“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That light enabled him to do what he wanted to but could not fake: paint the world through that particular unique vision.

Personally then he took upon himself what you would say perhaps were great problems—too great for the personality to handle, but his inner tendencies for self-mutilation always kept his vision true to his main image of the world.

Van Gogh was true to his vision, which means he was true to the self he created for himself in that time, and so must you be. [...]

[...] That is, you use this inner sense quite inadvertently in your visions, except that as a result of your lack of consistent training you see these but dimly. [...]

[...] You have trouble now with the duration of your inner visions because you are trying to transpose them according to physical camouflage time, and this is going about it in the wrong way to begin with. [...]

This is closely related to one of the inner senses, the second inner sense, and it is upon psychological time that you must try to transpose your inner visions. [...]

Now there is a point I would like to make regarding your inner visions, my dear Joseph, and also concerning any perceptions of this sort whether through pictures or any other means.

[...] Yet many had already seen the snapshots sent to your world by others, and so they began to clothe their own original visions of their journeys in the guise of those other pictures. [...] The clear vision of such explorers became lost. [...]

(Pause at 9:59.) At one time these postcards represented initial original visions and individual interpretations. [...]

Ruburt has thus far insisted upon his private vision and his unique expression of the unknown reality as he experiences it, and so he brings back bulletins that do not agree with the conventional psychic line.

[...] When Seth talked about Jane’s private psychic vision he reminded me of her own remarks on the same subject; see the notes opening the 713th session.

To me, this fact alone lends a credence to his visions that bolsters my own in the most meaningful way: I think our tower experiences of so long ago (in terms of linear time), plus our mutual artistic backgrounds now, with their corresponding social implications, are too closely allied to be explained as “coincidence” in the objective fact world. Peter’s surprising material, then, helps me tentatively recognize the physical connections those motionless visions of mine may have in our space and time.

(The day before the 724th session was held on December 4, I had another experience involving internal perceptions of myself as a Roman soldier in the first century A.D. As far as I can tell, however, this latest episode was not a continuation of my three visions of last October, in which I saw the end of my life while I was an officer in the armed forces of Imperial Rome¹ — yet this time also I confronted circumstances surrounding my own death. [...]

[...] Yet, even with those discrepancies, and a few others, Peter believed that the walls in Jerusalem, the battlemented tower, the soldiers that I’d just described and depicted, were all the same as those he’d seen in his own visions of so much earlier.

[...] This is the correct general time period for my visions, I think, and I felt a surge of thrilling sensations as I learned about certain subversive Zealot activities. [...]

Most businesses, including Prentice, do not have that kind of vision. [...] This does not mean they do not take some pride in their work, but that pride is in direct proportion to the poverty of their vision—so the vision must be yours and Ruburt’s. You make such people feel put-upon, bewildered. [...]

[...] In the same fashion, however, you see, say, book jackets, ideal situations, in a way that the people in the business world simply do not—and you do become literally outraged when their vision proves to be so inadequate. [...]

[...] They wanted the books to start with because they did indeed respond to the books’ vision—but the versions they came out with represented the gap between what they understood and what they could not understand. [...]

[...] My vision would change minute by minute; I walked some faster but felt so light on my feet that I called Rob... [...]

[...] His vision problems had little to do with his eyes, for example, but with the way he was using the ligaments in his neck, and with his posture. [...] Those changes were bound to involve alterations in vision.

[...] Your fears, generated by the beliefs of your society, of course, add extra anxiety when Ruburt’s eyes look poorly, and he has trouble with his vision.

[...] That is, you use this inner sense quite inadvertently in your visions, except that because of your lack of consistent training, you see these only dimly.

[...] You have trouble now with the duration of your inner visions because you are trying to transpose them according to physical time — and this is going about it in the wrong way. [...]

This is closely related to the second inner sense, and it is upon psychological time that you must try to transpose your inner visions. [...]

[...] Now, as dreams seem to involve you in duration that is independent of clock time, so can you achieve the actual experience of duration as far as your inner visions are concerned.

[...] This is a peculiar kind of vision shared by those involved — whether it be wife and husband, or parent and child. This vision is quite able to perceive the difference between the practical and the ideal, so that in ascendant periods of love the discrepancies in, say, actual behavior are overlooked and considered relatively unimportant.

Yet, in the fabric of experience, love can be predominant even while it is not static; and if so then there is always a vision toward the ideal, and some annoyance because of the differences that naturally occur between the actualized and the vision. [...]

[...] Sitting quietly with my eyes closed, I obtained a sighting or vision, in color, that I will note after describing this session. [...] The vision involved a man walking down a road.

(The following is an account of the brief vision I experienced during our session of Saturday, January 4, 1964. [...]

(The vision:

[...] Because of a cancellation I got a quick appointment to see John this afternoon—and received a very pleasant surprise, for his examination revealed that my vision has improved since the last prescription. [...] Once John had assembled his pheropter, or lens unit, the test lenses making up the new prescription, my vision checked out at 20/15—better than the so-called normal 20/20. [...]

The practical nature of his own dreams was also more apparent, for again, his dreams sent him precise visions as to where food might be located, for example, and for some centuries there were human migrations of a kind that now you see the geese make. [...]

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[...] Moreover, when the new lenses were assembled in his machine for me to check my vision, I was able to read 15-20 [or 20-15?], another improvement over the normal 20-20.

(My vision is still good, 22 years after Jim’s report.)

[...] She finished at 3:08 — quickly — and said that part of the time her vision was very clear. [...]

There was additional improvement in Ruburt’s eyes and vision, and those improvements specifically are connected with freer motions of the head and arm areas — the hands being included.

Your dream represents Ruburt’s more healthy attitude toward his eyes and their vision. It also represents his growing faith in his own psychic vision, and hence his return to his own natural rhythms and motion.

(I then saw very clearly in my upper center field of vision an open, full-lipped and sensuous pair of red and feminine lips, with a triangular kind of tongue moving between them. [...] As usual this vision was over before I realized I had seen it, yet during the sighting I was for the first time unaware of my body lying on the bed.

[...] I think most of the time I’ve been reading as well with these glasses as I did with the bifocals; though normal vision hasn’t returned as yet; it’s a hell of alot better.

Ruburt is quite correct: his vision has fluctuated through the years, and in periods of mental ease, understanding, and physical improvements, his vision also improves.

[...] She told me that she’d often written that her vision was much improved when her symptoms were better: “The colors are great today,” etc. [...]

[...] Sometimes I see an outright vision, objectified quite clearly and in full color. The vision is either of the finished painting, or of the individual who is to be portrayed. [...]

[...] I believe now that they are among those usually present at unconscious levels; but in order to expand the potentials for the creative act as much as possible, I would like to see others learn to cultivate such visions and perceptions on a deliberate, conscious basis. [...]

(Pause at 11:36 PM.) He (Ruburt) is beginning to stand on his own two feet again, to accept his vision of the world and his own nature.