“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As referred to in the last deleted session, Saturday evening we were visited for a half hour or so by Scott and Helen Nearing, who were participating in homesteading workshops at Mansfield State Teachers College for several days. They are very nice people. He is 95, she is 78. As Jane said, “Scott conserved his energy, but he seemed to do well enough, although his movements were slow, especially walking and sitting down. But he appeared to have the use of all his faculties. Helen was very agile. Scott Nearing was quite interested in how well the Seth books were doing, whether any of the “leading magazines” had interviewed Jane, and so forth. The reasons behind his interest are brought out in tonight’s session, and in Jane’s own brief summary of the visit in her notes.

(She felt pretty relaxed by the time the movie was over, but wanted to have the session because she thought it would contain material on Scott Nearing.)

Now: Few people would see any connection between William James and Scott Nearing, and yet both were in their own ways peculiarly concerned with “the American soul.”

Nearing was born into the world just left by James, and he saw the industrial developments that at one time William James had anticipated with such vigor and optimism.

(“Maybe if you’ll let me mutter on,” Jane said, with nearly a laugh. [...]

[...] Her forehead nearly rested upon the tabletop. [...]

[...] She dozed, her lowered forehead nearly resting on her hands clasped on the table top. [...]

(“There were rocks near the verandah.”)

[...] No beach here near these rocks [and indentation].)

[...] A circular formation surrounded by flowers I believe, with closely-crowded, old, at least second-story structures to the left side of the street, or close to the street and nearly identical in rows.

(“A Prince George Hotel is right near the docho.”)

[...] The motion still bothered her right knee, near the break, however, but not nearly as much as it used to. [...]

[...] I was nearly elated, and felt again that surge of hope and expectation that I’ve come to learn is so valuable. [...]

[...] Christ was crucified near Jerusalem at the order of Pontius Pilate; Herod had John beheaded; and Paul was beheaded near Rome during the reign of Nero.

[...] Shortly after he baptized Jesus, John was imprisoned by Herod Antipas in the fortress Machaerus, near the Dead Sea.

The final place of refuge was near Damascus. [...]

(On June 5, 1968 John Pitre telephoned Jane from Franklin, LA, seeking answers to three questions: the reasons for John’s uneasiness concerning his wife Peg last week; the reasons for the loss of leg feeling John experiences in hot weather; and data on a pilot, Albert Blevins, who vanished on a flight in a small plane near the Gulf Coast about four years ago, presumably near Franklin.

[...] The thought, the original thought, is retained by A. A, however, forms a thought as nearly identical as his possibilities allow it to be. [...] He forms a thought as nearly identical as possible, and interprets it.

[...] All of these points are extremely important, and if I speak slowly it is to insure words as nearly correct as possible. [...]

[...] Action approximates as nearly as possible that portion of inner vitality or energy which cannot be completely materialized within any camouflage, within any plane. [...]

[...] A hat is nearly lost. [...]

[...] A boy in a third seat in a near-center row. [...]

[...] The boy in the third seat near a center row is, according to Pat, named Dave Lounsburg. [...]

You carried with you in your heads messages and laws that had been given to one of your kind in a time that was already nearly forgotten. [...]

[...] There was a city in a jungle — M-E-S-S-I-N-I (spelled) as nearly as I can translate it. [...]

[...] It seems to me that in this life at least, Ron and I encountered each other in quite a strange way: almost of an age, we grew up in the same small town near Elmira many years ago; we knew of each other’s family — and yet we didn’t meet until 1970….

[...] As nearly as I can recall, I recorded them accurately. [...]

[...] But they are different than the fish near the surface, and there is algae here that exudes nitrogen, which is not usual.

(“Has Bill ever been near any of these locations on his swims?”)

There are dangers connected with the last one mentioned, and treacherous currents near the chest. [...]

[...] These groups originated back in their own nearly forgotten past as wandering tribes came together, and joined for their own support and protection.

[...] It now becomes apparent that a war, or near-war in one country is a threat to all others, and man’s consciousness at the level we are discussing is struggling to attain a planetary concern, a sense of life’s balances.

This barrage is meant to push consciousness in its official stance nearly to desperation, so that it opens other doorways of awareness, and extends itself into the intuitional realms, giving itself greater insight, and providing “an extra band” of communication—the merging of man’s innate “psychic” abilities with his normally attuned consciousness. [...]

[...] They are near the corner to the right, but not at the corner.

[...] Before finishing these notes, however, we did check to find that Chula Vista is indeed near a bay; that the coast is not straight there.)

3. Initiate some policy in near future for meeting people. [...]

[...] I will have a separate session on another night in the near future on the entire matter.

The great religions of the world all had their births near the major coordination points. [...]

[...] Any ideas for good or bad become materialized with such strength, however, that the contradictory feelings of mankind are more apparent near coordination points.

[...] In a strange manner, space puckers to an unobservable degree, as far as your instruments are concerned, near these coordination points.

[...] And as I waken, very sore, feelings of panic (or nearly). [...]

(Seth had told us last time that he was near the end of the chapter, but we hadn’t realized of course that he was to finish it with a sentence or two in the next session. [...]

[...] Anyhow—by Sunday evening the whole head, neck, eye, ear, area quite improved in motion; moves faster, those ligaments more resilient, and the motion though restricted, I’d say, near normal. [...]

These particular events began Friday though now Monday afternoon I’ve nearly forgotten what Friday was really like. [...]

Sunday AM it was nearly raining. [...]

Now return in your mind to the situation of the near accident. [...]

[...] You will physically respond to and recognize some of this alteration, as in the example of the near accident. [...]

[...] The near-accident mentioned was a physical event but it was initially a mental one. [...]