“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The last session, deleted, for June 27, had helped both Jane and me—at least once more we’d started the painful process of searching for insights into our belief systems. Of course we had questions. For myself, I listed the following before the session, as I’d promised Seth last time I would:

(2. From a discussion Jane and I had the other day: Why do Seth’s books sell so much better than her own? I’ve always been upset by this, and several recent visitors have admitted reading only the Seth books. The question has been exaggerated lately by Prentice-Hall’s decision to let Dialogues go out of print —John Nelson’s office wrote Jane last week, offering to sell us as many copies as we wanted at 85 cents a copy. Tam also told Jane last Friday that some other publishers of poetry have turned down Dialogues for paperback editions. This situation also makes me think that if I wrote Through My Eyes, people wouldn’t pay much attention to that either, on a large-enough scale to make it worth doing. This is spite of an occasional request I get from a fan about that book.

(3. More on Jane’s eyes, since I know she’s worried and frightened by that condition of strain, as Seth described it in the last session.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

The two of you are after all people, they think, and since they distrust themselves they cannot really understand how the two of you trust yourselves as much as you do. They use my position as a substitute for the authority they are trying to give up. They think “If I had a Seth (loudly), I too would progress,” and so forth.

(Jane was out of trance instantly. She’d been drinking beer, and had to go. I had a couple more questions, growing out of tonight’s material:

(1. How would Jane’s books do in the marketplace if Seth’s books didn’t exist?

(2. How will “Unknown” Reality do? Seth’s material this evening was making me wonder if my notes were going to be detrimental in that work. But I was also simply curious about whether “Unknown” Reality was going to do as well as the other Seth books.

(“Thank you. Seth. It’s very interesting.”)

(“Good night. Seth.”

(12:16 AM. After the session, I realized that I should have asked Seth one question at least: to comment on Jane’s Dialogues—why that didn’t sell well.