“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Rich was half embarrassed and half serious; at the height of the exchange between the two, Seth’s addresses to Rich were so fast I couldn’t hope to record them. After pictures were over, Seth also returned several times to answer some of Rich’s questions. The session itself, between parries at Rich, Seth addressed to Rich and to Diane, answering questions they had asked before its beginning.

(The session began ordinarily enough, but before long an interaction between Rich and Seth began to show. Seth’s pace also speeded up considerably, and I began to fall behind. But more than this, words cannot really record the very humorous exchange that developed between Rich and Seth. I saw Jane, as Seth, laugh herself far more than ever before in trance. Seth did most of the talking as usual; and more and more his attention became riveted upon Rich as the latter buzzed around, taking photo after photo, with flash. The interaction between the two finally became so funny and fast paced that I laid the notes aside and surrendered to laughter.

(During break both Rich and Diane asked questions that Seth undertook to answer to some extent. However the pace soon became too fast for my notes; because of this and the funny goings-on between Rich and Seth, I soon gave up note-taking. The session itself lasted perhaps until 10:15. But with Seth returning several times to speak to Rich and Diane, it was close to midnight before the affair was wound up.

(The session is incomplete as far as notes go. It was held primarily so that Rich Conz, of The Elmira Star-Gazette, could photograph Jane in trance. We wanted the photos for Jane’s book on the Seth material, which is now practically finished. Rich also brought with him contact proofs of photos he took of Jane and me yesterday afternoon.

The aggravation of sinuses began before your trip to Rochester, when Eleanor spoke of Rich Bed. (Eleanor wrote Jane about this October 4, 1972, praising Rich Bed extensively. [...]

[...] We knew they were related to Eleanor Friede and Rich Bed, etc., as detailed before. [...]

[...] All of the reasons had to do with Eleanor and Rich Bed, and Adventures, Tam, Jane’s feelings of being cut off by Eleanor and Dick, etc. [...]

[...] I suggested a two-week deadline; then Jane would ask for the return of Rich Bed if she’d had no word from Eleanor. [...]

The rich cannot buy a better light bulb than the poor—though they may have chandeliers galore, and electricity flows in your country through the poorest and richest areas as well. The rich and poor alike are provided with fire protection and police protection. The rich do not have purer water than the poor. Rich and poor alike walk down the same city streets. The same street does not suddenly become gold beneath the foot of the rich man and woman—and potholes in city, state, or government roads are felt alike by the tires of the Cadillac and the lowly Volkswagen.

Now: in your country, generally speaking, rich and poor alike are provided with a multitude of services—many of course that are taken for granted.

[...] Certainly the young are usually poor, rather than rich, and what is best to shock a complacent mind out of its complacency—its feared complacency? [...]

Initially there was great enthusiasm with both, but Rich Bed was his baby and Adventures a method of learning and an initial way of releasing pent-up creative energy. [...] At the same time he hoped Tam would take Rich Bed, knowing he wouldn’t. Unconsciously Tam sensed that dilemma, as he senses this one. [...]

After Seth Speaks was duly accepted, and while he was working on Adventures and Rich Bed initially, then he improved. [...] Again he had another psychic book, and hopes of a contract, and Tam did not want Rich Bed.

[...] I saw at once that if valid they also meant Jane must shelve her projected book, Adventures in Consciousness, and concentrate on things like Rich Bed, the Dialogues (poetry), and, perhaps, let Seth do his own thing in sessions. [...]

[...] Adventures initially was a way of leading him back into “I” writing, and toward Aspects and Rich Bed.

Jane liked this trance shot: In a quiet moment during a hilarious session in 1969, Seth contemplates Rich Conz, a photographer for the Elmira Star-Gazette. Rich had many questions.

[...] Photo by Rich Conz.

[...] Nature in all of its varieties is so richly encountered by the animals that it becomes their equivalent of your structures of culture and civilization. They respond to its rich nuances in ways impossible to describe, so that their “civilizations” are built up through the interweavings of sense data that you cannot possibly perceive.

It began—the cold—after Eleanor (Friede) showed such pleasure with (Jane’s autobiography) Rich Bed. [...]

Rich Bed is highly important to him personally and creatively. [...]

[...] A note added after Jane’s death in 1984: she worked upon her most interesting autobiography, From This Rich Bed, periodically over the years, but never did finish it. [...]

Now all the richly creative, original work that is done by this inner self is not unconscious. [...]

[...] The complicated, infinitely varied, unbelievably rich tapestry of Jung’s, in quotes “unconscious,” could hardly be unconscious. [...]

The energy of this inner self is directed and used by it to richly form from itself, from components and inner experience, a material counterpart in which the outer ego then can act out its role. [...]

(“Did you like your pictures?” The photos taken by Rich Conz.)

[...] The rich emotional contact and encounters that are possible between you became clogged by inhibition and fears. [...]

[...] Again, he suffers more from the lack of rich emotional interaction than you; he is less able to take it.

[...] There are richly creative emotional founts within you both. [...]

[...] You hid your warmth from each other, and denied each other the life-giving, rich emotional interaction that you need as individuals and as creators.

Started out o.k. Read most of Rich Bed. [...]

[...] As you come into your body with all of its physical surroundings, so at birth do you emerge into a rich natural psychological environment in which beliefs and ideas are every bit as real.

[...] (See the 614th session in Chapter Two.) This belief in your society also harks back to the Bible and Christ’s association with the poor rather than the rich.

[...] The peasants of course worked closely with the land and seasons, with earth’s natural timing, and even though such work seemed to make time go faster, in the overall the sense of present time included a rich dimension from both present and past, so that in your terms it would seem longer by contrast —richer—when people went to bed earlier, lacking the night’s electricity. [...]

[...] A lifetime, of whatever length, seemed longer then than it does now, for it was psychologically lengthened by that rich extension into both the future and the past. [...]

I do not want you to think that I am idealizing them, for their ways were not particularly gentle, but their experience with time was a rich vein of experience that is now most unusual—one that you were at least aware of in your own reincarnational episodes. [...]

[...] There will now be a synthesis of dream and waking activity, and a greater physical release, but he must also work through his beliefs on Rich Bed and the material begun today. [...]

[...] At our first discussion, though, Peg told me that a brother-in-law had just come into a tremendous amount of money as a result of lawyers fees, he is a lawyer, and a rich account. [...]

[...] On inspiration, she simultaneously stroked the air beside Willy with her other hand — and found that sensation to be almost as rich.

[...] “It’s a real richness of sense data. [...]

[...] When you understand the nature of reality and your part in forming it, then you can no longer look to others to solve your problems for you, and you realize that your own beliefs are the rich creative elements that you yourself must mix and match. [...]

[...] And her richly sensual responses continued. [...]

After Eleanor’s refusal Ruburt was left with Rich Bed. [...] So he felt guilty about Rich Bed even though it wasn’t finished.

[...] Eleanor also represented on another level the establishment, the rich, literary, “in” crowd, and the great youthful specialized ideas of literary success.

Eleanor, who professed such greater literary understanding and appreciation for Dialogues, in her turn refused it as well, and also Rich Bed. [...]

[...] It was like an internal tingling or thrilling, a rich suffusing feeling. [...]

[...] You look at the world around you and are amazed at its richness and variety. Do you think that the inner world is not as rich, even more rich, more valid? [...]

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[...] The rich green lawn sloped down to the great maple and the sumac trees lining the road. [...]