“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I’m describing the phenomenon here, and including rather long excerpts from her written report of it, to show some of her other psychic activities while this book is being produced. At the same time such perceptions give insights into the book itself.

[...] The result was a nine-page poem called Dialogues of the Speakers, which may or may not continue into a book. This is the way the book of poetry that I finished early in March, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, began.

[...] Bob Monroe is the author of Journeys Out of the Body,¹ the book that Jane and I regard as the premier work on the subject. [...]

(“Sunday afternoon before our visitors came,” she wrote, “I’d begun reading a book by Ralph Waldo Emerson [the poet and philosopher who lived from 1803–82]. [...]

(Jane said she had been working quite happily on the book dealing with the Seth material, and on one about dreams. When she got the burst of energy on the poetry book idea however, she took advantage of it, and felt certain the material would be published. [...]

Ruburt will find incidentally that his book of poetry, the new and rather swiftly written one, will be published. [...]

The spontaneity that allowed him to deviate from his usual schedule is largely responsible for the whole book, for his original intention was merely to write a few humorous verses for out cat lover’s birthday. [...]

(It was very interesting to watch Jane produce the above-mentioned book of poetry. [...]

The entire Cézanne book was inherent in the first page. Ruburt’s faith and habits allowed the initial impulse its freedom, and that impulse, expressed, carried within it the means of its own fulfillment, and the book unfolded. [...]

[...] I saw the book listed in a catalog from which I was ordering some other books, and nearly included it in the order. [...]

(The book is rather expensive—about $15.00—and I passed up the chance to order. [...] Today, then, the mail brought a copy of the book from a fan that sent it as a gesture, remarking about certain similarities it contains with some of Seth’s material. [...]

[...] Last night as we were retiring, I thought of a good use for the Framework 2 data: to use it to insure that the books reach the greatest audience possible—this without worrying about the number of copies sold, the money involved, etc. [...] After all, I told Jane, getting the books distributed is our main goal; now it would be great to see that happen without the impediments we’ve put in the way all this time.

You have written the equivalent of your own book from a unique standpoint in “Unknown,” but neither of you have really been able to recognize that. [...] He is producing his books and mine —a double kind of production that entails almost two publishing schedules.

[...] He has also reacted to your own doubts and fears about the book, and has picked up often your own ambiguity in that regard. Had he really been so against the idea of the book being produced as it was, he would have said so indeed.

These books are more than the work of one personality. [...]

[...] “Unknown” is a creative triumph despite your joint ideas of what that book should be.

[...] He thinks that my book—this one (Personal Reality)—should be read before people begin to dabble with the board and so forth. [...]

He suspects that others have some difficulty, that they do not understand themselves sufficiently, and add to their own problems through putting to use the methods in his first such book. [...]

(Seth did not discuss the Gallery affair after book work.

The books will do well and there will be further translations. Taking probabilities into consideration, there are cultural movements involving the western world as it tried to form a new philosophical stance, and our books may well provide a highly valuable alternate position for people—again—between the passionate beliefs systems of religion in many countries, and the overly objective dictates of science. [...]

Our books will become even better read. [...]

The sessions, dream activity, Ruburt’s writing of books, his poetry and his painting—these states by themselves contribute to his health. [...]

[...] (Pause.) If you are mentioned in an unfavorable light by people who are fanatics in one way or another, then it shows that you are (underlined) making inroads, and that our books are (underlined) being read enough by the followers of a particular doctrine to make the leaders of such doctrines uneasy.

In the Preface for Dreams I mentioned Jane’s idea for a second book of poetry. She’s progressed with the subject matter for it to the point where Seth could remark on November 21: “The book of love poetry is an excellent idea.” [...] She called Tam Mossman last month about the book, and they discussed possible titles for it. [...]

(Pause.) Nor can this concept fit into your versions of good and evil, as I will explain later in this book. [...]

I have a purpose in this book—for this is dictation—and that purpose is to change your ideas of yourselves, by showing you a truer picture of your history both in terms of your immortal consciousness and your physical heritage.

[...] “I’m so glad to be back on the book.”)

(Since February Jane has had a series of dreams and psy-time experiences involving her dream book, which is now at Parker. [...] The latest, on July 5, revealed the dream book as published.

(Jane had been having trouble writing her book on the Seth material with her old spontaneity, and both of us were concerned. [...]

It was to some extent aggravated by books telling of the experience of various mediums, and by what he has read concerning the attitude of parapsychologists toward them. [...]

This is not the evening to begin my book. [...]

[...] I thought I was doing something by working hard on that book, to get it underway in an organized fashion, I told Jane as we sat for the session—so what happened? [...] This would involve holding the sessions, but letting Jane herself do any work about producing books for the market. [...]

[...] They wanted the books to start with because they did indeed respond to the books’ vision—but the versions they came out with represented the gap between what they understood and what they could not understand. [...]

[...] At the moment we’re waiting to learn their reaction to correspondence from Prentice-Hall, demanding that the cut portions of the book be restored—a move I cannot see them complying with for economic reasons alone.

(Yesterday we learned that P. Grenquist and others from Prentice-Hall met representatives, including the owners, of Ariston at the book fair in Frankfurt—another bit of information Jane and I wouldn’t have been told without asking; my present suspicion is that eventually Jane and I will learn that those in charge at Prentice-Hall knew all along that both Ariston and Ankh-Hermes had made changes in Seth Speaks, with their casual okay. [...]

(Monday evening’s session concerned the use of hallucinogenic drugs, including LSD, as therapy; no book dictation was involved. [...]

I want to discuss the state of grace in some detail and in different ways throughout this book. [...]

[...] Much of this book will be devoted to various techniques that will help you change your own reality for the better.

[...] In retrospect, Jane and I had been wondering if Monday’s session should have consisted of book dictation — yet Seth was putting that material to use tonight….)

On April 17, 1968—I got request from a Tam Mossman to do a book on Seth Material, using portions of the best chapters from dream book that deal with Seth.

[...] Jane has God of Jane and her book of poetry well in the works now, and both involve Mass Events, or material in it. We want those books published. A cutoff point is reached after these three books have been taken care of; then we would be free to try something else if we choose to.

[...] Both of us are in conflict between getting the Seth books out, not caring about any disclaimer, and on the other hand saying no to the disclaimer and letting the chips fall where they may, to coin a phrase. [...]

(Coupled with all of these things is the three-part article we’re reading in The New Yorker on the travails of publishing these days; the large sums involved, books being treated as “products,” etc. [...]

[...] We will probably have more to say about processes in our next book dictation. [...]

[...] Her reading the NY Times Book Review each week had reminded me recently that her intent perusal of that publication represented a striving toward something she was not about to achieve—conventional recognition in creative writing.

[...] It wasn’t that her psychic work, and the books, weren’t good, I said, or that they didn’t help people, but that they didn’t fit into the world as she saw it. [...]

[...] Protection from the world must be had at all costs, even while she, with my help, persisted in using her abilities to some extent at least through the books. [...]

[...] The fact that I could also write books was of the greatest benefit, of course (dryly, almost with a smile) —and no one was more surprised than Ruburt to discover that I could do so. [...]

[...] Break came at 10:25, after Seth had delivered material for his book on the mass psyche. [...]

[...] After all these books he tells us that. [...]

I may have slipped up, but I do not think so: I do not believe I gave the information about you and George in book dictation (for “Unknown” Reality), in order to keep the material simple enough for the reader. [...]

[...] You should both read tonight’s session, book dictation, with Ruburt’s situation in mind. [...]

Ruburt’s idea did come from me, about your reincarnational episodes, and your personal experience illustrates what I am saying in the book—the individual’s history is written in the psyche, and can indeed be uncovered. [...]

Paintings, sketches and drawings will be seen by millions of people as they appear—and will—in current and future books. [...]

(Check the book to see just where Seth says this, possibly with a note on my own adventures inserted; a referral to the Appendix?)

Ruburt proudly shows this book to your neighbors, not because it is an excellent joint creative venture of merit, primarily, but because he can point to a sketch that you have made that makes money and appears in a book. [...]

[...] You can give only so many hours to my book, and so many hours to your painting. [...] Your work on the book will be slow, for you will be sure that it “must take so much time.” [...]

[...] Your notes for the book can come easily, literally in half the time they do now take because of your beliefs. [...] That is, your painting, Ruburt’s work, and my books seems to be “too much” in terms of time only because you have not let your intuitive understanding of creativity grow with your experience. [...]

[...] This was a subtle but important change in my knowledge—for I saw that I wasn’t so much concerned about the amount of work I had to do on the books, as that I felt guilty about doing other things. [...]

One book will deal primarily with metaphysical realities, and will be designed for those more intellectually gifted. The audience for that particular book may be somewhat more limited, but it will be a fascinating endeavor; and in it I will hope to present a multidimensional theory of morality for those too sophisticated to accept any longer outdated concepts concerning the God concept.

There will be several books that simply result from our sessions, beside those that will be specifically dictated. There will be books of Ruburt’s own as his personality grows and evolves and correlates what it has learned and will learn. [...]

[...] I will tell you now however that within our own framework of sessions, and with what I call contact sessions with others, other books will materialize. [...]

This book however will also point out the truths that do exist within the tattered garments of organized established religions; rip apart the crumbling fabric of dogma to the body of revelationary knowledge that was always there.

(“In the books we read, and will read?”)

(“Jane is writing a book on her theory of the world as idea construction. [...]

(“The book will be published? [...]

(“In what year will the book be published?”)

To say that my editor was surprised by the first eight chapters of my ESP book is putting it mildly. [...] He wrote enthusiastic letters, but he was also worried about the book as it stood. My experiences proved that I’d been a medium all along without knowing it, he said, and this could invalidate the book’s premise—that the experiments would work for anyone to some extent, regardless of their psychic background.

As it turned out, it was Seth’s part in the book that bothered the publisher. If I’d played down Seth’s importance and concentrated on some of the other experiments that were also proving successful, then the book would have a very good chance, the editor told me. [...]

I’m sure that most of us react ahead of time to some events, and I’ll have more to say about this later in the book. Since in all of these experiments Seth was helping us through actual suggestions and explanations as to how we perceive such information, I simply couldn’t minimize his importance just to get the ESP book published. [...]

Finally, though the editor was for the book, his publisher turned it down. [...] So I sent my eight chapters somewhere else, stopped work on the book for nearly a year, and devoted my working time to short stories which were published in various national magazines.

Tonight’s session may not be formal book dictation, but it contains many connections to Dreams. “I don’t care whether we have a book session or one on something else,” Jane said as we sat for the session at 8:50. [...]

[...] My high point was receiving the little book of poems and sketches she’d made for me. [...]

[...] It doesn’t sound like the book, though. [...]

(With humor:) Tonight’s subject matter: “Great Expectations”—for I am here referring to the book by (Charles) Dickens.