Robert F. Butts (1919 -): Jane Roberts. 1987. Oil on panel, 13 x 17 in.

When my father, Robert Sr., photographed Jane and me on our wedding day, December 27, 1954, and then in 1957, did any of us know that his work would be published almost half a century later?

My parents, Robert Sr. and Estelle, supported the choices their three children made — and so they wholeheartedly welcomed Jane into the family. She in turn came to love them deeply. They died in the early 1970s.

[...] Jane Roberts’s husband, Robert Butts, wondered about the death of his mother (on November 19, 1973). In a session (the 679th for February 4, 1974) he brought out some old photographs. [...]

[...] I used the opportunity, then, to explain the great freedom available to Robert Butts’s mother after death — but also to explain those elements of her reality present during life that had been closed to him consciously because of mankind’s concepts about the nature of the psyche. I comment now and then about photographs that belong to the Butts family [including Jane Roberts], yet any reader can look at old photographs and ask the same questions, applying what is said here to private experience. [...]

[...] Instead I began to express myself by speaking through Jane Roberts. [...]

[...] What I meant of course was that if Thomas Voghler and Tom Roberts were friends, and if Seth now knew Tom Roberts, then Seth would also know Thomas Voghler, or at least of him.)

(Yes) c probert tm (yes) Roberts Jane, u are (yes) u are medium.

I am Tom Roberts.

[...] His name is Delmer Roberts; and Hubbell is the family name. [...] So our task now is to learn if Delmer or Jane had a great great uncle named Tom Roberts, and if Tom Roberts had a brother named Hubbell Roberts.

Roberts.

(“In what year did you die, Hubbell Roberts?”)

[...] These books consist of the first 510 “sessions” that my wife, Jane Roberts, delivered for that well-known “energy personality essence”, Seth, after she began speaking in a trance or dissociated state in December 1963. [...]

[...] My wife, Jane Roberts, and I salute you!

Robert F. Butts

Jane Roberts and Robert Butts have had letters from scientists of all kinds, many of them academics. [...]

[...] I have absolute faith that Seth and Jane Roberts, as well as Rob, know how I mean that with all my heart.

My wife, Jane Roberts, dictated The Magical Approach for Seth, the “energy personality essence” she spoke for in a trance state, in 1980—but the pressures of Jane’s illness, and of our producing other books, kept us from publishing it quickly. [...]

[...] (RC, as everyone calls it, was founded by Maude Cardwell in June 1980; she began it as a two-page mimeographed newsletter.) Richard Roberts, of Vernal Equinox Press, published A Seth Reader, a volume consisting of excerpts from six of the Seth books. [...]

Sue Watkins, who described Jane’s ESP class so well in her two-volume Conversations with Seth, recently began doing research for Conversations with Jane Roberts: A Multidimensional Memoir.

Our contacts now are not just contacts with Robert F. Butts and Jane Roberts, and that is why I have always used your entity names. [...]

(To me.) I speak to you as Joseph, and all unknowingly you react as Joseph; (leans forward) for Robert F. Butts alone, or Jane Roberts alone, would never have met me.

[...] In terms then of vision, I see Joseph rather than Robert. [...]

Robert F. Butts (1919–): Jane Roberts. [...]

BY JANE ROBERTS

NOTES: INTRODUCTION BY JANE ROBERTS

QUOTATION FROM JANE ROBERTS

Robert and Jane operated in a vacuum, since he did not tell them anything regarding the tests, negative or favorable. [...] Dr. Instream will give a statement I believe, as to Robert and Jane’s character, the quality of the Seth material itself, and the fact that no fraud of any kind is involved.

[...] Since matters pertaining to me are at issue here, then I feel I would like to make a few comments of my own, and take it upon myself to answer your last letter, sent to Jane Roberts.

Jane Roberts, 1979

The fact of this book is proof that the ego does not have the whole kettle of personality to itself, for there is no doubt that it is being produced by some other personality than that of the writer known as Jane Roberts. Since that Jane Roberts has no abilities that are not inherent in the species as a whole, then at the very least it must be admitted that human personality has many more attributes than those usually ascribed to it. [...]

A POEM AND COMMENTARY
BY JANE ROBERTS

WITH COMMENTARY BY
ROBERT F. BUTTS

POEMS BY JANE ROBERTS

(The envelope object for the 64th envelope experiment was a parking ticket obtained at Robert Treman State Park, near Ithaca, NY, on July 12,1966, on our recent vacation. [...]

[...] As stated we obtained the parking ticket used as object on July 12,1966 at Robert Treman State Park, Ithaca, NY, and I kept track of this date by attaching a note to the ticket. [...]

(“A connection with a flower or flowers”, immediately reminded Jane of our visits to Enfield Glen, or Robert Treman State Park. [...]

“You must be Robert.” [...]

[...] Show this book to Jane and have her read it while I wait here, then you tell me, Robert, what she thinks of it....” [...]

[...] “I know you don’t believe me, Robert, but I am Seth. [...]

Robert Butts’ portrait of Seth. [...] (Robert Butts)

Jane Roberts (Rich Conz)

[...] (Robert Butts)

The Way Toward Health is more than an account of the stay — and death — of my wife, Jane Roberts, in a hospital in Elmira, New York, just 13 years ago. [...]

Robert F. Butts
Elmira, New York
September 1997

[...] Originally I’d planned to write the standard kind of introduction for Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. However, as I became involved in describing the complicated, emotionally charged series of events surrounding the hospitalization earlier this year of my wife, Jane Roberts, the material automatically began organizing itself into a series of dated essays. [...]

INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS
BY ROBERT F. BUTTS