“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Tam will also look at my first rough sketches for Jane’s book of poetry, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time.¹ Then on Wednesday night he’ll witness the scheduled 706th session. [...] Almost always Jane dictates book material without witnesses other than myself and uses the framework of ESP class for emotional interactions involving herself, Seth, and others. [...]

1. For those who are interested in publishing matters: Like counterpoint endeavors, Jane’s Dialogues and Adventures have become interwound with her Seth books. She discussed her “own” works in her Introduction to Personal Reality. I mention them in various notes in that book, and selections of poetry from Dialogues itself are presented in chapters 10 and 11; in the latter chapter Seth used one of those excerpts in connection with his own material. [...]

Jane finished Dialogues last year (in March 1973), and now (in June 1974) is halfway through the final draft of Adventures. I’m to finish illustrations for each of them by the end of this year, if possible, since Prentice-Hall will publish both books in 1975. [...]

Throughout this volume, as in the first one, I’ll be referring to Jane’s other books. [...]

Ruburt’s body is then magically and naturally repairing itself in a function just as creative, of course, as the inner work that goes on in the production of a book or a poem — a fact he is finally getting through his head. When your proofreading is over, and Ruburt’s recovery even more fully demonstrable, we will return to a book session a week, and continue this series the other [weekly] session. [...]

Education in your culture is a mixed bag (with ironic and humorous emphasis) — and education comes not from schools alone, but from newspapers and television, magazines and books, from art and from culture’s own feedback. [...]

[...] [Others, I’ve often speculated, couldn’t realize the depth of Jane’s challenges.] As we talked, Jane laughed and said she picked up from Seth that “the best books are yet to come.”)

[...] He told us he was reading the book.

[...] Books were numerous, but reading was done in the daytime. [...]

As far as your sales are concerned, trust Framework 2 to know exactly where and when the sales should be accelerated, and in what fashions, and do not specify particular books. [...]

Someday you may want to leave money to insure that our books continue to be printed after your deaths. [...]

When he worries about his book, this is simply a demonstration of the still-remaining lack of trust in the motion of his own psyche. [...]

[...] The book is also progressing precisely because he is reaching areas of development necessary to its completion.

You are, as he is, wondering how you will do what you want to, on your part—your painting, the book, renewed regular sessions, and regular chores. [...]

[...] You also wonder if the book is more than you can chew—not alone, but in relationship with your painting. [...]

(See the notes on page 269, Volume 5, of the 232nd session, dealing with Jane’s recent poetry book and the request by Jane’s publisher, F. Fell, that she send it to him along with a tape of some of the poems, also by Jane. In the 277th session Seth said this book would be published. F. Fell returned the book a couple of weeks ago, and it is now in the hands of another publisher. Jane did not seriously expect Fell to accept this book, but still wants to hear from Seth about it. Playboy Press has also rejected the poetry book. [...]

[...] A book, or an object resembling one. It could be a box of book shape. The space between either the covers of the book or the covers of the box being colored, and patterned. [...]

[...] However, the poetry book will indeed sell.

The top of the book or box a shade of brown. [...]

[...] I came across them in one of the books on ancient history that Shirley Bickford, one of Jane’s students, brought for us to consult on the very ancient civilization, Sumeria, in Mesopotamia, from 4,000—2,000 BC, I believe, without consulting dates.

[...] Some of the information given in my own book, by inference, should have made that clear.

(By coincidence—?—Seth’s book has just come back to us from Prentice-Hall for us to go over the copy editor’s suggestions before it is set in galleys, which we will see in April. [...]

The pyramids, the huge boulders etched out (I think Seth refers here to Baalbek; I didn’t interrupt to ask), all of this was done in one way or another through the use of, a knowledge of, both coordination points in space (described by Seth in his own book) and the use of sound. [...]

(“Then I thought: I didn’t want to give real book sessions while I was asleep — who would take them down? [...] I knew we were on Chapter Nineteen of Seth’s book, and this confused me. How come I was doing an early chapter — or was this work for a different book?”

(In the early hours of May 29, following the last session, Jane had her most vivid experience yet involving book work during the sleep state. [...]

[...] “I was speaking for Seth on an Introduction or an early chapter for a book. [...]

In his case, extra reserves of energy have been used in practical concerns over his book, although to deal with them he has drawn upon additional energies. [...] Unfortunately the knowledge that his book will be published, while bringing him much satisfaction, has also served to remind him of the manner in which he fears many might look upon both our sessions and his past endeavors in this field.

We are largely over this hump now, and the actual writing of the book in its entirety will actually serve to strengthen his confidence in this respect, since the validity of our sessions will be stressed as he reads material for his book. [...]

[...] His own book will allow him to reassess the nature of our sessions. [...]

Ruburt has not worked on the dream book since Fell’s letter. [...] Work on the dream book should now be added daily however, and the suggestions read before the work is begun each day.

Had he been working on the dream book also there would have been some noticeable improvement by now, because of the financial conditions there also. [...]

If he works on his dream book daily now, for at least two hours, this plus the benefit from his classes should give noticeable improvement. [...]

[...] It can be applied also when he is working on his dream book.

(By way of reactions, we thought of improving our behavior in any such future encounters, insistently if necessary, and of preparing for them by informing would-be visitors that they’d have to read a selected list of books beforehand. We would add that the books alone would indicate how different our thinking was from the usual, and that the visitor wouldn’t find us agreeing with much of what they might want to say. [...]

[...] I’ve finished working on the last session for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and today began the last note for the book, on ESP class. [...]

Now: you should reread Ruburt’s library material in the Cézanne book, on authority and creativity, for it is excellent. [...]

[...] Enough people are interested, or the books would not be read, so emotion grows. [...]

(Jane talked to Don Wollheim of Ace Publications on the phone today, and he requested that she send him her book on dreams. [...]

(“Do you want to say something about the dream book and the Parker impressions?” See The Early Sessions, Volume 8, pages 329-330.)

[...] First of all, in a dream he saw that the book would be published. [...]

[...] The dream book was not mentioned specifically in her notebook.

Ruburt has been waiting until you were ready to actually begin typing the first book, until he saw the actual pages, and knew that you were finished with the bulk of the reference work and so forth. When he sees you beginning the actual typing he will feel free again for other book sessions. [...]

I spoke of many minds in our last book session. [...]

[...] In the meantime, with the Cézanne material and the painting, he is opening up other areas that will make certain portions of my new book possible, for certain levels of understanding are acquired on his part.

(“Honestly,” Jane said the morning after last Wednesday’s session, “I think I was doing book work in my sleep the whole night — only I kept hearing my own voice instead of Seth’s. I even thought of getting up and trying to write down the material, except that I didn’t think it would really work that way. [...] One of Jane’s previous experiences in obtaining book material in advance — that on bridge beliefs — is described in the 644th session in Chapter Eleven. Her next nighttime involvement with Seth’s book is reported at the end of this session.

[...] 2. Birth defects, as occasionally referred to by Seth in the course of this book.

If you are feeling poorly and happen to read an advertisement for vitamins, or a book about them, and are impressed, you will indeed benefit — at least for a while. [...]

[...] If you realize your own worth after reading this book, then that realization in the present can negate any past ideas of unworthiness that may have attracted you to the condition.

The more the books were written, the less willing it seemed you were to do what I wanted. [...] This itself hampered the creative drive, hence the dream book difficulty.

There was difficulty with the books. [...]

You two more or less made me a promise that Ruburt would begin working sensibly on his book again (after last session), and instead you took a trip. [...]

[...] I tried to have him sit and write books, chained to his chair, don’t you see. [...]

[...] She has been doing very well on her book on dreams recently; this afternoon she remarked that it was going so well that she wondered where the material was coming from. Seth spoke on the integration of our personalities also in the 228th session; the material grew out of his material on the poetry book Jane produced so effortlessly. Our thought is that the dream book material is also appearing in the same way. [...]

[...] The disturbing aspect having to do with a book, and the initials A G that have something to do, I believe, with the book.

[...] They will become more apparent, and the whole Seth book will benefit now also. [...]

[...] Columns five and six of the object contain references to a bookstore and the books on display in the window there. [...]

(The mail from Prentice-Hall is increasing considerably, whether or not this is in line with Seth’s recent statement that an increase in sales of the books is under way. [...]

[...] Jane remembered no reaction from her mother when her poetry came into conflict with the church, or when Father Rakin burned her books. [...]

Some version involving you two and the French book, for example.

[...] We thought of games involving the French book, or even crossword puzzles. [...]

[...] Although we had a few shorter sessions on different matters during the holiday season, this is the first material Seth has given on his book since December 18 — and as he resumed dictation on Chapter Seven so easily, we were reminded that he’s impervious to our ideas of time.

[...] I think he might talk about that book we bought last week, too — at least a little.”

(The book Jane referred to is a compendium of experiments with animal and human biological rhythms. [...]

(We’ve been especially interested in such material since Seth referred to the “deaths” of atoms and molecules in the 625th session in Chapter Five, but we haven’t asked for more detail because the subject matter is somewhat outside the scope of this book. [...]

[...] Her heading for them is tentative: The Plants’ Book of People. [...] As she progresses with them Jane doesn’t know whether they’ll end up as a book, or even whether she’ll do anything at all with them. [...]

(Jane had said before the 846th session, which she held a week ago, that she wanted Seth “to get back to” book dictation, and Seth had obligingly given the heading for Chapter 7 at the end of the session. [...]

[...] “I’ve done 16 chapters so far out of maybe 25 for the book,” she said, “but some of them need more work.”

[...] Ruburt’s book on [William] James would be good background material here, particularly the sections dealing with democracy and spiritualism. [...]

[...] Regardless of what you have been told, hatred does not initiate strong violence. As covered earlier in this book, the outbreak of violence is often the result of a built-in sense of powerlessness. [...]

[...] She now told me that while delivering the World War II data for the book, she had been quite aware of another, unspoken, channel from Seth.

[...] At the same time, although the data was available, we didn’t want to lay this book aside to get it.

[...] But now, [as then] when I asked how she could perceive a subjective stream of information from Seth while giving book dictation for him, she couldn’t really say. [...]