“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On Tuesday, February 8, she telephoned her publisher, Frederick Fell, in New York City. She read a few of the poems from the book to Mr. Fell over the phone and outlined her ideas for its humorous format, etc.; to her surprise he requested that she send him the manuscript for consideration. Jane had not been aware that he would consider poetry. Mr. Fell also asked to see the manuscript on the Seth material,and told Jane some of the plans he had for publicizing her ESP book, due to be published this May. The publicity may include adds in the New York Times Book Review; surveys taken by the publisher show the book should have a good reception and sale. Mr. Fell also told Jane she may appear on some radio and/or TV shows; this has been Jane’s idea also. Summing up, the publisher told Jane that once the ESP book is on the market and her name begins to be known through publicity, it will help the sales of future books considerably—namely the Seth material.

(“And here also with an unknown element.” referred, in my opinion, to the death of Ezra Havens, shown in the background of the photo. Ezra died of a heart attack in September 1964. Jane of course knew of Ezra’s death although she had never met him; she agreed with me that “an unknown element.” could be a reference to death.

(“A five six.” Note that Jane, or Seth, pronounced these numbers as five six, rather than fifty-six. Nevertheless I felt five six referred to the age of Ezra Havens when the photo was taken in 1960. As stated, Ezra died in 1964. Inquiring at the plant the day after this session, I learned that he had been 60 when he died; this of course made him 56 in 1960. Ezra had a history of heart trouble and his death from this was not unexpected.

The mine was a case where he was not quick enough. I gave him the underground impression, but he did not translate this into grave, simply because he does not like graves.

Ruburt’s explanation of the table was correct. I did give him the white table, but he confused it with the white table in your room, knew that this was not the table to which I referred, made the correct distinction, but thought that the white indication did not belong.