“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I finally reached the point where I told Jane, the day before this session was due, that I had decided to stop reading the New York papers so thoroughly. I found it a sad experience to read about the race situation, Viet Nam, the conditions of life and crime in New York City, etc., although of course I realized that much of this news meant something was being done about some urgent problems.

It was no coincidence, however, that you plunged into reading the New York papers during your stay in bed. [...]

[...] As time passed, and while I pored over several daily New York City newspapers plus Elmira’s daily paper, I came to realize to a small extent that poor expectations on my part had much to do with my falling ill.

(For some other examples of the psychic power of negative expectations, see the 9th, 15th and 17th sessions, involving Jane and me at York Beach, Maine. [...]

6. Jane covers our York Beach “dancing episode” in Chapter 2 of The Seth Material, and also quotes information Seth gave us on it in later sessions. The mystifying event took place during our vacation in York Beach, Maine, in August, 1963, a few months before Jane began to speak for Seth. [...]

[...] In 1947, for example, when my mother was 55 years old, I was 28 and living in New York City. [...]

Give us a moment … The birth of Joseph took place at York Beach with the dancing episode,⁶ so you have in your own experience examples in adult life. [...]

I might add that if the York Beach adventure was a strong sign for us of psychic development to come (even if we weren’t able to interpret much of it at first), then Jane’s reception a month later of her manuscript, Idea Construction, was another; and that experience contained obvious psychic elements. [...]

(A note by R.F.B.: Jane had formally ended her ESP classes by March 1975, when we moved from our downtown apartments in Elmira, New York, to the hill house at the edge of the city. [...]

[...] When you dwell upon, for example only, New York’s economic status, you keep the feeling of threat going. In realistic terms this applies to some extent to you and New York City as well. [...]

[...] Then you read the newspaper and you see that New York City is in great financial difficulty. [...]

[...] Your good strides there, however, led to your momentary-enough concern with New York City’s economic fate. [...]

^* In 1965, in response to my letter, an older and very respected parapsychologist — “Dr. Instream,” Jane called him — invited Jane and me to attend the hypnosis symposium he was to conduct at a New York State college. [...]

[...] The envelopes contained a black and white photo of York Beach, ME, taken there last summer, that is the summer of 1964. [...]

(“Something to do with a circle” is interesting, in that our motel at York Beach, where this photo was taken, is situated on a circular driveway in back of the beach hotel that fronts on the ocean. [...]

(“A place which you have both visited” is of course York Beach where the photo was taken, and “water nearby” is the ocean perhaps 75 yards away.

(“Two people” can be Jane and me, just as I recall that in the second envelope test, which also concerned a photograph of York Beach, the two people mentioned could be us. [...]

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

[...] It’s located near Ithaca, New York, some 35 miles from both Elmira and Sayre. [...] Jane is from Saratoga Springs, in upstate New York. [...]

[...] During break Lydia told us that she had lived in Bangor as a preschool child, and had been very attached to Maine; so much so that when she left there and moved to New York State, she at first refused to say she lived in New York State. [...]

[...] Often I felt sorry for the other tenants in the big old apartment house we live in on West Water Street, in Elmira, New York. [...]

(Rough front copy from The New York Times, November 6,1966. [...]

[...] You would like to have it finished to take to New York. [...]

[...] Two children, one with a name like Gina (spelled); a relative in Schenectady, New York. [...]

[...] The towns adjoin each other: Waverly is in New York, Sayre and Athens in Pennsylvania.)

[...] On June 16 and June 23, Jane’s notebook shows that she had vague, encouraging dreams about writing and publishing and New York City. [...]

[...] Made out a New York postmark and the first names of a couple, and their last name, now all forgotten. [...]

(On Friday evening, September 5, we had as visitors Dick and Carol Crossed; Edward Gassner, 3664 Culver Road [14622], and Bernard Houlihan, 25 Ewer Avenue [14622]—all of Rochester, New York. [...]

[...] Betty Taylor may soon change her position, moving to Washington DC from New York City to do reporting coverage for various magazines. [...]

[...] You will meet both men at parties in New York, and one man directly through the Miss Taylor who called this evening.

(The group referred to is the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, New York City chapter; the discussed meeting is set for October 20.

[...] Seth told me I would become a very well-known painter; Ruburt, he said, knew nothing about artists’ agents or their locations in New York City, he said for the record, adding that there is an agent on 62nd street who can be of great help to me. [...]

(Seth said Jane and I should make a trip to New York this spring whether we are asked by anyone or not, meaning Jane’s publisher principally. [...]

[...] Walter Buhr has had his work shown in numerous galleries in New York State as well as in Pennsylvania. [...] He has had a one-man show at I.B.M. in Owego, New York. [...]

(Elmira artist opens gallery to promote abstract and expressionistic art in the Elmira-Corning-Binghamton, New York area.

(Cameron Macdonnel is a graduate of the State University College of Education at Buffalo, New York, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. [...]

[...] (To make the record complete, it should be noted that Jane’s first book on psychic phenomena was How to Develop Your ESP Power. It was published in hardcover and paperback editions in 1966 and 1974, respectively, by Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc., New York, N.Y. 10016. Then in 1976 it was issued in paperback by Pocket Books, New York, N.Y., 10020, under a new title: The Coming of Seth.)

(“What did you think of those people [meaning the Craigs] coming up from New York?”

[...] By “this territory” Seth meant Elmira, New York.

(My mother lives with my brother and his family in a small community in upstate New York, near Rochester, and Jane and I had spent the weekend visiting one and all. [...]

(Looking up the address of this publisher, she was further surprised to learn that it was at 386 Park Avenue South, New York City—the same address as Frederick Fell, the publisher of her ESP book. [...]

(When Jane and I visited F. Fell’ s office in New York City last July, we stood in the foyer of 386 Park Avenue South and scanned the list of tenants. [...]