“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

How Seth, Dreams … eventually came to be issued by Stillpoint Publishing, how it can even be thought of as a “lost manuscript,” makes a most interesting account that I’ll just outline here. First, though, I remind the reader that Jane spoke in a trance or dissociated state for a discarnate personality who calls himself Seth; by his own definition he’s an “energy personality essence,” no longer focused within physical reality. Last July my agent, Tam Mossman, phoned to ask that I search Jane’s papers for a manuscript he remembers her submitting to him some seventeen years ago, when he had been a young editor just beginning a career with Prentice-Hall. That manuscript is Seth, Dreams and Projection of Consciousness. As soon as he’d reviewed it back then, Tam had asked Jane to do a book on Seth himself. The result? The Seth Material, for which Jane signed a contract in December 1968. The book came out in 1970; and in it she had used certain portions of Seth, Dreams …

[...] The results were so immediate and excellent, and Rob was so limp when he finished, that both of us were amused. [...]

[...] … You were released so quickly as a result of the exercises that you didn’t know what had happened.…

[...] As a result, it stiffens, and then you have, my well-meaning friend, the cold detachment with which you at one time faced the world.

Because of the Miss Cunningham dream and the “Idea Construction” experience, Rob suggested that I try some experiments in ESP and expansion of consciousness and do a book on the results — negative or positive. [...]

[...] This was the resulting monologue:

In practical terms, these mental enzymes must — and do — give a predictable, more or less dependable, result. [...]

[...] If you’ll forgive a pun, because a certain cause will usually give a certain effect in your physical universe, you may be justified in saying that the apparent results are laws that operate within your system. [...]

As a result of the following sessions, for instance, we began “testing” physical reality for its subjective yields. [...]

[...] As you will see, the resulting experiences began to add another dimension to our lives.

[...] Were they the results of his fumbling attempts to use the inner senses?

“Jane hypnotized me several times lately, with very good results, as you know,” Rob said.

[...] Monday morning he tried self-hypnosis with good, though temporary, results. [...]

[...] Today or rather late this evening, before 2:00 A.M. in the morning, she will undergo a severe crisis, and rapid deterioration of brain tissue will result. [...]

[...] I always want to give this particular session a title: “The Breather and the Dreamer,” because as a result of the session, I wrote a poem with that title — one of three poems inspired by Seth’s discussion that night. [...]