“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] See the 503rd session for September 24 for Seth’s comments re Jane’s relief at Prentice-Hall’s approval, through Tam Mossman, of Jane’s book on the Seth material. And Jane has been doing very well on the balance of the book.

(Jane has been so busy finishing up the manuscript of her book on the Seth material, for Prentice-Hall, that we haven’t had a session since September 29.

[...] Ruburt has been using his energy in his book, and I do not begrudge it.

(“What do you think of the book?” Jane sent the first 13 chapters of The Seth Material to the publisher Monday, October 13.)

A book about spies.

([The Gallaghers:] “Bill looked at several spy books in various bookstores.”)

(Jane wondered about getting Sue Watkins to type the Rembrandt book, without any notes at all. [...] I said that when we needed $15,000 a month, the book meant little. I didn’t mean to denigrate the value of the book, but it can’t help us much—no book can at this date. I’m not against someone else putting that book together for publication, providing someone wants it, and things may work out that way. [...]

[...] She’s managed to get her poetry book out to Prentice, and now is not at work on any writing. [...]

[...] These two books are, I think we agree, the most recent triggers that she has responded to in a negative way, so yesterday I suddenly realized that Jane must be reacting presently to the imminent publication of those two works. [...]

[...] Yet working with the pendulum in the bedroom at 12:30 AM last night, she said she still wanted the book published—and therein lay at least one source of much trouble, I thought and said. [...]

(2. She is to call Tam to verify that the two books in question are to be published as expected. [...]

Ruburt’s project—and this book (Dreams)—serve the same purpose to him, of course, as painting does for you, and such activity can in that light only benefit him. [...]

[...] A fond good evening—and expect the new material on dreams in my book to further extend and illuminate your own dreaming activity. [...]

(A Note added later: Sessions between the one above and the one below contain no Seth Material, but are instead sessions in which Jane received book-length and world-view material on the artist Rembrandt. [...] The book is to be published by New Awareness Network. [...]

It was your reactions that should have been changed, as it was Ruburt’s reactions concerning his book that should have been changed. His attitude toward his book and publisher largely were responsible for the delays.

[...] Exactly a week and a half later, on Wednesday, August 17, Jane received a letter from Don Wollheim, of Ace Books. [...]

(On Saturday, August 20, Jane received her first press copy of her book from her publisher, F. Fell: How to Develop Your ESP Power.

I have told you that his book will sell well—very well, and so it shall.

As Seth I’ve produced five previous books: Seth Speaks; The Nature of Personal Reality; The “Unknown” Reality, Volumes I and II; The Nature of the Psyche; and The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, and Seth is halfway through a sixth book: Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. These beside my own twelve books. [...]

[...] I was finishing work on one of my own books, The God of Jane. [...]

[...] In the meantime I’d read over the 17 chapters of my unfinished novel, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, and looked over groups of notes for possible books, but nothing hit the spot. [...]

[...] I’m not unconscious but conscious in a different way, at another level … This state of perception has nothing to do with classical pathological dissociation; and its products — Seth’s five books — display a highly-developed intellect at work and give evidence of a special kind of creativity. [...]

[...] Jane had allowed Seth to talk about the whole situation in a more personal way than she usually does; the result is that we already have more data on Stella Butts than on the earlier deaths of Jane’s own parents [in 1971 and 1972], for instance.⁴ We knew that Seth wouldn’t continue describing my mother and her present reality indefinitely; such a study could easily grow into a book by itself. [...] I also think that Seth will be able to say more on the beliefs behind her feelings as this book progresses.

(“Well,” Jane said, indicating two points in front of her as we sat waiting for the session to begin, “there’s book stuff there [to the left], and stuff on me there [to the right]. [...]

[...] In his book Adventures in Consciousness, Ruburt mentions what he calls “prejudiced perception.’’¹ It is an excellent term in this regard.

[...] In contrast, her involvement with Seth’s last book, Personal Reality, had been much more intimate during its production.

(I added that I hoped Seth would eventually discuss such questions in his book.

We will have more to say about the process of birth later on in this book. [...]

All of that material, and its like, will be covered in this book. [...]

[...] “Well, he’s going to cover those questions in the book,” I told Jane — “about radiation, the consciousness involved with it, and with things like cancer. [...]

[...] The two books that Ruburt (Jane) usually suggests should be read and used by her. [...]

The two books that Ruburt usually suggests are definitely recommended, and should be seriously followed as far as the family is concerned. [...]

[...] The exercises suggested in both of those books will help her. [...]

The books will never stop selling in your lifetime. [...]

[...] You can have all the books you want, when you want them, and at your own pacing.

[...] When you are dealing with “Unknown” Reality and your work on it, you perceive the overall completed book in flashes of perception—a circular kind of communication and comprehension. [...] You sense the overall shape of the book, often clearly, but because of the workings of functional consciousness, when you must focus upon a particular passage, that focus necessarily precludes the overall vision at the same time.

[...] Ruburt wanted material on this book, and that is well and good. The book is important. The book has its meaning in your world, but I do not want you to forget the vaster context in which these sessions originate. [...]

[...] I had the book wrapped for mailing today, but I didn’t leave the house. [...]

(And those strange feelings of Jane’s are precisely why we’re presenting this session in Mass Events, even though it isn’t book dictation. [...]

(In closing out the last session, Seth told us that he’d “cover everything that needs to be covered” in his books, and I wrote that sometimes I’d still choose to insert other particularly apropos material of his into whatever book he might be producing at the time. [...]

[...] Prentice-Hall authorized this venture by a foreign publisher well over a year ago, but we didn’t know just when we’d see books within the two-year limit set for publication. [...]

[...] Nor do I want to wait an indefinite time before he may incorporate similar information in a book — even this one. [...]

(Lately Jane has been looking over Fabric of The Universe, a book by Denis Postle. [...] Seth discusses some material that is an outgrowth of the book.)

[...] Each individual is a portion of the universe, of course, apropos of the book on the Fabric of the Universe, but the universe is everywhere composed of awareized energy—energy “stamped” with its own unique psychic or psychological “individuality.”

[...] See my dream notebook for a newspaper account of the murder in question—last Saturday night—at the Adult Book Store in Elmira.)

[...] Seth spent the first portion of the session dictating on Chapter 3 of his book, The Nature of Personal Reality.)

[...] I know you have been busy, but you have not examined your beliefs as given in the book.

Now for some time he did not see that look, and you were doing very well, but you slid back just at a time when he was trying to put the advice in my book to use.

[...] The halt, above, refers to Jane’s laying aside the book for Doubleday for the moment, and her decision to begin work on a book on the Seth material itself.)

[...] Ruburt’s readiness to do the kind of book he will now do was signaled by those episodes having to do with me in the dream book.

[...] I add to make him feel better (smile), and you also, that he could not have done —I am going slowly here so as not to offend his sensibilities—he could not have done earlier the kind of book he will do now. [...]

(In the last session Seth named some books and authors that he preferred Jane avoid, calling them too “spiritualistic.”)

[...] He will finish his book (God of Jane), and do beautifully with it. [...] His book will be provided for. [...]

[...] During the long layoff Jane and I worked on Seth’s book, editing, rewriting notes, etc. The book was delivered to Prentice-Hall a week ago today. Jane called the publisher today, and learned that The Seth Material is due in paperback probably in January, with Seth’s own book to be published next October.

The creative liberation in his own work (since Seth’s book has been finished Jane has started two books of her own) is a clear symptom on the positive side of the change in feeling-tone, as was the more expansive idea of adding to your establishment. [...]

[...] We will be writing other books, but never in such a way that you must plunge from one into another. The books will fall into their own rhythm overall in our sessions. [...]

Now I told you that when the book was finished, you could feel free to have some private sessions if you so desired. [...]