“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Before we continue, I would like to remind the reader that in the middle of these or any of the other problems we have been discussing, there may be a period of depression, or the feeling that one’s own problem has no solution after all.

(4:41 p.m. Jane said, “I have the feeling that whenever Seth gives exercises like that, that he’s giving them just when I need them, and the reader too. [...]

It is not beyond the range of the readers and none of them are beyond Ruburt’s students either, and now I will listen and see how you did on your assignment. [...]

[...] The Seth material is a long way from being on computer—if that ever happens—and relatively few readers will make the journey to Yale University Library, to study the collection of Jane’s and my papers that’s available there for anyone to see.

[...] I love to hear from readers—even if it does take me forever to answer sometimes. [...]

[...] I am emphasizing this dream connection, however, because the dream state is one familiar to each reader, and it represents your closest touchstone to the kind of subjective reality from which your physical world emerges. [...]

The collection will include our family trees; my father’s journals and photographs; Jane’s and my own grade-school, high-school, college, and family data; our youthful creative efforts in writing and painting; the comic books and other commercial artwork I produced; our early published and unpublished short stories; my original notes for the sessions; session transcripts, whether published or unpublished, “regular,” private, or from ESP class; tapes, including those made in class of Jane speaking for Seth and/or singing in Sumari; our notes, dream records, journals, and manuscripts; our sketches and paintings; Jane’s extensive poetry; our business correspondence; books, contracts, and files; newsletters about the Seth material, published in the United States and abroad (independently of Jane and me); the greater number of letters from readers—in short, a mass of material showing how our separate beginnings flowed together and resulted in the production of a joint lifework.

(In my Introductory Notes for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality, I explained how Jane acknowledges the mail we get from our readers by sending them copies of letters from Seth and herself; to the latter she adds a few personal lines for each correspondent. She also encloses a list of her books, which many readers ask for. [...]

(In those notes I also referred to an earlier letter that Seth had dictated for readers in January 1973, and it can be found in Chapter 8 of Personal Reality. [...]

[...] Most of you, my readers, understand that if you did not sleep you would die. [...]

[...] Walking barefoot on a bed of fire would most likely cause most of you, my readers, to feel the most acute pain — while in some primitive societies, under certain conditions the same situation could result instead in feelings of ecstasy or joy.

[...] Naturally we’d been involved in a number of other projects at the same time, as I’ve indicated in my notes for Mass Events, yet for me especially the publication of the two volumes of “Unknown” Reality meant that we had arrived at a certain point in the development and presentation of the Seth material: In those books, through correlating them in a modest way with our previous works, I’d attempted to show the reader just what the three of us had managed to achieve before Seth led us into Psyche — and, as it developed, Mass Events.

So, dear reader, look at the law as it stands in this country with somewhat more kindly eyes than you have before — for it at least legally establishes a belief in your innocence, and for all of its failings, it protects you from the far more fanatical aspects, say, of any religion’s laws.

Give us a moment… Most readers of this book can be considered idealists in one way or another by themselves or others. [...]

[...] You have a tendency to look for outright evil, to think in terms of “the powers of good and evil,” and I am quite sure that many of my readers are convinced of evil’s force. [...]

[...] I added that we expected the Dutch translation of the same book to be published later this year, but that we didn’t know just when this would happen — so Jane and I were understandably surprised last Thursday to receive a letter from a reader in Holland, informing us that he’d just purchased a copy of the Dutch edition of Seth Speaks! [...]

[...] Jane really likes it, since it conveys very well the feeling of her little story “for readers of all ages.”

[...] At first I was sorry for the reader’s sake to think of Dreams being interrupted, yet glad for myself, for in addition to presenting Seth’s book dictation I was given the space in which to develop those other personal and secular themes of Seth’s, Jane’s, and my own that I think add even more dimensions of meaning to Dreams.

[...] I thank each reader for his or her patience in accepting the publication of Dreams in two volumes. [...]

[...] I added that even though we have no interest in putting down other approaches to inner reality, still we’re firm believers in the “inviolate nature of the individual consciousness, before, during, and after physical existence, in ordinary terms.”¹ So, here, we leave it up to the reader to make the intuitive and overt connections between Seth’s philosophy and the material Jane wrote today. The interested reader will also be able to compare her composition with certain passages in her long poem, Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time, when that work is published in book form in September 1975.

[...] We’re very grateful for the help readers are offering. [...]

[...] I thought the letters from readers would also slack off. [...]

[...] (RC, as everyone calls it, was founded by Maude Cardwell in June 1980; she began it as a two-page mimeographed newsletter.) Richard Roberts, of Vernal Equinox Press, published A Seth Reader, a volume consisting of excerpts from six of the Seth books. [...]

The two volumes of “Unknown” Reality hardly tie truth up in neat packages, though, so that after completing them the reader can claim to know all of the answers. [...]

[...] So along with Seth’s work, we tried to share our reality with the reader, and to provide a platform in time for knowledge that must basically straddle our ideas of time and reality alike.

[...] She was taking calls from readers in all parts of the country, trying to keep up with the mail, participating in an occasional radio interview, and, for most of that time, conducting her classes. [...]

In the same way, each of my readers has a connection with the same level of psychic reality. [...]

[...] Most of my readers are very interested, yet they have other pressing concerns that prevent them from embarking upon such an extended study.

[...] I will ask you, my readers, to bear with me then. [...]

[...] If any of my readers feel this way, they may even hide these feelings from themselves. [...]

[...] If this has happened to any of my readers, you might recognize yourself in any number of different scenarios. [...]

[...] Each reader can think of many such examples.

[...] A preacher may stand golden-faced, earnest-eyed, extolling the merits of goodness and damning the legions of the devil — and to some of my readers that devil, unseen, never appearing, may nevertheless seem quite real.

[...] If every reader of this book changed his or her attitudes, even though not one law was rewritten, tomorrow the world would have changed for the better. [...]

I would like each of my readers to be a practicing idealist, and, if you are then you will automatically be tolerant of the beliefs of others. [...]

[...] It is a challenge that I hope each reader will accept. [...]

[...] Why didn’t it sell—did readers avoid it because it was Jane’s own book, or poetry, or both? [...] I was angry that our readers weren’t helping out by buying the book.

[...] Seth does discuss the question tonight, and rather than break up this session by making it half regular and half deleted, I’ve inserted the proper notes in the 796th and 800th sessions to refer the reader to this deleted session. [...]

[...] In so doing they have traveled through probabilities, as each of my readers has under similar circumstances. [...] In a sense they are different people now than they were when “Unknown” Reality was begun (some 14 months ago). However, many of my readers are also different people now than they were when they began to read this work.

[...] However, many of my readers, or their offspring, will be involved in a new dimension of selfhood in which consciousness is fully explored and the potentials of the soul uncovered, at least to some extent.

[...] Now I refer the reader to Note 11 for quotations from the session, the 747th, in question.)