“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Last night, Jane told her students in ESP class that Seth had started a new book. Seth had a few things to say about the book, too. [...] In my book I will go as far as I can into those precepts, yet some [of you] will not follow. [...]

(Following the last session, Jane began thinking about chapter divisions and headings for the new book. [...] I told her that the book might not have chapters, that Seth might have something else planned. [...]

(A note: Jane telephoned Tam Mossman, her editor, today — and learned that Tam already felt that Seth might have begun another book: he’d wondered about it several times in recent days.

[...] Since starting the series of sessions that make up “Unknown” Reality, it’s becoming something of a custom for her to deliver a little material on other subjects after book dictation; she did so again now, and finished the session at 11:51 P.M.

[...] Clare Townsend of 20th Century-Fox called Tam today and asked about seeing the manuscript of Jane’s second Oversoul Seven book, which Jane has just begun typing. Townsend is involved with Alan Neuman, of course, who also wants to do a movie of the first Seven book, etc. [...]

A second-volume book can often work in such a way. [...] And before that there will be other spurts, as those people who are now reading the earlier books will begin to look for Volume 1. There is a lag there.

[...] Jane feared the book, which she regards as the beginning of Oversoul Seven, would be lost in a tiny printing. [...]

[...] “I still can’t believe I called up a publisher and told them to send back a book they wanted to publish,” she said more than once. [...]

(Instead however Seth began to talk about Jane’s evident conflict with an editor at Ace Books. Last Thursday, March 20, Jane had written Ace demanding the return of her dream book manuscript because of the delay in hearing from Ace—but once—since last December.)

[...] She resented the authoritative tone of the dream book as she first saw it, thinking again: “Now my God, this Jane Roberts imagines herself an authority.” [...] She never thought that Ruburt would revise the book. [...]

Now Ruburt was attempting a legitimate projection, and the Grant book, in the overall, was good for him; but he got the idea for such a materialization by playing around unconsciously with an idea in the book. [...]

[...] She did enjoy Ruburt’s first book, but is very angry that Fell held out financially, thinking then: “Who does Fell think Jane Roberts is? [...]

To this end, through Ruburt, I am producing the continuing body of the Seth material, and books, each in a different way geared to these goals. In my present book, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, I am including techniques that will allow you and thousands of others to use these ideas in normal daily living, to enrich the life that you know and to help you understand and solve your problems.

[...] As we listened to them I picked up a book which an ESP class member had left behind last night. [...] “This is one of those times when Seth could give a whole bunch of stuff on that book” — meaning, of course, that now she had more than one channel available.

[...] We think it of interest to include Seth’s letter in his book, since it stresses the importance of beliefs.)

[...] She repeated the idea she’d voiced several times lately — that although Seth had ended the Augustus data rather abruptly in Chapter Six, he planned to return to it occasionally through the book.

(One of the first thoughts that came to mind after I realized what was happening was Jane’s book on Rembrandt. Some of the passages of that book, I understood as I left my studio, described what I had just experienced. I felt this without checking the book to see if I was right.

(I didn’t linger to confront my own handiwork, but hurried to get my stuff together and leave the house; I wanted to stop at a bank to get a book updated, and I knew this would make me a few minutes late getting to room 330. [...]

You were able to sense for yourself some of the material spoken about in the Rembrandt book, so that the information does not just remain academic: it becomes alive and vital through your own experience. [...]

The first chapter of the book can be called, quite simply: “The Purpose of This Book, and Some Important Comments About Exuberance and Health.”

(“I knew he was going to do something on the book,” Jane said. “I have the feeling that the book’s going to be The Way Toward Health,” she said.

I wanted to give you book material, and that is why I did not comment upon your dreams —

With the dream book he tried to do something he did not consider artistic, and was unable to do it. He believed in the book’s ideas, but the artistic framework for him was not right. When it was rejected my book was developing. [...]

[...] The money from books gave him freedom to write more books, so to buy was a threat. [...]

You say that when my book is finished you will move, yet each of you through the years has said “When this book is finished we will move.” [...]

[...] This means that in writing a book he withdrew, and more and more, physically speaking. [...]

While I’m writing this book in the three-dimensional world, for example, the source material for it comes from the other side of consciousness — that dimension that is revealed to us in dreams, inspiration, trance states and creativity. This book is about Seth, dreams and “astral projection” — all aspects of a different kind of consciousness than the objective one with which we are usually occupied.

[...] Seth dictates one final draft of his own book, while I do at least three drafts of my own. (This present book is my third since the sessions began, so Seth is hardly “stealing” any of my creative energy.)

[...] It was 10 A.M. on the last day of our first tour to promote my book, The Seth Material. This was our fifth television show. [...]

[...] I write this book during the day in my study, looking out the wide bay windows at the street and at the mountains and river just beyond. [...]

(Just before the session Jane told me that Seth could give us what she called The Christ Book at any time. [...] Seth told us we could have more on Jerusalem and related events whenever we want it, or have the time, so presumably the Christ Book idea stems from that. [...]

[...] My books so far were hidden creative goodies, inserted instead of books either contracted or to be contracted, and they were free of the work context.

Working on his book today (Aspects), Ruburt made some important connections. [...]

[...] He began to write notes for his book as soon as breakfast was over, and before the table was cleared. [...]

(11:33 PM.) Ruburt has been worried about the sale of Oversoul Seven, and also waiting for the paperback—afraid that after all the book might be late in its printing.

[...] The worry about Seven however was important, and the call today of benefit (to Prentice-Hall)—as the production of this book (The “Unknown” Reality) will be.

[...] He thinks of it still to some degree as his book, rather than mine, and was worried that it would not do as well.

(Smile.) I will write such a book for Ruburt, but this is for your future. It will be a famous book, and it will help many.

Your recommendation to him earlier was excellent, having to do with his exercises, and the book. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The book (Psycho-Cybernetics) will do you every bit as much good as it will do Ruburt, and I recommend it heartily, with some variations, as a basis upon which to build the rest of your days. [...]

[...] I suggested some titles for the book: “Sethenetics,” “Sethgestions,” etc. [...]

[...] She read a few of the poems from the book to Mr. Fell over the phone and outlined her ideas for its humorous format, etc.; to her surprise he requested that she send him the manuscript for consideration. [...] Mr. Fell also asked to see the manuscript on the Seth material,and told Jane some of the plans he had for publicizing her ESP book, due to be published this May. The publicity may include adds in the New York Times Book Review; surveys taken by the publisher show the book should have a good reception and sale. [...] Summing up, the publisher told Jane that once the ESP book is on the market and her name begins to be known through publicity, it will help the sales of future books considerably—namely the Seth material.

(For the record: In the 227th and 228th sessions Seth discussed the book of poetry Jane produced so quickly by using suggestions for abundant energy, and told us the book would be published. Jane had also finished the first third of her book on the Seth material itself, and felt it ready to send out.

[...] The tape, the poetry book, and the Seth material will be mailed Thursday. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s present book on the subject, on our Seth material, will indeed be published, and meet with success.

[...] He feels how you would enjoy and appreciate painting in the same way that my book is being presented, so spontaneously and quickly, comparatively speaking. [...] He was afraid you would be jealous of the book, and hurt, and his panic was of your reaction.

(If Jane cares to, she can excerpt Seth’s book from these sessions, typing up her own copy for personal use; but I think also that the book should be included in the body of the regular sessions, whenever it pops up—part of the regular record, as always.)

[...] I am going to give you some comments on the situation you have been discussing, and I am going to do some more work on my book. [...]

[...] Tell him also that he need have no worries about my book. [...]

(“What’s Jane’s next book going to be about, after the dream book?”)

The next book will be my book.

[...] A book or movie about spies. [...]

[...] They not only buy books for themselves and for friends, but they use the books like ladders, and if they were at the same point of development, so to speak, in the psychic field as you are, they would not need the books; and their needs, like yours, would be elsewhere.

[...] He is freer now, but all of this applies to him when he resumes on another book. [...]

[...] Jane decided against continuing, saying that she was probably too upset to tune into book material.)

[...] It had started in mid-afternoon after she had received an OK from Tam Mossman re the publication of her book of poetry, Dialogues — at least as far as Tam is concerned. The book will be published after Personal Reality, but before Aspects.)

[...] That synthesis allowed the new book idea to come to the forefront. [...] And of course Aspects applies here, and my own book, in that they both served as turning points for such a new synthesis and reorganization of beliefs.

This week both of you read for yourselves the portions of my book dealing with the point of power and natural hypnosis. [...]

[...] These books consist of the first 510 “sessions” that my wife, Jane Roberts, delivered for that well-known “energy personality essence”, Seth, after she began speaking in a trance or dissociated state in December 1963. [...]

[...] (I told him more than once along the way that he’d better think twice—and more!— before taking on the job of publishing eight-to-ten books.) Jane died on September 5,1984, at the age of 55. [...]

[...] Let alone the bulk of Jane’s other work: her poetry, novels both published and unpublished, her other published books, an unfinished autobiography, the records of her ESP class sessions, her journals and paintings, her singing in musical trance language, Sumari, her never-ending correspondence. [...]

[...] This framework matches that in the already-published Seth books like Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality.

Now: Very briefly, I want to congratulate Ruburt on the Rembrandt book, and to reassure him that that same creative energy is healing his body as surely as it has written books. [...] Let him realize that (emphatically), and the healing energy can more freely circulate through his physical body—with results as astounding as his books are! [...]

[...] They are sure to end up as a book in themselves, I think, though I’m not talking about publication.

Many people know of Jane’s death by now, and this makes it impossible for me to deal with that event in chronological order within her books. By rights, I shouldn’t be mentioning it sequentially until I publish the two books that Jane and I had finished while she was hospitalized — then it would be all right to announce that she is dead! But for convenience’s sake, in Seth, Dreams … I bring together certain events in chronological time; I feel that its having been written some time ago makes this book the ideal place for me to discuss Jane’s death, to unite the “past,” the “present,” and the “future’; I regard it as being next in line after Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, which Prentice-Hall, Inc. [...]

[...] I was obligated to spend many months finishing a Seth book — Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment — that we had started way back in September 1979, long before she went into the hospital; as I had planned to, I resumed work on that project the day after she died. (Jane was cremated the next day, in a process we had agreed upon several years ago.) I also worked upon two other books we collaborated upon after she had been hospitalized. [...]

[...] It would also be nice for the many readers of Jane’s books to have a chance to hear from her partner, who so beautifully and critically assisted in the birthing of the Seth books.

[...] That manuscript is Seth, Dreams and Projection of Consciousness. As soon as he’d reviewed it back then, Tam had asked Jane to do a book on Seth himself. [...] The book came out in 1970; and in it she had used certain portions of Seth, Dreams …

[...] After a prolonged juggling of titles and themes on her own, she’d finally acquired the book’s title directly from Seth some seven weeks ago, or shortly before July 30, 1979; see the closing note for Session 869 in Chapter 10 of Mass Events. “I just think that ‘value fulfillment’ is a strange phrase to use in a book title,” Jane said. [...] I keep thinking of something simpler, like Dreams and Evolution: A Seth Book. [...]

(Seth actually began his Preface for this book, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, with the next, 881st session, which Jane delivered for him 12 days later [on September 25]. I chose to present this private session first because in it Seth offers certain information about Jane and me that I think applies to all of our work with him, through the session and books, and to our own separate creative lives as well. [...]

[...] Rather, after indicating in this Preface the continuity between the two books, I’ll discuss briefly a few other subjects we feel deeply about. [...] Beyond that, I have little idea of how many notes of Jane’s and mine, or quotations from nonbook sessions, for example, we’ll be adding to this book.

[...] Since she’s finished her Seth part of the work for Mass Events, three days ago she began writing the Introduction to that book. [...] Jane would especially like to do another book of poetry, since she published Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time way back in 1975. [...]