“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Again, he does not have to feel—and he should not feel—that ideally he should be a public personality, going abroad to sell our ideas. [...]

(9:45.) Ruburt’s fears gave him a black-or-white attitude; he must be public or private. [...]

[...] He decided not to be distracted even by the public, or by public issues. [...]

4. As mentioned, go out together to public places, and begin acting in that regard.

You have private rooms now in a public area that becomes more public all the time, as tenants, strangers, move in and out. [...]

The two apartments helped, but in a way there is less privacy because of the public hall, you see. [...]

[...] Briefly, the new environment next door aroused him, but the apartment, while representing expansion, as I told you then, also carried a built-in boomerang—the public hall, the lack of coordination, a divided place. [...]

[...] The means, however, have helped erode that ideal, and the public interpretation of Darwin’s principles was, quite unfortunately, transferred to the economic area, and to the image of man as a political animal.

[...] Seth did discuss my dream of last night, explaining in some detail how I’d busily constructed a second dream self so that I could carry on a dialogue expressing creative impatience with myself: I was eager to embark upon new ventures in painting and writing, even while I was recording Mass Events for Jane and Seth, and preparing for publication.)

You should both, as Ruburt thought earlier, go out into the public at least one night within a two-week period. [...]

[...] I also said that I thought the publication of God of Jane at last had served as a stimulus for the changes. [...]

[...] He valued the more or less clear channel of operation from the completion of a book by himself to its publication. [...]

He realized that at another house he might receive more money or more publicity, or possibly another more esthetically-presented package, yet against the other uncertainties and vicissitudes he felt he had an acceptable framework of operation. [...]

(Long pause at 4:28.) A strain develops in the personality as it tries to be faithful to its own private picture of reality, even while it tries to obediently conform to the publicly accepted picture. Dissatisfactions and illnesses then often result as the personality tries to go in two directions at once, and to please both the private and the public parts of its experience. [...]

[...] Usually we’re notified well in advance of a book’s publication, but not this time — if the event has actually taken place. [...] We’ve had no correspondence with the Dutch publisher, Ankh-Hermes, about a publication date. [...]

[...] For it gave us the extra time to have these sessions before the book’s publication. If we needed preparation for any reactions after publication, etc.

(In the notes preceding the last session I wrote that Jane was to call Tam about the date of publication for Mass Events and God of Jane. [...]

[...] I did suggest that she hold off publication of it until we’d tried to learn something. [...]

[...] Therefore, how could publication of the next Seth book help?)

That concept will be changed because many people in your society and in your times were indeed born with the same intent, and in their private and public lives they are tackling that issue. [...]

[...] Regardless of the differences with which the public considers exists between the medical profession and psychic healing, psychic healers have very much in common with doctors or nurses, and use their psychic abilities in a way that follows those characteristics and leanings. [...]

[...] He does, however, possess excellent instincts in certain directions that automatically bring money to you and insures the publication of his books and so forth. [...]

[...] As he tried to comprehend it, he also felt that certain attitudes of yours toward the marketplace would spill over and threaten the unimpeded clear channel that he felt has been formed to convey his writing to the public realm. [...]

[...] Doing things that way will speed up the publication date.” I’m all too conscious of the great amount of physical time I’m spending on the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality; I often feel responsible for holding up publication of Volume 2 especially, since Seth finished dictating it almost exactly two years ago. [...]

1. In the order of their publication the five previous Seth books are: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul; The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book; Volumes 1 and 2 of the “Unknown” Reality: A Seth Book; and The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. All of Jane’s books, whether produced with or without Seth, are listed in the frontmatter of Mass Events, with publication dates.

[...] I repeated my thought that it didn’t matter how many Seth books she piled up ahead of contract, or publication: That was certainly a more creative and exciting position to be in than if one didn’t have anything ahead. [...]

[...] Checking the page proofs is the last stage we go through before publication, and Volume 1 is due to be marketed this summer — probably in July.

[...] The “official” publication date isn’t until September 10, however. [...]

[...] Popular demonstrations lead the public to believe that the subject must fall asleep or be completely relaxed, yet this is not the case. [...]

[...] Looking back from my position within the framework of simultaneous time, I’m amazed to see that another ten years passed before the publication of this little book by Amber-Allen/New World Library. [...]

For some time now Rick Stack and I have discussed a most intriguing project: the private printing, by Rick, of the complete transcripts of those first 510 sessions that Jane held before the publication of The Seth Material in 1970. [...]

[...] The publicity department at Prentice-Hall told Jane last week that this program was thinking of asking us to be on the show, and that possibly we’d be contacted this week.

(A note: Publicity at Prentice-Hall also told Jane that Newsweek Magazine might do a story or review re Seth, and that this might take place within two or three weeks, etc. [...]

[...] The stairs seem public. [...]

The world in those terms (pause) is as much the result of unpredictable behavior, unforeseen events, unexpected benefits, unforeseeable conditions, as it is the result of predictable actions, usual cause-and-effect phenomena (pause), and a close inspection of public and private life would show quite clearly that both are magnificently touched by significant coincidences. [...]

(Long pause.) He is learning to create whole private and public worlds that directly correspond to his own states of mind. [...]

[...] And even in the most private-type sessions Seth always wound his material into more public areas, so that we have reams of unpublished (and very controversial) material dealing with the connections between one’s illness and other members of the family, community relationships, and with the very belief systems that underlie all of human activity. [...]

[...] And—very troublesome to me—came the repeated news that various people were “speaking for Seth” publicly, and charging hefty-enough fees.

[...] You lit cigarettes for him, particularly when you were in public, but you did not open the car door unless he asked you, or reminded you when that hurt or humiliated him.

Lighting his own cigarette in public was the one wild gesture of independence he allowed himself because you made such a point of lighting it for him. [...]