“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane was sunning herself in the backyard when the mail arrived at about 2:40 PM, and from her position could not see the mailman come or go. She of course knows that our mail usually arrives around 3 PM. She was in the company of two young women, one of whom lives in the apartment beneath us.

(On Friday, June 21, 1968, Jane sent the manuscript of her dream book to Parker Publishing Company Inc., Village Square Building, West Nyack, N Y. On Saturday, June 28, a card arrived from Parker with this message:

(I was painting in my studio, took a break, and went down to our front mailbox and picked up the mail. Upon reading the card I felt it out of the ordinary, more than a mere acknowledgment. I went back to work. From my studio I could look down at Jane and the others, but I did not tell her the mail had arrived. I did not do so because I remembered a dream Jane had had recently, in which I had picked up the mail, then teased her about an optimistic letter from a publisher, concerning the dream book. The thought had crossed my mind that by deliberately waving the card at her from my second-floor studio window, I could almost make that part of that dream come true.

(At 8:45 Bill still had not arrived and we were beginning to feel uneasy. We did not want a later arrival; also we had wanted to explain a few things to Bill, among them the taking of his own notes.

(“Mark the mark; Mark has arrived.” [...] Her own thought was that it indicated Bill’s arrival sometime after the session had begun.

(At 9:00 PM Bill had not arrived. [...]

[...] In other words, the entity, using its own— mark the Mark: Mark has arrived. [...]

(I’d just gotten yesterday’s mail sorted out this morning when another, lesser batch arrived today, both from Prentice-Hall and independently.

[...] Now when a batch of mail arrives I have to open the letters at once to see if money has been sent. [...]

[...] A package did arrive for Pat Norelli, containing her new glasses, however. Pat was most anxious to get these, and found them waiting at her Boston apartment upon our arrival there. Her first question of her roommate, after showing Jane and me our room, concerned the arrival of the glasses. [...]

[...] Long pause.) For Boston, a dinner for five, and a package will arrive.

It is necessary upon your plane that physical constructions arrive and depart. The departure is as necessary as the arrival, for without it new arrivals of any kind would not be possible.

[...] They have actually very little to do with what you consider male and female, and for now we can mention them briefly in terms of arrival and departure.

[...] But this destructiveness in itself serves the purposes of creativeness and arrival. [...]

When it is followed without the addition of unrestrained and purposely cruel purposes having nothing to do with the basic necessity, arrival and departure then can be seen as the two faces of male and female, each serving the basic purpose of value fulfillment and creation.

After eight o’clock on the night of a session, Ruburt should take steps so that he is not concerned over the question of whether or not particular visitors will arrive. I cannot get through to him as well when he is so concerned; nor, when he is so concerned, can I let him know ahead of time whether or not witnesses will arrive.

The whole thing should be handled on a subconscious level, so that he seems to automatically prepare himself in advance in response to an inner knowledge as to whether or not witnesses will arrive. [...]

Now that your guests are indeed arriving, you may let them enter, or I myself will open the door. [...]

[...] Neither of them had attended a session before, but Jane had made arrangements that they were to enter without knocking if they arrived after 9 PM.

(“Well, with the pendulum I’d arrived at the idea that my stomach bothered me because of a conflict between painting and writing—the time I have for each. [...]

[...] He repeated that my mother would be against using photographs of her—something I’d never arrived at with the pendulum. [...]

([Bill Gallagher:] “An unscheduled meeting was held the evening Bill arrived. [...]

April 14 Rob decides we really have to do something to tackle my difficulties which have been more than considerable lately, he suggests I call Tam to see when Events is out; or if it is, since April 13 is date of arrival. [...]

[...] Did three excellent pages James—and would have done more except for day’s events—called Edna B. about Cézanne; Tam called; Peg called about those nuts; two fans arrived. [...]

[...] It’s Thursday night as I type these notes, and the letter hasn’t arrived yet. [...]

(We were also visited at 11:30 AM by George Rhoads, who left shortly after the Danahers arrived.

[...] (Pause.) Three late arrivals. One of these someone he has been waiting for, or hoped would arrive. [...]

[...] Her pace had picked up considerably by the time break arrived.

[...] Or he and the man who arrived late both have Dr. Erickson as a common acquaintance. [...]

Two of the late arrivals are men, and one is a woman.

Rob had to go to the bank, so he excused himself and left just after the mailman arrived. [...]

[...] I’d been reacting to Ed’s letter before its arrival.

[...] Ruburt and Joseph ate lunch, and the mail arrived. [...]

[...] It looked as if Peter and Polly were indeed going to arrive almost as if Ruburt had in fact called and invited them. [...]

[...] I told you that your money would arrive. [...]

With five men at its center affecting him, and a definite determination, decision, arrived at by him as a result of this, and a smaller meeting afterward at 8 in another place.

(On January 16, in the 312 session, Seth said “money will be arriving shortly " page 247. [...]

(“Ruburt’s association is with something that did not arrive on time, but let that one pass.” [...] Letter #1 would not have arrived at his office by the next morning, Friday. [...]

[...] (Jane gestures.) Ruburt’s association is with something that did not arrive on time, but let that one pass.

A note—there is some confusion here—that was not sent, or did not arrive. [...]

[...] Our mail arrives late in the day. [...]

[...] Obvious, but intriguing: We’ll be joining the present residents of the hill neighborhood in forming a newer psychic and psychological entity than the one that existed before we arrived. [...]

If one wanted to outline an event such as our moving from an arbitrary beginning to an arbitrary end, I added, it could be from the time we first looked at Mr. Markle’s house in Sayre, in April 1974, to sometime in the summer of l975, when we think the situation next door will be resolved with the arrival of “new” people. [...]

In the 737th session, after 11:55, Seth mentioned the “other dentist” who lived and worked around the corner from the apartment house Jane and I moved into in 1960, upon our arrival in Elmira. [...]

[...] Puberty arrives, so to speak, but the time of its arrival varies according to the needs of the species, its conditions and beliefs. [...]

Sunday night I slept very well until dawn arrived. [...]

[...] She’d had intimations of it Sunday afternoon before our guests arrived. [...]

[...] [According to Seth, Emerson was a Speaker too!] Then Bob Monroe and his wife arrived, and we had a busy evening. [...]

(“Rob suggested I take a nap, since the Monroes were to arrive in an hour or so. [...]

[...] We’d been wondering if Prentice-Hall was going to stick to its schedule in bringing the book out early in June, and lo the book arrived without any fanfare at all. [...]

(So as we waited for the session I told Jane that I didn’t know which to ask Seth to talk about—my question from last session, or the arrival of God of Jane and her new physical changes.)

[...] As the years went by Tam and Ruburt arrived at certain methods of operation that suited Ruburt personally, and that were understood by both of them. [...]