“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The first was that her troubles began in Florida; that it was her fault we left Sayre to join her father in Florida, and that I had not wanted to leave my parents. [I had cried in the car as we drove out of Sayre on the way south, but had, I thought, regarded this as natural enough at the time.] Jane told me that it was her fault we had chased around the country, that her spontaneity had done nothing but get us into trouble. Jane described how she had become very frightened in Florida over the job situation, and that I had been forced to get a job anyhow even though I had told her most emphatically that I didn’t intend to do this. [When we went to Florida it had been agreed upon that she would hold a job while I tried out some painting ideas. Her father was to help us out financially also, but did not do so.]

(We have lived in Elmira since 1960, and were in Florida before this, so the discrepancy is apparent. I did not correct it, for it seemed we were getting to some material that was emotionally strong for Jane in recall. By now I had begun to tentatively mention the symptoms, and to ask Jane what she could say about their origin. It was almost as though she had been waiting for these questions; she quickly spoke the word Florida, and after this I had no doubt that she was at least fairly well hypnotized.

(Two additional points now recalled: When she began talking about Florida, Jane told me “I got scared in Florida”; she was also sure I would leave her when the job situation got so bad and things didn’t work out as we’d hoped they would. [I remember her telling me this in Marathon, when I returned to the trailer after driving out to get a job painting signs.]

(Previously Jane had spoken the one word “four” without elaboration, even when I asked her to explain. She now repeated it again, still without explanation, and later told me that she was aware of resistance concerning the word. Next she said “1961”, and “Florida.”

[...] Ruburt now thinks of a woman and a child, and of a photograph of Marie Tubbs and a baby, in Florida… I feel we are off here, but that the connection is valid.” There is a Florida connection, and this led Seth to the Tubbs connection for our friend Marie also lives in Florida.

[...] Ruburt now thinks of a woman and child, and of a photograph of Marie Tubbs and a baby, in Florida.

[...] The Bernards had visited Florida a few weeks ago. [...]

[...] One item of similarity showing up on both lists is the “cash check" data, referring to a check I had received for a painting recently….The mail package data on Jane’s list refers to the errand package discussed on page 195 under the Florida data. [...]

[...] He’s going away for a week —to Florida—just when we may need his cooperation. [...]

(This morning I called Pete Harpending, and passed on the information from Jane that Fred Kardon was out of town this week—on vacation in Florida. [...]

[...] Jane said Margaret, who visited last night, is worried about Joe, and wants to get him to Florida earlier this year. [...]

(“When we went to Florida last winter,” Margaret Bumbalo had told Jane yesterday evening, “I never expected to see you alive again.” [...]

Several times this week, Ruburt imagined the two of you on a trip to Florida, with a trailer by the ocean; both of you working, of course, but quite happily. He began by thinking in practical terms in Framework 1: you could—could—do it now, though it would be difficult; but you could go to Florida. [...]

(10:02.) The thoughts of the Florida trip offered no present contradictions because he knew he was not leaving for any trip tomorrow. [...] (With emphasis:) Someone who is thinking of going to Florida can get to the bathroom far more quickly. [...]

[...] On several occasions he simply imagined the two of you in Florida, in the trailer as before, with no thought for how you got there.

[...] Perhaps a Florida postmark.” [...] I believe the Florida data should be included with the mention of a letter, although a separate sentence. Once again, the Water Street address on the letter could give rise to the Florida data. On each of the several times Jane and I have lived in Florida, we have lived very close to the water.

[...] Perhaps a Florida postmark. [...]

(The Florida and water connections also attach themselves to the next data.

[...] It is particularly good that you see the situation here in Florida, on the spot, so that you feel free in making choices—a real Florida, not a fantasized one.

[...] February 21, 1972, Marathon, Florida. [...]

[...] “A connection with water” can be our Elmira, New York address, 458 W. Water Street, or that both Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach, Florida, are on the ocean.

[...] I remember the photograph of Jane and me taken at Marathon, Florida. [...]

[...] Without going into personal details, we can say that Seth is correct when he refers to “A connection with an event that was not particularly pleasant”; this involved us and Jane’s father in Florida.

Your decision not to go to Florida had little to do with the energy crisis. [...]

[...] With the ideas of either buying a house or going to Florida, and what these issues involve in line with your current beliefs as given. [...]

Florida.

(“Just where in Florida?”)

3. Here Seth quotes himself exactly from an unscheduled session held on February 26, 1972, during our vacation in Marathon, Florida.

The idea of a van to Florida led Ruburt into daydreaming, though he was very frightened of the idea, but you immediately thought of the difficulties, that it would not work, and overall neither of you have applied creative, imaginative, positive thought, steadily. [...]

[...] Imagining a trip to Florida, for example, or anyplace he wants, planning for it, is a far more effective method of therapy than any worry, for such plans activate body and mind. [...]

[...] During break we mentioned last February’s vacation in Florida, and Jane’s lack of improvement in spite of our efforts. [...]

Several issues operated in Florida, and on the trip.

[...] I remarked about the excellence of the Florida data, and Seth returned.)

(Howard McCullough is dying of cancer in St. Petersburg, Florida. [...]

(My father had a brother, Ernest, who died a bachelor in Florida quite a few years ago . [...]

(Jane said she had an image, an amusing but quite clear one, of a large arrow arching south over the continent toward Florida, so as to emphasize that location in relation to Uncle Ernie.

[...] When he tried on the other hand to act in a more reasoning and disciplined manner, when he became convinced of the necessity for discipline and this was in Florida, then he attempted to stifle all spontaneity.

[...] In Florida he saw his father as the epitome of unreason and uncontrolled spontaneity, which had actually become a hodgepodge of unrelated emotional acts, and he felt you then deserting him symbolically.

(While Jane and I were on vacation in Florida in July, I rather severely sunburned my feet; I had trouble walking for several days, but was able to drive home on schedule. [...]

[...] I talked about how I should have had Jane hypnotize me, for instance, in Florida as soon as we realized how bad the feet were—giving me suggestions for an extra quick recovery, etc. [...]

(The second half of the session was held for Alma Priestley, of Clearwater, Florida. [...]

(Marathon is in the Florida Keys, perhaps 40 miles north of Key West. [...]

[...] She left your town and went to Florida, and left the chest.

Ruburt picked up the Florida connection, and this led him to think of his photograph. [...]

[...] During break we discussed our experiences in Florida a few years ago. [...]

[...] At the time a trip to Florida would have been fine, although a meeting with Ruburt’s father on prolonged terms was not a good idea. [...]

You would have had difficulty also had you stayed in Sayre on returning from Florida. [...]

If you remember, at one time when you had just arrived from Florida she convinced her landlady to give you an apartment with no money down. [...]

[...] I was of course amazed, since the parents weren’t due back from Florida ‘till May.