“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] When you go out in public he immediately thinks in terms of absolutes, and feels himself inadequate as a result, and his improvements seem trivial in comparison to what he wants.

[...] We thought the new work would probably be a long one, but we hardly expected that it would require publication in two volumes.

[...] I simply want to stress that our overall goal is the publication of Jane’s books (including those produced with Seth), and that each work is a complete entity while containing within itself the necessary references to others in the series.

[...] For the more time passes, the less important the date of publication becomes. [...]

And, finally, what of our efforts to handle the steadily increasing volume of mail that’s resulted from the publication of Jane’s books? [...]

[...] But we sat in a public place and she did not want a display. [...]

[...] It is dependent upon your own attitudes; how much publicity you want, and how you are jointly going to face the world.

In his role as woman Ruburt would not want to appear in public with you unless he was gallantly and proudly escorted. [...]

[...] The body, then, no matter how private, is also a public, social, biological statement. [...]

[...] This context is the result of personal and mass beliefs that are intertwined at all cultural levels, and so to that extent serve private and public purposes.

Following the publication of my first book in this field, letters came from strangers asking for Seth’s help. [...]

[...] Or about directing himself to the public?”

During the time that he was working on his book, I was writing four hours a day on a book of my own, conducting my weekly ESP class, and finding myself swamped by the correspondence that followed publication of The Seth Material. [...]

[...] Private lives have merged with public sentiment and religious fervor. [...]

[...] I guess I think Seth would know the best time for such a book to be done and publicly introduced.

At first we thought of keeping the collection closed until after our deaths, as donors usually request to be done, but we’ve decided to make everything accessible as soon as we can, both for scholarship and for study by the public. [...]

[...] We only regret that it’s taking us so long to get this information to the public.

(This will be the first time Seth has appeared on television since we did some promotional work for The Seth Material after its publication in 1970. [...] But the pressures of work, plus our own conservative attitudes about personal publicity, have led us to pass by other such opportunities.

I also think that in her unique private and public ways Jane explored time as well, as evocatively, as anyone ever has. [...]

[...] And now, I open up even more to his publication of The Personal Sessions series. [...]

[...] As the sessions piled up and books were published that balancing between public and private material came to seem quite natural; it actually became another portion of Jane’s abilities that was as creative in its way as any other aspect of the sessions: if the personal sessions were available, why not take them? [...]

[...] All knew of Jane’s abilities, of course, her growing career with its attendant publicity, but that was only a minor subject amid wide-ranging discussions. [...]

[...] Our friends wanted to celebrate the publication of her first “psychic” book, her first mention of Seth, but she read poetry at the party and wouldn’t talk about the ESP book — too embarrassed. [...]

[...] Jane had felt that I was disappointed by the publication of her novel, The Rebellers — and correctly so. [...]

[...] We should set up appointments to see these people, and should make the trip whether or not publicity for Jane’s ESP book, to be published this spring, is involved.

[...] The conversation among the four of us touched upon many things, including the news Jane received from her publisher that her ESP book is set for publication on May 16,1966. [...]

[...] Reverend Crosson has read Jane’s ESP book, helping her publicize it in various ways, contact editors, etc., and we were pleased to meet.

[...] He did enjoy the publicity and the experience however, and he did, as mentioned, feel let down by Prentice later.

(A note added 33 years later: This session will be presented with the eventual publication of the ESP class sessions by New Awareness Network, Inc.)

[...] Epidemics by their public nature speak of public problems — problems that sociologically threaten to sweep the individual to psychic disaster as the physical materialization does biologically.

[...] Some connection with teaching but not in public schools. [...]