“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Those kinds of conflicts can only exist in a society in which the entire concept of creativity is segmented, in which the creative processes are often seen as inner assembly lines leading to specific products: a society in which the very nature of creativity itself is largely ignored unless its “products” serve specific ends.

(8:53.) Early artists hoped to understand the very nature of creativity itself as they tried to mimic earth’s forms. Poetry and painting were both functional in ways that I will describe in our next book (humorously, elaborately casual), and “esthetic.” But poetry and painting have always involved primarily man’s attempt to understand himself and his world. The original functions of art—meaning poetry and painting here specifically—have been largely forgotten. The true artist in those terms was always primarily—in your terms again—a psychic or a mystic. His specific art (pause) was both his method of understanding his own creativity, and a way of exploring the vast creativity of the universe—and also served as a container or showcase that displayed his knowledge as best he could.

(Pause.) The two of you thought of yourselves specifically as a writer—or rather a poet—and an artist before our sessions began. I would like to clear up some important issues.

(To me:) I want you to specifically understand that there is and can be no conflict, for example, between your writing and painting, for in the most basic of ways they represent different methods of exploring the meaning and the source of creativity itself.

[...] Besides this, in an odd fashion, they lack a certain specific nature, as I will shortly explain, and there are too many of them by far to be handled at one session. That is, their number precludes any one single clear path, specifically noted. [...]

[...] The pendulum can best be used to deal with specific events, with specific attitudes. [...]

After breakfast, use the pendulum to insert positive suggestions of a specific nature—not about the world, but psychological supports and directions for the specific day. [...]

[...] According to the day, the situation, you may then want to work with the pendulum, considering some specific event or issue from that day—but this need not be a lengthy session at all. With your discussion, perhaps 10 minutes with the pendulum would be sufficient, The pendulum also can be used when any event occurs—again, when specifics apply.

We are sitting here on a specific autumn evening. I am obviously dictating this book, speaking through Ruburt, while Joseph sits on the couch across from a very specific coffee table, taking down my words.

[...] I must honor your specifics. [...]

[...] Each person has his [or her] own ideals, and impulses direct those ideals naturally into their own specific avenues of development — avenues meant to fulfill both the individual and his society. Impulses provide specifications, methods, meanings, definitions. [...]

(Pause in a forceful delivery.) You may begin to exaggerate the gulf between this generalized ideal and the specific evidences of man’s “greed and corruption” that you see so obviously about you. [...]

[...] Many — not all, now — criminals possess the same characteristics you ascribe to heroes, except that the heroes have a means toward the expression of idealism, and specific avenues for that expression. [...]

[...] “But I feel this generalized material, then Seth zeros in on it specifically. [...]

[...] The body, however, in its own wisdom brings about overall adjustments that then become specifically apparent, and these are often minute—but vital.

[...] They are minute only in that their improvement does not specifically show, but they are pivot points upon which important areas are dependent. [...]

Of course, these continuing improvements will show greater specific results. [...]

Beyond that platform (which is not your own native one) is another that operates as “high art,” in which activity is for its own sake, for the joy and discovery of the performance or execution, a high play that sets the needs of the world at least momentarily aside, rises up above specifics into those vaster realms from which specifics emerge. [...]

[...] Practically, you can only react to the world as you encounter it through specific experiences, and you cannot escape it, for it will come to your door. The earlier questions about fear of the world, for example, reinforced to some extent, now, generalized fears, without for example specific incidents connected to them.

[...] There is nothing wrong with asking “Are you afraid of thus and so?” of the pendulum, for example—particularly when specific events are involved, and where action is possible. [...]

[...] The writing-down of feelings and any subsequent pendulum follow-through on specific feelings or events allows you to deal with necessary Framework 1 activity.

[...] There are several excellent points in the session that we can integrate with the previous one – especially those about using the pendulum to check out specific fears, etc. [...]

[...] There is at least a possibility that you and Ruburt, using your own individual inner senses, may at times perceive different aspects of a given situation, and that the individual perceptions will enable you to achieve a greater knowledge of a specific, or any specific, happening than either of you separately could achieve. [...]

You would most probably benefit at such times by reading again the specific material that I have given you along these lines. [...]

Did you have any specific questions for me?

[...] I will close this one however, unless you do have anything specific that you wish to ask.

[...] And that is reflected through his poetry as well as our specific work. So that expression would come through poetry also with its “psychedelic” experience, regardless of our specific sessions.

[...] You can specifically say that this has to do with what you call your psychic work, but even before “it” began he was aware of that energy of his, concerned about using it, focusing it, delighted with it, and afraid of it at the same time.

Whenever Ruburt opens to the dream state, physically he is specifically worried about out-of-body travel. [...]

Now take your break, and I will have some specific recommendations.

As all of this occurred, consciousness took on more and more specific orientations, greater organizations at your end. At the “other end,” it disentangled itself from vaster fields of activity to allow for this specific behavior. [...]

Each unit of consciousness inherently possesses within itself all of the information available to the whole, and its specific nature when it operates as a particle rests upon that great “body” of inner knowledge. [...]

[...] Behind all that was the brilliant comprehension and cooperation of all of the units of consciousness that go to compose the body, each adding its own information and specific knowledge to the overall bodily organizations, and each involved in the most intricate fields of relationships, for the miracle of the body’s efficiency is the result of relationships that exist among all of its parts, connecting it to other levels of existence that do not physically appear.

[...] Actually (pause), many other kinds of consciousness, while focused in their own specific ways, are more aware than man is of earth’s unified nature—but man, in following his own ways, also adds to the value fulfillment of all other consciousnesses in ways that are quite outside of usual systems of knowledge.

[...] The location begins with an S or s sound, but we will try to be more specific shortly.

(We were interested in a specific location especially in view of Seth’s mentioning people with well-developed abilities. [...]

[...] I specifically mentioned the benefits that could be expected from such an arrangement, and I now most strongly repeat my remarks, suggesting that the present arrangement be kept, or another divider substituted.

The image had no specific personal meaning for him at all. [...]

[...] The correct specific connection wasn’t made. [...] Here again, left to my own devices, I couldn’t work my way to the specific data we wanted.

[...] These included specific references as to names, initials, dates, and places. [...] Seth did give material pertaining to objects also, but he was more apt to give specific information on Dr. Instream’s daily life.

[...] (This never happened, incidentally, though the impressions given were not always as specific as we would have liked.) Actually I didn’t care what was in the envelopes—I just wanted to know if Seth could tell us, and I wanted him to be absolutely right each time. [...]

[...] This specifically referred to the need to modernize the “big, old antiquated prisons” that were “of very low standard,” and made several remarks concerning the crime rate in Portugal. [...]

[...] Most jobs, or even vocations, carry along with them implied guidelines, specifications, and definite requirements that serve to define the work involved. Within those specifications certain actions are performed. Within those specifications certain standards are met or not met. [...] Very often specific meanings are given to certain words, so that you have what amounts to a professional vocabulary. Often specific mediums of expression are concerned. [...]

Ruburt is operating in an area in which there are few such specifications, simply because no one knows what can or cannot be done, practically speaking, at psychic levels. [...]

The ideal may be specific, then, or ill-defined, and man’s idea of “the good” varies considerably. [...] “The best” idealist is a practical one—someone who realizes that most men like to work with specifics. [...]

Generally speaking, in those terms, the law is wise, for it forces you to make specifications, each one bringing about further definition, so that all parties at least understand (in parentheses theoretically [louder]) the meaning of the terms.

You may not achieve ideal solutions with the law, but it should allow practical specific actualization, at least in part, of an ideal situation. [...]

Do not think in terms of a generalized ideal situation, but in terms of better covers, better communication with Prentice in both friendly terms as per Ruburt’s calls to Tam, and in the definitive terms of clearly stating specific requests. [...]

[...] The various methods simply focus all of your concentration upon a specific area, shutting out any distractions.

[...] The one prerequisite is an intense concentration upon specific incoming data to the exclusion of everything else. [...]

[...] One of the troubles is that too specific distinctions are made between the conscious and unconscious minds. [...]

[...] This simply means that you have consciously accepted them, focused upon them, excluded data to the contrary, narrowed your interests to those specific points, and accordingly activated the unconscious mechanisms that then materialize those convictions through physical experience.

You cannot pinpoint the beginning of the universe—for (suddenly louder) that beginning is simultaneously too vast and too small to be contained in any of your specifications. While everything seems neat and tidy within those specifications, and whole, you operate with brilliant nonchalance in the theater of time and space. [...]

[...] In your range of activity you can adequately identify events, project them in time and space, only by isolating certain portions of much larger and much smaller events, and recognizing a highly specific order of events as real.

Now with Ruburt, not necessarily generally, specific suggestions work well, when they are not overdone for example, and the progress then serves as an extra reinforcement. Regardless of the reasons, there are habits of thought, specifically, regarding the symptoms, for example. [...]

[...] You mentioned the foot specifically, reminding him several times, and this reinforced the suggestions.

[...] Many of your old sessions on that sort of thing specifically will be of benefit. [...]

It certainly seems that the best way to get specific answers is to ask specific questions, and the rational mind thinks first of all of something like a list of questions. [...]

All of that can be transferred to other areas of your lives, and in particular to Ruburt’s [physical] difficulties, I do understand your joint concern, and in holding the session I know you want specific answers — which I always give to the best of my ability.

What we will be discussing for several sessions, with your permission jointly — and, I hope, with your joint enthusiasm — will be the magical approach to reality, and to your private lives specifically, in order to create that kind of atmosphere in which the answers become experienced (underlined).

Creativity itself has its own built-in discipline, the kind that, for example, in a dream can rummage through the days of the future to find precisely the data required to make a specific point.

[...] I specifically suggested painting for several reasons. [...]

[...] I mention this specifically since in the session itself I tell you that the concentration should be on work and activities, and not (underlined) on the condition you are trying to get rid of.

That will be included as it is pertinent, and you may specifically request it at any given session....