“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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. From the letter I took it for granted that I’d have to go through the forty or so notebooks of Seth Material that we had then, and find sections dealing with various topics. [...]

[...] In a long series of dreams, over a three-year period, I foresaw the answers to my letters and inquiries.

[...] The letter was dated the day before my dream and written by a different editor than the one to whom I’d written.

[...] On April 19, I received a letter from Assistant Editor Tam Mossman, stating that the house might be interested in a book on Seth, utilizing parts of the dream book manuscript. [...]

[...] The answer was by letter after unsuccessful attempts to telephone Ann Healy over the weekend. I thought that possibly the data had been displaced from Jane’s note to me, to the letter she wrote Anne. [...]

[...] The letter to Miss Healy was important here; but more than this, intuitionally Ruburt became aware of insights that were necessary if the symptoms were to vanish.

Ruburt’s letters in a metal box, with some clothing on top of the box. [...]

[...] I do not know if this has reference to Ruburt’s letters and Blanche’s sister or relative, or to a contact concerning the ESP book.

[...] See the note data in the middle of page 119; it was stated that referred to Bill Ward’s letter. The above could also refer to the letter. The artwork discussed in the letter is due in November 1966, and the letter itself is handwritten by Bill in two shades of blue ink. [...]

(Bill Ward’s letter accompanying the artwork mentioned his recent attendance at a dinner gathering of many of the group of friends we worked with in the early 1940’s. Oddly enough, the last letter I received from Wendell Crowley, in May 1966, also described a similar event.)

(Bill’s letter outlined the steps necessary to finish the job, which consists of five pages of a comic type story, in pictures and text, for a men’s magazine. [...] Bill refers to any problems in his letter, how to get in touch with him, etc., and implies that I answer it. [...]

(The festival-type thing is also good, and refers I think to the letter from Bill Ward that accompanied the art. In the letter Bill dwells upon a dinner attended by himself, Wendell Crowley, and several other old friends of mine; the dinner being held just a few days ago; at this dinner Wendell mentioned my availability to Bill Ward for free-lance artwork, and this in turn led Bill to ask me to help him out.

Unless otherwise indicated in the early sessions, the pointer gave yes and no answers by moving to the appropriate word printed on the board, rather than by spelling out the answer letter by letter. [...]

From the very beginning we kept detailed notes of the sessions, even when we were writing down strings of meaningless letters. [...] On the night of November 26 we tried once again however, and this time among the random letters were a few words and phrases; enough to make us try again on the night of December 2/63. [...]

Over the years Jane’s and my work led to our receiving many thousands of letters, not only from this country but from abroad, too. I still gratefully receive letters almost every day, and still struggle to answer each one in some fashion. [...]

[...] Boxes and boxes of letters are now at Yale University Library, where their privacy is protected. [...] I love every letter we’ve ever received, even the ones that are not so nice. [...]

Thank you for your note and letter. [...]

LETTER TO ROB AND JANE (FROM HENRY N. WILLIAMS [HAL])

[...] (Pause.) There was some question as to what would happen to letters from Ruburt, and others. The letters are still in a strongbox, and have not been destroyed, but Anne Healy does not have them. [...]

[...] Blanche died last February 2, 1967, and the cards were sent to Jane by Blanche’s friend, Anne Healy; Anne wrote a letter, also, that Jane received on January 2.

(“Do you want to say something about John Pitre’s letter?”

(After sending J. P. a copy of the last session, the 388th, held December 20, we recently received a very pleased letter from him. [...]

[...] There is a possible connection with this data and the letter to Jane from her mother on May 10,1966. This letter too is written on a card. [...] Besides telling Jane about the sweater, Jane’s mother wrote in the May 10 letter of the death of a family friend, Father Ryan, and enclosed a news clipping account of the funeral, which was to be held shortly. [...]

[...] We located the letter of May 10 from Jane’s mother, concerning the mailing of the sweater to Jane, but do not believe the above data refers to that letter exclusively, although there is evidently some connection.

[...] Jane’s birthday is May 8, but she received the package sometime after this; we located a letter from Jane’s mother dated May 10, in which she discusses mailing the sweater to Jane soon. [...]

[...] We did find her mother’s letter of May 10th however.

(This morning I’d typed the final version of the letter to Maude Cardwell, instead of messing with it any more, and at 3:00 Jane began reading it. [...] She liked the letter. [...]

(After they left I had an hour to do some typing on the second draft of the letter to Maude Cardwell. [...]

I agree with Ruburt that your letter is an excellent one (to Maude Cardwell). [...]

[...] I’d spent considerable time on the Cardwell letter, had been interrupted by the visit of Betts and Loren, and so forth. [...]

(Before the session Jane read over the letter from D. R. Moorcroft, the professor of physics who’d written her such a fine letter on April 3. She divided the letter into questions; Seth may discuss some of them tonight. We thought Professor Moorcroft’s letter was very well done. [...]

[...] By then, Jane said, she couldn’t remember much of Professor Moorcroft’s letter, but I told her it didn’t matter. [...]

(10:42.) A very brief beginning on question one (of Professor Moorcroft’s letter). [...]

(With an early letter he’d sent some photos of himself, and asked that they be returned. [...] After that he quit adding his address to his letters. [...]

[...] He’d sent some home-canned jars of fruits and vegetables at Christmas time; for the past year he’d also written a string of long letters signed “me,” meaning I couldn’t answer him to say thanks for the stuff. [...]

(While I was on the phone an attendant brought us a letter from Sue Watkins. [...]

[...] I also thought that although Helen Park said in her letter that there were no strings attached to the donation, still there must be attachments in some form — that it was natural that there would be. [...]

(Today we received probably 30 letters from Prentice-Hall, some of which were dated in early October. [...] At the same time, by session time she was quite upset and irritable—appalled, really—at the content of some of the letters she’d read—this, we agreed, because we usually would focus more on the one negative letter compared to the ten positive ones—and by far most of them were very positive, friendly, sometimes even adulatory. [...]

The private letters, while indeed private, are in a strange fashion also a public outpouring of emotions, for those people of course make up the public. [...]

It is highly important, again, that you remember the context in which the letters are written, and the great thrust of creativity that supports the world. [...]

[...] The letters are meant as an education. [...]

[...] (Incidentally, we have on file most of the letters and cards we’ve received over the years.) Our latest attempt to cope here consists of three pieces we’ve prepared for correspondents: a short form letter from Jane and me; a longer one dictated by Seth in April, 1975, soon after he finished Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality; and a list of all editions of Jane’s books. (We prepared such a list in answer to many requests, and it’s being continually updated, of course.) Yet the form letters aren’t really a satisfactory answer for the correspondent who’d like a personal response from Jane and/or Seth; given our characteristics, they merely represent the best we can do within the time we have available. [...] With this system she acknowledges more letters than ever before, yet it’s ironic that there are still more to answer simply because of the greater number received.

Once before (in January, 1973), Seth dictated a letter for us to send to those who wrote, and it can be found in the 633rd session in Chapter 8 of Personal Reality. Many people liked that letter (they still do) — and some wrote back in response to it! Because of this, Jane and I suggest that Seth’s earlier letter be read in conjunction with the one below, for as Jane says, the two complement and reinforce each other. [...] Certainly we think that presenting Seth’s new letter here makes an ideal way to conclude these notes. [...]

Since Jane began publishing the Seth material in 1970, she’s received many hundreds of calls and letters about her work. We’re very grateful for all of those communications (including the letters we haven’t answered yet), but I don’t recall this fantastic time element being mentioned in even one of them.

[...] In fact, Jane and Seth are the ones who so beautifully bring these notes to their conclusion; and in that order — Jane with some excellent material about her relationship with Seth, and Seth himself with his new letter to correspondents. [...]

For all of these reasons I suggest the letter be mailed. The fact of the letter shows that he had reached a certain level of acceptance and understanding. [...]

(This afternoon Jane wrote a letter to a spiritual healer, Harry Edwards, in England, but has yet to mail it. [...]

The letter that Ruburt has written is significant in ways that you have not seen. [...]

The letter itself represents therefore an advancement and an act of faith. [...]

[...] The heritage of the earth, in your terms, is ancient and yet ever new, and when you write your letters (to correspondents) you write … with your intelligence and your wit. Yet if it were not that you shit once or twice a day, you would not be writing any letters!

(Earlier that evening, class members had been discussing some of the letters they’d been answering for Jane.¹ One young man mentioned “feeling like shit” in connection with another matter — a remark that Seth must have overheard. [...]

(Seth probably refers here to a letter Jane received today from a fan in Ohio, who enclosed a copy of a letter he wrote defending her to Jacques Vallee, who evidently had mentioned Jane in one of his books. The letter is on file. [...]

(Jane received about 50 letters, forwarded from Prentice-Hall today. [...]

(“Jane got her first letter from Germany today.” [...]

[...] Your letters show such alternatives are needed. [...]

[...] I read the rough draft of the letter to Maude Cardwell to Jane, who really liked it. [...] Jane didn’t think I’d overdone it in my letter, although I still wondered. [...]

(This morning, in between calls from my brother Loren and his wife, and Mrs. Austin’s son about delivering the laundry, I worked on the first draft of a letter to Maude Cardwell at Reality Change in Austin, Texas. [...]

(I brought the letter to 330 to show Jane. [...]

[...] This morning while working on the letter to Maude Cardwell, I guess I’d blithely took it for granted that the fund idea might supplement any insurance benefits. [...]

(In the unscheduled 203rd session of October 28, Seth told us we would shortly get another letter from Dr. Instream “within a few days.” On November 2, four days later, we received a short letter from Dr. Instream in which he asked that Jane and I “simply continue as we are going.” [...]

[...] May I personally thank our Dr. Instream for his recent letter. [...]

Nevertheless what we need in our work with you is an emotional rather than intellectual attempt, and from your letter I believe that we see eye to eye here.

[...] Some of this rapport business will take care of itself through the natural course of events, in your letters back and forth for example. [...]

[...] Somehow the letter U is prominent. For example, though this is not the name: U-bango, with the large letter U.

[...] A sign on it with four letters, five at the most.

[...] Then a few days later, Dr. Stevenson’s letter came and I went into a slump. “See if Seth has anything to say about the letter,” Rob said. [...]

Dr. Stevenson wrote us a letter much like one I would probably write today to someone else under the same circumstances. [...]

In a way, Dr. Stevenson’s letter came at an unfortunate time. [...]

Just a few days before we received Dr. Stevenson’s letter, we had an unscheduled session with Phil present. [...]