“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Work such as ours is a different matter than a novel. [...]

Jane dealt with some of her own concepts of time — one of them being, for instance, that the past has its own past, present, and future — in her novel, The Education of Oversoul Seven, published by Prentice-Hall, in 1973.

[...] He is an idealist, given to great plans for developing novel mathematical and scientific systems, and he is highly gifted in that area. [...]

[...] A note: Lately she’s been working on a sequel to her novel, The Education of Oversoul 7, which she finished early in July, 1972. [...]

[...] And her third Seven novel, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, waits for her to return to work on it.

[...] Before, a book was a novel. [...]

[...] But all information given tonight should be helpful too and if you follow the advice given, you should become aware of a sense of sexual freedom and joy that is novel.

[...] Seven was the novel that showed him he could (underlined) write fiction.

[...] I am myself … You are death and you are life … Ruburt can do many things that surprise me — that I did not do in my past, for remember that fresh creativity emerges from the past also, as in [Ruburt’s novel] Oversoul Seven. [...]

Note 9 for the 688th session contains a description of Jane’s work on an early unfinished novel, To Hear A Dolphin, which she began a couple of months before Seth first came through in late 1963.

[...] We’d read about the Patience Worth case, where a Mrs. Curren produced novels and poetry through the Ouija board and automatic writing, but we were completely unfamiliar with the idea of anyone’s speaking for another personality. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) If Ruburt wrote other kinds of books—mysteries, for example, or straight novels—he would of course have no trouble explaining them in the public arena. [...]

[...] Because of her concentration on that hook she hasn’t done much on her book of poetry, If We Live Again, since late February; and as I mentioned in the Preface for Dreams, she laid aside her third Seven novel, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, in May 1979 when she began God of Jane. [...]

(Jane talked about writing poetry or novels instead, for example, and I replied that she would offer those products to herself and the public in an acceptable way to her own psyche. [...]

[...] I do not know, perhaps a connection here with the heroine of an opera, or medieval novel. [...]

Perhaps this is a scene from the novel or an opera, for now there are two very tall candles, with golden holders and many shadows. [...]

[...] Larry mentioned Chestnut Beads, and told Jane that her novel is still well-known, at least in the Bay area. [...]

[...] Whether it would prove to be short stories, a novel or poetry, she did not yet know.

[...] It could be developed as a novel. [...]

[...] Another is the sequel to her novel, The Education of Oversoul Seven; that first Seven book was published in April 1973 — and lately she’s been thinking of resuming work on Seven Two, as we usually call it.¹ One thing is certain: Jane will see to it that something creative happens to change the status quo, for she’s much too restless and energetic to leave things as they are.

[...] For Ruburt to try to publish usual novels, for example, would not work: he has outgrown the formulas. [...]