“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Today we were visited —unannounced—by a young man named Jim Poett, who has been assigned to interview Jane for The Village Voice. We talked to him for at least a couple of hours. This wasn’t an interview: he is to call Jane in a couple of weeks about that procedure, after he’s read more of her work. Jane gave him our unlisted phone number. The Voice is a New York City newspaper.

(Numerous questions were raised by the event, of course, but Seth doesn’t go into them this evening. Jane and I have started our own list for Wednesday night’s session, instead. It can hardly be a coincidence that this “opportunity” materialized shortly after we began our new program suggested by Seth, and what we’ve learned about our attitudes toward publicity, scorn and criticism, and go forth. Perhaps our handling of the affair will show just where we’re at, as they say. No commitments have been made, and I’m anxious that Jane consider whether she even wants the interview, as well as the questions that would then arise, should she answer yes.

Now: there are gradations, of course, to creativity. Certain important kinds of creativity demand incubation periods, during which the conscious mind cannot follow the inner processes. It goes its own way, concentrated in day-to-day reality, while the inner portions of the self amass great information, perhaps, try out new organizations, and utilize the inner senses. The “results” then emerge to the conscious mind, and you have inspiration, and a creative “product.”