As soon as I realized that Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment was going to be so long that it would require publication in two volumes, I began to think about how I was going to summarize here all of the material that Jane, Seth, and I had contributed to Volume 1. I developed the hilarious notion that if I did the job the way I really wanted to, this introduction would be as long as that first volume is itself! Then I realized that a lengthy, elaborate introduction for Volume 2 is hardly necessary, and I began to relax about the challenge.

INTRODUCTION

[...] “But I’ve done introductions for Seth’s books, so why shouldn’t he do one for mine?” And yes, the Cézanne material mentioned earlier — see Jane’s introduction for Psyche — had developed into a full-fledged book of its own.

(As we sat for the session, Jane reminded me that she thought Seth would do an introduction tonight for her own book on Paul Cézanne. [...]

[...] We will begin an Introduction.

[...] In a way, this entire book is an introduction to our impulses, those we follow and those we deny.

This Introduction represents my only conscious contribution to this entire book, for example. [...]

[...] As I wrote the previous few paragraphs of this Introduction, the words themselves seemed to carry me on with a certain rhythm. [...]

[...] I was being given many of the subject headings for — Seth’s next book, even as I was writing the Introduction for this one! [...]

[...] Seth himself did the Introduction, first dictating his own material on Psyche, then switching over to the Cézanne Introduction during the same sessions.

As I write this Introduction, I’ve already forgotten those many anonymous nights during which Seth, my trance personality, dictated this book. [...]

INTRODUCTION
BY JANE ROBERTS

I titled this chapter “A Goodbye and an Introduction.” [...] The introduction applies to each reader, for I hope that you will now be able to meet yourself face to face with a greater understanding of who and what you are.

I hope that in one way or another this book of mine has served to give each of you an introduction to the inner multidimensional identity that is your own.

[...] Jane had finished the Introduction to Seth’s book today. This in turn reminded her of her own manuscript, The Physical Universe As Idea Construction, which she discusses in the Introduction. [...]

Now: The Physical Universe as Idea Construction, mentioned by Ruburt in his Introduction, did indeed represent our first formal contact, although Ruburt was not aware of it at that time.

[...] She does plan to write an introduction, though.

(It is Seth’s interpretation of Jane’s very interesting dream of this morning, and was given after he had finished dictation for the evening on Chapter 22 of his book: Seth Speaks—A Goodbye and an Introduction.

(Jane has been taking time off from God of Jane and If We Live Again to work on the Introduction for Sue Watkins’s Conversation With Seth. [...]

Men and women are born with a desire to push beyond the limits—to, in quotes (amused and loudly): “explore where no man has ever gone before”—a bastard version of the introduction [to a famous television program], I believe. [...]

(A note: Jane was halfway through the final draft of her Introduction to Seth’s book when this session was held.

I refer readers to Ruburt’s Introduction, in which he compares his own creative experiences as a writer to those he feels in our sessions. [...]

Referring to his Introduction again, he remarks that he misses the excitement of the chase, encountered in his own creative work. [...]

The development of abilities, your introduction to me and the sessions, came because both of you realized that a rigidity was settling in upon you. [...]

This would have occurred however on the introduction of any strong spontaneous action. [...]

NOTES: INTRODUCTION BY JANE ROBERTS

[...] “End of introduction,” Jane abruptly said. [...]

[...] I never would have been able to accept Seth and the sessions without that initial introduction to nonphysical information. [...]

[...] This introduction offers a natural pathway into the area of dreams (part of the interior universe) and to the other states of consciousness possible within the dream framework. [...]

[...] Just a week ago she’d finished the first draft of her Introduction, so that too is underway. [...]

[...] Portions of each one are dealt with in these chapters, and Jane also discusses them in her Introduction. [...]

[...] She describes the processes involved in her Introduction, along with the creation of some of her poetry.⁴

[...] Once again, see her Introduction.)

[...] We found several of her relevant essays, and have presented them in these appendices and in her Introduction. [...]

[...] Some of those instances, however, were caused precisely by the sudden introduction of western medicine.

INTRODUCTION

(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. [...]