At the time of her grandfather’s death, she was attending Skidmore College on a prestigious poetry scholarship. She also had an unquenchable thirst to write. She had a mind more inclined to science and the mystic than conventional Christianity. Though she received some stability and support from some local religious figures, Roberts would ultimately abandon her faith in God and Catholicism after the death of her beloved grandfather when she was nineteen. With her mother, who was her lone parent, she never felt safe or cherished, and she was forced to take on a caretaker role at a young age. An invalid, suicidal, and emotionally abusive mother and her own poor health plagued her unhappy upbringing in Saratoga Springs, New York. The American writer, psychic, and spirit medium Dorothy Jane Roberts was born and raised under circumstances that groomed her to reject a traditional set of beliefs in favor of a form of spirituality that allowed her to enjoy the agency denied to her in her childhood. Did she, by passing on into the next realm, unite at last with the ghostly specter of “Seth,” her supposed celestial possessor and mentor and the true mastermind behind her best literary works, or did “Seth,” perhaps an entirely made-up entity concocted to publish and sell more books, simply die with her?
A great mystery still surrounds her death. She was born on May 8th, 1929, and when she exited the world fifty-five years later, she would leave behind a bizarre legacy in the school of New Age literature, a genre of Western writing, beginning in the 1960s, that documented experimental religious and spiritual practices.
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