“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I told her about my morning’s activities—going to see Pete Harpending, decisions to ask Steve and Tracy for money, the $10,000 I gave the billing department of the hospital this noon on my way to room 330. I described all of these things to Jane to let her know what’s going on in our world, thinking also that they will help her recovery. This morning I showed Pete Saul Cohen’s letter of late last week, re Steve’s idea for a Seth Production Co. When Pete called Steve this morning he learned Steve had sent his proposal to Prentice-Hall a week ago, so Saul should have it by now.

(I also told Jane Steve Blumenthal called this morning, upon receiving the letter from Saul Cohen re not approving the tape deal. Steve is to send payment for the legal fees incurred by me so far for the tape question. [...]

[...] At 3:40 Cathy took her temperature—97.8. At 3:55 I applied Steve’s Remedy Rescue Cream to the knuckles of Jane’s right hand. Steve had told me this morning that she’s supposed to use it for a couple of weeks, then see some results. [...]

(In between those calls, Steve Blumenthal called, and I told him that Jane and I had decided not to go through with the tape deal. [...] Steve took it well, and is going to use up the retainer he gave the Ithaca lawyer to have her ask Prentice-Hall some questions, etc. [...] Steve is to keep in touch. [...]

(When I called Pete back I told him about the Steve affair, and he said I should think twice before I cut out something that might give us extra income in the future. [...] I said I shut the door on Steve, but didn’t slam it. [...]

[...] I rubbed the flower extract Steve Blumenthal had given Jane last night on her knuckles of the right hand; we’ll use that location as a test site. Tracy didn’t come with Steve. And Steve didn’t ask Jane if he could see me, so I didn’t hear from him. [...]

(I told her I got a call from Sue last night, re Steve and the tape deal, and from both Pete and Steve this morning, re tapes. [...] I also told Steve he could lose money on the deal, and evidently he’s finally beginning to see that it might be very expensive for him. [...]

[...] Then when Steve and Tracy visited shortly afterward, they too had many negative things to say about many things — until finally Jane told Steve to quit dumping on her. Steve was also talking about the phases of the moon having influence on his behavior and actions, Jane said she didn’t believe in that. [...]

(Steve and Tracy Blumenthal visited Jane at the hospital last night and me at the house afterward. We talked mostly business, and Steve is going to contact Pete Harpending about a number of matters. [...]

[...] It concerned his low opinion of Steve Blumenthal—to which he’s entitled, I suppose—but Saul himself made a number of inaccurate statements, so the situation appeared to me to be a standoff. [...]

[...] I rubbed Steve’s Rescue Cream on the knuckles of Jane’s right hand, as I’d begun doing yesterday. [...]

(Third: At 6:10, as I began feeding Jane, the thought of Steve and Tracy Blumenthal crossed my mind quite definitely, without being terribly intrusive. [...] A woman we didn’t know knocked, then came in to tell us that Steve was on the line, and wanted to visit Jane this evening. [...] It’s possible, I speculated, that the very sound and rhythm of her footsteps helped trigger my conscious realization of the call from Steve.

(Yesterday I found in the mail a letter from Steve Blumenthal, requesting copies of just about every record we’ve got, and so forth—no need to go into that here. [...]

(“I’ve decided to give up on the tape deal with Steve. [...]

[...] After lunch Jane told me that Steve and Tracy had sent her a telegram Sunday night, saying they couldn’t make it for a variety of reasons. [...]

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[...] Steve and Tracy called, and Jane said she’d see them. [...]

[...] Allow yourself at times to imagine, at least, an important portion of your own creative self as innocent, sweet (gesture), and natural as that young Butts boy relative (Steve). [...]

[...] Nevertheless, I stopped at the post office on my way to the hospital to mail all of the information about the Infirmary and Steve to Pete. [...]

[...] I wanted to go over some of the past sessions in this group with her, but we never did get to it, what with cigarettes, people coming in, my reading her letters from a fan and Steve Blumenthal, and so forth. [...]

(Jane was upset when I got to 330 this noon: Her catheter had been completely pulled out of her this morning after hydro, when Georgia and Steve had transferred her back into bed from the litter. [...]

[...] Steve and Tracy Blumenthal have also lent us a complete videotaping set, and we’ve experimented a little bit with filming Jane reading poetry. [...] We’re waiting for an extension cord from Steve for the TV camera so we can try to record sessions. [...]

[...] Steve and Tracy had called during supper, and Jane had said she’d see them. [...]

[...] If Steve and Tracy visit, she’ll wait for them to suggest seeing me; Jane will ask them to call first. [...]