“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Though I may emphasize the importance of inner reality in this book, therefore, I am in no way denying the great validity and purpose of earthly experience. Any exercises in this book should help you enrich that experience, and understand its framework and nature. [...]

1. Today Jane had been looking at Einstein’s own book on his theories of relativity. [...] I had ordered the book last month after she expressed interest in seeing it. [...]

[...] As this book continues, I will indeed outline some beginning proposals as to ways in which you can use your consciousness to understand the nature of reality, and to make some of those inner blueprints clear.

[...] The notes introducing this first volume also contain other applicable material having to do with Jane’s trance production times for the Seth books.

[...] The financial success of his book is extremely important to you both, incidentally, on a conscious egotistical level.

[...] Inner broodings over whether or not his book will sell well do no good, and drain away energy. [...]

[...] Readjustment does not lie, in his particular case, in the present, with soaking his foot for example; but with a return to some definite poetry schedule, to finishing one book now at a time, to renewing the dream suggestions which he has discarded. [...]

[...] It is of a display called Story Book Land at Woodbridge, VA, and shows Mother Goose. [...]

(Seth’s dictation on his book tonight was preceded by four pages of personal material that we have deleted. [...]

Now, this is not to be a technical book, so this is not the time nor place to discuss thoroughly the action, behavior or effects of these coordinate points; nor of the electromagnetic energy units — those natural emanations of consciousness of which I spoke. [...]

Now: A whole book could easily be written upon this subject. [...]

They are done for you in Framework 2, and further discussions of Framework 2, incidentally, will be interwound throughout our present book. [...]

[...] I will work on one book one night and another one the next, if you prefer, or discuss private material or other questions of a general nature, or work twice a week on our present material—whatever suits your fine fancies (with much humor). [...]

[...] I didn’t remember her volunteering three private, or book sessions a week except when I’d occasionally ask her for material for one of us. [...]

(We also see creative connections between the way Jane produced The Wonderworks this month, and the book outline for The Way Toward Health last March, as described in Appendix 7. She conceived and delivered the latter while in a dissociated state also. [...]

[...] This intersection of Seth-Jane in trance also happens in dreams, when book sessions occur there. [...]

[...] She isn’t holding back from doing so for any particular reason, however, and thinks she may eventually describe her psychic journey in one of her own books.

Since we are addressing individuals who do identify with the “normally conscious self,” I bring such matters up in this first chapter because I will be using the terms later in the book, and because I want to state the fact of multidimensional personality as soon as possible.

[...] Now some of the things that I may say about physical reality in this book may startle you, but remember that I am viewing it from an entirely different standpoint.

[...] The atoms and molecules that make up the pages of this book are also, within their own level, aware. [...]

(Humorously): In this book I hope to pull some heads out of the sand. [...]

[...] Maybe someday we’ll be able to use it in a book, but in the meantime I’m not going to worry about it. Maybe he’ll keep on with it like this, and it’ll end up in a book of its own someday. [...]

[...] If those three members of her family are enjoying a vacation, Sue isn’t—but at least she’s working on her book in warm weather!

[...] Even though the following material isn’t book dictation per se, I’m presenting it for obvious reasons. [...]

(10:05.) As I said, there are all ranges of suffering, and I am beginning this discussion, which I will continue now and then in between regular book dictation, in a very general manner. [...]

Ruburt’s (very relaxed) condition today was the result of Friday’s news (about the very good sales of all of Jane’s books), and the body was ridding itself of a tension. [...]

[...] It was not really great wealth, but some acceptable framework of financial security he was after, and some assurance that his books would bring him this, along with the freedom of creativity as he understood it.

[...] He became angry, and still is, when you show normal criticism of Prentice and their dealings with our books, or his, because he feels that you do not really understand how difficult it is to market creative work, and since you do not sell your paintings you should not criticize his admittedly worrisome efforts. [...]

[...] My book will help him.

(Seth’s statement at the end of dictation for the 815th session, “I will try to begin work on our book in a more predictable fashion,” reflected his good intent, but things didn’t turn out that way. Jane and I let the holiday season intervene to some extent, and Session 816, which came through the day after Christmas, didn’t concern book work at all. [...]

[...] We will also along this line, and throughout this book, have to make some distinctions between events and your interpretations of them.

In this part (2) of the book, we are more or less dealing with the events of nature as you understand it. [...]

[...] (Jane has been told that everyone at Prentice-Hall, her publishing house, “just loves” Emir.) A couple of weeks ago Sue Watkins delivered the last two chapters of the manuscript for Psyche that she’s been typing for us; we still have to check that book and finish the notes for it. [...]

[...] “I think Seth’s going to add a Part 4 to this book,” she said, “and he’s going to call it ‘The Practicing Idealist.’ And I want to keep changing it to ‘Practicing Idealism,’ because his heading sounds too much like it’s already been used. Wasn’t that a book? [...]

(I could only reply that I didn’t know of a book called The Practicing Idealist. [...]

Give us a moment… Most readers of this book can be considered idealists in one way or another by themselves or others. [...]

[...] We have given you an idea for a book—Merry Christmas—and some dictation, beginning chapter seven. [...]

[...] The program I outlined will be of great value, as will the book for you.

[...] Each of you should now and then try to sense your individual power, for it goes out creatively in the books. It comes back to you as evidence when through the mail you see the books help people change the directions of their lives.

[...] Ruburt does not think of books that he did not finish. [...]

[...] What if they’re related in oblique ways, yet Seth doesn’t call them book dictation? [...] We know that Seth will specify a given number of sessions for this book, for instance, yet we keep the freedom to consider adding other material.

[...] This made us feel good indeed, for it signaled the first publication of a Seth book in three years [since Personal Reality came out in 1974]. [...]

[...] As I have mentioned [in other books], you can indeed change the present to some extent by purposefully altering a memory event. [...]

1. Sue Watkins has been mentioned, and at times quoted, in a number of Jane’s books: The Seth Material, Seth Speaks, Adventures in Consciousness, Psychic Politics, and both volumes of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

Your growing faith in Framework 2 about Ruburt’s condition has also helped free your intent about selling books. Before, you tied Ruburt’s physical problems in with the selling of the books. [...]

Some of the people most influenced by the books, however, particularly “Unknown” Reality and Cézanne, are the kind of people who will take time to digest the books before writing. [...]

It is important that you keep your intent with Ruburt clear, that he will walk properly, that the books will sell well in a second instance, and then trust that the pieces of the completed pattern will all fall into place in Framework 1, as indeed they shall.

[...] They included a projection through the eastern wall of our living room, and a “visitor” who returned with her; the Latin title of a book; her awareness of a third eye; some material, with diagrams, of me as a monk who wrote manuscripts in an underground chamber that he later sealed; a vision of Seth in a brown robe, looking as I’ve painted him—but the brown robe was “too easy,” Jane said suspiciously. [...]

(She wrote down the “Latin” book title as best she could: Enada Inaventum [Deus ?].The E could possibly be either an I or an A. Then at 10:10 she told me the translation of the title would be Spiritual Adventures. [...]

[...] In 2003 a friend, Jeff, used a Latin dictionary to check her book title. [...]

[...] You believe you can write books and paint pictures, and you do.

(As we sat waiting for the session at 8:50 Jane felt a little nervous; she often does after a layoff from book dictation. [...] At 8:55, moving closer to that familiar dissociated state, approaching that psychological bridge which serves as a common meeting ground for Seth and herself she announced that she felt “a rather generalized idea of what Seth will say on the book stuff.” [...] “I guess we’ll start out with the book….”

(In the meantime, on Saturday morning, July 27, Jane received her first copy of The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, from her publisher. [...] So was I. The book’s physical appearance was most pleasing to us. [...]

[...] The break in book dictation gave me time to begin attending class regularly, and I plan to continue doing so. [...]

[...] Then in late August, long before I had the 16 diagrams [plus two other pieces of art] done for Adventures, I mailed to Prentice-Hall Jane’s completed manuscript for that book. Adventures is scheduled for publication in mid-1975, but I’ll continue referring to it in these notes.

[...] It’s transmission is a couple of years away, though, according to the way Jane and I have been producing these books. [...] Simply let Seth dictate the book—any book—minus any notes on my part. [...] Jane could write a lengthy Intro or Preface if she cared to, explaining all the mechanics, the trances, etc., connected with the book’s production.

[...] Some day there can be a book called The Nature of Cultural Reality.

I do not want to frighten you—but if we ever do The Nature of Cultural Reality, it will be a fine book.

[...] It does seem Seth could do a book without notes. [...]

[...] It develops he also writes book reviews for the Garrett publication, Parapsychology, which recently carried a review of Jane’s book. Jane feels Crosson would have given the book a better review, and an entirely legitimate one, than it did receive. [...]

(Much later, November 1968—Crosson without my knowledge writes to an editor at Doubleday telling them about my book, Dreams, Astral Projection & ESP and suggests they take a look. [...]

2. From any of Seth’s books — let alone Jane’s — I could cite a number of comments that question much of the thinking behind different Eastern systems of religious thought. [...] You can learn more from watching the animals than you can from a guru or a minister — or from reading my book. [...]

[...] The interested reader will also be able to compare her composition with certain passages in her long poem, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, when that work is published in book form in September 1975.

[...] We could easily take a book to present the reasons for our particular beliefs, examining them in connection with both Eastern and Western religious philosophies. [...]

[...] I want to have a book session, though.” [...]

[...] Most all of it was book dictation. [...]