“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause at 11:01. In 1957, after Jane had sold her first few short stories, she was invited to a conference of science fiction writers at Milford, Pennsylvania. I couldn’t go because of my own work, so Jane attended the conference with Cyril Kornbluth [now deceased], a friend and a well-known writer who lived near our home in Sayre, Pennsylvania.

The personality was never consciously aware of the initial meeting. She simply experienced sudden new thoughts, and since she is a poet, these appeared as poetic inspirations. At one time some years ago, at a writers’ conference, she became involved in circumstances that could have led to her psychic development before she was ready. The psychological climate at that time, of those involved, initiated the conditions, and without realizing what she was about our friend [Jane] went into a trance.

[...] Jane was to call KR at a conference in Wappinger’s Falls, NY; she tried a number of times, always to be put off by a rather unpleasant and officious woman who was always saying that KR was “in conference” and couldn’t be disturbed. [...]

For my so-industrious Ruburt, the writers conference should work out well, and I shall surprise you and say that I recommend it.

(The conference to take place on Star Island, off Portsmouth, NH, on Saturday, August 12, 1967; in the company of Pat Norelli and Dick Reed.)

[...] When I’d arrived she had over her the cloth sent her by Reudi Anner’s group from the Seth conference in Geneva, Switzerland. [...]

[...] The conference has been called crucial to peace in our time, etc. [...]

(Even those at the writer’s conference in the summer of 1957, at Milford, Pennsylvania, told her she’d outgrow her urge to write — that she should have a baby. [...]

[...] He has heard of John, our Philip here, and met him at a meeting or conference, perhaps in 1964.

[...] The whole conference except for trips was held in this particular conference room.”)

[...] To wind up the seminar on poverty a press conference was held with Sargent Shriver, director of the poverty program. The disturbance occurred when an incensed group from Syracuse appeared and tried to disrupt the conference time reserved for the reporters.”

[...] Peggy knows this because the seminar was held on the eighth floor of a building occupied by the Office of Economic Opportunity; in an executive conference room of the OEO.)

[...] Jane and A.J. have met once, at a science fiction conference some eight years ago in Milford, PA.

(At this conference Jane, A.J. and three other science fiction writers formed a group they called “The Five.” [...]

[...] Why did I get to talking with him in the conference room on campus, then take him to our room, where he proceeded to so upset Jane?

[...] Eleanor is to call again Friday after conferring the production manager about costs, etc., but in the meantime is preparing contracts. [...]

[...] She felt the men didn’t pay her serious attention at the science-fiction conference 27 years ago because she was a woman. [...]

[...] The particular volume or edition of the encyclopedia came out in the fall, and at the time this guy was working there was some kind of mathematical dispute going on, and a schedule set for some kind of conference to be held at the university for mathematicians from all around. [...]

[...] Jane had the impression at the time of Seth conferring with someone else, she said. [...]

[...] City government was suddenly confronted with a reality that had little to do with conference rooms. [...]

[...] A conference with three men, perhaps in April, is involved.

(Following the conference with her editor late in June, Jane has devoted herself to finishing her manuscript for Adventures, while I’ve worked steadily on the diagrams for it, as well as on the drawings for Dialogues. [...]

[...] None of us suspected that Seth would give Mark detailed information about the inner organization for which he worked, or help him understand personal problems, or delight in telling him what had gone on at sales conferences that Mark had already attended — or with a great rush of humor tell him the exact amount of a new raise he had just been given. [...]

[...] At the Inn in 1997 and 1999 Laurel and I had been guests at well-attended Seth conferences organized by Lynda Dahl and Stan Ulkowski. [...]