“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The “prediction” I gave concerning Ruburt’s health still stands. There will be of course more library experiences. (Harry) Edwards does help, for reasons I will give you—when we have the time—in the same way that Ruburt’s energy helps others, as at Woodstock. There is also a doctor, quite real; he is an image as yet unrecognized in Ruburt’s psyche, though he glimpsed him once. Yet he stands for a definite personality in ways I have not as yet explained.

Ruburt is being helped, then, in an area adjacent to his library. He is open enough to receive concepts that will be important to his health, but his acquiescence was first necessary.

His students are important, for as he is translating from the library, they are also translating.

[...] She helped me carry on the massive project of continuing the work that Debbie Harris had begun: copying many more of the thousands of pages of Jane’s and my work for the archives of the library at Yale. [...] Later, she helped me proofread the new editions of Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality that Amber-Allen/New World Library has published. [...]

[...] Looking back from my position within the framework of simultaneous time, I’m amazed to see that another ten years passed before the publication of this little book by Amber-Allen/New World Library. [...]

[...] Jane’s and my dear friend, Debbie Harris, began making copies of all of the Seth sessions, plus the transcripts of Jane’s ESP classes, for the “collection” of Jane’s and my work in the archives of Yale University Library. [...]

[...] I’d say that I could use my abilities far more fully even in those areas already being explored—Seth, the library, Sumari, etc., even if I wanted to leave other areas alone (seances, etc.). [...] His suggestion I try to go into the library—(yesterday) probably was responsible for the Seth-in-library thing tonight. [...]

[...] Jane and I completed arrangements after that, when those at the library explained how our collection would complement others already there. [...] We don’t know when our work will actually be ready for study: First we must get it to the library, and then the staff must see to its processing—which will be quite a project in itself. [...]

[...] We have achieved a situation beneficial to all—for Jane’s will and my own each declares that upon the death of the survivor of the two of us, our estate is to be donated to the Manuscripts and Archives division of Yale University Library, in New Haven, Connecticut. [...]

[...] To make this possible, we’ll be transferring copies of many of our papers and tapes to the library while keeping the originals with us to work with during our lifetimes. [...]

The library is valid, and in the most legitimate of terms; far more important, for example, than a physical library. [...]

(In the opening notes for last Wednesday’s session I described how Jane had started her new book, Psychic Politics, that same day while she had been immersed in a state of high creativity; I added that at the same time she’d become aware of a slightly different Jane in a psychic library from which, it seemed, she was to get much of the material for Politics. Jane visited her library several times on Thursday, without actually transcribing anything from it. Then on Friday morning she received another, shorter passage of library material. [...]

He first saw this library from the inside last Wednesday. He was simultaneously himself here in this living room, watching the image of himself in a library room, and he was the self in the library. [...]

Ruburt has allowed a portion of his this-life consciousness to go off on a tangent, so to speak, on another path into another system of actuality (i.e., into his psychic library). His life there is as valid as his existence in your world. [...]

[...] I want him, again, to try and sense the natural rhythms within him, of work and play, to continue his notes, to write for now four hours a day, with one hour for poetry, to think of the ideas of his book instead of thinking about the contracts, or of a book as a book, or as work as work; and tune into the library. [...]

That is why I suggested the library. [...]

[...] At one point Ruburt saw the ape still male, and then a portion of himself sitting at the library table, for in your position it is the animal instincts themselves that propel you to search for answers, to write books, to explore in your particular way. The ape was at home in the library, and his face was compassionate. [...] On another level, because the ape was in the library, compassionate and understanding, Ruburt was seeing symbolically the force of his own physical nature, quite at home with itself, and at home in the psychic library of the mind.

[...] Much of the experience took place in Jane’s library, which she is writing about in Aspects II, as we call it.

(From 9:00 to 9:30 tonight, at my suggestion, Jane and I sat to see if we could get Jane into her library. [...] Jane also did succeed in approximating entry into her library; her own notes will cover this.

[...] There is importance, significance in your suggestion that Ruburt send energy to his body, and in your suggestion that he look for the library, as there is in his new attraction to his painting.

Ruburt travels in the heroic dimensions, and the library exists there. [...]

[...] Their contents are embodied in the two papers that are reproduced below; the first one, from the library, she received before placing a call to The Village Voice; the second, from Seth, came through after she made that call, and called a few people about visiting us next Friday night.

(First, from the library, after we’d done our thing following breakfast today:

(After finishing the library material, Jane called The Village Voice on impulse, but ended up feeling she didn’t do well: She didn’t get to speak to Jim Poett, who was not there, or to his editor. [...]

4. Jane describes in Chapter 1 of Politics the onset of her ability to perceive her psychic library. For library material in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, see the notes at the start of Session 714, and Seth’s dictation for Session 715.

I’ve also helped in the construction, so to speak, of Ruburt’s [psychic] library,⁴ and I hope that he will be able to meet me there, in surroundings in which he feels confident and at home, and yet on neutral ground. [...]

[...] Until he understood the inward order of events⁸ he would not be able to meet me there — so the library can serve us both in that regard.

[...] When I make recommendations, such as the library, I make them with the knowledge of their implications, and their importance in the entire picture. [...]

[...] Concentrate upon your creativity, both of you, and your power, with the morning suggestions I gave you, and the library. [...]

6. Do the library together at least three times a week.

[...] Jane does her own traveling: The “psychic library” she’s learning to visit while in a certain state of altered consciousness is described, and the ways in which the library is related to the birth of her book, Psychic Politics (which is to be published in the fall of 1976).

[...] She also tried the library today, as Seth had suggested, but with “nil” results, but didn’t try the energy-healing exercise yet. [...] She did have an unclear image while trying for the library, and discovered it was a bit scary. Yet while trying the library she felt “relaxed and panicky at the same time.” [...]

[...] Ruburt need have no worries about his book, or about the library. [...]

Library. [...]

Would the library return—a symbol of both of your fears that creativity might not go hand-in-hand with some kind of relative comfort. [...]

The material Ruburt is getting from the library will help him with his health, for it will automatically put him in touch with a strand of consciousness devoted to such issues. [...]

[...] Try the library playfully —or even paint. [...]

[...] The Seth material is a long way from being on computer—if that ever happens—and relatively few readers will make the journey to Yale University Library, to study the collection of Jane’s and my papers that’s available there for anyone to see.

[...] Eventually they’re added to the collection of our papers at Yale University Library, while not being open to the public for privacy’s sake.