“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Publishers deal with the culture that you know, with people who follow it. Prentice does not understand why the books have sold. Castaneda does not become Don Juan. He holds himself clearly apart from the reality he explores. If our material was not excellent it might have found its way to some spooky underground publisher.

An ordinary, reputable publisher does not know what to do with a Jane Roberts who produces a Seth of another reality—books on her own also, and books moreover of quality.

Bantam is helping—but no one there would have had the guts to make any initial investment. What I have said however applies now to Bantam, as it did to Prentice in the beginning. You give them no handle of a recognizable nature in your culture, upon which their kind of advertisement can be written.

(Pause at 10:11.) You would not necessarily want to handle those results. You would not want to handle the phone calls, the interviews, so do not blame Prentice for not giving you what you do not want. If that was what you really wanted, you would have had it yesterday.

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.

All mail does not come from the postman, so each of you should have your own kind of inner response from me to whatever letter you have sent by mail. I serve in many ways as a speaker for your own psyche, however, so the inner message will be from your own greater being to yourself, and at that multidimensional level of reality I salute you.

In the old frame of reference he had to convince himself that his body could not move well, or fast. Then he did not need to deal with what he thought of as distracting elements—to leave his desk. Also, he could not travel too far inward without being drawn back to the body’s discomfort. This gave him a feeling of safety. He found, in time, that the symptoms however were far more limiting than he had counted upon, and as his experience grew he found he needed less so-called “safeguards.”

(11:31.) The feeling of hopelessness resulted when he felt that perhaps he could not alter the pattern, that he had made his bed, as his mother used to say, and he must lie in it. A quite literal remark that was when his mother made it, for that is what she did.

It is important then that you take a firm stand, both of you, in that regard. Your own fear, Joseph, sometimes—but not always—pushes you to exaggerate what you think of as Ruburt’s suggestibility on the phone. For a while, simply to aid in Ruburt’s recovery, and for present operational procedure, I suggest that you have the final word—that if you feel a firm “no” is not given, you give it.

I suggest no more than 15 people at the most. They come here as a touchstone. What they learn they can tell others. There should be a group of ten who come regularly. Ruburt will know who they are.