“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(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.

(Seth later said my question to Jane was Nebene speaking. I try to control this, and have succeeded often.)

(Tam Mossman, Jane’s editor at Prentice-Hall, is to visit us tomorrow.)

(A note: I read this session to Jane after it was over, which I seldom do. When I was through she surprised me by saying, “Good. Now I can get rid of my symptoms because I’m getting out of the occult field. Now I don’t have to go on any of those shows as a psychic,” etc.

(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.)

(At this writing, October 3, Tam has expressed his desire to contract Jane now for Adventures In Consciousness. Jane has the manuscript half done, perhaps. Tam’s statement was quite unexpected by us. Jane had no plans to show him the manuscript. Yet in the course of their discussion this afternoon about business affairs, the script came into focus. After supper Jane said to me, in effect: “I don’t know how we do it. It goes on at some level between us, beneath consciousness—this thing of deciding what we’re going to do next.”)

(During the 618th session, which Dick and Eleanor witnessed, and during which I manifested the Nebene characteristics by quizzing Jane about reincarnational data for Dick and Eleanor, Jane also “saw” Nebene by my chair—as she had on the previous occasion some months ago when Sue Watkins was present. This time, Jane said, Nebene had changed; his face was less pinched and narrow and demanding, more open, etc.)

(The paperback is due this fall according to a letter Jane received from F. Fell some months ago.

(In late October, F. Fell refused a collect call from Jane. She wanted to ask him when the paperback would be out, etc.

(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.)

(10:59. Jane didn’t remember much of the material, so I read it to her. Both of us were surprised by the predictions, hesitant at taking them literally, I suppose; especially the parts about excellent sales, the beginning of a phenomenon, etc. Not that we’re averse to these things, but to have them stated so baldly....

(Last Saturday Jane and I visited Cec and Jim Lord, at their trailer home in Westover Hills, Pine Valley. We saw their newborn daughter, Jacqueline Ann, about whose birth Jane had given Cec some accurate predictions. It was there that Jane and I danced; the first time, Jane said, since Marathon, Florida, last February.

(Add Data—October 11—call to Jane from Timothy Foote, of Time Magazine —re cover story on Dick Bach. Timothy Foote to fly here Friday, October 13, etc., to call back re plane schedules. Telling me about it—we also reread this session—Jane said it would be more than a casual mention of The Seth Material in the article, and that now she could “feel a tremendous amount of energy gathering around” the fact of Dick Bach, us, Seth, etc.