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The Seagull goes ahead for us, and in a way that you and Ruburt are not equipped to go. You are both too solitary for that particular kind of endeavor. Seagull whets the appetite. Its readers will find more where its author found more, so the Seagull flies truly.

There were many alternate probabilities. Seagull is the one that materialized in this reality. Dick’s very open attitude has already helped Ruburt immensely—another writer, you see; the blending of the writer and psychic, highly important to Ruburt. Dick however did not know where to go after Seagull, until he came onto our material, and it (underlined) will help him.

The needs and desires of others naturally enter in, and some energy must be used to close them out. That is why I did not have a full dictation for our Seagull and friend.

The Seagull is above all your friend. He will continue to be a celebrity. He will also have some storms to weather. He is deeply loyal, even more to ideas than to people, particularly when his need for freedom is respected. He will be of great help to Ruburt, and in advancing our work.

(Timothy Foote, senior editor in charge of the book review department for Time Magazine, interviewed Jane and me today in connection with a cover story he is to write about Richard Bach and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

[...] And of course it is no coincidence that Timothy Foote, being the kind of man he is, came here, and is doing the Seagull’s story.

[...] They will (in quotes) “want to believe” Seagull and its story, for example, but they will not come from any homogenous background of acceptance, necessarily. [...]

An individual who completely accepted what was going on here, and Seagull without question, could (underlined) also possess a fervor that would, or could, overstate the case, rouse instead within people conflicting beliefs. [...]

(Some notes added later: Dick Bach felt that he didn’t really write Seagull himself. By now the story of that book’s conception is well known: Late one night in 1959, Dick was walking beside a canal near a West Coast beach when he heard a voice say, “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” [...]

[...] You are looking for the author of Seagull, and I tell you I am looking at him. [...] But I am looking at all that is visible of the author of Seagull, and you should know him best of all. [...]

[...] Information, then, becomes new and is reborn as it is interpreted through a new consciousness, as Seagull was.

[...] Now I will tell you: If you assign the authorship of Seagull to another, then you deny the uniqueness of your own inner self.

(Richard Bach, the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, left this morning after having been our guest since Monday, the 28th. He called Jane last Friday from his home in Bridgehampton, New York; he wanted some insights into his writing of Seagull; Richard attended ESP class last night, and heard Seth, Sumari, etc. [...]

The meeting with your Seagull friend was significant for many reasons. [...]

[...] The meeting with your Seagull friend however also helped cement this realization on his part. [...]

[...] Seeing that his own ability is greater than our Seagull’s—in certain, now, important areas—he realizes what can be done when he does go ahead.

Some of the results mentioned earlier will come from conversations the Seagull has with people in California, who ask him about us. [...]

[...] In his value system, Seagull, etc., had to occur, or something like it. [...]

(Yesterday Jane and I read the Time magazine cover story for November 13, 1972, featuring Richard Bach and his book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. [...]

[...] Actually Time’s design showed a seagull superimposed over Dick Bach’s head, partially obliterating it.

(Re the sentence by Seth about a book for Macmillan Co.: Richard Bach, of Seagull fame, and his editor from Macmillan, Eleanor Friede, are to visit us on Tuesday, September 19, according to a note Jane has received from him.)

[...] Look at the New York world and the California world with the eyes of the Seagull. [...]

[...] The brief letter commented favorably on Seagull, and invited Dick to dinner in Washington, DC. [...]

The Seagull, while free, was not all that free. [...]

Ruburt saw Seagull, or Richard, as a child who followed Eleanor’s advice, and in watching Richard’s career, was able to see more clearly what that kind of career meant.

And now I will flap off like the kindly old seagull in your story and I wish you all a hearty good evening and a fond good night. [...]

[...] Seagull’s middle-aged lady focused it further. [...]