“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: The book title should be: “Through My Eyes,” and it should be your own book, covering in your own way many important areas. You have writing ability, as you know.

The book should cover your version of our joint experience — your own philosophical explanation of it, the questions it arouses within your own mind, your observations of Ruburt as Jane and in our trance states. Other portions should explain your own ideas concerning creativity as you feel it in yourself — the differences and similarities between your experience when you paint a picture from “usual” inspiration and when first of all you perceive the psychic impression that leads to a painting. Some illustrations from an initial sketch to a completed painting should be included.

The book can include some of the material I have given you on art through various channels, and how you have applied it. This work can be followed by one utilizing sessions concerned with art mainly but covering some other artistic areas as well, such as the nature and origin of inspirations.

(“I’m really surprised when something like this happens to me in a session,” Jane said. “It’s so different from what I’ve been thinking about, or doing. I can see a center section of the book right now, with your illustrations. And I can see Seth’s portrait on the back cover.” She pointed over her right shoulder to where the painting — which is reproduced in The Seth Material — hangs on our living room wall just in back of her rocker.

[...] 2. How should we react to the Bantam cover situation? [...]

The Bantam cover in its own way offers in the most positive of ways, despite your natural objections to it … It suggests the most unfortunate sensationalism, of course, yet people attracted to it for that reason are precisely the people it is important to reach. [...]

This does not mean that you should not write a clear letter stating your own reaction against the cover, if you so choose.

No, there is an error somewhere … The Bantam cover, despite your obvious dissatisfaction, aids our work in the positive of ways.

[...] If you are concerned with such matters as covers that do not live up to your ideals of what covers should be, then you must begin your definitions. [...]

[...] You would find it hard to express pleasure with a given cover, or you would forget, as with Seven Two, for its attributes would seem lost in your larger displeasure. [...]

Do not think in terms of a generalized ideal situation, but in terms of better covers, better communication with Prentice in both friendly terms as per Ruburt’s calls to Tam, and in the definitive terms of clearly stating specific requests. [...]

[...] The other couple, while headed in the same direction, are frightened of the high ledge that must be covered, and afraid that it can lead to a dead end.

[...] The book sessions will cover everything that needs to be covered.

(This morning, while working on Chapter 18 of Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, she’d abruptly felt the impulse to move into another room; she wanted to get away from the sunlight glaring through the thin drapes covering the sliding glass doors of her study at the back of the house. [...]

[...] The cause, whatever it is, can then cover any number of crimes, and no particular individual need bear the blame alone. [...]

(“Seth, what publisher shall I send the cover drawing to?”)

(“What will Ace pay for the cover?”)

(“Well then, will I be able to sell the science-fiction cover I’m working on?”)

[...] This evening Jimmy asked if Seth could help him locate the missing cover for the thermostat, which is located in the downstairs hall of the apartment house. Since the furnace has been misbehaving to some degree lately, he is quite anxious to find the cover, which he believes he misplaced some months ago, in order to keep people from tampering with the delicate thermostat mechanism. [...]

[...] An additional small detail that I make (it is a fact, but I also mention it to tug at Ruburt’s leg a bit) you are both better off, actually, without the radiator being covered, because of the collection of dust particles.

I am fully aware that your landlord and friend has asked me to locate his old thermostat cover.

[...] See page 88 for information on the thermostat cover.)

[...] You are told more or less that you can go faster without harm, yet the dream itself poses a question, for it does not seem that you actually cover the ground to the red light at Hoffman Street any faster. The question is why, of course; if you have been given permission to go faster, then why have you and Ruburt not covered the physical ground faster, or why do you still have problems? [...]

(Our dream discussion before the session led me to voice a question about dreams that I don’t think Seth has covered in just that way. [...]

[...] You actually interpreted it in more mundane terms than was meant, and because you so interpreted it, the end result was that you did not seem to cover the ground any faster than others.

Your covers represent the attempt to express an ideal in the context that exists in the publishing field. The difference between your idea of an excellent cover and the actuality, and the difference between your kind of experience and your brother’s, should help you become more aware even of the need for our joint work in the world.

(“Jane said she picked up from you this morning some things about Prentice-Hall—our troubles with them about cover designs, their attitudes, and so forth.”)

[...] Whose version is the final one for a cover? [...]

There is undoubtedly much to be covered along those lines, and in one supposition Ruburt was correct: there is still some material to be discussed before I go into your own experiences.

We will take a good amount of time to cover this and allied subjects, as we must also deal with the pattern and its source. [...]

[...] Obviously we have much material to cover, positive and negative. [...]

[...] For a surface I chose a cardboard canvas-covered panel made by one of the well-known artist’s manufacturers. [...]

(Part of the creed involved Jane’s listing what bothered her—indeed, it would end up covering all essential points in our lives, and I hoped would act as a guide and reminder. [...]

(“No, I think that covers it. [...]

(“Have we covered all major points in that paper?”)

(Jane and I have talked to our landlord, Jimmy Spaziani, concerning the data given by Seth in the 100th session, concerning the missing cover to the thermostat in our apartment house. Seth stated that Jimmy inadvertently disposed of the cover “either someplace on his own property or in a public dumping area, whichever area is by a hill, and it is still there.” [...] Jimmy states that the area is all small hills, and covers many acres. [...] Jimmy states that attendants there direct him to a different spot each time; the size of the dump precludes any detailed search, so we conclude that the cover will probably never be found.

[...] Jane had no idea of what material the session might cover, as far as foreknowledge went.

[...] Jane and I cannot cover all the subjects we would like to. [...]

[...] A bound one, with a dark color such as brown on the cover. [...] The cover of this book is a rusty red. [...]

[...] A bound one, with a dark color such as brown on the cover. [...]

[...] Louis Pomerantz’s small book has a rust red cover; the title is in reverse lettering, and this too has a cream tint.

(As noted on page 230, this copy is in a rusty red, much the same color as on the cover of Louis Pomerantz’s book. [...]

(Timothy Foote, senior editor in charge of the book review department for Time Magazine, interviewed Jane and me today in connection with a cover story he is to write about Richard Bach and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

[...] I don’t know whether he meant cover story, a la Dick Bach.

(Richard Bach cover story: November 13, 1972.)

(The books were covered, and when she was through looking through them Callista covered them up again; so, Jane felt, it seemed they had been undisturbed. [...] The act of covering may refer to the “scrap of evidence” impression, but we personally discount it.

(Jane was somewhat tired before the session began, and had no idea of the material that might be covered.

My friend’s manner was meant as a gentle reprimand to me, and as a joke between us, since I had told him that I did not want him to confuse you, or to discuss matters being covered in our material.

[...] I “saw” a white-covered table, with an item on it. [...]

[...] The results of the Philip experiment were quite adequate, and some rather specific points were covered.

[...] One extremely long window at the front, the entire length of the building, covered with this blind.

[...] He will feel hurt, but cover this with a cosmopolitan manner.

[...] I saw that he had covered the paper with fine-line figure drawings and portraits, in pencil and pen. [...]

[...] The big refrigerator covers it entirely since it is the only spot in the kitchen where it will fit in at all. [...]

[...] It is nothing serious and I will also cover the reasons behind her particular variety of seasonal difficulties at a later time, when I go into her past lives.

[...] Then I want to mention briefly Ruburt’s idea of my idea about the bed, and I want to at least mention the condensed time concept, and cover briefly something new, which is the self-conscious self behind the ego.

[...] I am sorry I did not realize to what extent some of this problem weighed you down, or I would have covered it much earlier.

[...] This is a rationalization to cover up the underlying, completely false sense of inferiority.

I can see that we will never cover the material I had planned for tonight, but it is more important that I get these ideas across to Joseph; and in so doing I am afraid I am wearing Ruburt out, in a way that I will explain at a later date.

[...] Thus the first half of this session is summarized from memory, with no particular effort made to remember every point covered. [...]

[...] There is a silt that covers much, but because of the currents in May, and sometimes in October, the silt—

The royal family had many offspring, and there is a connection with a pope, and a bible with gold covers, and a crest. [...]

All of that material, and its like, will be covered in this book. [...]

[...] “Well, he’s going to cover those questions in the book,” I told Jane — “about radiation, the consciousness involved with it, and with things like cancer. [...]