“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I will autograph my book for you personally. Now I told you before I began the book that it would be published. I have more confidence than Ruburt has and before I begin my next book, I will let you all know. [...]

[...] My book is finished so I will have plenty of energy left to deal with all of you, and to send you on whatever adventures you are willing to pursue—even our friend, Edgar, over here. [...]

[...] You will read my probable book. [...]

[...] Now we can see that she is getting into the regular trade-book market. [...] He too has agreed to do all advertising for Jane’s books in the regular trade-book field, rather than the occult.)

I told you once that Frederick Fell was an excellent publisher for Ruburt’s book. You never directly questioned me about that, but Ruburt was not prepared for that book to sell in any great manner, and it was to his advantage that it appear, to give him a book, but also that it lie quietly for a while.

[...] He learned as the book progressed, and he did stand up for the book to the best of his ability at the time.

Generally speaking, it is better if book dictation is done alone, or with those with whom you are well acquainted and easy. [...]

The book jacket is indeed one to be proud of, and the book will be a book to be proud of. [...] There was no subconscious distortion on Ruburt’s part, when I told you that the nonphysical self book would sell. [...]

I knew that the book would be returned shortly, and this is the reason that I gave you this reassurance. [...] I believe two poetry books will sell. One is the psychological book. [...] Obviously Ruburt must send the books out, for example.

(“You were going to say something about the ESP book.” Jane recently received word from her publisher that the book would be off the press later in July.)

You will both be pleased with the book itself, and with its response. [...] This is not a distortion: The book will quite literally change your circumstances for the better, and lead into areas with which you are not now acquainted.

(Jane’s idea this evening was to have a session on book material, so I asked her for a few words on my question also. [...] I’d mentioned a little earlier an idea for a book she could develop on Seth and the magical approach [she’s had the magical-approach idea for some time], and she wanted material on that. See my notes on the book idea prefacing the regular portion of this session. [...]

[...] My own idea about holding off on Seth’s latest book, Dreams, is not that it will force any solution, but merely, hopefully, prevent things from getting worse. As I asked Jane the other day when she talked of resuming work on that project: “Can you stand any more complications?” I meant of course, that after 17 books, we’re at our present situation, so I have difficulty understanding how doing another book will suddenly, magically, turn anything around for us as long as we stay on the same old course. [...]

[...] I sent Bernier a book list. Interestingly, in the small town of Roseburg he’d been able to buy James and Cézanne and ESP Power, but no other Seth books. [...]

In the case of our book (Dreams), however, Ruburt himself was worried about your attitude. [...] The main issue here is that feeling of responsibility again, so that he writes or whatever because he loves to do it, not because he should or must, and that involves my books as well as his own. [...]

It is this basic feeling about the book and Saratoga that suddenly activated past associations and brought on some identification with his mother. [...] The book itself, oddly enough, provides a certain protection for it informs others of his basic strength. It shocked him to know that people of the past were reading the book in his present, and seemed to draw him closer to those original associations that caused him to leave Saratoga.

[...] To some extent the fact that Ruburt’s book is being read in his hometown disconcerts him. [...] This causes some (panic?); there is a feeling that he is back in their control, and that the book in this respect has lain him vulnerable.

He did not want her to read the book, you see. [...] These feelings began when the book was definitely accepted. [...]

[...] His book is helping others in Saratoga. [...]

(For the record: This last material may have come through because I got angry yesterday when I discovered that Prentice-Hall had run a two-page ad in the NY Times Book Section, for Sunday, December 2, without mentioning any of the Seth books. Tam has recently told Jane that the Seth books outsell all P/H’s books except the Ozzie Nelson. So the Nelson book was pictured in the ad, along with a lot of others, but nary a Seth book.)

[...] He knows the books will bring added financial success, and that ad campaigns, etc., will come. [...]

Sketching for Ruburt’s book, in line with your present beliefs, is “safe.” [...]

Now: beginning my book as I suggested in the last session, Ruburt has begun to encounter, recognize and timidly begun to challenge body beliefs just in the last few days. [...]

[...] As he told us in the 743rd session, a few days after the visit of Tam and his associate: “This book had no chapters [in order] to further disrupt your accepted notions of what a book should be. There are different kinds of organizations present, however, and in any given section of the book, several levels of consciousness are appealed to at once.” [...]

Seth began dictating The “Unknown” Reality: A Seth Book, in the 679th session for February 4, 1974, and finished it with the 744th session for April 23, 1975. In the beginning we anticipated another intriguing Seth book, the successor to Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality. [...]

[...] When those sessions are in Volume 1, think of that book as a separate entity used for reference in the same way that Seth Speaks, Adventures in Consciousness, or any of Jane’s other books are. [...]

During our book sessions, which are almost always private — held without witnesses, that is — Seth speaks at a moderate enough pace so that I can take down his dictation verbatim in my own kind of shorthand. [...] (See my notes at the end of the 610th session, in Chapter 1 of that book.) And concerning my objective observations of Seth himself, I’ll let my notes in the sessions build up whatever composite picture I’m able to construct.

[...] Also, while lying down before supper she received the last three words of the title for this book. The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book. [...]

(Just before 9:45 Jane told me I could have material from Seth on the glasses idea, or on his book. [...] I chose this book, of course. [...]

[...] Coué was a pioneer in the study of suggestion, and wrote a book on the subject in the 1920’s. His ideas were well received in Europe at the time, but weren’t in this country to any large degree. [...]

My wife, Jane Roberts, dictated The Magical Approach for Seth, the “energy personality essence” she spoke for in a trance state, in 1980—but the pressures of Jane’s illness, and of our producing other books, kept us from publishing it quickly. [...] Looking back from my position within the framework of simultaneous time, I’m amazed to see that another ten years passed before the publication of this little book by Amber-Allen/New World Library. [...] Janet Mills, the publisher and editor for the new editions of Jane’s books, suggested that I write a bit about the situation. [...]

Our books continued to go out of print, and in 1990 I began working with Anne Marie O’Farrell, a literary agent. [...] Janet told me, after publishing the first two reprints, that she “would like to publish all of the books at once.” [...]

[...] The day after Jane died I went back to work, finishing the last two Seth books to meet long-overdue publishing deadlines. [...]

[...] She’s worked as a researcher of Jane’s material for The Magical Approach — the book she has “most dreamed of working on.” [...]

2. “Rob wanted me to do a paragraph or so about my reactions to the book on scientific creationism that I’ve just finished reading,” Jane wrote, “so here goes. The book follows the idea that an objectified God made the universe (and the earth) in a perfect condition, and that instead of evolving toward more complicated forms, it’s running down; that decay and catastrophe are break-downs of previous better conditions, but that even these will finally be removed by the Creator after they have served their own special purposes. The book states that the universe is around 10,000 years old. [...]

[...] (No even approximate date for the flood is given in the book. [...] But how could they be, in a book on scientific creationism?) There was no evolution. [...] Why man’s sin, resulting in the catastrophic flood, to which all species fell victim? The regular theory of evolution doesn’t have to contend with such questions, of course, but in the book I just read no explanations for questions like that are given—I don’t even remember that they were raised.

[...] She’s been reading the book on scientific creationism I suggested to her. [...]

Jane expected Seth to work on his new book this evening. [...]

[...] “You know,” she said, “I thought this book was going to go longer, but I’ve got the funny nostalgic feeling that Seth’s going to end it real soon. [...] I told her that I thought Seth would close out the book tonight. [...]

(A note pertaining to the material given just before break: In Chapter Nineteen Seth deals with reincarnation in a general sense, but he’s said little in this book about his psychic “connections” with Jane and me. [...] But to explore the ramifications of reincarnation just as it involves the three of us, for example, would take a book in itself….

[...] If you use the methods given in this book, you should know yourself far more intimately than you did before, and be better equipped to handle your personal reality. [...]

(10:49.) Now: In ordinary terms, this book has included no esoteric instructions to help you achieve what you may think of as spiritual development or psychic expertise. [...]

(Jane hasn’t read any of Seth’s book since the 521st session, in Chapter Four; in spite of temptations, she has always felt it better to be free of concern about it. [...] She has of course had contacts with the book, aside from her own imperfect memory. [...] She discussed the book to some extent with Patty Middleton recently; and I’ve talked about it at times, although without referring back to the typed page.

(Jane checked the outline Seth had given us for his book in the 510th session for January 19, 1970. [...] For some reason I felt uneasy now; perhaps I thought it might not be a good idea to interrupt the flow of the book in such a manner.

And now I have an assignment for you, and the opportunity to participate in my book. [...]

[...] We learned about the death of Otto’s daughter Mary, on a conscious level, this week when we bought a recent book by Otto on flying saucers, and read the dedication. The book was published in March 1967. In the “old days” I drew many a comic-book story by Otto.)

Again, the particular methods given in the book are excellent, as applied processes to release your abilities. You will both literally be astonished at the changes for the better in your situations, if you follow the book’s instructions, with the variations and suggestions given by me. [...]

The book I recommended will be of great benefit (Psycho-Cybernetics). [...]

[...] You would have thought it a surface book, because you would not have understood clearly the premises beneath. [...]

[...] In June, with no hard feelings involved on anybody’s part, Jane withdrew Emir from consideration at Prentice-Hall when the decision was made there to publish the story in two volumes; on July 12, Eleanor Friede at Delacorte Press accepted Emir for publication as a single book. Later in July Sue finished typing the notes and started in on the appendixes for Volume 2, just as we received the first books for James. [...] Late that month — unbelievably to me — I finished my own work on Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and immediately began to type the final draft of the sessions; as I finished groups of sessions I mailed them to Tam every few days, while at the same time collaborating with Jane on the table of contents for the book. [...] Jane finished typing her manuscript for Seven Two on October 3, and I helped her correct that book for mailing on October 9. My own mailings for Volume 2 continued until the 21st of the month, when at last that very long project was completed and out of the house in its entirety for the first time. [...]

[...] In connection with our feelings about the long intervals that have materialized several times during the production of this book, see my opening notes for the 815th session — especially those concerning simultaneous time, and my statement that “We do not plan to ask Seth when the book will be done.” I’ll continue our chronology here, then, by describing many of our professional activities since last March, and follow it with Jane’s own account of at least some of the reasons for the long interruption in book work.

[...] We received the printer’s sample pages for Seven Two on December 4 [we see these for each book, and they show us just how the work will look when published]. On December 7 the copyedited manuscript for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality came; it’s more than 900 pages long, and painstakingly checking every word on every page of that book kept us busy until Christmas Eve; I mailed it to Tam on December 26. [...]

[...] During it Seth remarked that he’d “begin book sessions again next Wednesday,” but that didn’t quite work out; he still had a few more nonbook sessions to go. [...] And then, on the very night when she told me that she thought Seth would resume book dictation, Sue Watkins called with news that it was all official now: Today she’d signed her contract with Prentice-Hall for the publication of Conversations With Seth.)

[...] They might very well take the book. [...] They are very definitely interested in the book, and they think it’s a potential for other books, too. [...]

(On Friday, June 21, 1968, Jane sent the manuscript of her dream book to Parker Publishing Company Inc., Village Square Building, West Nyack, N Y. On Saturday, June 28, a card arrived from Parker with this message:

[...] I did not do so because I remembered a dream Jane had had recently, in which I had picked up the mail, then teased her about an optimistic letter from a publisher, concerning the dream book. [...]

(We estimate Parker had the book script in hand on Monday, June 23. [...]

[...] Jane and I admired the books, looking so complete yet spontaneous in their shiny dust jackets. Volume 2 is a massive book, yet I still couldn’t believe all the time — almost exactly five years — that had passed since Jane, Seth, and I began work on it. [...] Naturally we’d been involved in a number of other projects at the same time, as I’ve indicated in my notes for Mass Events, yet for me especially the publication of the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality meant that we had arrived at a certain point in the development and presentation of the Seth material: In those books, through correlating them in a modest way with our previous works, I’d attempted to show the reader just what the three of us had managed to achieve before Seth led us into Psyche — and, as it developed, Mass Events.

[...] He’s given all he can — or wants to — on the negative beliefs we hold as individuals and societies; he wants to start his next book [my emphasis] on how to positively work our way out of our challenges and create a much better world…. [...] I was even messing around with book titles today, though I know I shouldn’t do that.”¹

Then in the 861st session itself — which was not for Mass Events, as stated — Seth briefly mentioned the material on ideals and impulses he’s been giving in recent book sessions. [...] He certainly sounded as though he’d decided upon his next book:

(Last Wednesday night’s regularly scheduled book session wasn’t held because we had unexpected visitors after supper. [...]

[...] I happened to discover a full-page ad of Prentice-Hall’s in the New York Times book section for April 27, 1975. Four books were featured, but none of Jane’s. I showed it to her, and it got as negative a reaction from her as it did me. [...]

An ordinary, reputable publisher does not know what to do with a Jane Roberts who produces a Seth of another reality—books on her own also, and books moreover of quality.

Castaneda’s books, for all their seeming unconventionality, had a niche to fall into, for here was the quite conventional scholar exploring a culture, even of the mind; not his own—but safely, within an academic framework to which he then returned, and to which academic readers could identify. [...]

[...] Other so-called psychic books of current nature are reported also, but usually by someone even further removed from the original experiences. [...]

[...] Somehow, after supper, we got on the subject of Seth doing a “quick book” about Jonestown and Three Mile Island, something that could be offered to the public very soon, instead of material that would show up in a regular Seth book a couple of years from now. We already had the perfect title for the book, one we’d jokingly originated following last Monday night’s session: Seth on Jonestown and Three Mile Island: Religious and Scientific Cults.

[...] We’re sorry to think that such material will be shelved indefinitely, but there’s no room for most of it in Mass Events, and there probably won’t be in future books either. I do try to give hints and clues to some of it in this book, though, as I’ve done recently in sessions 841 and 844–45.

[...] But Jane had written some chapter headings, which were very good, and half a page of commentary for Seth’s hypothetical book. [...] She agreed with the decisions I’d made in that area, but she also wanted Seth “to get back to the book per se, and call his sessions dictation.

(Pause.) The Jonestown disaster happened (in November 1978) long after we began this book (in April 1977). [...] Now in my other books I have rarely commented upon public events of any nature. [...]

(Yesterday while proofreading the Mass Events galleys I got the feeling that that book really bothered me, served as a focal point. [...] I accept everything in the book—his opinions on medicine, etc.—but I think I felt that if I was going to tell it like it was—and I was, was determined to, then I also needed more protection from the world—and began cutting down mobility again. [...] This idea also came back, reading a book on William James Peggy G. gave me for Xmas—his attitudes and mine so often seem similar—that he was determined to be daring, press ahead no matter what, explore consciousness—while at the same time being attracted to safety, disliking controversy, wanting peace, etc. [...] I did grab hold several times, and with the God of Jane book, the new inspiration there—and stuff on following impulses, made some very good improvements. [...] or that people will or would stop buying the books.... [...]

[...] Part of this was a projection of other problems however, rather than specifically your attitude toward the book. [...] He knew the book was not art also, and felt guilty.

[...] Books were to bring instant success. [...]

[...] It also represented a slowdown in the activity from Prentice, in that he feels that if Tam were really interested in his book he would keep better track of it.

Now he felt that Rebellers, representing his first book success, helped bring about your illness, and this feeling alone is responsible for much of this.