“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The episode upset Jane considerably—more so than she realized it did, at first. Not only because of the lost time and probably vain effort involved, but because as she talked, she knew she was saying things that applied to her as well. “You’ve got to turn your world upside down,” she told Stuart. “If you don’t like the reality you’ve created, change your focus. Give yourself a chance to use your own creative energy....” After Stuart finally left, to stay at the YMCA, she walked in the kitchen, better than I’d seen her do in some time. She slept fitfully, thinking of him often when she woke up. She talked about him today. We wondered what he was doing today. He’d talked about going north, or heading back to San Francisco, where he’d seen helicopters changing their courses in the sky to fly directly at him.

(At 8:30 this evening we got our answer. Stuart was back at our front door. I refused to let him in. He’d washed his face and looked fresher. He told me that within the last five hours something had happened that he’d feared all his life: he’d lost the last of his energy. His inner self was exposed and vulnerable. Yet he’d walked the two miles and more to our house from the YMCA, I thought ironically. His tale showed that Jane’s efforts of the night before had largely been futile. I told him she couldn’t help him, that we didn’t have the time. He accepted docilely, and gave me his address in San Francisco. He left, and Jane still had the impulse to have me call him back in another effort to help him. I said no in any event. Stuart didn’t know when he’d leave town, so I said he should return to his friends in California. He said he probably would.

(10:10. During break I asked that Seth say something about why Stuart had “picked on Jane,” out of all the people in the country. There are many “psychics” in the San Francisco area, for example. I didn’t think he’d read her books but very little. 10:18.)

[...] On the McCormick pepper can, factories are mentioned as being located in Baltimore, MD, and San Francisco, CA, thus south and west from our Elmira location.

[...] Both of us have been to Los Angeles, CA, several times, but Jane has not been to San Francisco.

[...] At the same time, she had a lot of material in mind from Seth—on the glass experience; a dream I’d had on August 1, in which I’d found her lying on the floor in the bathroom doorway; and a fairly strong earthquake that had struck south of San Francisco, California, this afternoon. [...]

(Part of the session grew out of our recent reactions to the televised newscasts, as well as what we’ve been reading lately, concerning the mass suicide in Guyana, the shooting of the mayor of San Francisco, problems with inflation, the Middle East —any of what seemed to be an infinite number of ills the species has created for itself. [...]

[...] You cannot, however, be in Boston and San Francisco at the same time, or be 21 years of age and 11 at the same time.

(This afternoon Jane had received a call from Larry Davidson in San Francisco. [...]

[...] Larry Davidson called from San Francisco, during which he agreed to ship us some copies from the bookstore where he works. [...]

[...] Interior traveling is no more subjective, then, than a journey from New York to San Francisco. [...]

[...] He left his home in San Francisco to travel to India to study with a guru. [...]

[...] An unexpected visitor stood there: a young woman lawyer who had flown to Elmira from San Francisco to see Jane. [...]

(The statue was taken by an American from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1905. [...]