“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We had no real opportunity to talk with Dr. Instream until Sunday evening at his home, after the symposium was over. During our discussion Dr. Instream revealed that he had mailed the sessions listed above to his friend Dr. Gardner Murphy, at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and asked for his opinion. Jane and I answered Dr. Instream’s questions as well as we could, and made an appointment to attend his Monday morning class at the college. This was to be followed by lunch with him before we left to visit my brother Bill in Rochester.

(Seth also said in the 168th session that we would make an appointment, as we obviously did to see Dr. Instream privately. Over coffee Monday, Dr. Instream asked if we had read F. W. H. Myers’ Human Personality. Seth had said we would be asked to read a book, but Dr. Instream did not insist that we read this work. We also bought two books by Dr. Instream at the college bookstore Monday noon.

(Dr. Instream agreed with Seth’s brief sketches of Dr. Rhine and the other director. He said that Dr. Rhine’s sweetness had led him into traps where his controls were not rigid enough during experiments, that his disposition was of the type that would not make him crack down. On the other hand, the other director was too strict. Dr. Instream used these examples to point out how important the correct methodology was in trying to obtain proofs in psychic investigations.

(Up until this point I had made a verbatim record as usual, and had thought the little session in Dr. Instream’s office ended. An exchange now developed however, that was new to us in the sessions, involving Jane, Seth, Dr. Instream and myself. The pace quickened to some degree, and as stated before I made no effort to interfere with the spontaneity of the session. Unless otherwise noted what follows is the exchange between Dr. Instream and Seth only, and reports the gist of their conversation as taken from the notes and quotes I made on the spot. Nothing is included here which depends on my memory alone.

[...] Dr. [...] Both Dr. Guy and Dr. [...] Seth came through several times, delivering beautifully organized little dissertations to Dr. [...] Strangely enough, Dr. [...] Seth also discussed with Dr. [...] And in return for Seth speaking, Dr. [...]

(Last Saturday evening we were visited by Dr. [...] When Jane called Dr. Guy in return, he told her that he’d contacted her at the behest of a Dr. Camper [another pseudonym].¹ Dr. Camper, a professor of sociology at a midwestern university, had asked Dr. [...]

[...] We hadn’t asked Dr. [...] For that matter, we hadn’t even asked him exactly what Dr. [...] Dr. [...]

(“It would be a joke if [Dr.] Cummins turned out to be right after all,” I said now. For of all the doctors she’d encountered while in the hospital, Jane had liked Dr. [...] Cummins’s opinion had been largely negated by Dr. K., especially after Dr. K’s friend from Ithaca, the rheumatologist Dr. Sobel had examined Jane at Dr. [...] He’d evidently given Dr. [...] When we’d told Dr. K. what Dr C. had said, Dr K. had remarked that Dr C. “hadn’t seen as many cases of arthritis as Dr. S. had” —meaning of course that Dr C. wasn’t that much of an expert, and that his opinion could be discounted....)

[...] For several days now, at Dr. [...] I’d started this after Dr. [...] Thursday a nurse from Arnot-Ogden drew blood from Jane for the tests Dr. [...] This morning Dr. [...]

In spring 1965, about a year after we wrote Dr. Osis, Rob wrote to Dr. [...] Dr. [...] Dr. [...]

[...] First I’d say something, then Dr. [...] Seth called Dr. [...] After all, Dr. [...]

Dr. [...] At 10 P.M. Mondays and Wednesdays, Dr. [...] At the same time Seth was to give his impressions, and each week we would mail the sessions to Dr. [...]

[...] Dr. [...] I don’t know what I expected from Dr. [...]

[...] Dr. [...] Dr. K. went home to call Dr. Sobel in Ithaca, and Dr. [...] She soon called to say that Dr. Sobel was out of town for at least a week, and that Dr. [...]

[...] Dr K. saw her, and Dr. [...] Dr. [...] When we’d described those to Dr. [...] We’ve learned that Dr. [...]

(Dr K., being still concerned about Jane’s finger—which had improved somewhat, but was still markedly bluish in cast—decided to prescribe a drug to dilute the clotting ability of blood somewhat: Persantine, in tiny pill-like form, to be taken three times a day. Dr. [...] When Jane said that Dr. K had said her lungs were okay while she was at the Arnot, Dr K. defended that analysis by reminding Jane that she’d said her heart was good, but that through the stethoscope she’d heard various “wheezings and gurglings” in Jane’s lungs. [...]

[...] “If you were anyone else I’d have you at the emergency room at St. Joe’s for more blood tests,” Dr. [...] A few minutes later, as I was hurriedly throwing a few things into a bag, Dr. [...]

[...] Jane said this referred to her letter of January 13 to Dr. [...] In it she told Dr. Instream of my using the trance state on my visit to Dr. [...]

[...] When I visited Dr. [...] Dr. [...]

[...] Jane said she believed the “12” came from the address of Dr. Colucci’s office, 112 Walnut Street, around the corner from our address on W. Water Street, and that Seth speculated about people because of Dr. [...]

[...] Dr. [...] Dr. [...]

(On June 27 Jane had received a letter from Tam Mossman at Prentice-Hall, requesting information on Dr. Instream, Dr. [...]

[...] Dr. [...] He is so cautious that he allowed Dr. [...]

(This is the first time Seth has mentioned Dr. Instream to us, since we halted the tests with Dr. [...]

[...] No academic psychologist, including Dr. [...] Dr. [...]

(“Dr. [...] [No results in yet of blood tests taken a week ago at St. Joe’s. Tests sent to Rochester.] Jane got more and more depressed and scared as Dr. [...] Dr. K. wants Dr. [...] I wanted to postpone visit to emergency room “till test results were in,” but Dr. [...] Peggy Jowett came as Dr. [...] Jane had cried a bit after Dr. [...] Dr. [...] Dr. [...] I wondered if this was a contradiction, because on the phone last month, Dr. [...]

In any case, she wanted Dr. [...]

[...] So Dr. [...]

(The session itself contains many references to Dr. [...]

(During the visit, after he examined the finger, Dr. S. seemed to me at least a bit surprised that Dr. Wilworth had ruled out the possibility of a blood clot; because of its sudden onset I gathered Dr. [...] Dr. [...]

[...] While we were there Dr. [...] We haven’t seen Dr. K. yet, or heard from her, although presumably Dr. [...]

(Last Friday at 2:45 PM I took Jane to the emergency room at St. Joseph’s to keep the appointment with Dr. Sobel from Ithaca, as set up by Dr. [...]

(The “blue” middle finger on Jane’s left hand was better, and has been slowly improving a bit each day, yet the visit to see Dr. [...]

(Jane had been much surprised at hearing her voice, as Seth, as it was taped Monday, July 19, for Dr. [...] She also was uneasy in that she felt Seth was too harsh at times; she worried about the reception Dr. [...] I thought that Dr. [...]

(On July 20, Jane and I received a letter from Dr. [...]

(Also on July 20, I mailed copies of the 168th and 169th sessions to Dr. [...]

[...] A brief history: Last month our friend Marie Colucci let a local dentist, Dr. [...] A couple of weeks ago, on August 31, Dr. [...]

(As stated, neither of us has met Dr. [...] All evening however, since writing the letter used as object, I had pictured a certain medical building in our neighborhood as probably the site of Dr. [...]

(Jane had no idea as to this building’s location in relation to Dr. [...] Arriving there, we saw that Dr. [...]

[...] My letter concerns a group, or array of paintings I have available to show Dr. [...]

(Last week we received Dr. [...] Dr. [...]

(Dr. [...] For our part we want to know whether Dr. [...]

(Jane now told me she thought the “two people” referred to by Seth in the 2nd envelope test in the 180th session, were Dr. [...] We now know, of course, that Dr. [...]

[...] Jane said she felt a little nervous, embarking on the clairvoyant tests with Dr. [...]

(Last Monday afternoon Dr. Kardon’s nurse called to give us an appointment at St. Joseph’s emergency room at 2:45 PM Friday, to see Dr. [...] Today Dr. [...] [As I type this Wednesday morning, the finger looks even better.] We talked about using Dr. K’s visit tomorrow, and the improvement in the finger, as excuses to “squirm out of” Friday’s appointment with Dr. [...]

[...] She also said she thought Seth might address the session to Dr. [...]

I would like to make a few points here in connection with the letter which you recently received from Dr. [...]

[...] Seth refers above to Dr. [...]

Another meeting between Dr. [...]

In early February, Rob wrote to Dr. [...] Dr. [...]

In a way, Dr. [...] Eventually some of our friends were bound to come around on a Monday or Wednesday evening, and hear the odd voice from outside the door as Phillip did just before we wrote Dr. [...]

Dr. [...]

[...] Actually he had been watching for such signs, and so had I. But Dr. [...]

[...] Suffice it to note that in the mail last night I found prescription drugs from Dr. Blount, to my complete amazement; I also found a letter from the Arthritis Foundation, in which Dr. MacDuffie expressed his complete opposition to Dr. [...] Then this morning Dr. [...]

[...] I don’t think I have the nerve to give her prescription drugs on the sly, in the hospital, as Dr. [...]

[...] Dr. [...] Dr. [...] Jane immediately feared the worst: that Dr. [...]

[...] When Judy, the RN, brought the lunch tray this noon, and replaced a couple of dressings, we asked her to contact Mary and find out exactly what Mary and Dr. [...] When she returned Judy told us that Dr. [...]

(In the unscheduled 203rd session of October 28, Seth told us we would shortly get another letter from Dr. [...] On November 2, four days later, we received a short letter from Dr. [...] This noon Jane told me she thought Seth might have something to say tonight about the attempts at communication with Dr. [...]

[...] May I personally thank our Dr. [...]

We have been progressing, actually at a good consistent rate, considering the fact that no tests of any kind have ever been attempted before we became acquainted with Dr. [...]

[...] I personally appreciate your interest, Dr. [...]

[...] This woman knows Dr. [...] It seems that her department and Dr. [...] The lady told Peg and Bill a good deal about the workings of Dr. [...]

(Shortly after the session began Seth told us that we would receive another letter from Dr. [...] Seth also suggested Jane and I write to Dr. [...] The Duke physiotherapist had told Peggy that Dr. [...]

[...] Dr. Instream knows Dr. [...]

[...] has already given Ruburt information about Dr. [...]

For one year, twice a week, Seth gave his impressions as to Dr. [...] Dr. [...] Seth did give material pertaining to objects also, but he was more apt to give specific information on Dr. [...]

One of our favorite topics of conversation that year was when will we hear from Dr. [...] Dr. [...]

Knowing that Dr. [...] And even when we were alone, which we usually were, I felt that the sessions were no longer private—that an invisible Dr. [...]

Seth told Dr. [...] I have no idea if Dr. [...]