“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It was for this reason also that I spoke to you the other evening. He was doing very well in having to deal with such distractions when you commented about the reincarnational material. He took this as a rebuke. You wanted the session to go more clearly in that direction, and he wondered if he had been blocking.

All Dick Bach needed that night after Robert Browning was another fancy tale. He needs that challenge, as I told you, so it was not Ruburt blocking.

(No rebuke was intended upon my part, to Jane, when I asked her, during a break in the 618th session, if she was going to give Dick more specific reincarnational data. I thought he wanted it at the time. The Robert Browning reference concerns a letter Dick received from someone [a medium?] who told him that he’d been Robert Browning in a previous life.

The Seagull is above all your friend. He will continue to be a celebrity. He will also have some storms to weather. He is deeply loyal, even more to ideas than to people, particularly when his need for freedom is respected. He will be of great help to Ruburt, and in advancing our work.

Seagull also needs friendly assurance, and some help as he learns to go deeper personally into the nature of reality and his own reality, and we can help him there.

His bubbling enthusiasm was partially responsible for his contracting The Seth Material. He was looking for answers, and young: he looked in any direction. He was not particularly discriminating. He was also not rigid in his ideas, however, and sensed the importance of the material, and as a young editor impressed his boss by his own enthusiasm. He learned as the book progressed, and he did stand up for the book to the best of his ability at the time.

He does look for miracles. He does listen hopefully to each voice, but he is no fool. He is going places. Ruburt is deeply loyal to him, and he is to Ruburt. Aerofranz is not (underlined) particularly businesslike in his approach. He has not had (underlined) to fight for a book in strong terms, but his energy and belief helped it greatly at Prentice, and was transmitted to the salesmen.

Ruburt’s own ideas have also changed. Aerofranz did indeed pick them up at times. In his enthusiastic feeling for the book, the best he could do with his lack of training was to think of it in terms of the best in the occult market.

Ruburt’s own ideas in the past were not clear enough to offset this. No matter what Ruburt said, he thought of himself as working in a highly specialized, misunderstood small field.

(I for one had never thought of Jane’s symptoms as having such a cause, but...I am still puzzled by the worsening of her symptoms when we got back home after being on tour to publicize The Seth Material, in September of 1970. Now we can see that she is getting into the regular trade-book market. Eleanor Friede and Dick Bach both stressed this. Tam Mossman is here as I write this. He too has agreed to do all advertising for Jane’s books in the regular trade-book field, rather than the occult.)

There are intuitive and very playful connections between Ruburt and Aerofranz that are highly creative. Ruburt will end up with another publisher, but he will also be with Aerofranz for some time. The two together, you see.

Aerofranz will also have a much better position. There is a strong benefit here , in that he has been in on the material, relatively (underlined), from the beginning. He has a feel for it. The sales alone will generate much better contracts.

Now he was a student of yours, as Nebene.

There were many alternate probabilities. Seagull is the one that materialized in this reality. Dick’s very open attitude has already helped Ruburt immensely—another writer, you see; the blending of the writer and psychic, highly important to Ruburt. Dick however did not know where to go after Seagull, until he came onto our material, and it (underlined) will help him.

There is the same connection with Seagull. I am telling you that all of you were connected and are. Aerofranz knew, quite well, that Ruburt simply had to do some fiction. He also knew that the center of Ruburt’s being was involved with our message. Ruburt knew this also.

The joyful parable. Aerofranz was involved in that, in that he recognized Seven instantly for what it was, and responded instantly to Seven’s enthusiasm. You, Ruburt, Aerofranz and Richard are then all connected.

(Note: In December, 1972, a fan sent Jane a letter he received from F. Fell re the ESP paperback. It’s been “postponed indefinitely”. F. Fell didn’t write to Jane, however.)

Ruburt has been refreshed often by your support of him. He will never forget the flowers, and this has added to the sense of inner serenity that he is in the process (underlined) of achieving. You can trust him in business matters. I tell you this.

Continue your physical support and encouragement. Get him to go to public places, for here he is weakest, so that he builds up his conflict. He danced even at your friends’, when the stimulus was presented. There he needs your gentle (underlined) encouragement (underlined).