“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause.) You deal with emotion and creativity, and have always done so. Your own ability as a draftsman, if the term is the correct one—your technical ability—was adopted for two reasons.

In this life therefore this high technical ability allowed you to paint, for without it you would have been too frightened of the inner sensibilities necessary. It has always had these two meanings for you, these two faces.

Imagine the vision on the board, forming itself and evolving outward into physical reality, and let your fine technical abilities simply help the vision flow outward.

This attitude alone will help you greatly. A child develops in his own way. A parent should not try to force, but follow the child’s natural bents. So let your technical ability follow the visions natural bents.

[...] You know enough technically to solve any such problems in those old limited terms.

[...] Let yourself go with the joy of painting what you want to; but forgetting also, again, the idea that your paintings are working out problems, technical or not.

[...] I’d also called our optometrist and asked his secretary to have him return my call so I could ask him a couple of technical questions about a note I’m writing for Session 901 for Dreams. [...]

[...] Jane knew vaguely of this but did not know that he now has a torn ligament and must wear some kind of waist brace that I don’t know the technical name for but I always call it a strap. [...]

[...] I am always pleased to speak with you, and I regret the technical difficulties involved on your part. [...]

([Arnold:] “You mean consider technical problems that I have at work?”)

[...] But you will be able to translate knowledge in technical terms and perhaps come up with some breakthroughs that scientists can understand. [...]

You have a wiser, more creative spirit, but you will be able to translate what you get into technical terms which few can do comparatively speaking. [...]

Now, this is not to be a technical book, so this is not the time nor place to discuss thoroughly the action, behavior or effects of these coordinate points; nor of the electromagnetic energy units — those natural emanations of consciousness of which I spoke. [...]

[...] I haven’t discussed it with Jane, though, just considering it a technical problem involved in the art, as I would suppose she would work at writing a paragraph, etc.

(I am still much interested in the technical side of painting, so much so that a few years ago I drew back from getting too involved in this aspect lest I spend too much time at it, detracting from the painting itself. [...]

[...] You do not see here a sort of partnership that applies to your relationship in general, the reason also for his technical inability in painting, and his technical ability in writing.

[...] He told Jane a lot of technical and legal details she didn’t very well understand, but he is certainly sincere, she thinks, about Seven. [...]

[...] You could have done conventionally well, with portraits, and with other kinds of paintings, with your technical knowledge, but as you learned more you kept trying to put more into your paintings, ever demanding more of yourself and of the art, and forcing upon yourself a kind of growth and development that in a way became larger than the art itself—so that the art, you felt, could never be adequate as an expression of the inner realities of which you became more and more certain.

[...] The technical ability gives a poised point through which these realities can emerge. [...]

[...] Each little painting becomes a unique adventure both technically and emotionally, and I hardly succeed in solving every attempt I make. [...]

[...] The intellect feels the truth of such issues, even if it does not fully understand the inner reasons or technicalities involved. [...]

(At supper time this evening I explained a few problems of a technical nature, connected with my painting, to Jane. [...]

Ruburt is not technically facile enough even to follow Cézanne’s directions. [...]

[...] There have been children, again, with highly accomplished musical abilities, and great facility with music’s technical aspects—all such accomplishments before the assistance of any kind of advanced education.

[...] In your terms, it is technically correct.

(She had doubts, though, about her ability to come through with the very technical data for the young scientist who had called her before the last session. [...]

[...] Some of you, in previous existences, before this planet was as you know it, were a part of highly technical civilizations which you ruined out of avarice and greed and ignorance; spiritual ignorance. [...]