“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I also asked if Seth would comment upon the postponement by Gallery magazine, this month, of their interview with Jane, scheduled for January 23, a class night. Jane received a telegram from Richard Kearns a few days before the 23rd. He promised a letter of explanation which still hasn’t arrived as of this session. Even though Jane received a second telegram a few days ago, again promising the letter.

(In mid-February, Richard Kearns finally called Jane, to tell her he’d been fired from Gallery. He has her short story and a chapter of Seven—promised to return them—but not as of February 21....)

[...] Nature is everywhere filled with promise — not only the promise of mere survival, but the promise of beauty and fulfillment. Once again, that keen sense of promise is innate within each portion of the body. [...]

[...] My presence, so to speak, has always been somewhat of a promise, as well as an actuality. For my presence and the sessions both do indeed imply a promise of knowledge beyond what is generally known, and, hopefully, of wisdom beyond that which is generally possessed. The sessions also imply the promise of a contact with a larger reality than your own—one large enough to contain the world that you normally recognize.

[...] Both have been used by those in power to hold down the masses of people, to justify shoddy and inadequate living conditions by promising future bliss in the world after death.

(I told Jane that I hoped Frank Longwell had gotten his young friend to mow the grass this afternoon, as he’d promised to do this morning, but nothing doing. [...]

[...] I told Jane that his promise of giving more material doesn’t usually work out — I’m aware of a number of such references he’s made in this series of sessions. [...] So I’ve stopped pushing for continuances of the promised material. [...]

promises in the air

(This morning I wrote Maude Cardwell a short letter, promising more later, both from ourselves and via our lawyer. [...]

This expectation to grow and flourish is addressed within each atom, cell, and organ, and all of life’s parts contain this optimistic expectation and are blessed with the promise that their abilities will grow to maturity.

And now, take the break I promised you.... [...]

And now, take the break I promised you….

Continue as you are with the papers in the morning, and I will add my two cents as promised. [...]

[...] Friday afternoon, when we received another erroneous bill, Jane called Elmira Video; the bookkeeper, Mrs. Trafzer, promised to call Monday to tell us what we owed. [...]

[...] Late this afternoon Mrs. Trafzer called, as promised to tell us that we were to forget the bill and to send in the regular monthly payment of $15.94, instead of the $33.00 we were charged with. [...]

[...] Mrs. Trafzer has promised to personally put the proper figures into the computer, thus ending the billing confusion. [...]

[...] This second session is also unique in her experience, and promises well for the future. [...]

[...] Our meeting ended on this general note of promised further communication.

[...] In religious terms you begin to glimpse a promised land—a “land” of psyche and reality that represents unimpeded nature (again all intently. [...]

(She said that she also had images that she didn’t describe during the session: “I saw the Jews marching across the desert like in the Bible, and Moses leading them to the Promised Land. [...]

[...] I left the garage door open for him, as promised, so he could get in the house in the afternoon when I wasn’t there. [...]

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

[...] So those who felt that religion had failed them looked anew to science, which promised — promised to — provide the closest approximation to heaven on earth: mass production of goods, two cars in every garage, potions for every ailment, solutions for every problem. [...]

The severity of the “event” at Three Mile Island has spurred antinuclear protesters into action in many areas of the country; and the proliferating state, federal, and industry investigations into the accident promise to generate a collective fallout of a kind that’s bound to have far more impact on the nuclear power industry, and society, than anything that’s come from the crippled plant itself so far. [...]

[...] There was a feeling of disappointment connected and I’d say that it represents some feelings about my abilities—I thought they were sterling—really terrific—and wore myself out caring for them, but I fear that they are only very good serviceable ones after all, their earlier promise not proving true.... [...]

(Seth also told John that the data given on Searle Drug, its financial and personal entanglements, plus John’s own promising prospects if he remained with the firm through its present crises, still applied. [...]

[...] On top of this, Seth promised an excellent session at our regularly scheduled time tomorrow night.)

The books themselves show that he is more than fulfilling his promise as a writer, both in scope and artistry. [...]

Both of your minds are doing more than fulfilling their promises: they are being used to excellent capacity. [...]

All that was involved, as you told Ruburt, was a shuffling of paper from here to there, and a promise to keep the money in the account and not withdraw it for a specific amount of time. [...]

[...] You give yourselves, say, six months, and you promise not to withdraw the issue from Framework 2’s account in the meantime. [...]

[...] And when I make promises I make promises and I keep them. [...]