112 Time Is Friction And Art Is Theft

Cosmic Wisdom and Creative Burnout: Insights from Session 112

Grab a drink, kick back, and let’s get weird. We are diving into a transcript that feels like a late-night philosophy session with a friend who happens to be a multi-dimensional personality. This briefing covers Session 112 of The Early Sessions, Book 3 of the Seth Material, recorded on December 2, 1964.

At the time of this recording, Jane Roberts (whom Seth calls Ruburt) was feeling a bit fried from upping her writing game, and Seth decided to drop some knowledge on why being a creative is actually more exhausting than moving furniture.

The Lowdown on Creative Exhaustion and Reality

• The Six-Hour Rule: Seth basically plays life coach here, telling Ruburt that six hours of writing a day is plenty. He also prescribes a daily walk because even cosmic vessels need some cardio.
• The Paradox of Creativity: Why are artists so tired? Seth explains that creative work requires energy for "repression." You’re taking an idea and purposefully not letting it become a physical object (like a building or a sandwich) so it can stay "immortal" in art.
• Matter is Just Mental Action: Seth dropped a heavy one here—all matter is just mental action that has been "objectified." It all happens at once in what he calls the "spacious present," but we see it as solid stuff because of the way we focus.
• The Tree and the Water: To explain how ideas manifest in different "fields," Seth uses a trippy analogy of a tree reflected in water. While the tree looks wavy and distorted in the reflection, the original tree is fine. However, in his universe, the tree would also be "crashing into the water" because mental actions constantly recreate themselves.
• Time is Just a Resistance Barrier: Seth argues that time isn't a thing—it’s an effect. It’s the "measurement" of a mental action passing through a system's resistance. Think of it like a cosmic stopwatch timing an idea as it squeezes into our reality.
• Smile More, Joseph: In a classic "chill out" moment, Seth tells Robert Butts (Joseph) to give him a "comradely smile," noting that Joseph was being way too serious for a Wednesday night.

Direct Hits: Quotes from the Source

To give you a taste of the vibes, here is a bit of the direct dialogue from the session (representing approximately 5% of the content):

• "Mental activity does demand more energy of one kind than does physical activity... in many respects creative work demands the extra energy used in a sort of repression."
• "All matter is objectified mental action, and that basically such action happens simultaneously in the spacious present."
• "Time is merely the effect caused within a given system by the system itself, operating upon a mental action as the action enters within its framework."
• "The distorted reflection of the tree in no way changes the actual tree. The distortions that occur as a mental act appears in another field in no way changes the mental act."

Deep Dive Resources

If this sparked a few new neurons, you really should check out the full library. There’s a lot more where this came from. Head over to the New Awareness Network website and their bookstore at sethcenter.com/the-early-sessions.

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