“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Speculation: Did Jane’s phone call today tinker with the experience yesterday? Did the experience lead to the phone call, and will informing Ace of the sale of the Seth material result in the sale of the dream book? On the other hand, can the sale to P-H have an adverse effect upon the hoped-for sale of the dream book to Ace?)

(Don was delighted to learn about the sale of the Seth material to Prentice-Hall, and urged Jane to stress this sale to the dream book editor, Evelyn Grippo, in the letter he suggested Jane write.

He has made a sale and now goodnight.

(The next day, January 28, after some debate, Jane called Ace in an effort to learn the status of the dream book. Don Wollheim hadn’t seen it yet. The editor in charge of psychic books was not available; her assistant told Jane a report on the book hadn’t been delivered yet. If Jane’s experience this morning does include the sale of the dream book, the event can be called precognitive to some degree.

[...] Election Day sales are mentioned specifically in the headings for the sales described on both pages 11 and 12, from which the object was torn. [...] Blue is referred to both on the object itself on the page 11 side in the line: Norwegian natural blue fox… etc.; and is torn through on the page 12 side in the line referring to a sale of thermal blankets: White, green, pink, blue, gold. Blue also appears on page 12 of the full sheet, in a list of colors for imperfect sheets on sale, and in other places on page 11/12.

[...] Sales certainly are methods of disposal, and sales are dealt with on both sides of the object itself, including use of the word sale, several times. [...]

[...] Sales, as indicated on both sides of the object, would imply many identical items on sale, in each category. [...]

[...] There are many numbers on both sides of the object and its parent page, 11 and 12, since the page features sales of bedding, blankets, sheets, cases, etc., all by size and color and dimension. [...]

(Evidently our concentration on increased sales is working. Tam wrote us this week that he thinks so, and that “sales have never been better. [...]

You are indeed affecting sales for the better, through Framework 2, because you intent has become clearer. [...]

(At the very least, the fact that we’re even concentrating on greater sales marks a great improvement for us, a great change of attitude.)

(“Our sales have increased but our mail has dropped off quite a bit. [...]

As far as your sales are concerned, trust Framework 2 to know exactly where and when the sales should be accelerated, and in what fashions, and do not specify particular books. Be clear in your intent, however, and clear in your faith that the sales increase will benefit all portions of your life, and not cause any problems.

In that instance also, your natures are known, so that the sales increase will happen in a way that beneficially suits all of your other goals, and in no way defeats them.

[...] He felt the contact taking hold, as you did one (recently), working with sales.

(I asked Jane to hold this session so that we could get information on two questions: 1. The sales of her books, both hardcover and paperback. [...]

[...] The other books quickly followed with, to that degree, a now built-in sales advantage.

The paperbacks are important, regardless of sales values, because they appear in the ordinary marketplace, out of esoteric cubbyholes. [...]

[...] They will not build up quickly in sales, but they will, and they will provide a dependable income. [...]

(Concerning Jane making sale of her writing soon, the last statement of the session above now makes four times that this bit of information has come to us, either through sessions or Jane’s psychological time. [...] In writing out the last line of the session from Jane’s dictation, I took it for granted the information referred to one sale. Jane then told me, as soon as the session ended, that it referred to two sales; one now accomplished, and other future sales. [...]

[...] One note further: The sale has developed at this time, and future sales have been set into motion through stories. [...]

(Concerning Seth’s statements that Jane will soon make a writing sale, she has nothing to report yet. [...]

A sale has already developed (Pause) period.

[...] The second, like the first, was for sale because of age. [...] All of this is quite natural: Many homes are for sale because the elderly can care for them no longer.”

[...] Driving through Sayre,¹ Pennsylvania, one Sunday afternoon, Joseph noticed a house for sale in a neighborhood he knew — and remembered that it had belonged, in his memory, to a man of whom his mother had been fond. [...]

[...] A coincidence — a mere trick of fate that Joseph could be walking through the old man’s home,² and that Mr. Markle would be spending his last time in a nursing home, as had Joseph’s mother — meaningless but evocative that this house was for sale, and that the old man was insisting upon a price higher than the house is worth, just as Joseph’s mother insisted upon a high price for her own home, and determined to get it.³ Period. [...]

(10:12.) Instead you have a rich interweaving of probabilities; for in one probability the two were indeed married, and that Stella [Butts] saw the house go to the eldest son (myself). In this probability, this Joseph instead comes upon the house of a relative stranger, finds it for sale, and can or cannot purchase it according to the new set of probabilities then emerging. [...]

[...] She thought of Seth’s statements in the 104th session, concerning a sale that “has developed,” and wondered just what the statement meant. [...] She then received from Seth, mentally, a firm statement repeating that a sale has developed. [...]

(I presume Seth’s congratulations to me refer to the accelerated rate of my painting sales, since I began to put some of his advice to use. Sales have been growing, much to my surprise. [...]

[...] And in no case has there been a distortion in our predictions concerning Ruburt’s sales. [...]

[...] See pages 125-6. Here Seth made rather strong statements concerning sales by Jane of her writings. [...]

(In addition, I want to do what we can to get sales reports from Prentice-Hall re Bantam sales [which we know aren’t great], and from the Pocket Books/Fell fiasco. I plan to write the editor-in-chief at Pocket Books as soon as I find out his name and address, asking him for sales figures; we haven’t had a royalty report from Fell in a year. [...]

[...] They did the same thing with Adventures; in this case, that action wiped the board clean for the hardcover Adventures, and even showed a small profit from the paperback sales. [...] Instead of charging hardcover losses against taxes as a business expense, say, they charge the author for them; this means they do not have to pay the author any royalties on paperback sales, for at least several years. [...]

[...] As Jane and I have decided to do lately, I began giving myself suggestions about increased sales of her books. [...]

When you were working with sales the other day, you felt that contact (as described). [...]

[...] If you do follow my suggestions concerning Framework 2, given this evening, your own experiences will lead to other creative ideas involving Ruburt’s condition, sales, and creative activity. [...]

[...] A small note: you did not free your desire in terms of sales, either. [...]

(In the 92nd session, of September 28, 1964, Seth predicted the sale of this specific book by name. [...] A woman was mentioned as influencing a sale; Jane’s editor, Mara Thomases, is a woman. [...]

(Seth has predicted sale of the ESP book, and of the material itself many times. [...]

(Before the session I’d asked Jane if Seth could comment upon the reported drop in sales of Seth Speaks recently as reported by Tam Mossman at Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] You wanted time to figure out how you would handle the situation if sales continued as they began. [...]

(I have the simple, profound faith that anything I desire in this life can come to me from Framework 2. There are no impediments in Framework 2. Framework 2 can creatively produce everything I desire to have in Framework 1—my excellent health, painting, and writing, my excellent relationship with Jane, Jane’s own spontaneous and glowing physical flexibility and creativity, the greater and greater sales of all of her books. [...]

It has begun to work newly for you in the sale of your paintings as you dropped barriers against their sale; but feel it surround you and surround both of you. [...]

“ ‘Election Day Sales,’ or ‘Values,’ is printed in black headlines at the top of both sides of the page. And gubatorial, or gubernatorial, applies because the election’s for New York State governor on November 9. I’d also say that the phrase ‘Election Day Sales’ is certainly in the vernacular.”

[...] (The word “twin” appears on the object, referring to the size of a blanket on sale. [...]

[...] “A method of disposal—that must be sales! [...]

“But why didn’t Seth just say ‘sales’?” I asked in exasperation.

[...] Sales?

Our beloved books began to go out of print, one by one, as sales slowly declined. [...]

[...] At the same time, I wondered often if it was of any use to try publishing Seth books, old or new — why do so, if sales were falling? [...]

[...] Many kinds of objects will be on sale at the exhibit, other than paintings. I have a letter concerning this exhibit and sale from the monastery, dated August 27,1966.

[...] It concerned the recent sale of a painting to him, made through our friend, Marie Colucci. [...]

[...] During this visit they discussed the sale of paintings to Dr. Lodico.

[...] My abstracts, offered for sale to Dr. Lodico, can also be a display; and again, to some abstract paintings might not seem neat, or ordered.

[...] The two sales, including the one just published, are from this group; in addition Jane missed out on other sales from the group because various publishers wrote her that although they liked her material, they already had similar ideas in inventory. [...]

Ruburt will have some additional short-story sales in the near future, partly as a result of this story. [...]

[...] Before the session I asked if Seth would discuss the Time Magazine cover story about Richard Bach in the November 13th issue, published November 6; and the various predictions made re sales, etc., in the recent deleted sessions.)