“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane has decided that she’ll let my ordinary session notes — brief as they are — suffice for Psyche, and that she’ll add few, if any, of her own. [...]

[...] “Tell her we’ll pay for it,” I said, or words to that effect. [...]

[...] We asked her not to tell anyone, though I expect she’ll tell Georgia, her closest friend in the hospital. [...]

[...] She agreed: “They’ll stick a needle in it.” [...]

(“I think I’ll take bed, if you don’t mind. [...]

[...] I’ll look forward to it.”)

[...] We’ll also want written into our contracts our right to be notified when any deals are made, the payments made, and our right to refuse the deal if we decide we don’t like it. We’ll also want to see a copy of the contract itself, and probably know the names of the foreign editors and publishers so we can contact them personally. [...]

(The upshot of all of this at the moment is that Jane will not be signing any contracts at this time, and that we’ll be informing Prentice-Hall that we won’t be contracting for any work for them until our questions and assurances are amply demonstrated. [...] But we’ll see. [...]

[...] I can only think at this writing [on the 14th] that we must do all we can to stop such practices by foreign publishers, or we’ll surely regret it deeply in the years to come. [...]

[...] At the same time I’ll be checking what portions of Seth Speaks were cut, and listing them. [...]

(And I’ll see you on Christmas Day, and we’ll exchange whatever gifts we have left. [...]

[...] I’ll send Pete her name and number. [...]

[...] Perhaps she’ll refresh my memory on it tomorrow—Christmas Day—and I can place it in the next session. [...]

(“I think it’ll be something very brief,” she said at 9:18, “but it’ll be better than nothing....” [...]

“If I can get this it’ll be something, I’ll tell you,” Jane said, lighting up. [...]

[...] “But as soon as I get over there [in the other apartment] I’ll turn around and come back here, I’ll bet.” [...]

Occasionally we’ll meet one or more of our secondhand detractors. [...] Sometimes we’ll discover that the “knowledge” of us held by the skeptic(s) in question is so far removed from our actual beliefs and activities that it would take us a very long time to establish any real understanding among all involved — if it would be possible to begin with, that is. [...]

[...] There are tigers in Asia, but you can travel through Asia and if you do not want to you’ll never see a tiger. [...]

[...] “I suppose he’ll write to Camper now,” Jane said. [...] Dr. Guy left us a book written by a scientist about a famous medium, and I’ll be mailing it back to him as soon as we’ve read it.)

(Last Saturday evening we were visited by Dr. LeRoy Guy [I’ll call him], a professor of psychology at a well-known nearby university. [...]

[...] You can send originals if you choose, and we’ll copy them and return them. [...]

[...] (I remember those letters Jane used to get from Harry Edwards.) However the story works out, that’s the one we’ll be wanting to tell others about. [...]

[...] It’s an excellent session, and, as Seth suggested, I’ll be reading it to her for at least several days.

[...] I’ll take another one — tulips this time — in to Jane tomorrow.)

[...] Earlier caught myself stewing over my windows new room being accessible that is, noticeable; then cleared that up saying that Frank, etc., will be gone; phone book won’t have address; winter coming—but if I have to, I’ll lock the screen door or put up a note working hours no guests; but anyhow I’ll make conscious decisions and take steps. [...]

[...] I’ll see if I can....” [...]

[...] But I’ve reached the conclusion that I can no longer bug her about such things; she’ll be in charge of her own body and destiny. [...]

[...] “They involve what I’ll call innocent perceptions, to show their lack of sophistication. [...] For example, I’ll see Rob’s head, with our floor-stand world globe growing out of it into a new kind of object.... which I’ll momentarily accept. [...]

(It’s actually November 8 as I type these notes, and I have not only the material for November 2 to present, but also that for the sessions for November 7 and November 8. Situations change so rapidly that material that’s a week old almost seems out of date, or superceded, but I want to show our thinking for November 2 just as much as for this morning, November 8. So although that “old” material for November 2 seems somewhat dated already, I’ll present it here just as though a session had been held on that date:

[...] In notes at the end of this session I’ll briefly consider the latest expressions of large-scale consciousnesses concerning Three Mile Island¹ and the countries of the Middle East,² and then will unify those discussions by explaining how I think those great events of consciousness have counterpart relationships, just as “living” entities do.³ I’ll also refer to our country’s space-shuttle program.⁴ Next, I have to put into final form the complicated notes I began for a number of sessions for Dreams as Jane delivered them. After that will come the job of typing the finished manuscript for this massive two-volume work; I do not know when I’ll have it ready for our publisher. [...]

For this note I’ll touch upon what I believe are some other characteristics of energy—the consciousnesses associated with warfare and nuclear energy, and the counterpart connections among those great states of being. Then I’ll refer to the concepts of perception theory and privation theory.

[...] It’s inevitable that we’ll grow. How we’ll grow is the question!

[...] Without knowing anything, I know that we’ll need much time in which to understand all of the deeply moving and conflicting emotional, psychic, and intellectual events connected with this development. [...]

[...] “Then if nobody comes in, I’ll start the session anyway. I suppose they’ll want to take my temperature and blood pressure all over again, too.”)

[...] “We’ll have to watch that.”

[...] I’ll do the best I can … I don’t know if I can … All right, I’ll try.” [...]

[...] It’ll go away. [...]

“We’ll be there,” she said quickly. “My husband is in New York for the day, but he’ll be back by late afternoon.”

[...] Again, a phone call was involved, this time from a man I’ll call Jon who called me from another part of the country, right after my first book was published two years ago. [...] I’ll call his wife Sally. [...]

“Well, maybe he’ll be too tired.”

[...] Besides, I’ll let Seth handle it. [...]

[...] We don’t know whether there are really any connections between them and the situations I’ll describe, and would appreciate your comments when you have time. [...]

[...] Since we don’t know what else to do at the moment, we’ll be using just the dream. [...]

(I called Upjohn nursing service last Tuesday, noting that starting next Monday we’ll want a nurse at the house only three times a week instead of five. I’ll do the dressing-changes required for Jane’s decubiti the other days. [...]

[...] This question has arisen because of my work on the intro for Dreams, of course, I have the feeling that it might be useful to get something on this so that I could use it to close the intro, but we’ll see. [...]

[...] These ideas are a great improvement over her earlier attitudes, of course, and we’ll see what we can do. [...]

[...] “I’ll have milk and a cookie to take my aspirin with, then I’ll go in the bedroom at 10:30.”

[...] “I think it’ll be short,” she finally said.)

[...] I’ll have to arrange for an exorcism for you.” [...]