“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane has even thought of having Debbie Harris take dictation at night, for another children’s book. Perhaps an autobiography also. The nurses and aides were raising hell this morning with their jokes and tricks. This usually helps cheer up Jane, though she gets nervous if they don’t keep their minds on what they’re doing when they lift her, say.

(Today Jane said she’d talked it over with Debbie Harris, and that the latter would be coming in three nights a week while Jane tries some spontaneous dictation. Fifty cents a page for finished copy, they agreed upon. Jane didn’t know about trying an emotional subject like an autobiography with someone else, though. I said let it work itself out.

It began—the cold—after Eleanor (Friede) showed such pleasure with (Jane’s autobiography) Rich Bed. [...]

[...] A note added after Jane’s death in 1984: she worked upon her most interesting autobiography, From This Rich Bed, periodically over the years, but never did finish it. [...]

[...] The 15 three-ring binders containing her poems, all neatly typed, for example; her essays and journals; other blocks of unpublished Seth material, one of which I mentioned in the Introduction; an unfinished autobiography that perhaps I could put into publishable shape; likewise, passages from an unfinished fourth Oversoul Seven novel, in which Jane dealt with Seven’s childhood; a book of her paintings, with commentary; several early novels that I still believe merit publishing. [...]

[...] Let alone the bulk of Jane’s other work: her poetry, novels both published and unpublished, her other published books, an unfinished autobiography, the records of her ESP class sessions, her journals and paintings, her singing in musical trance language, Sumari, her never-ending correspondence. [...]

[...] She mentioned various periods of improvement — her work on her unfinished and unpublished autobiography, From This Rich Bed; her published novel, The Education of Oversoul Seven, and so on. [...]

[...] Her paper was very well done, and would make fascinating material in an autobiography, for instance. [...]

[...] Then there’s Jane’s business and personal correspondence; much of her poetry; her journals; her unfinished autobiography; several novels she wrote before publishing the three Oversoul Seven books; the later essays she dictated to me, while in the hospital, about Seven’s childhood; her family history as far back as it can be researched; an objective biography of her physical and creative lives including her two marriages, and Jane’s and my struggles to survive before the advent of the Seth material. [...]

I’m including in this chapter a few poems as notes of a subjective autobiography, to show what events triggered this first release of unconscious material on my part, opening the doors to the interior universe; for now I believe that certain personal conditions are characteristic prerequisites for such developments, that the channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. [...]

[...] She’s also working on her autobiography, From This Rich Bed; this has been under way for some months.

[...] (An autobiography by Joan Grant is referred to here.)

[...] One such delayed endeavor is an autobiography that she began several years ago. [...]

When he grabs upon a definite whole piece of autobiography, it is usually caused by impatience. [...]

[...] Tam Mossman edited Lee’s autobiography, Strange Experience, which was published in 1971 by Prentice-Hall. [...]

4. Jane is treating the many, often chaotic details of her life in her autobiography, From This Rich Bed. [...]

[...] Jane also held her weekly ESP classes and writing classes, and continued her work on poetry and an autobiography [also unfinished]. [...]

[...] At the same time she worked on her autobiography, From This Rich Bed [which still isn’t done]. [...]