Cooperative Spirits: The Seth Material as Creative-Spiritual Practice
This paper examines The Seth Material (1963- 1984), produced by Jane Roberts and Robert Butts, as a case study in spirit channeling as a creative-spiritual practice. It argues that the Seth phenomenon challenges creative and spiritual boundaries by blending emergent metaphysical beliefs, experimenta...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Implicit religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 26, Issue: 4, Pages: 387-404 |
| Further subjects: | B
creative-spiritual practice
B transmedia storytelling B New Age Spirituality B Media Theory B Creative practice B Spiritualism B Spirit Channeling B emerging spirituality B Posthumanism |
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| Summary: | This paper examines The Seth Material (1963- 1984), produced by Jane Roberts and Robert Butts, as a case study in spirit channeling as a creative-spiritual practice. It argues that the Seth phenomenon challenges creative and spiritual boundaries by blending emergent metaphysical beliefs, experimental media practices, and evolving conceptions of human and more-than-human agency. Through close analysis of the material's view of individual and collective agency, this paper situates channeling as a post-human act that reconfigures relationships between authorship, media, and spiritual practice. It also considers the Seth Material's engagement with emerging audio formats, collaborative worldbuilding, and hypertextual structure as a transmedia mode of storytelling that democratizes spiritual experience and invites distributed authorship. By framing the Seth Material as a hybrid creative- spiritual form, this paper offers new perspectives on the cultural and ontological stakes of spirit channeling in modern spiritual and artistic movements. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.33121 |
