“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth answered my question by saying it was a good idea for Jane and me to attend the hypnosis symposium at Oswego next month, and to meet Dr. Instream, the director. [...] I had rapport with Dr. Instream from reading his books. [...]

[...] She has copied the 179th, 180th and 183rd sessions to send to Dr. Instream. [...] As it developed, she will be copying Part One of this session to send to Dr. Instream also, for even though the session was unscheduled an envelope test developed. [...]

(The first point I would like to make is that Seth told us enough of the clairvoyant material involving Dr. Instream is valid; this will keep up the doctor’s interest. [...]

(It was now time for the 40th Dr. Instream experiment. [...]

[...] In connection with Dr. Instream himself, a splendid occasion of some kind, occurring recently. (Pause at 10:15.) Something movable and round. [...]

(It was now time for the 46th Dr. Instream experiment. [...]

[...] Give us a moment for our Instream material.

[...] We met “Dr. Instream,” as Jane called him in The Seth Material, but once, a few weeks after I’d written him in the spring of 1965 about Jane’s growing psychic abilities. Seth conducted 83 envelope tests for Jane and me, and within a concentrated period of nine months during that “year of testing,” gave impressions for Dr. Instream on 75 occasions; those I mailed to the doctor as they came through.¹⁸ Often both tests were held during each of our twice-weekly sessions.

18. As Jane wrote in Chapter 8 of The Seth Material, the Instream tests were very unsatisfactory for us. [...]

[...] On her own, Jane expressed concern about secondary personalities in Chapter 6 of The Seth Material; see her account of our meetings with Dr. Instream. [...]

[...] The information came through in connection with our envelope tests and those for Dr. Instream, both sets of which were in mid-course then, in March 1966. [...]

[...] The behavior of Instream, the other psychologist at Oswego, the demand for credentials from Fell and others, the letters asking for help of various kinds—especially those from the unbalanced—all of these things and more added up in her eyes to an indictment, one might say, of one’s very nature. [...]

[...] At the highest or strongest points, the voice, while powerful, was not as clear and distinct as I have heard it on other occasions—notably during the extraordinary session recorded for Dr. Instream a couple of years ago. [...]

[...] He was young, and following Darwinian and Freudian concepts both, he was therefore vigorous and to be trusted, where Dr. Instream was in his dotage.

The tests with Instream, and your own, precipitated a situation in which his intellect was constantly checking his intuitive information. [...]

(On July 10,1966, I wrote Dr. Instream canceling our series of experiments with him, because we hadn’t heard from him since January 1966.

[...] As you suspect, there was no coincidence involved when you chose your Dr. Instream. [...]

[...] We used part of it to copy the 179th, 180th and 183rd sessions, plus Part One of the 184th, to send to Dr. Instream. [...]

[...] You are quite free for example in your relationship with our friend Aerofranz (Tam Mossman), and you were with (Gene) Bernard, and more than fair with Instream. [...]

[...] She manifested this same ability during the 169th session, held in Dr. Instream’s office in Oswego, NY, but I would say that her switching back and forth this evening was more rapid. [...]

(It was time for the 62nd Dr. Instream data. [...]

1. See the references to the Dr. Instream material (for 1965–67) in Appendix 18 with its Note 18. [...]

This material was given while we were still having the Instream tests. [...]

[...] On Wednesday night she’d had a dream involving our Instream-Oswego experience, and a copy of that is attached under February 5. And she had a pair of positive healing dreams that afternoon during her customary nap. [...]