“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

First of all, you do not realize or appreciate our joint accomplishment to date in that regard. You have induced a reputable, well-known publishing firm to accept highly unconventional material. It was not delegated, if you will forgive me, to Parker’s “crackpot” catchall. Even in the beginning, in that regard, the work was appreciated. A difference was seen between it, and the catchall, do-it-yourself manuals.

It falls, however, in a category of its own. One for which no reputable publishing house has any automatic place.

An ordinary, reputable publisher does not know what to do with a Jane Roberts who produces a Seth of another reality—books on her own also, and books moreover of quality.

In order to sell your paintings in any important way, or to achieve a reputation, you must want to achieve a reputation, and want to sell the paintings. [...]

The book will be successful in terms of beginning to establish Ruburt in reputation, and also successfully in financial terms. [...]

[...] (See my question in session 842.) It was fiction, and yet they were aware of Ruburt’s psychic reputation. [...]

[...] The word “ego” is much bandied about, and in many circles it has a poor reputation. [...]

I am not speaking merely in financial terms either, though since Ruburt is dealing directly with the world through his creative work, then money and reputation have become a symbol of success, that is basically creative. [...]

[...] On the other hand, psychic abilities have generally (underlined) been held in such poor reputation for centuries (with gestures), so discouraged, that you might think it quite a wonder that they still show themselves.

[...] Writing would get him the fullest use of his abilities and fulfillment, his own approval and yours, financial security, and hopefully some kind of success in terms of a reputation. [...]

[...] We did agree that there must be a least unconscious cheating going on, on the medium’s part, else why keep the Seth name all these years and speak so cleverly in imitation of Seth, who has garnered at least some sort of reputation, thus making the road easier for any other Seth? [...]

[...] Men in the sciences have years and years invested in a particular system, upon which their reputations, self-respect, and livelihood depend. [...]

I want to emphasize again the poor reputation held by both science and religion concerning unofficial knowledge, an attitude clearly put forth in many tales and legends, from Adam and Eve to Pandora’s box to the Frankenstein monster. [...]

He considered Prentice-Hall a further excellent step upward, a reputable-enough publisher. [...]

[...] The nurses told us she’d called several times the night Jane was admitted, and that she had the reputation of being very caring and conscientious—qualities we can certainly admire and respect. [...]

[...] Ruburt was upset with the psychic reputation, not because it was psychic but because it was not the one he wanted. [...]

[...] Much of this book is concerned with the purposes of our impulses, and the reasons for their poor reputations in the eyes of science and religion. [...]

[...] The third man, Ernfred Anderson, who has a national reputation as a sculptor and teacher at Elmira College, and is a close friend of Bill, Jane and mine, advised Bill to remove the painting. [...]

[...] There are more “coincidences” involved than those Seth described tonight, none of them consciously known to Jane and me before the Sayre adventure: Mr. Markle is in a nursing home but a few miles from where we live in Elmira, and my mother spent her last days in a similar home less than 15 miles away; one of Mr. Markle’s children lives in Elmira, and is connected with a store Jane and I have visited; Mr. Johnson, of the real estate couple that conducted us about in Sayre, did sign painting and truck lettering as a younger man, as I did; he and I had several mutual acquaintances in Sayre, among them an older artist of some reputation — and now deceased — that we had known in our high school days; and so forth.

[...] Later your reputation spread and you moved to Athens. [...]

[...] She had an excellent reputation as a teacher, and now and then she was visited by former students to whom she served tea. [...]

[...] All of these fragments have consciousness to a rather high degree, considering that man holds them in such low repute.