“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Instead however Seth began to talk about Jane’s evident conflict with an editor at Ace Books. Last Thursday, March 20, Jane had written Ace demanding the return of her dream book manuscript because of the delay in hearing from Ace—but once—since last December.)

In the meantime I will tell you about your Miss Grippo (the editor in question at Ace), and the name is an apt one. She did enjoy Ruburt’s first book, but is very angry that Fell held out financially, thinking then: “Who does Fell think Jane Roberts is? Why does he think we would pay so much when the name is unknown? He,” meaning Fell, “is out to bleed us.”

She projected this feeling to Ruburt also, particularly because Ruburt knew Don Wollheim. Fell was asking an exorbitant rate, she thought, for the first book; and Ruburt, she reasoned, would expect special privileges because of her contact with Wollheim, and so she got her back up and made sure no special privileges were given. In fact she bent over backward in the other direction.

There was something else. She resented the authoritative tone of the dream book as she first saw it, thinking again: “Now my God, this Jane Roberts imagines herself an authority.” Wollheim did not overstate what she told him. She never thought that Ruburt would revise the book. (Pause.)

(In the 460th session of January 27, 1969, Seth predicted the sale of the dream book to Ace, considering present—at that time—probabilities. It follows of course that drastic action such as Jane took last week could radically alter the probabilities.)

Now Ruburt was attempting a legitimate projection, and the Grant book, in the overall, was good for him; but he got the idea for such a materialization by playing around unconsciously with an idea in the book. He thought of turning his symptoms, or the fears behind them, into a demon which he could then slay and conquer for good. (An autobiography by Joan Grant is referred to here.)