“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I’m proud to publish this book under my own name, though I don’t fully understand the mechanics of its production or the nature of the personality I assume in delivering it. [...]

Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, The Speakers, and some Sumari poetry are being combined into a book that will be published soon by Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] Seth refers to Aspects, as we call it, in this present book, and it should be published sometime in 1975.

(Ray Van Over is leaving the Parapsychology Foundation sometime soon to launch his own business, which involves publishing. [...] Then Jane, speaking for Seth, gave the initials W C, as those of a person very involved in Ray Van Over’s publishing venture.

[...] Actually, she had converted my original typed sessions making up Psyche into standard manuscript form for the publisher; I still have to do many of the notes for the book after I finish my work on Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality several months from now.

[...] Yet I was more than happy with whatever help she could give, I told her, since it would let us get Psyche published that much sooner after Volume 2.

[...] Another is the sequel to her novel, The Education of Oversoul Seven; that first Seven book was published in April 1973 — and lately she’s been thinking of resuming work on Seven Two, as we usually call it.¹ One thing is certain: Jane will see to it that something creative happens to change the status quo, for she’s much too restless and energetic to leave things as they are.

A number of scientists — biologists, zoologists, and psychologists, among others — have recently published highly praised books in which they claim to show how our genes manipulate our individual behavior with only their own genetic survival at stake, even when we think we are displaying subjective qualities like altruism. [...]

[...] Carol wants to publish the work, and asks about a Butts-Roberts biography — something I think we’ll probably pass upon. I’ll write our publisher, Prentice-Hall.

(Jane then asked me if her book, To Hear a Dolphin, would be accepted by the publisher who now had it. I did not know consciously who the publisher was. [...]

[...] “I still can’t believe I called up a publisher and told them to send back a book they wanted to publish,” she said more than once. [...]

[...] Tam’s letter of today catalyzed her action, however, when he told her that Prentice-Hall had decided to publish Emir through the children’s department. [...]

[...] First of all, in a dream he saw that the book would be published. [...]

[...] On June 16 and June 23, Jane’s notebook shows that she had vague, encouraging dreams about writing and publishing and New York City. [...]

(On July 5, however, Jane had a very vivid dream in which she saw the dream book published in paperback format.

(“Will Jane’s novel, To Hear a Dolphin, be published?”)

(“Who will publish it?”)

[...] This particular book is a case in point: even before it existed in its present form, I was kept informed of publisher’s decisions toward it. [...]

[...] It wasn’t until February 1, 1968 that I sent the dream manuscript out to a publisher. [...]

On February 27, I sent the manuscript out again to another publisher. [...]

[...] On June 23, I dreamed that the publisher of my first book called, giving me all kinds of information about sales. [...]

1. The Seth Material was published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. [...] Seth Speaks was published by Prentice-Hall in 1972 and by Amber–Allen Publishing/New World Library in 1994.

[...] You disdain it, while considering publishing acceptable. [...]

[...] Now I told you before I began the book that it would be published. [...]

(The brief session was held in the office of Jane’s publisher, Frederick Fell, in New York City. [...]

I am very pleased to meet you (to F. Fell), and since you are the one who published Ruburt’s book, I thank you. [...]

[...] Ruburt will end up with another publisher, but he will also be with Aerofranz for some time. [...]

Aerofranz knew the practicalities of publishing, in his reality. [...]

I told you once that Frederick Fell was an excellent publisher for Ruburt’s book. [...]

[...] This may not be the precise title:Stolen Lands or Islands, published or distributed or whatever by Mission House, Ltd. [...] Book published in England. [...]

(Four months ago I wrote in Note 1 for Session 885 that through a series of misunderstandings the people at Ankh-Hermes, a publishing company in Holland, had violated their contract with Prentice-Hall by issuing a condensed translation of Seth Speaks. Our editor at Prentice-Hall, Tam Mossman, insisted that Ankh-Hermes publish another, full-length edition of Jane’s book in the Dutch language. Now Tam has just forwarded to us correspondence showing that Ankh-Hermes will do this—the new publishing date for Seth Spreekt is still uncertain, however.

[...] Ruburt, being true to his spontaneity, would forget publishing details. [...] He is producing his books and mine —a double kind of production that entails almost two publishing schedules.

[...] That has to do with his misunderstanding for he has not seen, really, that he is producing work for two personalities that cannot be squeezed into conventional publishing rhythms.

[...] [Tam is still her regular editor.] In the letter Cohen had good things to say about her work, and the chances that Prentice-Hall will publish Seven III, the first five chapters of which Tam has forwarded to Prentice-Hall. There seems to be a chance also of trying to get Prentice-Hall to publish the three Seven books in simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback editions, if we interpret the letter correctly. [...]

[...] It then became evident that a lot of her poor feelings lately have been connected to worries over work, what Prentice-Hall would or wouldn’t publish, etc.—an old reaction that I should have been more prepared for, I guess, but had lost sight of in our day-to-day hassles. [...]

(A remark she made yesterday probably had helped crystallize my own new determination to do something about what seemed to be a badly eroding situation: She said that Tam had recently told her that Mass Events was due to be published on the 13th—today—with God of Jane due out early in May. [...]

[...] Yet working with the pendulum in the bedroom at 12:30 AM last night, she said she still wanted the book published—and therein lay at least one source of much trouble, I thought and said. [...]

(2. She is to call Tam to verify that the two books in question are to be published as expected. [...]

[...] For Ruburt to try to publish usual novels, for example, would not work: he has outgrown the formulas. [...]

[...] When I got home from 330 last night I found in the mail a letter from Maude Cardwell of Reality Change, the Seth newsletter she publishes in Austin, Texas. [...] The letter I’d had published recently in the November issue of Coordinate Point International, describing Jane’s challenges, had come to the attention of the reader in St. Paul, MN, who had called Maude with the idea of a fund. [...]