“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.

(Jane agreed with the questions, saying her own applied to the eye condition also.)

(11:25.) Give us a moment.... The improvements, then, rouse anxiety. Ruburt is afraid of disappointing himself and you as well if they do not continue. One or the other of you reinforce the idea of threat, the extraordinary energy is available. (This from Jane’s reading of William James lately.) You have been afraid of really structuring the improvements, of really making an important effort, for fear that effort will fail.

(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?

(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.

(One important notes I typed this session the next day, Sunday, of course. This morning Jane began to exclaim over the improvement in her vision—her left eye would “click in” as she put it, and her sight would be sharp. The effects were very pronounced, and continued as we went shopping, etc. Jane is delighted. They still continue “clicking in” as I finish this session, late Sunday afternoon. “The first improvements at all,” Jane exclaimed. I think she should set up a definite program of reflexology now, with the aim of helping the knees as well as the eyes.)