“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Some of the models for your paintings have been of thought forms sent out by others. [...]

[...] I have said that our imaginary wires that seem to permeate our model universe are alive, and now if you will bear with me I will say that they are mental enzymes or solidified feelings, always of course in motion and yet permanent enough to form a more or less consistent framework. [...]

If you choose the first approach, then you must plunge wholeheartedly into the person you are using as model, and immerse yourself in his reality, and from this let the painting flow.

[...] Your relationship is used as a model by others, people who have found in their adulthood no way as yet to relate to their mate in a meaningful manner—(humorously:) regardless of how many times they do it a month.

[...] These watch, keeping their memories and knowledge intact, and acting as directors against whose memories the new models are formed. [...]

[...] Again, you are each your own artist, and your inner visualizations become models for other situations and events. [...]

This predictive picture is then set against two models. [...]

[...] My brush moved over the surface, modeling heads and likenesses, and ideas, with amazing facility. [...]

(“I thought it was interested that I picked on the two Bills for models—Bill Gallagher and Bill Macdonel.”

[...] When enough of these in a given area congregate together a strong field of activity and attraction is formed (long pause) a highly plastic first draft or underpainting model for future events or physical reality.

[...] Everything in it, while retaining its own size to my vision, became microscopically small and dear, like a child’s model of a world — but one that was real and living, with my rooms inside one of the innumerable toy houses. [...]

(An obvious connection I had never consciously made; since I enjoy using apples, oranges, fruits, eggs, etc., for models.

[...] It’s enough to say here that it wasn’t until after these sessions began, in 1963, that I realized my inner models were quite as valid as those who physically sat before me. [...]

[...] So he’s now actually in the process of forming a new model of the universe between those two extremes—one that recognizes that each portion of the universe has meaning in relationship to all of its other parts, but that the meaning can’t necessarily be deduced by an examination of exterior appearances, but only in so far as man examines the nature of his own consciousness in its relationship to other species—to nature itself, to the objective universe, and begins to understand the vital nature of interrelatedness, within which the process of divinity is actualized.”

[...] Ruburt has two old lists of such suggestions that can be used as a model—and those lists worked well, incidentally, at the time.

[...] Ruburt is pragmatic, however, in that he insists upon relating philosophy to daily life—but, again, by providing overall models for behavior, rather than, say, specific detailed method.

[...] Mice, for example, are inbred in a sanitized environment for many generations until genetically “pure” strains are obtained; these ideal “models” for research into human defects may be born with — or develop — obesity, various cancers (including leukemia), epilepsy, different anemias, muscular dystrophy, and so forth. [...]

[...] These same models are also the figures Seth mentions, and as you can see from the photograph of the page, the women’s faces give a skull-like impression, with their hair pulled back. [...]

[...] Some were of people, and Rob began to use them as models for his paintings. [...]

[...] He would keep it safely inside a “play” structure — not play necessarily in basic terms, but a structure in which he would work with models, cleverly, never applying his creative abilities in certain ways to a practical reality. [...]

[...] In such an eventuality, fragmentation occurred so that the abilities were dispersed, some directed into school, some into drawing, and others into his models. [...]

To serve as physical, athletic models