“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I’d temporarily forgotten the dreams about Bill and Sue, although I have them selected for inclusion in Through My Eyes; they’re on file in that notebook. The one with Bill took place on March 29, 1979. [...] Jane has interpreted the Bill and Sue dreams, and Seth has commented on them also. [...]

In the dream (of March 29) Bill Gallagher offers to take you out to dinner, and you say you have good food at home. [...] Bill Gallagher sees a dog-eat-dog world, and, as mentioned earlier, animals have an entirely different meaning to Bill.

[...] Bill and Sue especially got going pretty good, and Peggy said she didn’t like that. I think I made some good points; even Bill said he probably exaggerated man’s greed, yet he wasn’t about to change his views. [...]

You were astonished when Ruburt told you how much money the Gallaghers were making, for if Bill sold his soul, few it seems could have sold it for less. Bill, however, concentrated upon life’s regrettable elements, upon the impediments, the dishonesties and so forth, until it seemed that even if he followed the world’s way he could not succeed. [...]

[...] Bill Gallagher’s facetious term for the local newspaper office, where he also works, is the Garden of Gethsemane—hence such religious connections in the poem used as object. Also, Seth’s longstanding term of affection for Bill is “The Jesuit,” and he so calls Bill in the session tonight. [...]

(The object for the 71st envelope experiment was the first draft of a poem Jane and I wrote for Bill Gallagher’s birthday, which fell on Friday, July 1st. [...] Jane then typed up what we could remember; we corrected it as shown on page 51, then Jane copied it over to give Bill, along with a cake. [...]

[...] Present were Bill and Peggy Gallagher, Barbara Ingold, Jane and myself. [...]

[...] Bill Gallagher took us on a ride in the hopes the cold night air would help Jane snap out of it; so at 1:00 in the morning we were bouncing through Elmira, Elmira Heights, and Horseheads. [...]

(See the 68th session for the change in Jane’s features, witnessed by Bill and me. See the 102nd session for Bill’s cognition of open eyes upon Jane’s closed eyelids. [...]

[...] Bill Macdonnel, who has witnessed several sessions and has been involved in some of the effects obtained during sessions, was visiting us. [...]

(It will be remembered that Mark is Bill Macdonnel’s entity name.

[...] Bill said nothing. [...]

[...] The exchange between Seth and Bill Gallagher developed because last week, one evening, Jane succeeded in waking both Bill and Peg between 3 and 4 AM.

(Witnesses were Peter Murtough, who arrived Monday, July 24, from Chula Vista, CA, and Bill and Peggy Gallagher. [...]

My heartiest welcome to our young friend, and to our late-coming Jesuit (Bill Gallagher, who arrived just as the session began), and of course, our cat lover (Peg).

([Bill:] “I await with pleasure, my dear Seth.”)

(Lately, since his return from Cape Cod, Bill has had a few twinges in his lung, a mild return of the trouble dealt with by Seth in some detail in the 56th session, May 25, 1964, page 110. In the 68th session, page 218, July 6, 1964, Seth stated that unless Bill took certain steps the lung trouble would return. And lately, Bill has been looking for a place to live that he could also use as a studio.

[...] We had discussed with Bill the additional information Seth gave in the last session concerning the boat with a symbol on it, supposedly visible to Bill from this particular seaside room in Provincetown, but Bill is not able to recall the craft in question. [...]

[...] Bill said he could not remember his dream. [...] It was, he said, perhaps a fifteen-foot cabin-type speedboat, and might have had something in it; on this point Bill was not sure. [...] Bill then suggested that he write to Larry O’Toole for confirmation, since as far as he knew O’Toole should still be in Provincetown. [...]

[...] However, Bill Macdonnel arrived to be a witness.

[...] Seth discussed several psychic experiences Bill had noted recently, saying they involved telepathy and precognition. Seth said that as in the case of John Bradley, Bill should become more and more aware of such experiences, now that he is more familiar with these sessions.

(Bill and Peggy Gallagher visited us this evening, and Seth held a rather short unscheduled session. [...]

(After Seth announced his presence Bill said that half an hour previously he had wondered whether Seth might speak. [...]

(Bill Gallagher doubted that warships were used by merchantmen but Seth told us this was common in those days; all ships had to be armed anyhow as a protection against piracy. [...]

(Bill Gallagher asked Seth about a possible operation for his ulcers, although he has been feeling well. Seth replied that he saw no operation for Bill, should present trends continue, and that Bill should surmount the ulcer problem eventually. Seth has told Bill this before.

(A brief but potent unscheduled session was held Sunday night, with Bill and Peggy Gallagher as witnesses. [...]

[...] Seth then told Bill he saw him living until around 85, with Peggy equally old. [...]

(Before the session, Bill G. told Jane he thought she possessed healing ability—to her surprise. [...]

(Bill Gallagher said that in his opinion Jane, when speaking as Jane, doesn’t move her facial muscles the same as Seth does. Seth forms his words more carefully and distinctly, Bill said, and this effort shows.

(Bill and Peggy Gallagher were witnesses for tonight’s session, and the session was held in our large front room. [...]

(Bill Gallagher voiced the thought that during delivery there is always a change in Jane’s face, but that he couldn’t articulate it. [...]

([Bill G:] “You’re a most interesting speaker, Seth.”)

[...] Bill of some kind, connected with an item…. [...]

(“Bill thinks he remembers seeing a waitress with a scar on her arm.”)

(“We discussed going to dinner several times at Warry’s Green Shutters Inn, but decided against it because they specialized in Italian food, and Bill doesn’t like it.”)

(In notes taken from discussion October 28, Bill said 1781 was when the Americans sailed into Nassau and were captured in Revolutionary War.)

(After the Gallaghers had left Seth told me Bill Gallagher had “great bursts” of energy. Bill and Peggy, he said, were very good for us and the sessions, in that they contributed. [...] Seth told Bill that if he follows the material given on the construction of matter and suggestion, and applies it, he can be rid of his ulcer within a year. [...] Bill should read the material because the intellectual integrity behind it will appeal to him. [...]

[...] This led into a discussion about computers, and Bill Gallagher’s personal idea of studying up on them for future use in business. [...] He said Bill’s personal ideas were good ones; the inherent danger with them had to do with the type of salesman’s personality, the feeling of superiority and of having power over others, that might color the use of computers. He told Bill that it would require strict discipline on his part if he worked with computers in such a fashion.

(Seth told Bill he didn’t seem to have enough time in the day because he had the common habit of chopping time up into segments of minutes. A conception of time close to psychological time would give Bill enough time to do all he wants to do.

(Seth said in answer to a remark by Bill Gallagher about tattoos, that he himself had never been tattooed. [...] Mark is the entity name for Bill Macdonnel. [...]

[...] Both Peg and Bill mentioned a chaotic state existing at the newspaper office where they work, though Bill said this was merely the result of a natural evolution of policies perhaps. [...]

(Bill and Peggy Gallagher were witnesses to the session.

([Bill:] “Good evening, Seth.”)

([Bill:] “We appreciate it.”)

(After lunch I took down to billing a check I’d received yesterday from our insurance company. [...] Neither did the people in billing.

[...] Our bill has run up again to around $55,000 — and here insurance hasn’t been sending me any checks. My idea that the hospital might be billing them quarterly or something like that must have been wishful thinking. [...]

[...] Jane and Georgia talked and smoked while I was down to billing. [...]

(She also had impressions of Bill Gallagher, and a man named Tom whom she could not pinpoint further. [...]

[...] And Peggy and Bill.”

[...] Now I get Bill hurt in this, his right arm, or hand or shoulder.” [...]

[...] “Something about a ring, and Bill. [...]

(For the envelope test I used a pair of name cards made by our friend Bill Macdonnel for his art studio, the Cameron Gallery. Bill gave us these cards perhaps a year or so ago, shortly after he opened his gallery. [...]

(The design on Bill Macdonnel’s handmade name cards can be “The shape of a star” as far as conventional symbols go. At least it can to me, as an artist; Bill is also an artist. [...]

[...] Any painting in Bill’s gallery could be “A representation.” [...] “Yourself a year ago” I regarded as valid, since I had paintings of my own on exhibit at Bill’s gallery on the occasion for which he made these cards; and the event took place around a year ago, although I do not know the exact date offhand.

[...] Jane learned little about their trip other than that the Gallaghers took many notes to use in checking against Seth’s notes; and that Bill found himself involved in a “strange experience” with a piano player and what he thought was telepathy. [...]

(Student Bill Herriman is a professional pilot who flies a considerable distance to Elmira for class; his counterpart in class, Carl Jones, lives in Elmira each summer while giving instructions in sailplane flying, the third member of the counterpart trio, Bill Granger, is not a member of class, lives in Elmira, has always had a deep interest in aircraft, and is now learning to pilot sailplanes. Carl Jones knows Bill Herriman and Bill Granger well — but Bill Herriman and Bill Granger have never met; all three are obviously males; all bear a general physical resemblance; all fall within a certain rather broad age bracket. [...]

[...] Bill said that Seth stated something about him which he especially agrees with—the fact that he, Bill, is often taken advantage of. Bill said he has often wondered why this was so.

(At 8:55, while Jane and I were discussing their visit and information, Bill Macdonnel arrived, to our surprise. [...] It will be remembered that Bill had participated in the single seance the three of us have tried, on January 1, 1964; and was scheduled to be a witness to the 36th session, March 18, 1964, but couldn’t at the last moment.[See Volume One.]

[...] The painting Seth referred to is one that Bill lost last summer, while or after it was being shown in a sidewalk art exhibit here in Elmira. Bill has looked for it many times, and finally enlisted the aid of the police, to no avail. [...]

(While Jane was delivering the material on Denmark and Triev, Bill said that he recalled quite vividly his experience with his “lost town” episode. This involves a time when Bill was 11 years old. [...]

When Peg and Bill returned, we found out that these impressions were quite legitimate. [...] Peg and Bill remembered this vividly, not only because of the sudden turn, but also because this happened right after the driver had run through a traffic light. [...]

Not only that, but the man I saw was one Bill noticed on both mornings, specifically because he wore business clothes. The man was a native—another reason Bill noticed him. [...]

[...] He might use a letter, for example, that had come the day before, and which I had read, or a bill from several years back, or an item he picked up that I had never seen, or an envelope prepared by a friend—in which case the contents were unknown even to Rob. Pieces of paper Rob picked up in the streets, leaves, beer coasters, chunks of hair, photographs, sketches, bills—all were used at one time or another. [...]

[...] Bill is assistant advertising director of the Star Gazette, and he and Peg were soon leaving for a vacation in Puerto Rico. [...]

[...] With red sweater or shirt, speaking to the Jesuit (Bill) about 61 years old.

([The Gallaghers:] “Bill looked at several spy books in various bookstores.”)

[...] At Metropolitan, alone, Bill met a group being lectured on medieval warfare.)

(Bill wanted to hear again the transcript of the 46th session which he witnessed; since I did not have it typed up yet I began to read it to him. [...] Bill stated that in his opinion these two fingers were noticeably “fatter” than the corresponding two on my left hand. I then cut narrow strips of paper and had Bill measure and mark the circumference of each finger, planning to check these measurements when the sensation had passed. [...]

(I then showed Jim and Bill the two drawings of my visions of the night before; I did the drawings this afternoon. [...] Both Jim and Bill thought the other one, of the girl and dog, quite gruesome. [...]

(Bill announced that with the information Seth gave in this session and in the previous one on Bill’s missing painting, he is going to begin a canvas of the schools in the area in an attempt to locate it.

[...] Bill Macdonnel, the witness to the 46th session, would also be there.

(I picked the symbol above because Seth had dealt with a version of this in the 68th, 75th, 83rd and 84th sessions, in connection with Bill Macdonnel’s trip to Provincetown, MA, last summer. Seth insisted that Bill had seen a symbol similar to this on a rowboat at Provincetown, although Bill did not recall it. Other data Seth gave us about Bill’s trip was verified. [...] My idea was that using such a design as a test would summon up a little more emotional involvement, since Bill was included along with Seth, Jane and me.

(Mark is Bill Macdonnel’s entity name. [...] Bill verified just about all of the details Seth gave us concerning Bill’s trip to Provincetown last summer.)

[...] During this session, in which Bill Macdonnel saw an apparition for upwards of an hour, Bill and I saw an independent set of features that appeared to hang just in front of Jane’s features.)

[...] Another person, Bill Macdonnel, is involved with the symbol. [...]