“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As Rachel departed, she mentioned that the old saying that, “one can only be sure of two things—death and taxes,” is no longer true. [...]

[...] The people involved are in an art department. [...]

“Now,” I mentally said to my departed loved one in all sincerity, “if we had the chance to do it all over again, I’d suggest that we dispense with all divisions—that we regard the Seth material as a great whole, any part of which, public or private or in between, has the creative power to help not only us but many others. [...]

(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.

[...] Though you worked in the art department, you did not want to rub up against your fellows quite that closely (with amusement). [...]

[...] You know however that the physical body is not one thing in those terms, and that the stuff of which it is composed is forever coming and going, arriving and departing, and yet identity is maintained.

[...] I suppose what bothers me about the whole thing is a sneaking feeling I have that Prentice-Hall’s attitude would be the same no matter what we thought; that they aren’t on the ball in that department.

There are people who work in art departments as a living, gifted certainly more than most with an ability to visually portray an idea. [...]

[...] For a number of complicated reasons, our State Department refused to give the Iranians a speedy answer. [...]

[...] The man is taller than Dr. Instream, somewhat younger, but not in the same department at the university.

[...] Tam’s letter of today catalyzed her action, however, when he told her that Prentice-Hall had decided to publish Emir through the children’s department. [...]

[...] “My physical body’s at the art department.” [...]

[...] Your conscious mind was fully taken up with your activities at the art department, giving the inner self full rein.

When you worked in an art department, even though you knew you were doing “commercial work,” society referred to you as an artist. [...]

[...] On Friday, April 6, we received from the production department at Prentice-Hall the printer’s page proofs of the index for Seth’s Psyche, and on Saturday morning the proofs for Emir arrived from Eleanor Friede at Delacorte Press. [...]

[...] They use the physical body fully, or they partially depart according to their own inner needs and development.

[...] The drawing was for a gummed sticker to be applied to a line of packaged cards of various kinds—religious, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, etc., and was for a large old department store in Philadelphia, PA, that goes under the cavalier name of John’s Bargain Store. [...]

[...] A machine of this type is a standard in most art departments.

(Ethel, incidentally, told Jane that she too has trouble communicating with Prentice’s legal department, just as it seems everyone else does.

As leaves drop from the tree, so finally do dream images depart from close connection with the personality. [...]

[...] In the background, as a child under the organization of the Welfare Department, self-indulgence, small luxuries or too-unconventional behavior, were all dangerous in the framework chosen — the neighbors could report any transgressions to Welfare. [...]

[...] By then Marie was partially incapacitated, and the Welfare Department began to furnish mother and daughter with occasional (and often unreliable) domestic help. [...]

In early February, Rob wrote to Dr. Ian Stevenson, who was connected with the Department of Neurology and Psychology at the University of Virginia. [...]