“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] That’s been it, even though I had hoped at various times that work could be done on Seth’s book. [...]

[...] Her feelings were similar to those she’d had before starting the book. [...]

Now: We will return to our book tonight and Wednesday, and the following Monday and Wednesday, until it is finished.

[...] Ideas of probable realities and probable men and gods may strike some of you as quite absurd, and yet as you read this book, you are but one of the probable you’s. Other probable you’s would not consider you real, of course, and some might indignantly question your existence. [...]

Now — dictation for the book — my book.

(Seth devoted the first part of the session to a continuation of his introduction for Jane’s “Cézanne” book — and he has yet to complete that material. [...]

[...] Many books are meant to be read and never to be spoken aloud. [...]

Often when you read a book you silently mouth the words, as if to reinforce their symbolic content with a more emotional immediacy. [...]

It is beside the point to become angry at those who buy the Seth books and not Ruburt’s. Those people do the best they can. [...] Some of them will go into Ruburt’s books. [...] Yet your attitudes jointly can telepathically tempt them to Ruburt’s books—or help reinforce their own reluctance.

If you want our books in toto to sell far better, you have only to send out such messages, and imagine them doing so.

[...] (Amused:) I will tell you what you want, my dear friend: you want the books to sell very well, and the message to go out clearly to all. [...]

Our work is affecting the lives of millions—of millions (repeated in answer to my surprised look at Seth), through direct readership, and through the influence of those readers upon others, who may not, for example, even read the books, or who may read rarely in any case.

(Without necessarily expecting an answer this evening, I asked a question I thought Jane might want to consider if and when she wrote an introduction for this book: Could she dictate the whole book for Seth in, say, a month’s worth of daily sessions, or did she need a certain amount of day-by-day living and experience, over a period of months, perhaps, in order to be able to let the book come through?

[...] This does not mean that you cannot travel to other planets, for example, within that physical universe, any more than it means that you cannot use tables to hold books, glasses, and oranges (as our coffee table did at that moment), although the table has no solid qualities of its own.

[...] This applies to each of the readers of this book, even though the knowledge may be hidden. [...]

[...] I can be aware of myself as I dictate this book through Jane Roberts, and yet also be aware of myself in my own environment; for I send only a portion of myself here, as you perhaps send out a portion of your consciousness as you write a letter to a friend, and yet are aware of the room in which you sit. [...]

[...] Those books were dictated by me in a more or less straight narrative style. [...] Hopefully in that book, through my dictation and through Ruburt’s and Joseph’s experiences, the reader could see the greater dimensions that touch ordinary living, and sense the psyche’s magic. That book required much more work on Joseph’s part, and that additional effort itself was a demonstration that the psyche’s events are very difficult to pin down in time.

In our last book session, I gave the title for this chapter, mentioning the emotions and association; and the fact that the psyche must be directly experienced. I have not dictated a book session per se again until this evening. [...]

(Sessions 760-61 were devoted to separate topics that Seth has been developing apart from his regular book dictation for Psyche.

[...] I think all of this psychic stuff that I’m half aware of has to be organized and expressed in our world — Seth, Cézanne, this book — so that we can make sense of the whole thing.”

[...] By now the story of that book’s conception is well known: Late one night in 1959, Dick was walking beside a canal near a West Coast beach when he heard a voice say, “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” [...] He was even more so when, on his return home, the voice initiated images that gave him the bulk of the book in three-dimensional form. [...] Nothing happened until one day eight years later, when he suddenly wakened to hear the voice again — and with it came the rest of the book.

(“So other things were also involved — not only the birth of a book, but the emergence of the inner self, through art, into the physical universe. Now part of the focus and the strength comes from those two births, and the intensity behind them is also the reason why the book’s nativity strikes the world as strongly as it does. The two are merged in the book. [...]

[...] Dick had also visited us in late August, when Seth had Chapter One of this book under way.

[...] (To Eleanor and Dick:) I would speak faster for you, but we need the notes for the book.

(Seth reiterated that Jane’s book on the Seth material would be published, and that the poetry book would be published. [...] Jane’s publisher F. Fell, has written asking for photographs pertaining to the Seth book; in connection with this and in answer to my question, Seth said he would be amused to see a reproduction of my painting, purporting to be Seth, in the book. [...]

The inverted time system should be at least briefly explained in the Seth book. I do not want to dictate to Ruburt, or tell him how to write this book. [...] The last section of the book could then deal with what evidential material we have, and you shall have more. I am certain that Ruburt could so organize the center portion of the book so that stress could still be given to the personal story line.

(Today Jane received the galley proofs of her ESP book, along with the original manuscript, from her publisher by special delivery. [...] They were made evidently either by a psychologist or parapsychologist, probably at the invitation of the publisher before he accepted the book. [...]

The less complicated portions of my material have been used in the ESP book, but there is enough there to give serious question to many learned gentlemen, and they will look forward to the Seth book, for the further developments that will be given.

His own past fears of success were finally set aside with the acceptance of the ESP book. [...] He saw instantly that you resented the publication of the book, as he had seen earlier that you resented the publication of The Rebellers. You resented that book very much.

[...] (Pause.) Both of you should read the book Ruburt purchased, carefully, and follow most of its instructions. [...] I will give you specific material to use along with the book, and will add my own explanations.

(Last Thursday, November 2, Jane received her first royalty payment from Frederick Fell for her ESP book—a substantial sum, over $250, much more than we expected.

The book Ruburt is reading (Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz) offers a good approach. [...]

Yet we think now that such extensive notes have served their purposes for Seth’s material, at least for some time, so those books-in-the-works will carry minimum notes — as they do, say, in Seth Speaks. For one thing, as I write this Epilogue, Seth has finished The Nature of the Psyche, and has already begun still another book. [...] By using simple session notes only, we can get that next book to the public in a minimum of time, and it should be published shortly after this second volume of “Unknown” Reality — perhaps within just a few months.

[...] The creative explosions begun with these books still erupt, for “Unknown” Reality does seem to have a life of its own, one that defies definition, and that even now serves as a springboard for new psychic and creative experience. [...] As I type its pages for the final time, I’m back at our old Water Street apartments, and in our new “hill house” at once; I’m referring to 1975 sessions and recording Seth’s dictation on his latest book as well. [...]

In one way or another all of Seth’s books are elaborations of that basic message, stated nine months after his sessions with us began in December 1963. [...]

[...] In fact, Seth’s material always raises more questions to stimulate the intellect and intuitions, and these two books are no exception. [...]

[...] Then today I opened a package that contained a book of trance material similar to Seth’s. I guess I’m supposed to say thanks and that it’s great, to the publisher and the medium. Actually, I think those two people removed their material — which talks about All That Is — too far from its human source, its everyday contact with human personality, and thus produced just another psychic book. You could take six of those books, I thought, shuffle the names of the mediums around, and never know who produced what. [...]

(It came to me that what bothers me about the kind of book I opened today is their limited viewpoint. As limited in its way as a book on geology or clothing or any of innumerable others. [...]

[...] In this book we will keep reminding you, however, that exuberance and high spirits are a natural part of your heritage.

(Seth meant the Pocket Book edition of The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, which had arrived from Prentice-Hall last night — nine copies.

(Sunday, and until late at night, Jane had been reading The Winthrop Woman, a book about American colonial life in the 1600’s by Anya Seton. Last night she was unable to get to sleep, thinking about the book, and surmised that in some way the book had roused her subconsciously. Jane had forgotten it, she said, but now thought that upon reading the same book a few months ago, she had also developed neck trouble, although not to as severe a degree. The book dealt extensively with the sufferings of women in childbirth, and their lot in general, in those days.

Incidentally, the book that Ruburt was reading did have something to do with bringing on his condition, and involved a morbid fascination on his part, bringing out many old resentments. [...]

[...] These feelings were rearoused by Ruburt’s reading of the book, where childbirth was depicted as causing the mother great agony.

[...] Both pertained to Jane’s book on the Seth material, which she is just finishing. [...] Jane is dealing with both of these points in Chapter Eight of her book.

[...] Since last night we had been discussing the illustrations for the book, and both of the above questions concerned illustrations.)

(There were questions, but it seemed the above data would give Jane what information she needed for her book, etc.

(“Are you going to say something for the appendix for the book?”

For some years Jane and I devoted much work to learning the processes detailed in all of those early unpublished sessions, which were followed by her series of published books like The Seth Material, Seth Speaks, The Nature of Personal Reality, and so on. My wife’s later deleted material even contains a complete and unpublished book that she delivered just for me, about the artist Rembrandt van Rijn. [...] I’m going to be most interested in the responses of others to Seth’s book about that highly creative and world-famous individual. [...]

[...] Well, how about the transcripts in book form of the ESP classes Jane conducted from 1967 to 1978? [...] Then there’s Jane’s business and personal correspondence; much of her poetry; her journals; her unfinished autobiography; several novels she wrote before publishing the three Oversoul Seven books; the later essays she dictated to me, while in the hospital, about Seven’s childhood; her family history as far back as it can be researched; an objective biography of her physical and creative lives including her two marriages, and Jane’s and my struggles to survive before the advent of the Seth material. [...]

[...] Of course, I can always indulge my secret desire and write my own book about Jane and me. [...] The book would include Jane’s simplistically beautiful and brilliantly colored art; also my own quite different art—especially those drawings and paintings of and from my dreams that began to blossom as Seth discussed his dream material. [...]

But also, in my own book I’d want to write about my second marriage. [...]

(“Perhaps the object has been in a book or album.” The object was not in a book, but had been part of a book or pad of paper in that sense.

(“Connection with a book. Perhaps mention of Ruburt’s book.” [...] The Bernards had a copy of Jane’s ESP book with them; we had mailed it to them some weeks ago.

[...] Because you realize that you are reading such a book and acting out the part of the main character, and plunged into a three-dimensional existence, this does not mean that you can afford to throw the book away nor that you should refuse to read it.

[...] The teacher who gives you the book is reading another book, and acting another part. [...]

Now: The book will enable others to help themselves, and will reach a far greater audience and help more people than Ruburt could meet alone, or than I could help through individual sessions. Those who request help should be put on a list to make sure they know of the book.

[...] For Ruburt’s confidence, I wanted this book decently begun. Other sessions may take over from dictation now and then, but the main project will be the book.

[...] “I’m glad Seth’s working on his book again,” she said. [...] And so, like Seth Speaks, this is really two books in one: It’s not only about the nature of personal reality, but the circumstances surrounding Jane’s production of the material and the many ideas she has concerning it.

[...] Then, just before we were to resume work on Seth’s book, the great flood of Friday, June 23, 1972, took place.

[...] Like each of Jane’s books, Emir has its own life, its own place upon our planet, and resists categorization. It falls somewhere between being a book for children and one for adults. [...] Tam Mossman said it best in September 1977, when Jane was writing the book and Prentice-Hall was considering its publication: Emir is really a book for “readers of all ages.” [...] Being remaindered usually means the end of a book, unless it can be placed with another publisher. [...]

The day after that session for March 11 was held we received a jolt: Eleanor Friede, Jane’s editor at Delacorte Press, informed us that Jane’s book, Emir’s Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers, was being remaindered—taken off the market because in the publisher’s view it wasn’t selling enough copies. [...] We were given the chance to buy as many copies as we wanted to, at a very low price per book. We’d known that Emir hadn’t been setting any records since its publication in September 1979, but we’d also thought the book’s sales were respectable enough that the people at Delacorte Press would keep it in print until it became better known. Perhaps our shock came about because we’d become spoiled without realizing it, but of Jane’s 14 books Emir¹⁰ is the first one to be withdrawn—and, ironically, the last one she’d had published. [...]

[...] That same day, I congratulated her when our first published copy of God of Jane reached us; that excellent book had followed Mass Events all the way through the publishing process. I told Jane that God of Jane is her best book yet, and that I hope it does well in the marketplace.¹⁵ Yet I sadly noticed that the book’s appearance led to another intensification of her symptoms—the same reaction she’d had when we received our first copy of Mass Events 25 days ago. We were to discover very soon that her sinful self had put together the publication of the two books, my question of last night, and Seth’s own suggestion, to form an emotional trigger.

“I accept everything in the book, 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. [...] The idea [of protection] also came back after reading a book on William James that a friend gave us for Christmas. [...] The long breaks when Seth didn’t dictate [book work] may have come when I got particularly concerned about the material, the wisdom of presenting it to the world.

(Seth told us the Seth book which is now at Jane’s publisher would be published, and that her dream book would also. Jane sent the dream book to another publisher last week. [...]

There will be new developments in our sessions, and new experiments with others, as a result of Ruburt’s first book.

(Before the session tonight Jane told me she thought Seth was getting ready to start another book of his own soon. [...] She has no idea of subject matter, title, etc., for any projected book by Seth. It can be said that such an undertaking wasn’t expected by us at this time, seeing as how we have just finished proofreading the galleys for Seth’s first book last month.

Ruburt sensed this quite clearly, and as usual feels twinges, wondering what I am going to write about, and what kind of a book it will be. Such a book can be given quite normally and quietly along with your regular routine of sessions, adding to your own knowledge, and ultimately helping others also. [...]

The book is a way of teaching through parable. He teaches himself as he teaches others, and of course in the writing of the book he is also being taught.

[...] I have here the Christ Book, as well as another Seth book, The Rules of Love: A Seth Book. [...]

[...] By now he’d taken two hardcover books from a bag, and given them to me. [...] Fred also handed me a thick, neatly tied package of brown paper and yellow string—The Christ Book, he said, which was for Jane and me, and for Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] “Fred has read some of our books,” I said. [...] He’s given us those books and manuscripts” —I pointed to them, stacked up on the picnic table—“and he wants my wife to read them. [...]

[...] The manuscript of The Rule Book of Love: A Seth Book, is written on the back of heavy white stationery from Howard Johnson’s motor lodge in Coraopolis, PA, which may be near Philadelphia. [...]

(“What do you think will happen with the next two books—the one he’s finishing now, the dream book, and your own book?”)

[...] It grew out of Seth’s answers to a couple of questions I asked for Chapter 20 of Seth’s own book. [...]

When Ruburt is finished with his own book and I am done with mine, a vacation should come in any case, and will be not only acceptable but most beneficial.

[...] The sale of the book and his influence led him to question anew that if he had such influence, it had better be based upon legitimate truths.