“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] All was quiet in the halls re Teresa and Christine, though before Jane was through the emergency alarm sounded by the elevators outside our door. A patient in 333A was having heart problems—so the people came running down the hall pushing the emergency heart/breathing machine, including Doctor Fred Kardon, who said hello as he passed 330. [...]

(The second bit of news is that Rusty met the president of Prentice-Hall recently. [...] After the program Prentice-Hall’s president told Rusty that listening to her had helped him better understand Jane’s own work. But this meeting took place last summer, and we’ve had no feedback from anyone at Prentice-Hall.

[...] One aspect not covered, and which I forgot to ask about, involved Rusty’s meeting with the president of Prentice-Hall; will try to remember to ask about this next session.

[...] Strangely, in all of this the meeting of Rusty and the president of Prentice-Hall hadn’t registered as strongly with us, though we recognized that it could be an event originating in Framework 2. Oh yes—the president is involved with Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, which may have been his motivation for attending Rusty’s talk to begin with.)

(Jane had a call from Tam Mossman at Prentice-Hall today, during which we obtained some confirmation on points made by Seth in a recent session. [...]

[...] Today Tam Mossman confirmed that Eve does ride to work at Prentice-Hall with a woman fitting Seth’s description, including the age given; he said eve would ride with him on the specified days in order to alter the probabilities.

[...] was unavailable, the point being that Prentice-Hall would like a name to do the intro. [...]

[...] Because of the conventional ranch-style floor plan of the hill house, our bedroom is isolated from the front and back doors; we reach it at the end of a hall opening off the living room. We had no door at the entrance to the hall. [...]

[...] He also hung another heavy door at the living-room entrance to the hall; we’re to keep that one closed at night. [...]

[...] At the moment Prentice-Hall is considering a prospectus for this book. [...]

[...] She said that at the end of the session, just before she left trance, she got a message that she would hear from the publisher Prentice-Hall, within three days concerning the prospectus they have for the book on the Seth material.

(But Jane did not receive, or did not retain, any data about the content of any message from Prentice-Hall.)

The new relationship with Prentice-Hall should work very well. [...]

(I had to ask Jane to repeat what she said because the Russian patient in the room next door, Karina, was yelling out in the hall, as she has been all afternoon. [...]

[...] The Christmas tree and all the decorations have been dismantled; the house is cleaned to some extent, and the copyedited version of Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality has been returned to Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] Even today, the day after this deleted session was held, I received a call from Tam at Prentice-Hall, wanting to know about cutting the length of the book. [...]

[...] I showed them my fancy patterned undershirt as a joke, and received the appropriate ooh’s and ah’s. Even some strangers in the hall outside 330 saw it and laughed. [...]

[...] We heard the medicine cart in the hall. [...]

(Last Thursday, Jane and I received from Prentice-Hall our first copies of the German translation of Seth Speaks. Prentice-Hall authorized this venture by a foreign publisher well over a year ago, but we didn’t know just when we’d see books within the two-year limit set for publication. [...]

[...] It means only that our friends in Hollywood and in the subsidiary rights department at Prentice-Hall have agreed upon the terms of the option; a contract has yet to be signed by all of us. [...]

As for Ruburt, he became overconcerned about work because of the contracts (for Mass Events and God of Jane, which we have yet to sign with Prentice-Hall), and the foreign hassles. [...]

Our editor, Tam Mossman, has verified for us that the contract between Prentice-Hall and Ankh-Hermes contains a clause prohibiting cutting, unless Jane’s and my permission is given. [...]

4. Seven Two, as we call it, was published by Prentice-Hall in May—five months ago. [...]

(It’s true that Jane improved considerably when we took the second apartment across the hall the summer before last. [...]

The two apartments helped, but in a way there is less privacy because of the public hall, you see. [...]

[...] Briefly, the new environment next door aroused him, but the apartment, while representing expansion, as I told you then, also carried a built-in boomerang—the public hall, the lack of coordination, a divided place. [...]

[...] With a change in tenants the halls for example become anonymous, all of these feelings strongly operate, and on both of your parts. [...]

(Carol left the door to 330 open partially when she left, so that hall noises entered to a greater degree. [...]

(I read her the prayer at 7:05, after reading today’s session to her, and the inevitable had happened, I thought as I walked down the hall on my way out: Seth had been interrupted and nothing had transpired. [...]

[...] The worry about Seven however was important, and the call today of benefit (to Prentice-Hall)—as the production of this book (The “Unknown” Reality) will be.

I was disappointed, naturally, but again I sent the dream manuscript out; this time to Prentice-Hall, on April 2, 1968. [...]

[...] So, while I had the chance, I decided to do some more experimenting and went out the hall door, downstairs and outside.

[...] Angry at having the experience cut short, I dozed off again, once more giving the suggestion that I would learn what was going on at Prentice-Hall.

[...] But still I heard nothing from Prentice-Hall.

Your own attitudes, for example — and beliefs — about foreigners, Prentice-Hall, people’s stupidity and lack of integrity, put you in correspondence with those same beliefs on the part of others, resulting in the translation fiasco.¹ An entirely different kind of behavior could have been elicited from those same people. [...]

1. In October 1979 Jane and I saw, to our dismay, that the Dutch publisher of the translation of Seth Speaks had violated his contract with Prentice-Hall by making many unauthorized cuts in the book. [...]

(Then this noon we received from Prentice-Hall copies of the revised index for Volume 1 of “Unknown,” plus new page proofs of the type chosen for Volume 2—a matter we’d thought already settled. [...] After lunch I had her call Ethel Waters at Prentice-Hall to tell her everything was okay, simply to get rid of the worries about the book. [...]

(Recently Jane sent her dream book to Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] (Her eyes open, Jane picked up the letter from Prentice-Hall briefly.) This is the direction toward which you should move. [...]

(Again Jane picked up the letter from Prentice-Hall.) The material in the dream book should be utilized here.

(I’d just gotten yesterday’s mail sorted out this morning when another, lesser batch arrived today, both from Prentice-Hall and independently.

(Tonight we started the sessions up again after a three-month layoff: During that time I typed the final manuscript for Volume I of Seth’s “Unknown” Reality, with Jane’s help, and we’ve just mailed it to her publisher, Prentice-Hall, Inc. [...]

(Seth opened the session by finishing his Introduction to Jane’s The World View of Paul Cézanne, which Prentice-Hall will publish later this year. [...]

(Sometime during the night while sleeping in Johnson Hall, a residence hall at Oswego State University College, I was awakened by some noisy students in a nearby hall. [...]