“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This is our first private session since September 27, 1971. During the long layoff Jane and I worked on Seth’s book, editing, rewriting notes, etc. The book was delivered to Prentice-Hall a week ago today. Jane called the publisher today, and learned that The Seth Material is due in paperback probably in January, with Seth’s own book to be published next October.

(Jane said she finally became aware of “half-formed words, or something like that,” from Seth, as we waited for the session to begin. I found I had to work harder taking my notes, to remind myself of the many symbols and signs I had worked out; some of these had temporarily slipped my mind, I discovered. Jane’s pace was brisk.)

The creative liberation in his own work (since Seth’s book has been finished Jane has started two books of her own) is a clear symptom on the positive side of the change in feeling-tone, as was the more expansive idea of adding to your establishment. (Renting the second apartment, across the hall from the original one.)

It was the religious connection at your father’s funeral that upset him. His reactions were based upon the past and had to be brought up into the present, and worked through, and this largely has been done. Your mother, for example, is quite aware that Ruburt has in his own way grown to cherish her.

(Her father, Del, had died on November 16, at 7:30 AM, in Daytona Beach, Florida. Midge, Del’s wife, called Jane later that morning, and Jane in turn called me at work. There isn’t anything we can do, particularly, beyond the few letters Jane wrote. During break I explained to Jane that she might like Seth to say something about Del; by this I meant his experiences after death. I thought his death might give Jane a chance to “follow along” with a personality no longer physical in our terms. Resume at 10:20. )

Dorothy is also there, and another member of the family from the west coast (California) will shortly join them. You may possibly be aware of Ruburt’s father before he is. He would be afraid of frightening Ruburt, regardless of Ruburt’s work.

(“It is with this always we began and we begin our classes. It is with this chant always that we begin our endeavors in our space; it is not your own, and only a translation, for we do not use verbal communication. It is always with the facsimile of what we have heard that we begin our work, and in many guises and in many ways you are acquainted with our activities. I have always been here in your terms as you have always been in other places and other times, and there is a great familiarity and wonder on our part that you are still involved in these endeavors which were begun in your terms so many centuries ago, and in ways that you cannot now presently comprehend. And yet you are even familiar with what comes out as what appears as my voice in your own traits and your own translations. There are cities that we have built that you have helped us build; there are wonders here, wonders in your own reality that we helped build in other sizes in your time. We have been here many times, and you have been where we are.