“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Last evening she tried a rereading of the two poems involved, but stopped before getting through G. K. Chesterton’s Lepanto. [...]

(On March 5 the frontmatter proofs for Volume 2 — consisting of items like the table of contents, a poem of Jane’s, the titles of her previous books, and so forth — arrived for checking; we expect to see the proofs for Volume 2’s index in a couple of weeks. [...]

In more specific terms, I’m organizing this rather short exploration of Jane’s death around these items; a loose chronology surrounding her writing of Seth, Dreams … in 1966-67, and our unsuccessful attempts to sell the book; my acceptance of the survival of the personality after physical death; a waking experience involving my sensing Jane very soon after she had died; a metaphor I created for her death; a dream in which I not only contacted her but gave myself relevant information; another metaphor for Jane’s death; my speculations about communication among entities, whether they’re physical or nonphysical; a letter that could be from the discarnate Jane — one that was sent to me by its recipient, a caring correspondent whom I’ll call Valerie Wood; a note I wrote to Sue Watkins about the death of her mother; some quotations from a published letter of mine; Jane’s notes concerning the relationship we had; and, finally, the poem in which she refers to her nonphysical journeys to come.

[...] She very creatively considered those journeys and her new goals in the untitled poem that she spontaneously dictated to me from her hospital bed on March 1, 1984. [...]

Now our friend, poetic Ruburt, wrote a poem about the Gods in the Rafters that I enjoyed, although poetry has never been one of my particular joys. [...]

[...] Jane’s poem, My Dreaming Self, is presented in the notes following that session, along with references to other dream material.

[...] The session inspired the following poem that I wrote a few days later.

Very even, as if lines from a poem. [...]

[...] She wrote a poem about it tonight, and she’s going to send it to the newspaper.”)

11. In Chapter 8 of Adventures, Jane used her Sumari poem, Song of the Pear Tree, to present some examples of such layered, or deeper, meanings. [...]

[...] That is, something that exists completely in your plane cannot be evocative in the manner that a painting or, and this is for Ruburt, a poem can be.

At the age of 25, however, (nine years before the beginning of the sessions), Jane expressed an intuitive grasp of the moment point in these lines of her poem, More Than Men:

[...] The following poems were all written in 1964, when Rob and I first began our own experiments in dream recall and when Seth first started his sessions on the dream world.

[...] She does the same with the little poems she’s worked upon, most of which she regards as being not only incomplete but quite inconsequential: “I wouldn’t even type them up, like you did,” she commented. [...]

[...] (In Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, see Session 681 at 10:00, with Note 2.) However, in a poem she wrote for me a few years later — at Christmastime 1973 — Jane herself dealt equally well with the idea of simultaneous interactions between realities:

When you create a poem or a song or a painting you are in a state of play, of enjoyment, of freedom. [...]

[...] Jane has also received a letter concerning some of these poems from Playboy Magazine, regarding their consideration for publication as a book. [...]

(See the notes on page 269, Volume 5, of the 232nd session, dealing with Jane’s recent poetry book and the request by Jane’s publisher, F. Fell, that she send it to him along with a tape of some of the poems, also by Jane. [...]

[...] Sometimes we play rock ‘n’ roll music, for instance, while I read a poem—and this I would consider prayer.

[...] The child in seventh or eighth grade wrote a poem, expressing the desire to be a nun, and brought it to a parish priest. [...]

(I want to conclude this appendix with a poem Jane wrote during the summer of 1963, a few months before she began the sessions. [...]