“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] There would be publishing difficulties having to do with sheer bulk—with the cost of typesetting, with binding such a thick book, with marketing and price, and so forth. So with the help of our editor, Tam Mossman, and others at Prentice-Hall, the decision was made to publish Dreams in two volumes. [...]

After we had published Seth’s “Unknown” Reality in two volumes back in 1977 and 1979, Jane and I decided that we wanted to keep his books shorter, and to issue them more frequently. [...]

[...] She still habitually referred to “Unknown” Reality as a one-volume work — even as Seth himself did in the session this evening — despite the decision made 10 days ago to publish it in two volumes. [...]

(“1. What do you think about this work being published in two volumes?

[...] With the arrival of warmer weather we did take an occasional break from psychic work, but for the most part the sessions were held regularly even though Seth was through with “Unknown” Reality. Some of them were private, but Seth also covered a number of interesting topics of a more general nature — material we’d like to see published eventually. [...]

[...] It should be published a few months after this present volume is issued.

Finally, though the editor was for the book, his publisher turned it down. [...] As a result, I played around with the idea of publishing some of Seth’s ideas as my own and hiding their origin. [...] So I sent my eight chapters somewhere else, stopped work on the book for nearly a year, and devoted my working time to short stories which were published in various national magazines.

“Don’t tell me, tell the publisher,” Rob said. [...]

As it turned out, it was Seth’s part in the book that bothered the publisher. [...]

[...] Since in all of these experiments Seth was helping us through actual suggestions and explanations as to how we perceive such information, I simply couldn’t minimize his importance just to get the ESP book published. [...]

For much more Seth material on the counterpart concept, see Session 732 and Appendix 25 in Volume II of The “Unknown” Reality (Published by Amber-Allen Publishing, Inc., San Rafael, CA). [...]

[...] Tam’s enthusiastic and intuitive help was always invaluable to Jane, ever since he encouraged her to publish her first book, The Seth Material, in 1970.

[...] She has also been working with and choosing the published and unpublished Seth sessions for The Magical Approach. [...]

[...] If you did not really approve of Prentice as a publisher, then he wondered seriously whether he should follow through with a new house, and with the hopes that Eleanor offered. You typed my book, and I appreciate the work and the reasons, but Ruburt felt it was also because you did not trust Prentice, and always that you thought another publisher would do a better job overall.

[...] Should he have changed to another publisher? [...]

[...] Now this is his projection, and one he only realized at break: he felt that any incomplete manuscripts were indications of a waste of time, and that you thought he should publish everything he wrote, and that an unpublished manuscript was a blot of sorts. [...]

To him, Dialogues had to be published at once. [...]

(On Tuesday, February 8, she telephoned her publisher, Frederick Fell, in New York City. [...] Mr. Fell also asked to see the manuscript on the Seth material,and told Jane some of the plans he had for publicizing her ESP book, due to be published this May. The publicity may include adds in the New York Times Book Review; surveys taken by the publisher show the book should have a good reception and sale. [...] Summing up, the publisher told Jane that once the ESP book is on the market and her name begins to be known through publicity, it will help the sales of future books considerably—namely the Seth material.

(For the record: In the 227th and 228th sessions Seth discussed the book of poetry Jane produced so quickly by using suggestions for abundant energy, and told us the book would be published. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s present book on the subject, on our Seth material, will indeed be published, and meet with success.

This involves request from other publisher—same connection with February (the initials would be T. M. rather than Seth Material) and it would be a year off. [...]

2. Did I go overboard on “Unknown” Reality? Why did I choose to do notes for it —let alone publish it in 2 volumes? [...]

2. This reminded me that before Seth Speaks was even contracted for, Seth told Tam that it would be published.

[...] Since your reaction when Rebellers was published, he feared that you would grow to hate him for any success, if you did not succeed, since his success he felt was largely at your expense—you bought him the time in which to work.

[...] On a few occasions he found it negative early in the game, but any criticism later of his relationship with publishers was taken to be a symbol of an anger with him because of his books, period.

When Rebellers was published he felt (underlined) that you were coldly angry at him. [...]

(At the time Rebellers was published, I was jealous, but it took me some time to learn this. [...]

(That topic ties in with my idea that I mentioned to her this afternoon, about it hardly being a coincidence that many events in our lives are coming to a head at the same time: Our deep upset about Jane’s condition; the trouble with the disclaimer idea for Mass Events; Prentice-Hall’s reorganization into the General Publishing Division, in which all of their narrative books will be phased out, thus eliminating any real need for Tam and his job; indeed, Tam is looking at other job offers even now. [...] I doubt if we would follow Tam helter-skelter to another publishing house if he left Prentice-Hall tomorrow—especially in light of our decision to hold off on Dreams. [...]

[...] I reminded her that I was the one who first suggested we start publishing the Seth material, and that she’d had reservations about doing that. [...]

[...] And of course the whole lengthy disclaimer bit for Mass Events beautifully sums up the situations: Even our own publisher seeks to protect itself from possible legal action because of the material within the Seth books. [...]

[...] This brought up another matter—our being confronted with the work we have published, as well as by Mass Events and God of Jane. [...]

[...] Seth said that Jane would publish 5 books on the Seth Material; 3 novels; 3 books of poetry; plus 2 books to be dictated by Seth himself. [...] I’m publishing Volume 9 in 2002.]

(As predicted by Seth in the 420th session for July 1, 1968, Prentice-Hall is to publish the first book on the Seth material. [...]

[...] When we are finished publishing Ruburt’s books and my books, we will have some library.

They will also publish my book, though by then there will be some changes in the company, and eventually our friend Aerofranz will change his allegiance to another company.

[...] All of it was done in quite a hurry, at the request of her publisher. Jane called her publisher on February 8, as noted in the envelope material in the 234th session, then hurried to get the scripts and tape ready for the mail on February 10. [...]

[...] The object, sealed in the usual double envelope, was the insurance slip for the two manuscripts Jane mailed to her publisher on February 10,1966. [...]

[...] The object is the insurance slip for the manuscripts of Jane’s poetry book, and the first section of the Seth material, mailed to her publisher on February 10,1966. [...]

[...] The tape was one Jane made reading some of the poems for her publisher. [...]

[...] The recent sale of Oversoul Seven to an English publishing house for an unbelievable $100, and Prentice’s recent notice to us of a possible sale of Seth Speaks for translation and publishing by a German house for only $300 bothered me greatly; I just couldn’t believe that so little money was available in Europe, no matter what Prentice told us. [...]

[...] Why did I choose to do notes for that work, let alone publish it in two volumes? [...]

There are publishing games also, and you do not play these. [...]

[...] When I think that others take advantage of you in monetary terms—government, publisher, or public—it makes me wonder why. [...]

[...] It is disconnected from ideas of publishing, though later it may be published. [...]

(So here again, we have a reference to Jane’s possible feelings about Seth and what he does, regardless of whether his labors may be eventually published as “a Seth book.” [...]

[...] I’ve long wanted to see it published while feeling, knowing, that it has much else to offer, too. [...]

[...] I owe a great deal to the very considerate help of Janet Mills, the proprietor of Amber-Allen Publishing. [...]

[...] It contains some excellent material, and it seems that just recently, especially with all the fuss about foreign publishers, I’ve just begin to really put it to fruitful use. [...]

(With all of the recent hassles involving family visits, publishers, and so forth, I’ve begun keeping that session in mind often. [...]

[...] Jane and I didn’t know what to think, since the American publisher of ESP Power, Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc., hadn’t advised us that a translation into Spanish had been authorized. The almost wordless quality of our surprise reminded me of our feelings of a year and a half ago, when we’d learned that the Dutch firm, Ankh-Hermes, had published an abridged edition of Seth Speaks in that language, without our permission.⁷

[...] We didn’t know whether ESP Power had been published without our American publisher’s consent—but there we were, confronted by another puzzling development involving a foreign-language edition of one of Jane’s books. At once I wrote to our California friend, asking him to obtain from his friend photocopies of three pages in the frontmatter of ESP Power: the title page, the table of contents, and the page that nobody reads, containing the information on copyright, permission for translation, and the name of the Mexican publishing firm.

The day after that session for March 11 was held we received a jolt: Eleanor Friede, Jane’s editor at Delacorte Press, informed us that Jane’s book, Emir’s Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers, was being remaindered—taken off the market because in the publisher’s view it wasn’t selling enough copies. [...] Perhaps our shock came about because we’d become spoiled without realizing it, but of Jane’s 14 books Emir¹⁰ is the first one to be withdrawn—and, ironically, the last one she’d had published. [...]

[...] That same day, I congratulated her when our first published copy of God of Jane reached us; that excellent book had followed Mass Events all the way through the publishing process. [...]

[...] He also knows that the book will be published, and this inner information has been given to him in one way or another time and time again.

(Jane has a long list of dreams, psy-time experiences, messages from Seth and herself, to the effect that the dream book will be published.)

[...] That is, within a short time he will know physically that it will be published. [...]

(I didn’t think of any foreign book-publishing rights being involved, though, as Seth indicates. [...] Tam wrote that Prentice-Hall wouldn’t notify us of such deals unless they go through, usually, so perhaps a Spanish publisher has expressed interest? [...]

(It may simply be that Seth was referring to a foreign publisher in any European country, as one of the ingredients in this story of the workings of Framework 2. Card from Carlos attached to this session for reference if needed.)