“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Apropos of the notes preceding this session, concerning Jane’s nighttime work on Seth’s book last week: the same kind of effects returned when she went to sleep after this session — but this time she decided to try an experiment. [...]

[...] This is still evocative material, even though she doesn’t know whether Seth will use any of it in his book: “For a ‘Power Chapter’: Each person has his or her own ‘psychic territory of power’ which is not to be relinquished,” she wrote. [...]

[...] The work is close to the way Seth would present it; it probably stems from her efforts last night, we think, to see what she could do with “book work” on her own:

(“Thursday afternoon at desk, May 3/73, on Seth’s book:

Reading our book as you are automatically sets up a framework and an intent. [...]

Following your work so far with the book, Ruburt is learning to separate his body beliefs from his concepts of rockbed reality—to question them. [...]

[...] The book is so written that as you read it you will pick up automatically those areas that most concern you, and even in the dream state follow through so that answers are going to appear consciously and visibly to you. [...]

[...] Your reading of my book thus far is not superficial. [...]

The book will do far better. (I should have asked which book.) The questions that you have jointly because of your experience in this life so far will lead you to answers that will help many as well as yourselves. [...]

Psycho-Cybernetics worked well for a time, because at that stage the book served to break up body beliefs, though he hadn’t tackled the reasons behind them. [...]

[...] I’d been somewhat concerned about getting back to the book though the sessions have been excellent lately. Anyhow, got the idea when I put the book away that Seth would speak about things like the Moonies without mentioning them, idea being that the self as it is isn’t trusted; as in the Jonestown thing. [...]

[...] His positive successes are noted in his book. The negative aspects are usually not there—not because he omitted them: the book itself helps bring the positive experiences about, because, again, it represents conscious attempts to alter experience.

[...] Finally, last night she made her intuitive connection: She had been working on the book the entire time. Heroics isn’t to be on how to reach some unattainable superself, but on the barriers that stand in the way of practical self-realization. [...] I finally see where the book is headed. [...]

[...] She’s become especially conscious of impulses while working on her new book, Heroics, for, strangely, she’s found herself confronting a series of seemingly contradictory impulses to do other things, such as paint, or reread her old poetry.

[...] Then loudly:) If the universe existed as you have been told it does, then I would not be writing this book.

(Pause.) The probability that this book would ever exist, itself, would have remained unactualized. [...]

[...] So while this book is devoted to Seth’s theories on the nature of dreams and his instructions on their use, it is not meant to be a definitive statement. [...] Those of you who want a more general idea of Seth’s views can refer to The Seth Material. Here, I’ll give the material on dreams as it was given to us in succeeding sessions — particularly in the early part of the book. [...]

[...] This present book, devoted to dreams and subjective experience, led me into deeper self-examination. [...]

[...] That experience, then, led to the sessions and to this book, containing enough energy and motive force not only to change my life but also to affect the experience of others.

[...] Through the dream experiences related later in this book, this will become quite clear. [...]

[...] “How about going back to the book?” I thought doing that would help her control the proliferation of channels until we could learn more about the development. [...] Jane promptly agreed to resume book work.

(As we sat waiting for the session to begin at 9:20, Jane told me she’d just “picked up” the heading for Chapter Three of Seth’s book: “Telepathy and Belief Gathering” — or “Idea Gathering”; she wasn’t sure which. [...]

(9:40.) We will speak about health and illness more specifically later in the book. [...]

[...] “Seth comes through on his book from here, on this channel.” [...]

(This evening, while this session was being held, Callista was in the cellar of her home, reading or looking through books she took from a stack of same. They were old books, she said, illustrated, and some of them bore her initials and those of husband Buff.

Also something about a stack of books with pictures or representations, old ones (pause), kept in the cellar, initialed; and something about not a scrap of evidence. [...]

He tells her to remember the fountainhead, may be a book, and something about coming through the rye.

(The books were covered, and when she was through looking through them Callista covered them up again; so, Jane felt, it seemed they had been undisturbed. [...]

(The other morning in a burst of inspiration Jane wrote out a full outline, including chapter breakdown, of the book she intends to write after she finishes the first book on the Seth Material, and the book on dreams that she now has well under way.

[...] I am pleased with the outline that Ruburt prepared for another book. And that book, when it is written, will be an excellent one, and a major contribution.

(The new book is titled The Expansion of Human Consciousness. Jane wrote the outline for it in less than an hour, and says the process of intuition responsible for it was much like that which led to her production of the book of poetry discussed in the 227th and 228th sessions in Volume 5.

Generally, for the first time, you and Ruburt are bringing the world of books to these people, the young people, for the first time. [...]

The book will definitely be a success, and a financial one, that will represent his initiation into a field to which he will contribute in no small manner. The book will represent the beginning also of financial success. [...]

Within, I believe, three months after the book is accepted, another book will be assured; and then at that time, or very shortly after, it will be contracted for.

(Jane has finished her ESP book for all practical purposes, and has been looking through the Seth material for a suitable quote to end the final chapter. [...]

[...] My writing table is beside a bookcase, and before the session I slipped the test envelope between a couple of books without Jane being present. [...]

[...] He thought: another book, more money in the bank to pay taxes on, you still at your job, no trips, just another book for more money. [...]

[...] He is banking on the stimuli to bring about greater book sales, greater productivity, further books and sales to help finance the establishment while you encounter your own abilities.

[...] He would not support you with a job, but he would do so through his books and other endeavors.

[...] He withdrew physically, throwing all the more energy, he thought, into this course of trying to produce a book good enough to free you both. [...]

[...] Throughout this book we will often be talking about experiences that are encountered in one way or another by most people, but are not given credence to on the part of the established fields of knowledge. Therefore, dreams will be considered throughout the book in various capacities as they are related through genetics, reincarnation, culture, and private life. [...]

[...] There would be publishing difficulties having to do with sheer bulk—with the cost of typesetting, with binding such a thick book, with marketing and price, and so forth. [...] At first I was sorry for the reader’s sake to think of Dreams being interrupted, yet glad for myself, for in addition to presenting Seth’s book dictation I was given the space in which to develop those other personal and secular themes of Seth’s, Jane’s, and my own that I think add even more dimensions of meaning to Dreams.

After we had published Seth’s “Unknown” Reality in two volumes back in 1977 and 1979, Jane and I decided that we wanted to keep his books shorter, and to issue them more frequently. [...]

[...] Dick’s book has become a national phenomenon. [...]

[...] There is much written about the nature of healing, and there will be material in this book dealing with it, but there is also healing-in-reverse, in which case an individual loses a belief in his or her health and accepts instead the idea of personal illness.

[...] This will be discussed much more thoroughly later in the book.

[...] This proved to be the end of book work for the evening. [...]

[...] She is doing invaluable work as a research and editorial assistant; studying Jane’s notebooks, journals, and poetry, and putting together material from those sources to be included in this book. [...] Although he did not believe in metaphysical realities, he had heard the book was the best of it’s kind, and they found it in a used-book store in Seattle, Washington. [...]

[...] I’m back working on the chronology for Seth’s latest book, Dreams, and have been doing some paintings involving my own dreams. [...]

Tam³ made the decision several times, but early in the game he decided that the book (Sue’s “Conversations With Seth”) should feature illustrations. [...]

Tam wanted illustrations for a first book. [...]

[...] He is deeply afraid of finishing his book for fear it will sell. He sends out messages pressing for the success of his original book, and sends out equally strong ones urging that it not be accepted, that it is not a huge success. This is the original book. (The ESP book.)

(This afternoon while painting the thought came to me that Jane’s trouble was that she was avoiding success; and success was looming ever closer with the advertising campaign planned for her ESP book, the near-completion of the dream book, etc. [...]

[...] The development of abilities and the ESP book represented an effort by the spontaneous self to express itself, for this other portion of the personality was ready then to take over, and it then retaliated with the beginning of symptoms.

[...] The High-Low book of poetry as contrasted to perhaps the idiot poems will explain what I mean.

So far, we’ve done nothing about producing The Christ Book, except to talk about it once in a while. “Well, it’s true that I have ambiguous feelings about doing a book on religion,” Jane said as we discussed this note. [...] I guess I think Seth would know the best time for such a book to be done and publicly introduced.

“When he said, ‘You can have The Christ Book when you want it,’ I think he was just stating his willingness to comply. [...] But I do know my attitude about getting such a book has improved a lot in the last year or two.”

[...] A study of the New Testament books alone can quickly lead one into a maze of questions: Why isn’t the resurrection itself described? [...]

[...] You can have The Christ Book when you want it….”

[...] Hence, I’d decided to send her a book on art, derived through Jane’s trance abilities. At the same time, I told Jane, we shouldn’t attach too much significance to this, since we’ve been sending out only Cézanne books—that is, anyone we send a book to gets one on art.

[...] Ruburt’s dream had motion also, rolling, say, off the edge of Framework 2 into Framework 1, where lo and behold it changes its form and becomes a book.

(Ms. O’Keefe also noted that she knew of the Seth books, and would now start reading them.)

[...] He wouldn’t let another editor hold a book on such terms for such a time. When he decided not to do Adventures (a week or two ago) the book became more important in both literary and financial terms.

[...] Seth’s new book was exonerated.

[...] The last paragraph was new: she felt she couldn’t pressure Eleanor because Dick was publicizing Jane’s books. [...]

There are also a core of individual thinkers who straddle all social or academic categories, who follow our books. [...] Cézanne, for example, will reach some people who have not read the other books, and some historians will read James, and hence be led where otherwise they would not go. Psyche will mention my ideas about sex, for example, and will be bought by some people because of that subject alone, who will be again led to the other books. [...]

[...] First of all, our books would frighten many people. [...] Directly, however, in a manner of speaking, our books are subversive. [...]

[...] In other periods he can work on his preface and his own to notes for the book, and leave himself open to new inspiration.

Now I hope before too long to get on with our book, but I am also highly interested that you put our ideas to work to better your own daily lives. [...]