Inner Landscape
With practice you can become as intuitively aware of your internal physical environment, as [of] your external physical environment.
With greater practice, the contents of your own mind will become as readily available. You will see your thoughts as clearly as your inner organs. In this case you may perceive them symbolically through symbols you will recognize, seeing jumbled thoughts for example as weeds, which you can then simply discard.You can request that the thought content of your mind be translated into an intense image, symbolically representing individual thoughts and the overall mental landscape, then take out what you do not like and replace it with more positive images. This does not mean that this inner landscape must always be completely sunny, but it does mean that it should be well balanced.
Excerpt from Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts & Robert F. Butts (Session 574)
[Here follows a conversation between Dr Lee Muir, a famous psychoanalyst, and her patient, whose identity shall remain undisclosed (for obvious privacy concerns), over a certain picture painted by the patient.
All people are of course entirely fictitious, and any similarity would be most coincidental, although there probably would be no such thing as “coincidences”…]
Dr Muir: Well, tell me… What was in your mind? I need to know in order to begin my psychoanalysis.
Patient (embarrassed): Nothing ahahahah… As you asked me, it’s just random doodles. I guess that’s even more telling.
Dr Muir (she can’t repress a smile)
Pt.: … of the danger I represent when I don’t focus ahahah
Dr M.: (she looks flippantly at the picture, but her remarks soon show that her photographic memory had made her remember all its tiniest details) Well the colours are very pretty. The yellow is strong, so I would say… some emotion is in this image. Although not used overly much, it dominates the image, as does green to a secondary extent. And the orange red also.
Pt.: (smiles embarrassed at the thought of the giant yellow canary that might well mean something like emotional immaturity)
Dr M.: Now. We need to identify the green lady. Because she is being a bossy britches, you see.
Pt.: (astonished) Is she?
Dr M.: Oh yes, both the green creatures are. (ignoring the patient fidgeting) So, who do you think the greenies are?
Pt.: (sheepishly) aspects?
Dr M.: Well yes, of course, aspects. Delaying tactics won’t work you know. More precisely, what aspect of yourself do they represent?
Pt.: (prudently) Well, there’s that greenie lizzie that may be the “tsk tsk” aspect…
Dr M.: (pondering) Yes, the “tsk tsk” aspect… And I would say the green lady is also “tsk tsk”, while pretending to be something else. We can see that by the way she is stroking the unicorn type critter.
Pt.: Yeah, the green lady is more complex…
Dr M.: (encouraging) Yes.
Pt.: In the beginning she was just having her arms behind her back, like a bystander…
Dr M.: (intently) Ahah! Very telling!
Pt.: Why green… I wonder; green is usually representing healing or nature, but here it’s more like other sorts of emotion
Dr M.: is it? IS IT? Green is associated with heart?
Pt.: what do you mean?
Dr M.: it’s a question.
Pt.: yes it would be as if… heart is not at the task, or expressing two weirdo aspects… (after a moment) And I think there is something missing that may explain the bossy lizzie; I think it’s pointing at a poop…
(a pause as the Dr. looks again at the picture, pointing out something)
Dr M.: Now, what is that plumbing white thing? Is it a pipe?
Pt.: (hesitantly) a WC-pipe?
Dr M.: (laughs, caught off guard)
Pt.: (laughs too)
Dr M.: Don’t laugh. This is no laughing matter… So, we have an outlet then; that is a good sign.
Pt.: Yes, it recycles, and looks shiny.
Dr M.: Yes rather clean, has not been used I would say. Okay, and the cheeky blue girl, what aspect does that represent?
Pt.: The child aspect? She says “everything is ok, dumbass”, “Just look at me!”
Dr M.: Yes, cheeky, and perhaps a tad manic as well… Ahahahah!
(pulling a straight face) Don’t laugh.
She is also wanting to go somewhere.
Pt.: Oh, really?
Dr M.: We can tell this by the fact that she is hitch hiking. You see the give away thumb?
Pt.: (looking impressed at the perceptiveness of the Doc)
Dr M.: That’s why I am so sought after as a psychoanalyst. Now you see the girl has descended the stairs? It also is a good sign: she has come down to Earth.
Pt.: (trying to decipher his drawing) Are these stairs?
Dr M.: (raising eyebrows) You answer that.
Pt.: Oh… Interesting. I think they are a bit zebra crossings and a bit of stairs too, and perhaps railways, or a chimney… See how mad it all is!
Dr M.: (unfaltering) Yes. And a rope ladder also.
Now, the reindeer, usually in these sort of situations, represents childhood wishes
Pt.: (impressed) Childhood wishes, now that’s interesting, wouldn’t have figured that one on my own…
Dr M.: Now you need to discover what childhood wishes are being thwarted.
Pt.: (suddenly attracted by something) And what is the red cloth? And the moon with the purple cloud?
Dr M.: (unsurprised) Yes, about time you noticed that.
And did you also notice the moon, behind the purple cloud?
Pt.: Yes, I…
Dr M.: Well, of course you did.
Pt.: Oh… is that representation of illusion?
Dr M.: Is it?
Pt.: (more affirmatively) or of ideals?
Dr M.: I will let you answer that my friend.
Pt.: The purple clouds seem to be coming from the “chimnway”, like it’s about exhaust fumes again…
Dr M.: Yes! precisely.
Pt.: What would be the symbol of the “skwido” ?
Dr M.: What would be? Of course the very name sounds like weirdo
Pt.: And the leaking water…
Dr M.: Of course leaking water is the symbol for leaking emotions, merged in a sea.
Pt.: The swirliwaves at the bottom water would be representing Source then… and the “skwido” my essence of weirdo ahahaha…
Dr M.: Yes. And there is a battle going on. Clearly represented by the purple fumes and the orange red “thing”, separated by the unicorn horn.
Pt.: Oh… (hesitant) Yes, the unihorn is a bit vindictive… separating?
Dr M.: Well is it vindictive?… or a mediator?
Pt.: Yes, I would agree!
Dr M.: Healing the rift, bringing conciliation.
Pt.: Hehe, she’s a bit funny that unicorn… She’s got head to the moon and feet on the ground; small feet, but feet nonetheless…
Dr M.: I feel the image is divided in two: child, canary and reindeer on one side… and then the greenies and the unicorn on the other.
I think the unicorn is bringing together the elements in the picture, but there is something it is not looking at, or not seeing; however still unifying, as the unicorn is looking at the child, thus combining the groups of three. And why does the unicorn not have eyes?
Pt.: (surprised) It doesn’t?
Dr M.: It has no pupils. And this is MOST significant
Pt.: Mmmm… had not noticed that… Perhaps unicorn does not need them
Dr M.: or perhaps something not being seen…
Pt.: I’d say it’s just because I got distracted or lazy when I drew it, but that wouldn’t be just a coincidence, would it?
Dr M.: (thoughtfully, then discreetly rolling her eyes) I think you know the answer.
Pt.: Its gaze is hypnotic… Its perception is not from this world… It’s blind to the small details
Pt.: It’s the only main character who is not really looking at the viewer, not directly, or looking at it from another viewpoint.
Dr M.: I see… The huge teeth of the unicorn are also significant; which you have paid so much attention to, yet there are no eyes.
Pt.: Well, it’s a horse, so she’s got a horse’s smile…
Dr M.: Of course. Perhaps to chew on something
Pt.: She’s happy. She won’t tell how or why, but she shows it…
Dr M.: I want to know about the title now…
Pt.: Tinipooh?
Dr M.: (adjusting her horn-rimmed glasses) Yes, precisely, I want to know the relation of the title to the image.
Pt.: Oooh… Let me see… It’s revealing also… How embarrassing ahahaha…
Dr M.: (laughs then quickly regains composure) You know what I said about laughing.
Pt.: (tentatively) Yes, it’s to express my embarrassment emotion…
Dr M.: (encouraging) Oh very good!
Pt.: I suppose Tinipooh is like “tiny pooh”, which is a metaphor for tiny turd… though I would pronounce it teeneepoo
Dr M.: HAHAHAHAAH! (then, sternly) Yes, indeed.
Pt.: You see, the greenie lizzie is pointing at something…
Dr M.: Yes, what?
Pt.: It’s not really a pooh, as there is a pearl inside… but the creature may consider it an offensive pooh…
Dr M.: Yes, a pearl. And the pearl appears to be attached to the child’s hair, which is of course strength.
Pt.: yes, like a flower emerging from the head. And I was thinking… what would be the symbol of the hair crossing the child’s right hand.
Dr M.: Empowered action.
Pt.: Blending the limits of the two, making them cross path… (an awkward pause)
There is still something that would require your talented abilities to decipher…
Dr M.: Yes. How can i help you?
Pt.: The thing at the child’s foot… I can’t figure what it is.
Dr M.: Yes I observed that earlier, of course. It is reminiscent of the squashed spider in that story you told me about earlier.
Pt.: Oh yes, interesting…It looks like a… some kind of slug… mmm meaning “sluggish”!
Dr M.: It is a bit poohlike… Perhaps it is unicorn droppings.
Pt.: (unperturbed) And foot stands also for “step”…
Dr M.: (still perplexed by the origin of the pooh) or more likely reindeer actually… Well the child does not appear concerned.
Pt.: No, actually she’s aware she creates the sluggipooh.
Dr M.: Now, I see less conflict in this image, that is because of my healing ability. Some conflict still… but starting to resolve
Pt.: Do I need any medication in the meantime Dr?
Dr M.: Yes you do. Give me a moment…
This is tricky. (a 30 second pause follows)
Yes, you need to focus on yellow; on the colour. I know that is hard for you.
Pt.: Understood. Will put a little more yellow faces 
Dr M.: Right, well, I think we have this sorted now.
Pt.: That was fascinating, thank you so much Dr.
Dr M.: You are most welcome. This is my little gift, a gift I can share with the world.
