“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are lucky that Bantam was unable to use the exorcist type of publicity—and that is their idea at this point of how to handle such unconventional material. Such publicity could be devastating.

Grace’s (Bechtold) visit was highly important from that viewpoint. If you were, or if Ruburt was, a conventional Philip Roth, a novelist, safely within that framework, or if he were willing to set himself up as an “occult” mistress of the spirit, then you would have publicity galore.

They knew they had something, but they had no idea of what it was—or how to handle it. In the beginning they did expect that you might pressure them —perhaps you were opportunists. They were highly impressed because you did not press for publicity. You were not publicity seekers, then. They have no idea of how many books they should have for advance printings—first printings.

Now. Some of this is related to organizations, and served as a method of protection. Ruburt wondered how far he should go in publicizing his work. Ads would mean requests to speak. He discovered that he was a good speaker. He could go out into the world, but he didn’t want to. Your remarks about his telephone behavior often reinforce his feelings that he could not say “no” without the symptoms to back him up.