“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The book will be successful in terms of beginning to establish Ruburt in reputation, and also successfully in financial terms. Because this contract is less than Ruburt could press for, the next contract will be a much better one, since the publisher will then feel rather embarrassed concerning this contract.

(This evening Jane checked with her pendulum technique, and learned that it would be best for her to sign the contract as it stands. Mr. Fell has already made some changes in the contract, as requested by Jane. The pendulum also advised her against a trip to New York City at this time. I asked myself the same questions with my own pendulum, and received the same answers. The upshot of all this was that by session time we had about decided to sign the contact.

(Jane has received her contract for her ESP book from Frederick Fell. For several days she has been debating over the terms it contains, liking some and not too fond of others. We have discussed it together also.

The relationship with Frederick Fell will be a good one, although the present contract reflects the publisher’s caution, as well as the money already received reflects an impulsive belief in Ruburt on the publisher’s part.

[...] The seventh Inner Sense allows for an expansion or contraction of this tissue capsule.”

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[...] We’ll also want written into our contracts our right to be notified when any deals are made, the payments made, and our right to refuse the deal if we decide we don’t like it. We’ll also want to see a copy of the contract itself, and probably know the names of the foreign editors and publishers so we can contact them personally. [...]

(The upshot of all of this at the moment is that Jane will not be signing any contracts at this time, and that we’ll be informing Prentice-Hall that we won’t be contracting for any work for them until our questions and assurances are amply demonstrated. [...]

[...] During the week after the Dutch edition arrived, we received from Tam the contracts for God of Jane and Mass Events, both of which contain phrases and clauses in an effort to get around Prentice-Hall’s habit of withholding percentages of earnings against returns. [...]

(Day before yesterday we received from Tam a copy of his memo to J. Nelson, P. Grenquist, and A. Freemyer; he’s checked the Dutch contract for Seth Speaks, and learned that it contained a clause prohibiting cutting. [...]

Extension of energy must have contraction as an after effect, and contraction will lead to extension. Therefore, if you begin in an attempt to contract your consciousness and energy, in the hopes of attaining communication with inner reality, then indeed will your consciousness, closed and contracted like a tight fist, open and expand. [...]

[...] You remember, I am sure, that I spoke of extension and contraction, along with other discussions on the inner senses. [...]

[...] Concentration upon one minute, limited, contracted object will result in consciousness expansion, for have I not said that within even the molecule and atom there exists capsule comprehension?

[...] If we must speak in terms of size, then they change in size constantly as they expand and contract. Theoretically there is no limit, you see, to their rate of contraction or expansion. [...]

[...] Being just beyond the range of matter, having a structure but a nonphysical one, and being of a pulsating nature, they can expand or contract. [...]

[...] He has been using the idea of the contract as a club, and this is why he has been so sensitive about it. The contract is his as naturally as the book is his.

Now his contract (for the dream book) is assured, and tell him I said so.

(The day after this session, Jane received a letter from her editor at Prentice-Hall, Tam Mossman, asking if she had received her contracts through the mail; there has been a worrisome delay, due at least in part to the recent postal strike.)

[...] 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. I had become afraid a contract would reinforce the emphasis on psychic work that she wants to get out from under. I told her I would go along with whatever she decided on the contract, but did express my thoughts on it.

[...] Even our sessions would be contracted for in advance. [...]

[...] There is expansion and contraction within this simple number 1 then, within any number or unit.

This sort of expansion and contraction has nothing to do with addition or subtraction, multiplication or division; but it is an inherent quality of all units.

[...] She also felt that the numbers lined up behind could expand and contract and assume various variations and endless combinations. [...]

[...] One dream object has reality then in four or five different levels of reality simultaneously, the one object being more than itself, and equal to realities that have existed or will exist in your past or future; the past and future being therefore contained simultaneously within the dream object, by virtue of a quite real psychic contraction and expansion.

[...] The contraction is the return of the dream elements back into the original single object, that is dream object, from which the equation originated, as for example all numbers originate from the number one.

[...] For the dreamer a contraction occurs as he is finished with the events or drama for his own purposes, but energy cannot be taken back.

[...] Therefore, when the dreamer contracts his multi-realistic objects backward, ending for himself the so-called dream that he constructed, he ends it for himself only. [...]

2. This reminded me that before Seth Speaks was even contracted for, Seth told Tam that it would be published.

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[...] It was on normal typing paper and requested, first, some further work on the book — either an outline of a projected book to include portions of the dream manuscript, but stressing Seth, or some sample chapters — before a contract would be signed. One sentence read, “Or better, send on some notes from the original Seth material, and maybe we can consider that as advance work for a contract.”

[...] On April 12, as I did psy-time, I received a strong impression that Prentice would give me a contract if I revised the book rather drastically. [...]

[...] On April 29, I lay down, telling myself I would have a dream giving me some information, letting me know whether or not a contract would be signed. [...]

On May 5, I received a letter asking for a prospectus stating Seth’s views on various topics and strongly suggesting that this would be considered a basis for contract. [...]

[...] In distorted form he picked up that Jane and I had decided on January 2 that Adventures in Consciousness would not be written or contracted; that in daytime working hours Jane was to go full steam ahead on her own writing, etc. [...]

[...] Some time ago, after Seven, he mentioned my book, my new book, to Ruburt, and Ruburt said he did not want to contract trance material ahead of time, so Tam let it rest.

[...] There are stresses now in terms of contracts and money, that Ruburt was not willing to face before. [...]

It is important that you feel free to move in all areas, and see the connection between all kinds of mobility, and face Ruburt’s practical considerations about turning down one contract while thinking about purchasing a house—and that is it for this evening.

[...] I want him, again, to try and sense the natural rhythms within him, of work and play, to continue his notes, to write for now four hours a day, with one hour for poetry, to think of the ideas of his book instead of thinking about the contracts, or of a book as a book, or as work as work; and tune into the library. [...]

His bubbling enthusiasm was partially responsible for his contracting The Seth Material. [...]

(At this writing, October 3, Tam has expressed his desire to contract Jane now for Adventures In Consciousness. [...]

[...] The sales alone will generate much better contracts.

[...] If you must speak in terms of size, then they change in size constantly, as they contract and expand. Theoretically there is no limit, you see, to their rate of contraction or expansion. [...]

Being just beyond the range of matter, having a structure, but a nonphysical structure, and being of a pulsating nature, they can expand or contract. [...]

[...] Nerve patterns are being reactivated, circulation patterns reinforced, muscles contracting and expanding in their own exercises, right now, in a concentrated, rather intensified bodily commotion. [...]

Seven came precisely because it was free of all contract connotations, and so at the time did Aspects. My books so far were hidden creative goodies, inserted instead of books either contracted or to be contracted, and they were free of the work context.

[...] Seven saved him from another Dreams (book) and also provided him with a contract.

[...] He began to move toward a new contract, which meant Adventures, he felt, rather than Rich Bed.

[...] Again he had another psychic book, and hopes of a contract, and Tam did not want Rich Bed.

He well knew at times that Adventures was in part a ruse to content him, and assure him of a contract while I began my book, but he is afraid of taking the plunge on his own now. [...]

(“Is the contract he signed going to bother him?”)