful toward those whose pictures he took, that his livelihood would be at the expense of their favor.

In your society, it is generally thought that a person must have a decent livelihood, a family or other close relationships, good health, and a sense of belonging if the individual is to be at all productive, happy, or content.

[...] Men in the sciences have years and years invested in a particular system, upon which their reputations, self-respect, and livelihood depend. [...]

[...] Along the way your livelihood has been provided for, and you have a framework in which to work. [...]

[...] It gets quite upset when a part of you thinks that it should be doing something else to make a livelihood. [...]

Though men could compete for a livelihood, wealth itself was and still is highly suspect. [...]

[...] He depends upon creativity, for example, as you do, to provide a more or less steady source of enjoyment, excitement, personal accomplishment—not to mention livelihood —and as per last evening’s session, creativity operates in ways that may appear uncertain. [...]

[...] Added to this was what he felt to be the need to find employment, and the hope that his writing could be his livelihood. [...]

[...] To that degree your livelihood depends upon many elements. [...]

He was taught to be very cautious lest that livelihood be taken away. [...]

[...] Now, this includes your health, your life and your livelihood. [...]

[...] People were out of work; the old routines of livelihood had been uprooted. [...]

[...] You were used to getting a livelihood, and a good one, from the land.