SECOND ESSAY BY JANE ROBERTS: DREAMS FOR TWO AND SETH BEGINS A NEW PROJECT

Robert F. Butts
September, 1976

[...] She did enjoy Ruburt’s first book, but is very angry that Fell held out financially, thinking then: “Who does Fell think Jane Roberts is? [...]

[...] She resented the authoritative tone of the dream book as she first saw it, thinking again: “Now my God, this Jane Roberts imagines herself an authority.” [...]

[...] I spent several years freelancing as a commercial artist in the Sayre, Pennsylvania area while living with my parents, Robert Sr. and Estelle (my father called her Stell). [...] I preferred the small-town life, but had about exhausted my professional options after doing medical illustrations for the local but well-known Robert Packer Hospital (some drawings won prizes in traveling exhibitions), working briefly in radio, painting signs, and so forth. [...]

[...] Mark Twain and his wife [as well as Jane Roberts, Robert Butts, and Seth] called Elmira, New York, home for years, and appear to still be psychologically involved with the sites.)

[...] How strange, I found myself thinking as I prepared to write this introduction, that 37 years would pass before I’d start publishing this series of personal sessions and excerpts that had been dictated by my wife, Jane Roberts, for Seth, the “energy personality essence” she spoke for while in a trance state.

[...] (Sue’s latest, Speaking of Jane Roberts, is crowded with much frank and loving information about Jane and me that I have no room to go into here.) Peggy Gallagher and her husband Bill worked for the Elmira Star-Gazette; as a reporter Peg wrote several well-received articles about Jane and the Seth material. [...]

Robert F. Butts, my husband, sits on the couch across from me, taking verbatim notes of what I say as Seth, transcribing these “other-worldly” communications with a modern pen on good white bond paper. [...]

INTRODUCTION
BY JANE ROBERTS

The two volumes making up The “Unknown” Reality: A Seth Book, were dictated by my wife, Jane Roberts, in cooperation with Seth, the nonphysical “energy personality essence” for whom she speaks when she’s in trance. [...]

“Jane Roberts’s experience to some extent hints at the multidimensional nature of the human psyche and gives clues as to the abilities that lie within each individual. [...]

INTRODUCTORY NOTES
BY ROBERT F. BUTTS

Jane Roberts
August 29, 1980

[...] Robert came in to take Jane’s blood pressure. [...]

^* Enfield Glen is the local name for Robert Treman State Park. [...]

[...] I do not know anyone, male or female, who calls me Robert, (least of all in that manner), nor did the voice remind me of anyone I might know, no matter how slightly.

[...] This is the only time that I know of, so far, when someone has called me Robert. [...]

[...] Carol wants to publish the work, and asks about a Butts-Roberts biography — something I think we’ll probably pass upon. [...]

Of Robert: I believe G: Robert G. (Pause.)

[...] These contacts will grow out of our seeing the following people: Don Wollheim, an editor Jane has previously published with; her present publisher, Frederick Fell; Eileen Garrett; and Dick Roberts, a senior editor at Dell Books with whom Jane has published. [...]

It seems incredible to me that my wife, Jane Roberts, has been dead for more than thirteen months. [...]

[...] And Laurel Lee Davies, the young lady who’s now helping me carry on my publishing activities, at once intuitively picked out from my files the one right photograph of Jane to us for Seth, Dreams … Jane’s father, Delmer Roberts, took the snapshot when she was on vacation with him in Baja, California in 1951. [...]

[...] Yet I have my own intuitive proof, because I strongly feel that the contents of Valerie’s message fit very well both the physical and the nonphysical Jane Roberts.

Robert F. Butts
Elmira, N.Y.
November 1985

[...] Robert F. Butts.)

MAY 22, 1968 [WEDNESDAY—NOTES BY
JANE ROBERTS] NOTES ON CLASS EVENTS
OF MAY 21, 1968

He is aware of this, but you are real to him in all of your Robert Butts time periods. [...]

[...] Robert Butts, Sr., died in February 1971, 34 months before she did. [...]

[...] The person was connected with Robert Monroe’s institute in Charlottesville, Va. [...]

Now some of this has to do with some information given to you by Joseph last evening—Joseph is your friend Robert—having to do with your ideas of health and illness. [...]