[...] I think Dick Roberts, editor at Dell, said something about going to California for a publishing firm. [...]

[...] Here Seth refers to my being called Mr. Roberts on occasion during the tour. [...]

(After a discussion of the book, Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.)

Robert F. Butts
September 1978

[...] I call Jane Roberts “Ruburt” (and, hence, “he” and “him”) simply because the name designates another portion of her reality, while she identifies herself as Jane. [...]

(The photograph of me, taken and dated by my father [Robert Sr.], has been kept in one of the Butts family albums for 53 years. [...]

In a very simplified summary from Rich Bed: Jane was the only child of Marie Burdo and Delmer Roberts. [...]

(Robert Monroe wrote Journeys Out of the Body.)

[...] Robert Monroe is the author of Journeys Out of The Body, Doubleday, 1971. [...]

In Volume I, see Session 680, with notes 1–3. My father, Robert Sr., who died in 1971, was very gifted mechanically. According to Seth, a still-living probable self of Robert Butts, Sr., is “a well-known inventor, who never married but used his mechanically creative abilities to the fullest while avoiding emotional commitment.” [...]

[...] (I, Robert Butts, was one of the believers.) The lie did not become truth but it became more nearly so, for despite their failures the ex-servicemen managed to bring up children who would not go to war willingly, who would question its premise.

[...] Although they bear my name, before I was finished with them I’d had plenty of help from my wife, Jane Roberts, and from Seth, the nonphysical entity who speaks through her while she’s in trance. [...]

INTRODUCTORY NOTES BY ROBERT F. BUTTS

[...] You, Joseph—I will speak to you as Robert. [...]

Robert F. Butts (1919 –): My Glass-Door Dream. [...]

When you think of yourself simply as Robert Butts you limit your reality. [...]

[...] But in certain terms she was the masculine center of the family, emotions or not, the aggressive one; and speaking conventionally now, your father (Robert Sr.) accepted the more passive creative role. [...]

[...] Today also saw the shooting of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. [...]

An ordinary, reputable publisher does not know what to do with a Jane Roberts who produces a Seth of another reality—books on her own also, and books moreover of quality.

[...] Accordingly, then, a Jane Roberts Butts and a Robert F. Butts live in that apartment I’m creating. [...]

[...] Jane said the question brought her mother to her mind; Seth however did not want to give her mother’s name, which is Marie Roberts, or those initials; and Jane did not do so. [...]

[...] And J. R. B. can be the initials of Jane Roberts Butts. [...]