“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We’d had interruptions today—the plumber had had to return to again clean out the sewer line, Jane’s nurse had been here, Peg Gallagher had called, I’d taken time to write Nancy Overton a letter, and so forth. [...]

(About the letter business: Yesterday Jane had called Tam, and learned to our complete surprise that last August Pocket Books had published a paperback edition of the second Seven book: The Further Education, etc. [...]

It seems to have a dim connection for you having to do with a young woman who received on that date, a letter of an emotional import. [...] It sprang to your mind because of the connection of a desk with a letter. [...]

Our friend has a letter he wants you to hear about and I want to hear some more personal and involved questions. [...]

(Jane read excerpts of a letter from a friend in India.)

[...] Thursday in the mail receive a letter all about the new home-sized computers, how they worked, and how one could be used to work with our records and sessions....)

[...] Suffice it to note that in the mail last night I found prescription drugs from Dr. Blount, to my complete amazement; I also found a letter from the Arthritis Foundation, in which Dr. MacDuffie expressed his complete opposition to Dr. Blount’s treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. [...] All of these events followed the barrage of letters I’ve been sending out, trying to unearth something, some treatment, some magical potion or truth or belief that would help my wife in her time of deep need. [...]

[...] I explained the two letters I’d found in the mail last night from Blue Cross. [...] Now tomorrow, I told her, I’ll show these latest letters to Andrew Fife in billing. [...]

[...] He wrote enthusiastic letters, but he was also worried about the book as it stood. [...]

[...] So in March 1964 we wrote him a letter. [...]

[...] Even though he expressed interest in “testing” Seth for ESP, and suggested again that we try the clairvoyant experiment, I was put off by the letter. [...]

I was angry at Dr. Osis for looking for signs or wonders (my interpretation, then, of his letter). [...]

(On Saturday January 8 Jane and I received a letter from Dr. Instream, asking that Seth do his best to give data on but one object during tests. [...]

[...] The color blue, and a note or letter.

(Copy of the letter used in the 27th envelope test, in the 222nd session for January 12,1966.)

(Tracings of the two Kodachrome transparencies of Jane that Loren enclosed with his letter. [...]

(This afternoon Jane received a letter from Pat Norelli, in Boston. Tonight we decided to ask Seth to answer the letter. Pat enclosed with her letter a list of three questions from a friend, Roger, dealing with mathematical formulae and requesting also that Seth give his mother’s maiden name. [...] Jane read the four questions over—the formulae were meaningless to her—before the session, but we doubted if Seth would have time to deal with Pat’s letter and the questions in one session.

(I also wanted Seth to comment upon my very discouraged reactions to the mail today; the letters were certainly not the kind we wanted in response to our efforts, I thought.

[...] 2. This insight led Jane to an obvious one neither of us had ever made before: that when she gets a letter in which the writer threatens suicide if Jane doesn’t help him or her, this is like Marie threatening the young Jane that she will commit suicide.)

The public man, the man of letters, et cetera in other centuries, and the public man say of Rome, or of the Middle Ages, or of the 19th Century, involved personal interactions with the public, but in very limited, controlled situations. [...]

(A note: this afternoon Jane began translating the long letter I wrote her in Sumari on December 31, 1971. [...] I had no idea of the letter’s contents when I wrote it, on impulse. It is three pages of rather closely-spaced lettering, with some numbers incorporated in a few paragraphs, a couple of diagrams and a symmetrical symbol resembling a mandala. [...]

[...] Out of the mail I’d picked a letter from a sincere individual who’d tried to visit us this summer. [...] His rather long letter dealt with Dr. Childers’ nightshade diet for arthritis; the writer claimed he had a close friend who had recovered completely from rheumatoid arthritis that had plagued him since childhood, by following this diet—no potatoes, paprika [peppers], tomatoes, and a few other common foods of the nightshade family. [...]

(I also told Jane Steve Blumenthal called this morning, upon receiving the letter from Saul Cohen re not approving the tape deal. [...]

[...] Two big batches of new letters had arrived yesterday, just when I’d thought I was getting caught up. [...]

^* In 1965, in response to my letter, an older and very respected parapsychologist — “Dr. Instream,” Jane called him — invited Jane and me to attend the hypnosis symposium he was to conduct at a New York State college. [...]

[...] Letter from Danny Olson. [...]

[...] She’d just finished reading the last 25 of the 48 fan letters that had arrived from our publisher this noon; she’d wanted a little time to relax and write a few notes before the session. However, that pile of letters means that people are reading our books, and for that we’re grateful indeed. [...] “I really get pooped, going over the mail,” Jane said, “but some of them are great letters.” [...]

[...] She then tried to read the fan letter about the “nightshade” diet, but didn’t do well even though it was typed. [...]

Ruburt felt some dismay when you told him of the letter about the diet because he felt momentarily threatened—attracted to the diet, and suspicious of it at the same time. [...]

[...] The letter concerns a particular event, a meeting which has not yet occurred, and it concerns another person also, beside the person who wrote the letter, and beside Dr. Instream. [...]

[...] It is of the front of an envelope addressed to Jane and me by my mother on December 1. The letter contained in this envelope figures in the test results, and will be kept on file with the envelope. The letter would be quoted here except that the contents are rather personal. [...]

[...] My brother Loren is mentioned in the letter contained within the test envelope, and his father-in-law is a retired minister. The letter of course can be “A note”.

[...] I believe, again, a piece of paper with a format like a letter.

[...] Exactly a week and a half later, on Wednesday, August 17, Jane received a letter from Don Wollheim, of Ace Books. [...] The Wollheim letter was entirely unexpected, no correspondence having passed between Jane and Mr. Wollheim, or business, for a long time.

[...] He should automatically now give himself the suggestions mentioned in this session, before he reads a letter from his mother. [...]

[...] During a call to Tam this morning, he advised Jane to “put a stop” to the affair before it went too far—to at least write the people involved a letter. Jane has asked Sheri Perl for the names and addresses to do this, and plans to write a letter. [...]

At the most a letter from Ruburt. [...]

(Here Seth refers to the three-page letter I wrote to Jane in Sumari on December 31, 1971. [...]

[...] It consists of three pages of rather closely spaced lettering with numbers incorporated in a few of the paragraphs, a couple of diagrams and a symmetrical symbol representing a mandala. [...]

[...] The word, onomatopoeia (there is a chance the first letter should be A instead of O) comes closest to explaining the inner nature of such sounds.