“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] For Ruburt’s benefit: There will be considerable movement and activity concerning his book in the month of February, and some travel on your part. [...] There will be an inquiry, a request for Ruburt to do a book from another publisher. The book involving me.

[...] Jane’s cheek came today, Wednesday, January 18, for the ESP book.

He feels that you have not tried to make a success of your art, but have used excuses while blaming him for using excuses; that he tries desperately to sell his books, while you will not lift a finger to sell your paintings; that if he waited until he did his best work, he would never have sold a thing.

[...] I didn’t realize last year of course that she was so dissatisfied with the psychic image and the books; I blithely assumed that she felt she was doing good work, and that she accepted it, which doesn’t mean that I had any thoughts of ever saying she shouldn’t do any other kind of writing, ever. [...]

[...] He is pleased with my book. [...]

[...] I told Jane that I had been having a change of mind, and that perhaps she shouldn’t contract Seth’s latest book in advance after all. [...]

(Jane has even thought of having Debbie Harris take dictation at night, for another children’s book. [...]

[...] Before he did Seth Speaks, she was scared Seth couldn’t write a book. [...]

[...] It’s been over a week since I’ve worked on the book.)

When an idea for a book or a poem comes to him, he “tunes into it” immediately. [...]

(4:11.) That is the natural, creative way to function, and it has provided him with many excellent books and poetry. [...]

[...] In a fashion the body is a living book, being produced in every moment.

[...] The subject itself is so vast that, of course, an entire book could easily be devoted to it, so it is impossible to cover all the issues that may be involved with such cases here.

[...] All of the constructive beliefs mentioned throughout this book should be applied to all of the instances in this chapter. [...]

[...] Before him he saw a wall of books, and the self in the living room suddenly knew that his purpose here in this reality was to re-create some of those books. [...]

(In the opening notes for last Wednesday’s session I described how Jane had started her new book, Psychic Politics, that same day while she had been immersed in a state of high creativity; I added that at the same time she’d become aware of a slightly different Jane in a psychic library from which, it seemed, she was to get much of the material for Politics. [...]

Now as Ruburt delivers this material, the same thing happens in a different way to him, so that in some respects he has been snapping back and forth between dimensions, practicing with the elasticity of his consciousness; and in this book more than in previous ones his consciousness has been sent out further, so to speak. [...]

Give us moment … These books, those written and not yet written, of his and mine, will provide frameworks for others to follow if they wish, as they wish.

[...] He got poetry book okay and will read it at once! [...]

(These notes hardly do justice to the string of events that led to Carol and Fred meeting Miss Dineen—from the couple’s leaving Watkins Glen, motoring to Elmira, deciding upon how to find us, asking a policeman finally for directions to a book-store, going to the wrong bookstore—Rubin’s—just as Miss Dineen came out of the religious bookstore almost next door, Miss Dineen first directing them to 458 West Water, then remembering that we’d moved, etc. [...]

Ruburt’s books, your paintings, follow the same overall format. [...]

Later, for the book, I will use this sort of explanation to show for example how various groups of people, planning say a vacation to one spot, will all choose two or three airplanes for the journey—knowing unconsciously quite well that one very well might crash, even though the final decision is not made until the last moment.

She did in fact go to a bookstore, but in so doing she killed two birds with one stone, so to speak, for she found your address in the phone book, but also just happened to run into Miss Dineen—and that was something that only a thorough canvassing of the town might produce.

This is not book dictation, although you may well quote portions of it if you prefer for the book.

[...] You worry about what the publisher will do with the book after it sells—what will happen to it, and imagine the ways in which it can be ruined. [...]

[...] Later, when you did not need jobs and the books began to sell, then your creative time also became productive-money time to some extent.

[...] I am not concerned about our book, the latest one. [...]

This book will be devoted, then, to those conditions that best promote spiritual, psychic, and physical zest, the biological and psychic components that make a species desire to continue its kind. [...]

[...] We will have a rip-roaring book this time. [...]

(12:17 A.M. See Jane’s material on her “own condition” in her Introduction for this book. [...]

[...] During our private and book sessions Seth’s voice effects are usually quite conversational in tone and emphasis, and he speaks slowly enough so that I can comfortably take notes. [...]

[...] I agreed, adding that I saw no help for it if ever I was to finish the book. [...]

As far as the book passages are involved, it is indeed very difficult to write about complicated matters with a simple vocabulary. [...]

[...] In the meantime, the copyedited manuscript for Emir arrived on the 18th, sent to us by Eleanor Friede at Delacorte Press; and since Emir is a short book, we were able to go over it during one evening and get it in the mail back to Eleanor late the next day. [...] Then Jane, in a typical burst of inspiration the next day, began writing her third Seven book: Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time.

[...] And I, who have died more times than I care to tell, write this book to tell you so.)

(While delivering this paragraph Jane walked into the kitchen, still in trance, to rummage for a book of matches; she wanted to light a cigarette.)

[...] I use one portion of myself from many personalities that are available to my identity in these communications, and in this book. [...]

[...] She has been reading the book The Self in Transformation, by Herbert Fingarette, Basic Books, 1963, NY and London. [...]

The book which Ruburt has been reading tended to turn him inward. [...]

[...] Ruburt should definitely now concentrate on his book during the night hours, perhaps thinking of poetry toward dawn.

(Several times in recent sessions Seth has told us that Jane is to hear from someone in Wisconsin, relative to a publishing venture and/or her ESP book, but nothing has developed yet.)

(“Has he read the ESP book?”)

In other ways the same kind of mechanism operates in the growing popularity of the books. You did not want the little ESP book to do any better than it did in the beginning. [...]

[...] You have projected books, paintings and activities into the future—the patterns wait there to be filled. [...]

It is this energy that he must utilize now to finish the two books he has begun. [...]

[...] (Her eyes open, Jane gestured by clapping her upper arms; she has experienced muscle cramps and spasms in both deltoids recently.) He must now concentrate that same energy into three main fields or endeavors: poetry and the two books. [...]

Momentarily poor habits stopped him from focusing this energy fully into his books. [...]

I also suggest that you yourselves concentrate upon the success of Ruburt’s book. [...]

(“I think such connective sessions happen between book sessions, for a change of pace — where material doesn’t have to fit a more concentrated overall book focus. [...]

[...] It isn’t private, really, or book work either. [...]

[...] There are certain sessions I’ve labelled ‘fill-in’ sessions in my mind for some time now, or thought of them as covering ‘floating material.’ They aren’t book sessions or specifically personal ones. [...]

[...] So we talked about what a great book Seth could do on the hostage question. [...] She wanted to know what would happen to Seth’s book on dreams in the meantime, and I explained that it would only wait until the other project was finished. [...]

[...] My book and his—that is, Mass Events and God of Jane—both do take public stands. [...]

[...] He was nevertheless determined to take some kind of a public stand—for not to do so would mean not to express himself through his books at all. [...]

[...] Despite this he went on with some considerable courage, determination and vigor in my book and his own to encounter the nitty-gritty, so to speak, to bring out the issues clearly to himself and to the world. [...]

If you think in conventional terms about reincarnation, then you might examine a book in which each page is a life. You read the book from the beginning, so you think of one life or page following another. You should be able to see that the entire book exists at once. [...]

Instead, you are not only reading but writing many such books of living experience, that represent existences. [...] This character is so independent, alive and real, that it in turn forms other characters — and each writes its own book, or forms its own reality. [...]