“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(A hassle began developing last Thursday, involving Pat Golbitz at Pocket Books, Grace Bechtold at Bantam, and Tam, John Nelson, and Jane at Prentice-Hall. Nothing serious, but still somewhat upsetting. Also educational. There’s no need to go into all the complicated details here; it’s enough to say that the photos Bantam used in Seth Speaks were involved, especially the cover shot of Jane; as well as bids for Oversoul Seven between Pocket Books and Bantam; Jane’s fears that she’d end up committed for two more Seven books she hasn’t written yet; and various misunderstandings concerning ethics, expired option, and an offer to Jane to go to work for Simon & Schuster-Pocket Books, and to take Tam with her.

(Pat called John unethical because he told Bantam that Pocket Books was interested in acquiring Seven. Bantam, who had the original option on Seven, then bid higher for the three projected Sevens than Pocket Books has so far—the latter has until this Wednesday to bid against Bantam’s $50,000 offer.

Now about Pocket Books. Interesting and amusing. The woman there (Pat Golbitz) picked up all of your own negative ideas—yours and Ruburt’s—about Fell and Prentice, and aimed them at John (Nelson). This confirmed John’s belief that he is not understood. He would not feel it safe to be understood in an unsafe world.

[...] Next it flows into our probable (physical) reality (which itself changes all the ‘time.’) We inherently possess separate pockets or pools of experience (biologically valid among the cells’ characteristics), sidepools where information collects for processing before flowing into the ‘official pool of consciousness.’

“In these side pockets, memory, so-called, is not so structured. [...]

“Using these side pockets or pools where data are still unprocessed, in our terms, you can pick up several other strands of your own consciousness ‘at once,’ though retention may be difficult. [...]

[...] This note was in a closet… An inside pocket (pause), a pocket up high like a breast pocket, rather than down low. [...]

[...] This afternoon when the clothes were returned Jerry found a note stapled to a garment, found in a pocket by the cleaners. [...]

(In addition, I want to do what we can to get sales reports from Prentice-Hall re Bantam sales [which we know aren’t great], and from the Pocket Books/Fell fiasco. I plan to write the editor-in-chief at Pocket Books as soon as I find out his name and address, asking him for sales figures; we haven’t had a royalty report from Fell in a year. [...] [She offered to help us that way several years ago, I think.] Perhaps Eleanor can advise us about Pocket Books names, also. [...]

[...] It had four rectangular pockets. [...] From that second perspective, the pockets of the jacket in the first perspective became the windows of a building that existed in a still-further, third dimension beyond the hill. Standing on the hill, he knew that in Perspective One the windows of the building in Perspective Three were jacket pockets, but he could no longer perceive them as such. [...]

(11:15.) He knew, however, that if the shades were pulled in the windows in Perspective Three, then the jacket-pocket flaps would appear to be closed in Perspective One. [...]

[...] She was also reminded by Tam that Pocket Books has bought the paperback rights to the second Seven, which we had quite forgotten about. [...] Pocket Books hasn’t scheduled Seven #2 for publication yet, as far as we know.

[...] Bantam and Pocket Books were interested in acquiring the first Seven. Today Tam notified Jane that Pocket Books had won the bidding—acquiring the rights to the three Sevens for $75,000.)

(Smile.) Now the immediate effects of the cold cash will not then be in your pocket, but your pockets will always be filled. [...]

[...] I took care to slip the wet label in a coat pocket when neither Jane or the Gallaghers were looking, and as it developed Jane had no idea of the test object for the session.

[...] The connection with a fabric can be the coat pocket in which I carried the label home. [...]

(I found the object in my jacket pocket on December 1, without knowing how it got there. [...] Jane emptied the jacket’s pockets, and so handled the object; but it was folded and she did not recognize it. [...]

[...] 8, the folded slip found its way into my jacket pocket.

[...] Your image was an excellent one and in your terms it represents the characteristics of space as you might relate to it and also to those black pockets of which the physicists are speaking where all realities swooped into these, so to speak. [...]

(About the letter business: Yesterday Jane had called Tam, and learned to our complete surprise that last August Pocket Books had published a paperback edition of the second Seven book: The Further Education, etc. [...]

[...] Look—I have no wallet in my back pocket. [...]

How could he manage to arrive here without a penny in his pocket? [...]

[...] After trying to stuff it into jacket pockets during the service, I finally ended up carrying it out with me quite openly. [...]

(Seth meant the Pocket Book edition of The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, which had arrived from Prentice-Hall last night — nine copies.

[...] Then in 1976 it was issued in paperback by Pocket Books, New York, N.Y., 10020, under a new title: The Coming of Seth.)

[...] Since then, the condition got worse until for the last month or so I haven’t been able to get my right hand in my jean pockets, or comb my hair, or anything without severe pain in my right shoulder blade and right hand to the fingers.

[...] I could reach into my jean pockets also. [...]

[...] At the same time I found another pack in my pocket. [...]

[...] He wears a robe with a large pocket, rather unusual pocket. [...]

This pocketing-of-space effect can be perceived in certain trance states.

[...] Now: Pocket Books did not know what to do with Seven. [...]