“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Perhaps, Jane had wanted more physical and psychic activity all along, I thought—more tours, TV, publicity, fame, money, whatever—but all those things she held back on because of my own negative attitudes. [...]

Add to your question, to read before our next session, the implications of private creativity and public distribution of creative work. [...]

[...] The entire issue had been going on for some time, and the argument—the argument being somewhat in the nature of a soul facing its own legislature, or perhaps standing as a jury before itself, setting its own case in a kind of private yet public psychic trial. [...]

[...] And even if all of those sessions had been born out of my own psychic and psychological challenges and dilemmas, I knew they were excellent and deserved publication.

[...] I was also positive that with their publication, Jane’s symptoms—especially her walking difficulties—became considerably worse. [...]

[...] The way had been illuminated by Seth himself in his private sessions, with his discussions of her sinful self and related challenges: Those sessions, the publication of the two books, Jane’s personal sinful-self material and her worsening physical situation, all combined to serve as a complex trigger. [...]

[...] In both letters #1 and #4, Jane expresses her willingness to do all she can to help with publicity re the ESP book—write copy, appear on radio or TV shows, etc. In the February 8 phone call, F. Fell told Jane he would try to get her on some shows to publicize the book.

[...] She also discussed the title for the ESP book, again offered her help on publicity ideas re this book, and told F. Fell that she was ready to help in any way she could.

[...] Jane speculated that it could refer to the age of either the publicity director of F. Fell, or to Rhoda Monks, the author of letter # 2. Jane telephoned Frederick Fell on February 8th, and in so doing spoke first to Rhoda Monks; to Jane she sounded as though she could be about that age.

[...] Jane said the passage-of-time reference grows out of Mr. Fell’s questions as to when she was coming to New York, and her reply that she saw no use in it until the ESP book was out; then, in May, she wanted to be in NYC to help with publicity. [...]

One is the cancer drive literature, and television “public service” announcements, in which the seven danger signals of cancer are given. [...]

(10:53.) The same applies to the “public service announcements” dealing with tobacco and drugs alike. [...]

[...] On the one hand, you have a culture that publicly points out as common the often exaggerated dangers that can occur with drugs, and on the other holds out drugs as a method of therapy. [...]

[...] The buildings are stately, such as those in a public park. [...] There is a sign that says we can go no further, as the area is closed to the public. [...]

Next, I was teaching school — not an unusual dream under the circumstances, since I was acting as a substitute teacher in the public schools that autumn.

I realize that this is a decontamination center, closed to the public, very dangerous, and I become highly frightened. [...]

[...] The value of the originals will be considerable, but this is also your own solution to work and its public notice. [...]

[...] Some public-service announcements stress the “fact” that the individual can be gravely threatened by high blood pressure, for example, even though he or she feels in excellent physical health.

[...] The hostage situation (now in day 53) is a materialized mass dream, meant to be important and vital on political and religious platforms of reality, meant to dramatize a conflict of beliefs, and to project that conflict outward into the realm of public knowledge. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know.

[...] Such a book would involve the publication of much Seth material that could either lie in our files for a long time, or never be published. [...]

[...] dreaming can almost be thought of as an inner public forum in which each man and woman has his or her say, and in which each opinion, however unpopular, is taken into consideration. [...]

[...] Some such dreams were extremely direct, others were clothed in symbolism according to the style of the dreamer, but in any case the dream was understood to have a public significance as well as a private one.

[...] Your house should have a foyer for the same reasons, and some definite stated area between private and public land. [...]

You need clear-cut areas between private and public activity.

[...] He will, however, feel freer, there is no doubt of it, when he does not think of the hallway as the place where the public world begins. [...]

[...] We have to resolve the issue of public accessibility, and others. [Jane is not in favor of public accessibility at this time.] LD explained a few things, suggesting among them a committee, perhaps, to screen qualified applicants to the material. [...]

Now: at one point or another, your private reality becomes to some extent a public one, to one degree or another, as it is viewed by and participated in by others.

[...] His physical situation—the symptoms—are public to the extent that others know he has difficulties. [...]

The private letters, while indeed private, are in a strange fashion also a public outpouring of emotions, for those people of course make up the public. [...]

[...] I said also that her decision to give up doing publicity, made just recently, might be helping her feel better.

[...] I’ll gladly do this if I discover that it is behind any large-sized hassle Jane may be carrying around about public responsibility. [...]

[...] Remember all of this material, again, in the light of what was said about his public image. [...]

[...] At the same time he felt that he should be offering more: the public image, the saintly understanding, and so forth. [...]

[...] This morning Eleanor called Jane to say that she “loved it,” and made a Jane a firm offer for its publication. [...]

So the affair with Eleanor is significant, particularly since the book was assured publication with Prentice. [...]

There is certainly no need to romanticize schizophrenic behavior, for its romantic-like elements have long been coupled in the public mind in an unfortunate manner, seeming to place the madman and the genius in some kind of indefinable relationship. [...]

[...] We’ve even considered withdrawing Mass Events from publication, although Tam reassured Jane this morning that things would work out all right. [...]

[...] It therefore represents the public’s ideas in their great variety.

In the public mind, it made little difference whether the devil or tainted genes condemned the individual to a life in which it seemed he could have little control. [...]

(Pause.) The various potions taken faithfully by the public were now often found to have very unfortunate side effects. [...]

[...] You do have a kind of prominence now, and your work is on a different kind of public mural.