“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Jane and I were very surprised at the initial reception of The Seth Material, then Seth Speaks and Personal Reality (our shortened terminology for those first two Seth-dictated books.) Since we had no experience with “fan mail,” for example, we had no expectations, but as the Seth titles and Jane’s own books were published she came to spend many a weekend answering that most welcome mail. [...] The mail rapidly became a quite humbling education in itself. [...]

[...] Sometimes I think I’m a slow learner: It took me a while to realize, for example, that the responses to the Seth material by mail and in person—and now electronically—are actually myriad extensions of that work, showing in all of their varieties the questions and answers it’s raised and the beneficial effects it’s had on the many who have communicated since Jane held her first real session on December 2, 1963—and on those who still do. The mail in any form is great! [...]

[...] I read to her the fan mail I brought each day, and between the two of us we kept up with answering it. [...] Staff knew only that Jane dictated to me often, that we got a lot of mail, and that I kept copious notes. [...]

Periodically, after answering the mail, I add it to the archives of the Seth material at Yale University Library as an integral part, a reinforcement, say, of Jane’s great body of work. [...] And a continuing one, as long as more mail arrives....

[...] Mail. [...]

[...] It involved her efforts in getting the tape made, and the two manuscripts in question, ready for the mail. [...] Jane called her publisher on February 8, as noted in the envelope material in the 234th session, then hurried to get the scripts and tape ready for the mail on February 10. [...]

[...] The object, sealed in the usual double envelope, was the insurance slip for the two manuscripts Jane mailed to her publisher on February 10,1966. [...]

[...] The object is the insurance slip for the manuscripts of Jane’s poetry book, and the first section of the Seth material, mailed to her publisher on February 10,1966. [...]

[...] Jane said this probably referred to the tape recording that was mailed along with the manuscripts. [...]

(I began working on mail after reading several of the sessions to her. [...] I got my clipboard and paper ready, and went back to the mail. [...]

(At 3:19 she began a few subdued motions of her left foot as I worked with mail. [...]

[...] After getting her eye drops Jane did some more subdued exercises while I made notes and worked on mail. [...]

(Last night had been very cold — it was still 5 below when I got up at 6:30 a.m. After breakfast I ran the car to do several errands, getting the budget bills ready to mail, and so forth. [...]

[...] She did a little better as I worked on mail, then quite good as she read the last page. [...]

[...] I did some mail. The mail is threatening to get the best of me again.

[...] The test object was the front of an envelope mailed to us by Jane’s father last July. [...]

[...] (Pause at 10:08.) He received a book by mail today, a biography sort of book, having to do with a personality of the late 1800’s. A medium.

[...] The letter was mailed in July, “a spring or summer month.”

(In the mail I found a letter from Maude Cardwell — and checks totaling about $1100, to my considerable surprise. [...]

[...] She did so poorly that she quit reading at 3:13, as I worked on mail. [...]

(We discussed the questions at last break to make sure Seth would cover them tonight: from her records Jane recently realized that coincident with the mailing of the manuscript for Seth Speaks to the publisher, and the death of her father, near November 15, 1971, the condition of her legs took a decided turn for the worse. [...]

Both events are important—the death of his father and the mailing of the book. [...]

[...] Jane then mailed a typed copy of the data for Dick to his California address Tuesday morning, November 28.

(Checking his mail in California, Dick found a letter on White House stationery, written by Mr. Andrews. [...]

[...] It wasn’t easy for her, but she kept at it as I worked on mail, and she finished at 3:20. [...]

[...] I worked with the mail. [...]

[...] A couple of times when she rested, she dozed off while I worked with the mail. [...]

[...] I worked on mail. [...]

(Last night in the mail I found Carol Steiner’s Ph.D. thesis on the Seth material, which she’d promised in November. [...]

[...] I made an attempt to answer the mail, but didn’t do well. [...]

[...] On the way to the hospital I stopped at the post office to mail Lynn Lumsden a copy of a fan letter we’d received, offering us a year’s free ads in a crossword puzzle magazine.

[...] I did mail.

[...] 4. As we discussed those questions before the session, I wondered whether the poor results of her daily predictions concerning the mail might have a similar basis, whether she told herself or not that she wanted such impressions to work out.

[...] This does apply to the predictions and to his attitudes toward the mail—which are highly ambiguous.

(“What do you think of that reading Jane received in the mail today?” I referred to a reading by the medium, Elwood Babbit, given for someone who had written Jane several months ago; the individual subsequently saw Babbitt, and sent Jane a copy of the long, rambling, very generalized material that could have applied to many people. [...]

As we sit talking I notice some mail on a room divider, am surprised, and think that it must have come before Rob left for work, as it has been opened. [...]

[...] I’d stopped at the post office to mail Tam the set of page proofs for Seven that Bill O’Hearn had sent us, along with a copy of Bill’s letter re bound copies of page proofs for Seven. [...]

[...] She had a cigarette at 2:05 while I worked on mail. [...]

[...] I did some mail. [...]

[...] I did some mail.

[...] After a cigarette, and my doing some mail, Jane started reading yesterday’s long session, which I’d finished typing at about 10:30 last night. [...]

[...] I worked on mail and watched parts of a football game and an old Humphrey Bogart movie until Jane said she’d have a short session. [...]

[...] Jane saw her at 3 PM, mail time. Jane has been picking up Miss Callahan’s mail as suggested, and also sometimes manages to look in on her at another time of day.

I here mention once more that you keep some watch upon Miss Callahan, and would indeed suggest that Ruburt, for a period of three or four days, brings up the mail to Miss Callahan. [...]