“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Robert F. Butts (1919 -): Jane Roberts. 1987. Oil on panel, 13 x 17 in.

Robert F. Butts (1919 -): Self-portrait. 1987. Oil on panel, 16 x 14 in.

Robert F. Butts (1919 -): Seth 1968. Oil on panel, 27 x 21 in.

Oil on panel, 24 x 30 in.

1) Margarine, with corn oil. [...]

2) Corn—either fresh or canned, any kind, including corn oil in margarine.

3) Corn oil in cooking.

[...] Tell him to use peanut oil in his salads. Continue with the cod liver oil for now.

(“How about rubbing the peanut oil into parts of his anatomy that bother him?”)

[...] You could however do some excellent in oils if you could rid yourself of the fear that they represent. [...]

[...] Do only oils by 1970: RFB.)

[...] Driving up to Maine, I noted that our car, which is an old one, was using quite a bit of oil. [...] However, by the time we left York Beach, I had tried to suggest to my subconscious, in line with the material we have obtained to date on the value of expectation, that the car would consume less oil than on the outward journey. Again without keeping an exact count, I arrived home with the definite feeling that the car used at least two quarts less oil. Twice, stopping at stations along the way, I was somewhat surprised to be told by attendants that no oil was needed, or that it was down so little that there was no point in adding more. [...]

[...] Today I went back to applying peanut oil massage to her knees and wrists and knuckles. We haven’t used the vitamins, or cod liver oil, for several days now, and as usual I feel a sense of frustration over this, coupled with an unsureness as to whether any such routine should be too rigidly adhered to. [...]

The peanut oil on the legs is good—also on the hands. [...]

[...] So are the oils, but anything that adds further trauma to a meal should be avoided. [...]

You felt oils murky, representing the subconscious hidden fears and desires of which you were frightened. You considered them threatening, too easy, oils. [...] (Pause.) The temperas meant discipline, but every tempera you did contained an oil within it.

There is a darkness in the oils however which you find frightening, and a heaviness, you see. You were afraid of letting go with oils, for fear of facing the subconscious forces they represented. [...]

A good use of transparents in oils will make you more pleased with using them. [...]

Now oils themselves suggest the earth. [...]

With oils again the transparents for the mobility and vitality that gives the form meaning, the opaques to suggest the idea of physical time, and to suggest the apparent (underlined) duration of form.

(Jane sat in her rocker facing the living room wall upon which hung my oil portrait of Seth. [...]

(The oil head in question sits in my studio, still unfinished and has been seen by Jane often. One note of interest; technically speaking the oil colors I use contain no color named sepia, specifically, though, of course, a range of earth reds and browns are included. [...] The specific word sepia is more often attached to watercolors, as far as I know, than to oils. Jane also has used both watercolor and oil, as I have; and my watercolors do contain sepia.

(This effect appeared shortly before vacation, on an experimental head in oil I was working on. [...]

[...] I replied that all I knew was that she couldn’t move like that before taking the vitamins, the peanut oil massages, and the cod liver oil, etc., but I added that I was more than happy to credit sessions, beliefs, and/or anything else that gave us results. [...]

[...] It is thought he used stand oil—heat-treated linseed oil—and varnish of various kinds as a medium. [...]

[...] Also varnishes that did not dry evenly, but with accumulations of oils resulting. [...]

Too much oil facilitated the growth of certain molds. [...]

(Lead white, for centuries, has been the recommended white pigment for oils, and indeed before this century was the only white available, as far as I know. [...]

(At this point I am more than reasonably sure that Jane began to show certain marked improvements after I initiated the vitamin, peanut-oil, cod-liver-oil daily routine: Her hands first began to show definite reductions in swelling within a very few days, and this was followed by an excellent increase in her knee movement a few days later. [...] My personal opinion is that the combination of all three elements—vitamins, peanut oil, and cod liver oil, have helped a great deal in achieving these improvements, and that each time we pass up the “treatment,” which is absurdly simple, we do miss out on something helpful. [...]

[...] The peanut oil will also help the arms and loosen the neck and shoulder areas. The oil should not be kept in the refrigerator, but should be fairly warm.

The oil will also benefit the knees.

[...] Peanut oil to be rubbed on the arms and thighs. [...]

[...] The other suggestions I have made, the addition of iron and the use of peanut oil, should be begun at once. [...]

If possible she should be taken out into the sun, and the peanut oil will be even more beneficial if it is used then. [...]

(I massaged Jane with Oil of Olay after I turned her, took my nap, checked the TV programs for the evening, said the prayer with her, and left at about 7:05. [...]

(Jane ate well again, after I’d massaged her with Oil of Olay and taken a short nap while she watched TV. [...]

(Jane said she did not know I had taken cod liver oil as a child. [...] My parents have told me often that I displayed hay fever symptoms by the age of 3 or so, so evidently the first cod liver oil episode was earlier than this, and before my conscious memory. Jane insisted I hadn’t mentioned cod liver oil to her, though I had discussed castor oil.

[...] You were given cod liver oil. [...] You should not eat salads at your parents’ home, that are mixed with oil, during the season.

[...] So, I think, are the results, re the vitamin therapy and our own efforts—the peanut oil massages and the cod liver oil, and so forth. [...]

[...] Seth’s information on the oil warning light is also apparently correct, for when the garage checked the oil level it was quite low. [...] I had the oil checked immediately after I became aware that the warning light was on. [...]

[...] According to Seth, Jane and I had succeeded in altering considerably the car’s oil consumption; and as evidence we had before us the fact that the car had used much less oil on the trip than we had calculated. [...]

[...] You had previously not noticed the small red flash indicating that oil was needed, and if the trend had continued you would have continued to ignore this warning light. [...]

[...] Buy some peanut oil indeed, and rub it on the elbows and shoulders and knees for three days. [...]

There is a quality in the oil, an extract from the peanuts, that is immediately dissolved through the skin, that lubricates and eases both the joints and muscles. [...]

[...] The peanut oil can be applied before sunning, or before sleep.

as if its joints needed oil….

[...] Out of the corner of my right eye I caught a glimpse of my oil painting, The Girl with The Violet Eyes, as I call it. [...]

(I rubbed Oil of Olay into her feet. [...]