“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When your portrait of the artist was done your own psychic abilities had grown as much as your artistic knowledge. [...]

Many artists unknowingly paint portraits of their simultaneous selves.³  Many mothers find themselves feeling younger than their offspring at times, or about to call some of their children by different names. [...]

[...] Gifted children do not fit the portrait of children that is sold to parents. [...]

[...] It’s still working as I type this, on a class night; one of Jane’s students bought another portrait. [...]

[...] She is one living portrait of the psyche, independent in her own context, and in the environment as given.

[...] I think the results may be good, and certainly they point the way toward what I want to accomplish with my “portraits.” [...]

[...] Though Seth has appeared only once in a physical materialization, Rob has seen him clearly enough to paint a portrait of him that hangs in our living room (see the illustrated section). [...]

[...] I had no trouble with the self-portrait, but still ended up quite frustrated. [...]

I am very pleased with both of your experiments and with your progress, and particularly, Joseph, with your portrait work. [...]

[...] Now the eyes in the oil head I recently finished of the discarnate artist, Van Elver, seemed alive to her; the portrait hangs on a bookcase wall in our living room. [...]

(Peggy pointed at a life-sized oil portrait of Jane that I had painted.

And I welcome our friends, as always, to this very formal occasion when we have a family portrait taken.

[...] We attended because I had won the portrait award, and had to have my picture taken there, with the other award winners. [...]

Rob had been working on portraits and human figures, so this data made sense to him. [...]

[...] I saw that he had covered the paper with fine-line figure drawings and portraits, in pencil and pen. [...]

[...] The photo of him that Jane received in the mail the other day is actually a halftone reproduction bearing the priest’s portrait and a heavy black border all around. [...]

[...] So, theoretically, you could get all the Henry people together now, have them alter their consciousnesses to a certain degree, and compile from them an amazing multilevel, multifaceted portrait of Henry VIII — assuming, of course, that one would be willing to accept such subjective experiences as valid. [...]

All of which reminds me that to many viewers the “portraits” I paint are balanced equally between the masculine and feminine, regardless of whether the subject in any one of them is male or female. [...]

At this point, I look up and see Seth sitting on some crates, very much heavier-looking than in the portrait Rob did of him — swarthier, in dark khaki clothes and boots.

[...] Sometimes they see him as he appears in the portrait Rob painted of him. [...]