“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] After for example his book is done.

I did not forget the first of my own books, incidentally, but put it off in order that more practical material concerning Ruburt could be given. [...]

(The dream is recorded in my dream book in the usual way. [...]

(The next morning, Jane awakened with the title of a book in mind. The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher. [...]

[...] He hadn’t mentioned anything about a future James book though.

[...] She put fresh paper in her typewriter and at once began what may very well be a new book. [...]

It was you who suggested the ESP book, and you also early decided not to become a part of the American mainstream of life. [...] Again, Freudian beliefs that filled the books and movies led you both in your own ways to fear that your energies could be “swallowed” by sexuality—that to some extent you had so much energy, and that most of it must go into creative work.

[...] I talked about the doctor reporting that Jane’s books were kept in the occult section of the bookstore, thus causing her to lose readers; I used the incident as an example of how stereotyped ideas can limit something becoming better known—breaking out of its specialized field to reach a much wider audience, as I think Jane’s work deserves. [...]

[...] They are connected with your personal creativity, so dream books will not help you in deciphering those meanings if they attach a specific significance to any given symbol. [...] If you had before you your entire dream history and could read — as in a book — the story of all of your dreams from birth, you would discover that you changed the meaning of your symbols as you went along, or as it suited your purposes. [...]

The following material may be used here in our book, or in your own book.⁶ There will be no gap in this book if you do not use it here.⁷

[...] That session turned out to be private, rather than one for book dictation. [...]

6. Here Seth refers to Through My Eyes — the book he suggested (in December 1972) that I write on the Seth phenomenon and other subjects. [...]

a thousand books. [...]

Early in this essay (which I began on May 7, 1982), I mentioned the series of sessions Seth gave in 1980 on his magical approach to reality, and the different approaches Jane and I took toward doing books on the subject. [...] For many months she considered doing a book on the magical approach (with my encouragement), and collected much information of her own for it. In other words, she viewed the book as helping herself as much as anyone else. [...]

Aside from any books that he may produce himself (and on whatever subjects), I’ve already made plans to put together a short volume featuring Seth’s discussions on the magical approach to reality. [...] She may also contribute an introduction to the book, showing how Seth’s and her own sinful-self information are related to the magical approach.

[...] I’ve noted in other books that she seldom talks about it. [...] This is very evident in her second and latest book of poetry, If We Live Again: Or, Public Magic and Private Love, which was published in December of last year (1981). [...]

[...] The books and magazines dealing with reincarnation—and the tapes, too, these days—swarm with tales of journeys to past lives, and some of those accounts are most spectacular. [...]

[...] I only saw that she could use the rest, since she obviously didn’t feel well generally—but I also thought she was waiting for one of her characteristic surges of creative energy before digging into her next book (of which she always has several going). [...]

Seth uses the term “value fulfillment,” as in the title of this book, to imply life’s greater values and characteristics—that is, we are alive not only to continue, to insure life’s existence, but to add to the very quality of life itself.

In our other books I’d mentioned my physical symptoms now and then. [...]

[...] “So many different kinds of people read the books—”

[...] Then I remembered that Seth hadn’t given headings for the first eight chapters of his book. [...] Impossible as it seemed, well over a year had passed since she had stopped reading the book, session by session, early in Chapter Four. [...]

[...] She was strongly interested in seeing that Seth finished his book, although she still has to read most of it.

[...] I’d been reading about these sects recently in a book on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and had been somewhat puzzled by my interest in both the scrolls and the sects; but after hearing Seth tonight I assumed he wasn’t going to say much about these subjects.

We will have a personal session also, and continue with our book. [...]

(Seth’s clever, somewhat humorous stresses in the above paragraph were intended to make certain points to me personally while he continued work on his book. [...]

[...] Reading this book, you may be able to point at friends or acquaintances and see clearly that their ideas are invisible beliefs which limit their experience — and yet be blind to your own invisible beliefs, which you take so readily as truth or characteristics of reality.

[...] Jane’s pace had been consistently faster than in previous sessions on the book. [...]

[...] He gave Jane the excellent news that wherever he went the Seth books were known, and that Jane truly was changing our society through her work. [...]

So the affair with Eleanor is significant, particularly since the book was assured publication with Prentice. [...]

[...] The book also contained much Sumari and speaker material.

Now he has felt that if the “authority,” the people, do not like what he says, then they will not buy his books, and deny him that “welfare.” [...] Instead of the people giving him handouts as a child, where he had to be careful of what he did and said, he saw them as contributing to his welfare through buying his books, and if he went too far and offended them, they would stop.

[...] You choose books rather than television appearances, because of your feelings of secrecy and safety. [...]

The book Ruburt ordered can be helpful if he ignores some of the suggestions, and you help him with the adjustments that will operate simply as aids.

[...] When I remarked that I tried not to worry about such things anymore, she replied that she too had better get back to book work and forget the world’s troubles: “Come on, Seth, I’m here.” But even as she felt him around, she knew that Seth wouldn’t be giving book dictation per se.)

[...] Jane has called the hospital each day to ask about him; she’s putting together for him a unique, evocative little book of poetry and paintings. [...]

Which might help account, I told Jane, for her response to David’s illness, including the book she’s making for him. [...]

[...] “I hope it fits in with the book. I never heard of a book on evolution talk about dreams and art.”)

[...] One of the first dated European woodcuts, showing a religious figure, appeared in 1423; a book bearing woodcut illustrations was produced circa 1460; the first Roman book containing woodcuts was made in 1467. [...]

(Jane was very pleased now that Seth’s book was firmly under way after so many delays. [...]

[...] Jane was pleased, saying she felt quite free now about the production of the book.)

[...] Am I feeling what I should feel?” This is the book’s first exercise for you. [...]

I will elaborate much more specifically on this particular point later in the book. [...]

[...] “I had no idea he was going to do that,”” Jane said, meaning work on the new book. “I’m so glad we got back on the book. [...]

[...] In a way his book will continue our material from another viewpoint while you are preparing our book.

[...] I quoted a poem (on animal consciousness) from a book of sketches and untitled poetry that Jane had created for my birthday last June. These two poems from the same little book fit in well here:

Now because neither of you wanted children, his books were considered part of his wifely duty; substitutes, he felt, that were better than the originals. He felt, then, that he could produce far better books than he could children. [...]

[...] Jane had been “really out, not aware of anything,” she said — but Seth promptly returned when I voiced some doubts about using this material in his book.)

[...] They do not know a Ruburt, but they can learn through this book. [...]

[...] Reading this book, for example, any reader might say, “My trouble is that I am too emotional.” [...]

[...] 9, and sketched in my dream book.)

Ruburt should read more in his Maltz book, definitely, and concentrate on achieving relaxation, not only in periods set aside, but in his normal daily hours at work or whatever.

(See my dream book for Friday, December 8, 1967, for a sketch of the first vision I had that involved sculpture. [...]