“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Your desire to paint, per se, did not emerge full blown when you were a young man, and one probable self is happily engaged in commercial artwork. [...] You did not meet Ruburt either until you were in your thirties, so the challenges set were not those that would be solved by a conventionally young man.

[...] Then she said that as a young child she was always uneasy at home when it was too quiet—that those were the times when she worried about what her mother was up to. [...] 2. This insight led Jane to an obvious one neither of us had ever made before: that when she gets a letter in which the writer threatens suicide if Jane doesn’t help him or her, this is like Marie threatening the young Jane that she will commit suicide.)

[...] It is a spoof on Don Wilbur—"Young Donny"—and I showed it to Don and his wife, Marilyn, when they visited us that evening. [...]

[...] Jane said this is legitimate, and refers to my being considered a help to young people such as Marilyn and Don, who are in their early 20’s. I’m 47.

[...] A possible reference: M for Marilyn Wilbur, wife of the young Don Wilbur shown on the object; and G for the Gallaghers. [...]

[...] She was in the company of two young women, one of whom lives in the apartment beneath us.

As the physical time passed, however, I began wanting to do a little formal writing about Jane’s death, so last month when Jim Young of Stillpoint Publishing gave me the chance to do so in this Preface for Seth, Dreams … I accepted at once.

[...] And Laurel Lee Davies, the young lady who’s now helping me carry on my publishing activities, at once intuitively picked out from my files the one right photograph of Jane to us for Seth, Dreams … Jane’s father, Delmer Roberts, took the snapshot when she was on vacation with him in Baja, California in 1951. [...]

As soon as I took Jim Young up on his word that I could make whatever statement I want to about Jane’s work, I knew that this Preface would contain relatively little about Seth, Dreams and Projection of Consciousness itself, and I wrote to Jim about this. [...]

[...] Last July my agent, Tam Mossman, phoned to ask that I search Jane’s papers for a manuscript he remembers her submitting to him some seventeen years ago, when he had been a young editor just beginning a career with Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] Many cease creating their bodies and die at a young age for a great variety of reasons, of course, but some die because they believe that old age is shameful and that only a young body can be beautiful.

[...] Walter is a nice young man. [...]

[...] Simply that the whole hassle Jane and I are involved in first showed itself—clearly—when we met with Instream in Oswego, and encountered the disbelieving young nameless psychologist. [...]

The young woman of whom our friend (John Bradley) speaks. [...]

(The above data refers to a young woman John Bradley talked with in Hazelton, PA, recently. [...]

(On December 27, the night of our anniversary, Jane held an unplanned session for young married friends of ours. [...]

[...] Very simply: I dreamed that I was a youth, and that even though there was snow on the ground I’d been given the task of taking care of a beautiful young tree growing in a large field next to the Butts family home in Sayre, Pennsylvania. [...]

[...] As he noted, the belief was that he must be the young American poet, or the young American writer. [...]

[...] Instead, the young person is stereotyped.

[...] If those drives in either sex do not conform in expression to those expected of the male or female, then such young persons become confused. [...]

[...] Its propensity for event-forming is obvious even in young children. [...]

[...] In your terms, events are still plastic to young children, in that they have not as yet learned to apply your stringent structure. [...]

[...] The young selfhood is freer in its identification, and as yet has not been taught to identify its own personality with its sex exclusively.

[...] The young child dreaming of its own future counterpart, for example, attains a kind of psychological projection into the future of its world. [...]

(“How about the young couple trapped in the burning car, in the dream?”)

The couple represented old fears; again, interpretations of your father’s beliefs, that young couples become trapped by the fires of desire, and could not escape; that the man could not hold himself apart, but would be devoured by the sentiments of love that would consume him. [...]

[...] Do not be afraid of old age, you who are so young, for you have been old many times before. And you are young now, and you learned from each lifetime, as indeed you shall learn from this lifetime. [...]

[...] One of them has potential — about a group of young actresses in New York City who want to read Seth on a series of radio shows. [...]

[...] Many young people believe such nonsense, and therefore they set themselves up to meet the very conditions they so fear.

(I should also add that Sue, one of the aides we’ve become acquainted with, showed us pictures of her two young sons. [...]

[...] a young woman, the full figure, sitting facing me in a straight chair. [...]

[...] Jane and I met two young couples there by prearrangement, and we had much fun dancing. [...]

(The two young couples, Marilyn and Don Wilbur, and Ann Diebler and Paul Sinderman, witnessed the unscheduled session of November 5,1965. [...]

(This reminded Jane and me that during Saturday evening, Marilyn had described to us how her young son had discovered what fun there was to the universal game of hanging by his mother’s apron strings, as she tried to go about her duties in the trailer home in nearby Wellsburg, NY.

This had to do with the quick and too-speedy journey of one of the young men. [...]