31 Facts About Jane Roberts

Jane Roberts' grandmother was killed in an automobile accident in 1936.

Jane Roberts wrote that she went to the welfare worker and said, 'I can't take it anymore.

Well before she was 10 years old Jane Roberts had developed persistent symptoms of colitis.

Jane Roberts's vision was poor; she required very strong glasses.

For most of 1940 and half of 1941, Jane Roberts was in a strictly-run Catholic orphanage in Troy, New York while her mother was hospitalized in another city for treatment of her arthritis.

Jane Roberts began to substitute scientific world view for religious belief.

At that time Jane Roberts was dating Walt Zeh, a long-time Saratoga Springs friend.

Jane Roberts then married Walt and continued to write while taking a variety of other jobs, including society editor for the Saratoga newspaper, and as a supervisor in a radio factory.

Jane Roberts wrote in a variety of genres: poetry, short stories, children's literature, nonfiction, science fiction, and fantasy, and novels.

Jane Roberts was the only woman invited to the first science-fiction writer's conference in 1956 in Milford, Pennsylvania.

Yet soon after this episode, Jane Roberts suddenly began recalling her dreams, including two that were precognitive.

Jane Roberts described the process of writing the Seth books as entering a trance state.

Jane Roberts said Seth would assume control of her body and speak through her, while her husband wrote down the words she spoke.

On January 17,1964, Jane Roberts channeled an allegedly recently deceased woman who told Butts that his and his wife's work with Seth was a life-time project, that they would publish his manuscripts, and help spread his ideas.

Jane Roberts cautioned that in some circumstances, amateur mediumship could lead to mental problems.

Jane Roberts felt there were no "alarming changes" in her personality.

Jane Roberts assumed Seth was a subconscious fantasy, personified because she did not believe in spirits or life after death.

Jane Roberts monitored her personality characteristics and went to a psychologist.

The messages from Seth channeled through Jane Roberts consisted mostly of monologues on a wide variety of topics.

Some went to the ESP classes Jane Roberts held for an evening, others attended for longer periods.

Jane Roberts never charged for those sessions; however, at some point, she did charge $2.50 to $3.50 per ESP class of 5 to 40 people.

Jane Roberts claimed no authorship of these books beyond her role as a medium.

Jane Roberts wrote The Oversoul Seven trilogy to explore via fiction some of Seth's teachings on the concepts of reincarnation and oversouls.

Jane Roberts initially expressed skepticism as to Seth's origins, wondering if he was a part of her own personality.

Jane Roberts' father died in November 1971 at the age of 68; her mother died six months later at the same age.

In early 1982 Jane Roberts spent a month in the hospital for severely underactive thyroid gland, protruding eyes and double vision, an almost total hearing loss, a slight anemia, budding bedsores, and a hospital-caused staph infection.

Jane Roberts recovered to an extent, but died two and a half years later in 1984, having been bedridden with severe arthritis, like her mother, for the final year and a half of her life.

Jane Roberts remains a constant source of knowledge and inspiration in my life.

Yale University's collection entitled "Jane Roberts papers" occupies 164.08 linear feet of shelf space and is contained in 498 boxes.

The poet Charles Upton, in his collection of essays titled The System of Antichrist, posited that Jane Roberts multiplied the self due to a fear of death.

Jane Roberts's opinion was that the Seth texts are based on a misunderstanding of both Christianity and of Eastern religions.