“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Today in the mail Jane received a group of file cards, prepared as an index by Blanche Price for the copies of poetry Jane had sent her over the years for safekeeping. Blanche died last February 2, 1967, and the cards were sent to Jane by Blanche’s friend, Anne Healy; Anne wrote a letter, also, that Jane received on January 2.

(9:32. Jane was out as usual but remembered most of the material. While giving the data she had an image, not clear, of the dining room in Baltimore where Jane and a companion ate, in 1951 or 1952. Neither Blanche or Anne lived in Baltimore in 1938. Jane was aware of this while giving the data, but made no attempt to block Seth. Jane met Blanche in 1948 in Saratoga Springs, and doesn’t know whether Blanche and Anne knew each other in 1938. Blanche never said and Jane did not ask.

(Jane knows nothing about any argument between Blanche and Anne. Nor is she sure how she could check out personal material of this kind. Jane however lived in Baltimore for almost a year and ate quite a few times at Anne’s house, in 1951-52. Blanche did not live in Baltimore then but visited fairly often.

(A long pause, well over one minute; eyes closed.) His poetry copies were in a room predominantly blue, light blue, and pink. (Pause.) The file cabinets were beneath another piece of furniture, or a top board of some kind. (Pause.) There was some question as to what would happen to letters from Ruburt, and others. The letters are still in a strongbox, and have not been destroyed, but Anne Healy does not have them. They have been overlooked. (Long pause.)

The first episode involved a couple I will call Jim and Ann Linden. Ann, a complete stranger, called me on the phone one morning. [...]

[...] Jim and Ann were almost transformed, and before the session, I had been so dubious that I hesitated. [...] Actually I think that these abilities flow through us as the wind flows through the branches.) Ann wrote me a letter shortly after, telling me that she and Jim no longer felt the tremendous sorrow that had burdened them earlier.

“Yes, he did,” Ann said. [...]

[...] It had been in the back of my mind all the time I talked to Ann Linden over the phone.

[...] Summer… 1962… Anne’s aunt at a party…. Anne had a sister, died at a very young age… a baptism… a rosary…Blanche Adele… Anne wore blue and a note…”

(Blanche died last February, and Jane had many emotional connections with her from years past; in addition Jane had recently received correspondence from Blanche’s closest friend, Anne Healy, in Baltimore. Anne’s letter lay on the table before us tonight, with a pack of file cards pertaining to Jane’s poetry that Blanche had had on file for safekeeping in Baltimore.

(The witnesses were Ann Diebler, Marilyn and Don Wilbur, and the Gallaghers. [...]

(Ann Diebler asked Seth to give some information on a friend who lives in Norfolk, Virginia. [...]

[...] He gave Ann Diebler a few lines of data concerning her friend in Virginia, which she wrote out. [...]

(Shortly after this, while I was in the studio with Marilyn and Ann, I was informed that Jane was being physically sick in the kitchen. [...]

(Jane received a telegram from Ann Healy on February 2, Thursday, informing her of the death of her college teacher friend, Blanche Price. [...] The answer was by letter after unsuccessful attempts to telephone Ann Healy over the weekend. I thought that possibly the data had been displaced from Jane’s note to me, to the letter she wrote Anne. [...]

[...] We may or may not make an attempt to check the data with Ann Healy. [...]

(Jane said she cannot remember Ann’s house, except that she recalls it as quite old. [...]

[...] I thought the November reference might be legitimate, since the originator of the test object, Ann Diebler, could have visited our apartment during that month. A check showed this to be so—Ann witnessing the unscheduled session for November 5,1965.

[...] It is a humorous drawing made by Ann Diebler, who works in my office at Artistic Card Co.; Piggie, incidentally, refers to pigeon. [...]

(Ann Diebler has heard Seth speak twice during unscheduled sessions, and had read some of the early material. [...]

The November event I believe had to do with an occasion when your Ann visited here, but it is hardly adequate.

[...] Either her name is Ann or she has a mother or sister with the name of Ann.

(Offhand the Ann connection meant nothing to John. But he said the bar connection could very well apply to Hazelton, PA, and that the Ann could be connected through this. [...]

Today at 9.40 AM a telegram from Anne Healy informed me that Blanche Price died early today. [...]

(I became acquainted with Marilyn and Ann at my place of employment. Marilyn no longer works there because she has a son, but Ann still does. [...]

[...] With their young friend Ann Diebler, they have witnessed a very few unscheduled sessions. [...]

The two who were here this evening, and their friend called Ann, these three are capable of developing in ways that were denied them in their earlier years, mainly because of their environments. [...]

(The two young couples, Marilyn and Don Wilbur, and Ann Diebler and Paul Sinderman, witnessed the unscheduled session of November 5,1965. [...] The Wilburs and Ann Diebler also witnessed the unscheduled session for December 3,1965; see the notes for the 214th session.

(This referred to Ann Diebler’s escort, Paul Sinderman. [...] He makes the 1200-mile round trip to Wellsburg, a small town just outside Elmira, to see Ann every other weekend. [...]

[...] This is a reference to the Saturday evening of dancing, which was planned in advance by us with the other two couples, Marilyn and Don Wilbur, and Ann Diebler and Paul Sinderman. [...]

[...] We had also forgotten that we met Marilyn and Don Wilbur first at the dancing establishment, and had time for our first drink before Ann Diebler and her escort, Paul Sinderman, arrived.

[...] And oh, yes: Rick Stack and his wife, Anne Marie O’Farrell, who’s my literary agent. I don’t know what, if anything, I’d have accomplished in carrying out Jane’s wishes without the unstinting help Anne Marie has offered in so many ways.

[...] Neither Ann or Leonard married. [...] Leonard and Ann also have a certain stubborn independence. [...]

(We were visited after supper this evening by Leonard Yaudes and Ann Kraky. [...]

[...] The tenants at 458 at one time formed a kind of family, and to some extent that relationship continues, as far as the two of you are concerned, with Ann and Leonard. [...]

Your friend (Anne H., speaking to Florence) is doing well and you should not worry. [...]

[...] Your friend (Anne H.) is happier by far now, and stronger. [...]

[...] Ann Kraky visited and brought a plant, and we had a nice exchange. [...] Ann said Elizabeth Wall asks about us—so I plan to visit her one of these days. [...]

Our books continued to go out of print, and in 1990 I began working with Anne Marie O’Farrell, a literary agent. [...] Without Anne Marie’s untiring help, I question whether I’d still be in publishing. [...]

[...] Bill and Peggy Gallagher were present, and Ann Diebler, and Don and Marilyn Wilbur. [...] Ann and Marilyn work with me at Artistic Card Co.

[...] Seth told Ann Diebler he could not at this time answer her questions concerning a friend in Newport News, Virginia, because he has not yet established an emotional rapport with her. He did willingly answer many other questions asked by Ann, Marilyn and Don, questions mostly based on the material itself and the concepts involved.

[...] When Fred came into 330 Georgia had told Mary Ann about it, and Mary Ann pointed it out to Fred. [...]

I equate this with three events: a movie I saw on TV the night before last where Sean Connery sees through the god of his people after reading The Wizard of Oz; a Raggedy Ann doll Rob found in the yard and brought in that reminded me of my old Suzie; and a part of a review I read yesterday on a book about death. [...]

[...] If initials for instance, there were two Ann’s at the gathering, a Jane and a Joe, etc.

[...] As stated, there were two Anns at the gathering Saturday, and a Jane and a Joe, etc. [...]

[...] Three females and two males did the attending: My mother; David’s mother Ida; Ann Crosby; David’s father Dick; and my father.

(Ann Diebler also witnessed the session, for a total of three witnesses. [...]

[...] Our small friend in the corner (Jane pointed to Ann Diebler) must learn the new rules. [...]

[...] (Jane, her eyes open, pointed at Ann Diebler.)