“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Today when I called his office, I found out that Andrew Fife was on vacation until January 3, so I’ll see him then. The girl I spoke to knows our case, so I explained what I wanted to show Andrew. She said the claim denials were “ridiculous,” and that our lawyer “will get a good laugh out of them.” I’d quoted the stock line of refusal on each of the four claims to her, so that she knew what I was talking about.

(3:20. I worked with mail a little. Then I opened the presents Sue had left us. One of them was a large, vividly colored parrot that I managed to hang from the wooden frame of the bulletin board at the foot of Jane’s bed, so she could see it. Truly a creative and original gift. In fact, Jane said, it was a more valid and true statement of reality than the other gift from Sue—After Man, by Dougal Dixon. It’s a pictorial projection of evolutionary trends 50 million years hence. At first Jane and I wondered why Sue would give us such a book, knowing our views on evolution. Regardless of that, I eventually decided that I was glad to receive the gift, no matter what Sue does or doesn’t know about evolution. It was a beautiful compendium of all of the fallacies and distortions and wishing-thinkings concerning the scientific view of evolution.

And I bid you congratulations on your anniversary (our 29th).

(I also suggested to Jane that if she began another Seth book, we do it without notes—straight Seth, with her writing her own introduction, say. I could always contribute an intro also. But this way, I said, we could publish works without delay, and stay even with our output. No more falling two or three or four years behind. Any other writing I might do could be on my own.