“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I now reminded Jane that John Smith had knocked on our back door at suppertime tonight. She exclaimed in surprise: She’d consciously forgotten that event, for she hadn’t seen John as I briefly talked with him on the back porch. [...] I told Jane I felt that regardless of John’s evocative visit Seth would have mentioned my eye phenomena tonight, given his subject matter for the session. And yet, I added, because of the very nature of the Seth material, I’m also bound to think that beneath that simplified explanation there are “deeper” connections—in which the television program, her reactions to it, John’s appearance, and tonight’s session are all related. [...]

[...] My eye improvements had been “officially” verified by our optometrist, John Smith, on February 18. [...]

(9:46.) There was some jealousy, then, from certain members of the Essenes at John’s progress. At one time John attempted to join various divergent groups together as one brotherhood, but he failed. [...] Fire is seldom gentle, and John the Baptist was as filled with fire as Paul.

[...] John the Baptist was an Essene in all important ways; yet a man who steps forward in such a way automatically steps out of his group, and so did your friend, John.

(Here Seth humorously referred to my recent interest in John the Baptist. [...]

[...] Christ, you see, was to deliver the message and John was to prepare the way for it.

Last week I received from our current optometrist (whom I’ll call John Smith) his standard notice that two years have passed since my glasses were changed. [...] Because of a cancellation I got a quick appointment to see John this afternoon—and received a very pleasant surprise, for his examination revealed that my vision has improved since the last prescription. [...] John too was surprised; he double-checked his figures to make sure he was right before ordering the weaker lenses. Once John had assembled his pheropter, or lens unit, the test lenses making up the new prescription, my vision checked out at 20/15—better than the so-called normal 20/20. [...]

Next, when he examined my eyes for glaucoma, John’s tonometer gave readings that were midway in the normal range for eye tension, and a point or so better than they had been two years ago. [...]

(A note added later: On my last New York State Visual Acuity Report, which he filled out in May 1983, John Smith wrote that I passed the test for driving without wearing glasses [combined Snellen test score 20/30]. [...]

(Seth also stated at that time that John will have to take strong measures if he wants to achieve certain goals. John reported that he has been visited by his district manager this week, and that indeed the two men have been covering John’s route together. The visit has given John a chance to state his case for transfer and more money, and John has been vigorously doing just this.

(Last Friday, November 6, John Bradley, from Williamsport, PA, visited us briefly. John could offer us no confirmation on Seth’s data concerning John’s home office in Chicago. [...] John recalls no one fitting the rather general description given by Seth.

(Although this interpretation seems obvious, Jane said that J B also reminded her of our friend John Bradley, who had witnessed some sessions. Note that the name John, although crossed out, appears on the object. Jane thinks she could have also thought of John Bradley as well as Jane Butts, and not wanting to commit herself spoke aloud the initials instead of one or the other full name.

[...] Our interpretation: Note that Leonard Yaudes addressed the object to Jane and me, after crossing out the name John. [John happens to be a good friend of Leonard’s, though merely an acquaintance of ours; Leonard evidently made an absentminded mistake in addressing the card.] The address line of the card thus contains three names. [...]

[...] The other male on the address line of the object, John, crossed out by Leonard, is a close friend of Leonard’s but not a relative. None of us—Jane, Leonard, John or myself—are blond or light-haired.

(There are actually 6 personal names on the back of the object: Leonard, John, Jane and myself, Lincoln, and the photographer who took the pictures used on the front of the postcard, Don Sieburg.

John Fuller and his young wife Elizabeth were here last PM. [...]

[...] I read some of my Aspects after John commented so favorably on those theories last night, but I feel comfortable with my life—I suppose I mean with my work—in a way I haven’t. I feel my temples and brows changing constantly as tension releases; the eyes becoming better; and even my sinus. [...]

[...] I met John, Margaret, and others there, and signed a guest book. [...] I told John that he really did look peaceful, as at no other time in his life. [...] I told John I expected to attend the service tomorrow at the funeral home, that I was willing to be an honorary pallbearer, providing the times worked out. [...] John said they have enough food to feed me for a week, after it’s all over. [...]

(A note: Beneath a larger agreement, there are many differences in the details of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. For instance, in John 19 it is said that Christ carried his own cross; in Luke 23, Simon from Cyrene is named as carrying Christ’s cross for him. [...]

[...] (See John 20, 21; Matthew 28; Luke 24.) Before, he had not done this to that degree. [...]

[...] (See John 20.) They were to be a method of identification, to be dispensed with when he explained the true circumstances.

He ate to prove he was still alive, for example (John 21, Luke 24, etc.), but they took this simply to mean that the spirit could partake of food. [...]

(The first part of this session was held for John Pitre, who telephoned Jane about a week ago from Franklin, LA, on behalf of his ill wife, Peggy.

(Jane began speaking in trance at a very slow and deliberate pace, I had the distinct feeling that she wanted to get the information through in as undistorted a manner as possible, as Seth began to discuss the material John had given during his call.)

Now… Within three years there will be entirely new openings for John, and also many changes of attitude. [...]

[...] However, I believe she also called for a break because she had finished with material for John Pitre this evening.

(“How about my dream with John Wayne?”)

John Wayne represented old lines of conventionalized beliefs about the male. [...]

[...] Those fears of your father’s were given a less frightening, more conventionalized and safer image in John Wayne, who escapes such situations by refusing intimate entanglements, and is “free to roam the range.”

[...] A copy of Seth’s analysis of my John Wayne dream is attached to the dream in my notebook.

(Last Monday noon, October 18, our friend John Bradley visited us while making his rounds as a traveling drug salesman. [...] During the day on Tuesday, John had to attend an important business meeting of his regional office in Binghamton, NY, perhaps sixty miles from Elmira.

(Remembering her success in clairvoyantly tuning in on Bill Gallagher as he made his business errands on the evening of October 8, Jane decided to try the same thing with John on Tuesday. The difference here was that John had no forewarning of Jane’s efforts, since she didn’t get the idea until after he left us Monday. [...]

(At 8 PM Tuesday, Jane wrote down 13 impressions, all dealing with John Bradley’s supposed activities. [...] John arrived from Binghamton perhaps three quarters of an hour later. [...]

(Philip is John Bradley’s entity name, according to Seth.)

[...] Before I went to the john I helped her hold the session papers on the left edge with her left hand—something I’ve been hoping she would become able to do, since it would add to her independence in reading. [...] When I came back from the john, she suddenly was able to grasp the right edge of the papers with her right hand—a totally unexpected development, one that I hadn’t expected yet at all. [...]

[...] “She sounds like a dirge,” I said, yet when I’d been in the john and could hear her better. [...]

Very briefly: (John) Fuller (see session 808 re John Fuller notes) is by turns overly credulous and overly critical. [...]

(John Fuller is to visit us with his wife next Wednesday evening, to interview Jane for an article he is writing on survival. [...]

[...] Earlier today I’d told her I realized how cleverly she’d engineered her activities so that she didn’t go to the john very often. [...] “I’d go if I had to,” she protested, but I answered that she’d simply trained her body to wait as long as possible for such natural acts; then she could avoid all the discomfort of getting into the bathroom and on the john, etc. I added that I supposed now she’d work it so that she only went to the john once before going to bed after the session. [...] But right at this time she can barely get from her chair to sit on the john or the bed—literally.)

[...] She even said she was going to the john after ten-and-a-half hours: “I could hold it another hour, though,” she said. [...]

10:50–11:30: Dishes, john, snack.

(Frank had an idea about placing one of our old chairs on rollers so Jane could be wheeled right beside the john to slide over onto it while she was having walking difficulties. [...] It worked—but barely, for it was too high for the john, and had no cushion for Jane’s backside comfort.

[...] I’m still carrying her in the john, but with increasing difficulty, I’m afraid. [...]

John

John M. Pitre

(Copy of handwritten letter received from John Pitre, Franklin, LA, 70538. [...]

[...] She hadn’t gone to the john since about 7:30 AM. [...]

[...] We took her into the commode, but she wouldn’t lie down after going to the john. [...]

11:30–11:45: Do dishes, make coffee, get coffee cake, feed cat & go to john before sitting down. [...]

[...] From john—walk 1. Later walk 2. (Head, eyes bother AM) Later back of neck—new place—releases a lot. [...]