“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now the energy can be best suggested by transparents, rather than opaques, for the opaques are too ponderous. The opaques can be used effectively to suggest the form, superimposed lightly over the transparent energy, but never with a heavy hand.

A good use of transparents in oils will make you more pleased with using them. Movement can be best portrayed also with transparents, and even for rocks. While opaques may be used to suggest physical heaviness, transparents should be used also to show that in actuality rocks are as light as air, and to hint at the ever-mobile energy that forms them.

Now again, much of this has to do with your own interest. Opaques are excellent to suggest a heavy or dark mood. In portraits, while the inner skeletal structure must be hinted at, and while the figure should be well done, still there should be the suggestion of the personality going beyond the image, and of the personality’s energy radiating outward.

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.

[...] In certain terms the physical world can (underlined) be said to be opaquely perceived then, while other perceptions become clearer, but the normally conscious attention (underlined) is no longer so dominant, and even normal beliefs go into a momentary withdrawal.

[...] They involve mostly portrait work, and such mundane things as the handling of paint, both opaquely and thinly, and the symbolic meaning behind these things. [...]

[...] Do not smother them with opaqueness.

[...] Because you are only now learning to verbalize your feelings, this means that he felt, particularly in the past, that you dealt with him opaquely in an area in which he did not know how to cope.

[...] Jane wrote upon reading this session: “How I often deal opaquely with Rob. [...]

[...] You must realize it is futile to say, “Why does understanding take so much time?” or, “Why have we been so opaque?” or, in your case, “Why has it taken me so long to be a good painter?”

New paragraph: While your beliefs do structure much of your dream activity, other issues are also involved simply because the focus of your awareness is not acutely directed toward physical reality, but is only opaquely concerned with it.

The orientation is that of sense data lived most vividly, and yet, again, at an opaque angle. [...]

[...] You may desire spiritual understanding, while thinking that you are spiritually unworthy and opaque. [...]

[...] You are utterly convinced that you are sick, or poor, or lonely, or spiritually opaque, or unhappy.

[...] That inner relationship triggered your reincarnational experiences, for you meet in class with others at other levels, where on a more ordinary level there may be a seemingly opaque relationship.

[...] You are used to thinking in terms of opaque or transparent color. In those terms there is opaque light, and transparent light as well. [...]

[...] His opaque flesh had the quality of breathing.... [...]

[...] I now make intuitive connections that I seemed to be opaque to in previous years.

[...] In the dreaming state, when consciousness relates opaquely to physical concerns, glimpses of the multidimensional self can appear in dream imagery and fantasies that will symbolically express your greater existence.

[...] Both of those gadgets turned all colors and achieved different stages of transparency and opaqueness. [...] The center section of the rectangle was most opaque and the ends most transparent. [...]

[...] You see it as opaque.

[...] In other ways,the family behaved opaquely. [...]

(“Is there any large area of this material that he’s relatively opaque to, consciously?”)

[...] He still has the language of the flesh, and yet that language is only opaquely connected with the body’s mechanisms. [...]

Very briefly: Instream is astonished at his own opaqueness in life, and the chances that escaped him. [...]

[...] You are used to thinking in terms of opaque or transparent color. In those terms there is opaque light, and transparent light as well. [...]

[...] It was one in which she was attempting to follow in a still-life some of the techniques I’d showed her a few days ago, when I repainted another still-life composition she’d started, and showed her how to get more opaque effects for variety; a demonstration, then, for she’d asked for “a lesson.” [...]

In other words, the psychic development is a part of his natural growth (long pause), a reaffirmation and restructuring of inner information that in one fashion or another was always available to him, but needed to find a conscious format, a conscious expression, a way to pierce the seemingly opaque habits of knowledge of the cultural world. [...]