“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His study of my book will be of greater help. [...] He is impatient because he likes me working on a book for him. [...]

[...] I want him to continue with my book, and when he reaches the portions on point of power and natural hypnosis I will give him instructions so that both of you together spend five minutes a day at each exercise. [...]

Ruburt’s insights, written in the margin of my book, about the correlations between his physical beliefs and his work beliefs, are correct, and important. [...]

[...] The books and Seven will do even better. [...]

(In the mail today Jane received a book I’d sent for at her request a few days ago; then we’d both forgotten about it. [...] Later this afternoon, Jane said that she’d been getting feedback on the book from Seth and that she could have a session....

[...] We’ve learned that Jane doesn’t take to justifying each line of her work, so we’ll see what this means for future books with Delacorte, if any. [...]

The dietary methods given in the book Ruburt read have indeed worked for many, and for the following reasons: as you suspected, a kind of conversion was attained. [...]

Let Ruburt write something—anything—as a creative playful exercise daily, without caring whether or not it will develop into a book.

(I should note that Jane seems to misunderstand my attitude here: the aim is not to use halting work on Seth’s latest book as a curative device, but to at least keep things from getting any worse. It came to seem to me that finishing this latest book would only be more of the same, with the same attitudes and beliefs behind it—hence, how could it help? I never told Jane, for example, to not finish the book. [...]

A point: the answer does not lie for example in deciding not to finish my book (Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment). You are free to finish my book or not as you prefer, but not to finish it thinking that such an action will help solve your difficulties would not work. [...]

[...] In my book we rather elegantly pinpointed those precise problems that have so tainted your world, and in God of Jane Ruburt made an excellent attempt to uncover the nature of the Sinful Self, and to outline the dilemma. [...]

Now those books were the result of value fulfillment and creativity. [...]

“Whenever a book is translated, it is almost impossible, of course, to say the same thing in the same way. Such a book will always be expressed through those invisible national characteristics that are so intimately involved with language—and obviously, were that not so, no book could be understood by someone of a foreign language. [...]

[...] [Some of them are on reincarnation, and I plan to present them when Seth gets into that subject in Dreams.] On October 7, a Sunday, Jane saw for the first time the work Sue Watkins has done on Conversations With Seth, the book she’s writing about the ESP classes Jane used to hold. [...] The next day Jane began making notes for the introduction she’s to write for the book.

For a number of reasons, hardcover books especially are much more expensive in Europe than they are in the United States. In Europe a book can be priced at more than double its comparative cost in this country.

[...] Seth didn’t call this one book dictation, but it certainly applies to Dreams. [...]

(Since Jane began dictating Mass Events 11 months ago, I’ve mentioned our checking the printer’s page proofs for two of her other books: Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, and Cézanne. Now I can add a third book, James, to the list. The uncorrected proofs, typeset in the actual page format in which the book will be published, arrived last Thursday. [...]

[...] There are reasons why I am mentioning this now rather than in earlier books. Indeed, our books follow their own rhythms, and this one is in a way a further elaboration upon The Nature of Personal Reality.¹

1. Jane and I have also been thinking of Mass Events as an extension of Seth’s second book, Personal Reality. It seems incredible to us, so fast has the time passed, but counting Mass Events Seth produced Personal Reality five books ago — and some five to six years ago from this moment; he dictated it during 1972–73.

[...] The book has hovered in the back of her consciousness ever since, waiting until she focused her attention upon it once again. [...]

(Jane started a new book today, and she’s exhilarated — intoxicated — by this development in her creative abilities. [...]

[...] “When I looked at those notes I knew all of a sudden that I was to do that book — Heroics — that I was to keep on looking for the heroic self I’d written about in Politics,” she told me as we ate lunch. [...]

[...] She trusts her insight, though, and has already written a few pages for the new book. [...]

(Jane isn’t sure of the title, Heroics, yet, or how she’ll put the book together. [...]

[...] And again, a book may sell in the millions, and still go in one mental ear and out the other while our books literally do change lives—and to that extent the world—for the better.

[...] On the card the feminine friend asked Marian to tell Jane that “the books” had changed her life for the better. Marian had laughed and said that now she’s going to read the books also, to see what had so moved her friend. [...]

To paint pictures or write books is only the topmost cover for a life’s purpose, for the paintings or the books contain the purpose, but are not the purpose itself. [...]

A man who makes shoes may see his customers, but he will not know what roads his customers walk in his shoes—and you cannot know the mental and psychic changes for the better that the books are making in parents and their children. [...]

[...] The inner psychological distance must become surfacely portrayed, instantly translated to the audience, so that for him there is the same kind of reaction that he might have in talking to others overly much about a book of his own in progress—as if he might talk out the book, and therefore not need to write it, while at the same time losing much of the inner development that might otherwise give the book its own deeper meanings. [...]

(“Jane then wanted to do the Seth books and not do them. [...] Jane could have ended up in as much trouble by not doing the Seth books as she did by doing them, then. [...] Then decisions can be easily made about what activities to pursue in daily life: what books to write, how to deal with the public, etc.” [...]

[...] He writes his own books because writing is such a natural part of his expression. [...] Ideally it is his play as well, and his books serve as his own characteristic kind of public expression, fulfilling the most private and the most public poles of his psychological activity. [...]

[...] He likes the distance between himself and the public that books provide (emphatically). [...]

[...] [Class sessions aren’t numbered.] Occasionally Jane has wondered what effect, if any, the break would have on Seth’s book. However, after giving me some very astute data about my painting, Seth resumed book dictation very smoothly at 9:33 — just as though there hadn’t been any time lapse from February 11 to March 18.

(A note: I thought it would be of interest to show, by periodically recording the time, how long Seth takes to deliver a certain amount of finished material for his book.)

[...] I am obviously dictating this book, speaking through Ruburt, while Joseph sits on the couch across from a very specific coffee table, taking down my words.

For the purposes of our discussion, I must necessarily couch this book to some degree in the framework of time. [...]

(Pause, one of many.) Even though this book is being dictated within time’s tradition, therefore, I must remind you that basically (underlined) that tradition is not mine—and more, basically (underlined), it is not yours either.

[...] I hope that in other portions of this book certain mental exercises will allow you to leap over the tradition of time’s framework and sense with the united intellect and intuitions your own individual part in a spacious present that is large enough to contain all of time’s segments.

[...] (On Seth’s book.) Have Ruburt mention the book copies in class. [...]

(Timothy is Timothy Foote, book editor of Time Magazine, who interviewed Jane last Friday, October 13, concerning a cover story on Richard Bach, etc.)

[...] Jane sat quiet briefly, still in trance, then resumed dictation on Seth’s book.

(As of now: I’m practically through with the appendixes for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality — which means I still have a number of notes to write for the book’s sessions per se, as well as much work to do for the Introductory Notes and the Epilogue. Soon after Tam Mossman suggested in early October that she do a book on her dream about Emir,² Jane began work on that project with her usual enthusiasm. The dream became Chapter 1 of the book, and inspired the rest of it; she’s having great fun writing the story, and is sending it to Tam chapter by chapter as it comes out of her typewriter — a procedure she’s never followed before. [...]

I will try to begin work on our book in a more predictable fashion, while still maintaining our own discussions, and answering any questions you may have. I do want to use our Framework 2 material, however, in a more general fashion for the book.³ You may use any of our [other] material you want, but the book itself will not rely upon that information.

[...] Since this is the third such break between book sessions, it seems that Jane and I would be used to the idea by now. [...]

[...] We do not plan to ask Seth when the book will be done. [...]

Two and a half years ago I wrote in the closing notes for Session 869, in Chapter 10 of Mass Events, that she had finally received from Seth the full title for this book: Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. [...]

[...] Often I remind myself that each note I write in connection with the Seth books, or send to a correspondent, represents my attempt as I compose it to grasp a little bit better the interior and exterior realities I am creating for myself. [...]

I have not given you a multitude of methods or suggestions, telling you how to decipher or understand your own dreams, though I have mentioned such topics often in this book and others.

I have not given you complicated methods concerning out-of-body travel, and yet all of our books, by changing your attitudes, will help you bring about changes in yourselves that will automatically enhance such activities. [...]

[...] Seth said that Jane would publish 5 books on the Seth Material; 3 novels; 3 books of poetry; plus 2 books to be dictated by Seth himself. I do not recall if the dream book, now at Ace, was mentioned; or if others were.[Jane died in 1984. [...]

[...] When we are finished publishing Ruburt’s books and my books, we will have some library.

(As predicted by Seth in the 420th session for July 1, 1968, Prentice-Hall is to publish the first book on the Seth material. [...]

(Earlier today Jane had said she thought this development referred to the dream book, now at Ace Publications, and that a sale was quite possible.

[...] Ruburt’s book ordinarily would have taken him, at the very least, four months with ordinary efficiency. You notice that Ruburt did not specifically request that a book of poetry be produced, nor was a book even mentioned.

The achievement, the book itself, is excellent. The book was written by other portions of the self than the ego, and it was not written at the ego’s wish alone.

Then I will speak briefly concerning Ruburt’s book of poetry, for this is an excellent example of how suggestion can be used to utilize energy for conscious purposes.

[...] Ruburt, with this book before him as an example, should know that he can now expect more of himself, and should not be satisfied with less. [...]

(This evening after supper, while busy with other material, Jane received the thought that it was time to begin work on Book One of The Seth Material, a project we had discussed sometime before vacation. [...] She came to the studio to tell me this, and that she also received the thought, evidently from Seth, that Donald Wollheim, her editor at Ace Books, could or would write the introduction for Book One.

You cannot include all the material in one book, obviously. That is why I would like the matters mentioned above to be definitely included in the first book, as other books will be based upon them.

The book is not something that can be done in between times, as there should be a grouping of subject matter, rather than a strict page by page rendition. [...] The suggestion I have just given you is the one way which will give you the swiftest and most advantageous progress; and also when the book is ready under this schedule the time would be ripe.

[...] It is, indeed, time that such a book be compiled, and I do suggest that when it is compiled you ask Mr. Wollheim to write an introduction. [...]

(“That constant book stuff can get confining, though,” she said, then reminded me that Seth — with her obvious consent — had plunged into Mass Events only a couple of weeks after finishing Psyche. “It gets so he concentrates on book subjects so much that a lot of other things are left out…. [...]

[...] Jane, who was to work on James all through September, prepared a presentation for that book so that in the meantime her editor, Tam Mossman, could show it to his associates at Prentice-Hall. [...] Over the telephone three days later, Tam suggested that Jane do a children’s book, or one for “readers of all ages,” based on her dream about Emir;² the next day he called again, this time to give her the delightful news that he’d accepted James for publication.

(With one exception, which I’ll get to later, we’ve spent another long period — 9 weeks — without holding book sessions. [...]

[...] “Maybe he’s already finished the book, and forgot to tell us,” I joked with Jane. [...]

[...] As she researched Jane’s published and unpublished notes, journals, and books for The Magical Approach, Laurel learned that my wife had originally intended to call this book The Magical Approach: A Jane/Seth Book, and wrote of it as being “a psychic-naturalistic journal.” [...]

For example, in Chapter 12 of her own book, Jane began an impassioned four-page discussion of the subject by quoting her own notes:

It is an honor for me to have worked as a research and editorial assistant for this book. [...]

[...] Since her death many have written to both sympathize and to ask “Why?” She had Seth, didn’t she — for whom she spoke for some 21 years; she also produced six books with him along the way (plus a number of books on her “own”). [...]

The answers to such questions that Jane, Seth, and I arrived at are in this book. [...]

I think this book shows, then, that the ways toward health can and do vary tremendously. [...]

[...] For weeks after her admittance in April, I didn’t know if Jane would ever do any “psychic” work again, but three months later she surprised me by beginning a series of dialogues similar to the “world-view” material she’d produced for her books on the psychologist and philosopher William James, and the artist Paul Cézanne. [...]

Oftentimes he was not sure what his next book would be, but overall he never doubted there would be a next book. He did not imagine impediments that might rise to prevent a next book being written—nor did he doubt his ability to write one, or any number of books. [...]

It takes physical time to write a book, so some physical time must be allowed for the normal behavior of Ruburt’s body. The book is being created, however, before it appears, and in an easy manner. [...]

[...] In his books he lives in and with the present. [...]

[...] The dream in Framework 2 is as much a definite plan for a normally walking body as any Oversoul Seven that did result in the book. [...]