“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Inner broodings over whether or not his book will sell well do no good, and drain away energy. [...]

[...] You think you should—that is, you think you should sell your paintings, or make some effort in that direction. [...]

[...] You can for a while fake the sort of disbelieving belief required, but your ability to sell is based upon your own confidence as an integrated and principled personality. [...]

[...] She insisted on a black wall phone, in the face of the company’s efforts to sell her more expensive colored phones, etc. [...]

[...] We suppose Seth’s rather cryptic note above means the article will sell if Jane sticks to the way she has planned.

[...] Seth now told us that Jane would sell more stories out of that batch she had written up before starting the ESP book. [...]

(On October 15, 10 days ago, I dreamed Jane and I moved closer to New York City so I could sell my paintings—or so I wrote, rather than comics for instance. [...]

[...] I feel this drawing is one of my best, and have a rather secret hope that it does not sell, since I would like to keep it.

[...] She informed Jane that F. Fell was out of town for two weeks, and that he would be back in town—NYC—on February 7. F. Fell was out of town from Monday January 24, to Monday February 7. It developed that he was in Florida on a selling trip and vacation.

[...] Seth said the article would sell.

[...] Tam, with whom I had been corresponding, had to sell the idea to his boss — a woman. [...]

(“I’m trying to get some paintings done so I can sell them.”)

[...] (I was especially fascinated by horses, but have yet to ride one!) While a sophomore I wrote a novel that I typed on the same kind of yellow paper and bound into a book, I even tried—unsuccessfully—to sell it. [...]

[...] Jane worked part-time as a secretary for Elmira’s Arnot Art Museum, and wrote two unpublished novels—and one that did sell. [...]

Actually, outside of our own small group of friends, including ESP class members, plus the well-received articles Peg Gallagher had written for the Elmira Star-Gazette, Jane and I hadn’t stirred ourselves to become known in Elmira, even after the Seth books had begun to sell. [...]

[...] Finally you grew outside of the structure.¹⁰ When you did, you made the artificial division in which good art would not sell — but you would do it anyway.

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. [...]

[...] The Seth books sell better, however, than do her “own” books: How to Develop Your ESP Power, Adventures in Consciousness, Psychic Politics, Cézanne and James, her Oversoul Seven novels, Dialogues and Emir. (See the opening notes for this 931st session, as well as Note 10, for my description of the demise of Emir.) Now Jane adds God of Jane to her list, with If We Live Again to follow in a few months.