“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Note that the words EASTERN and ROADS appear twice, and that they tally with an answer given us by Frank Watts during the second session, December 4/63. See page 14. This might not be unusual, though the words in this context are a bit out of the ordinary; and Jane and I wonder whether these, repeated twice among what seems to be gibberish and other unrelated words, might not be the first groping attempts of Frank Watts to make contact with us.

(Literal transcript of the results obtained by us on the night of November 26/63 — a few days before we began to receive the series of messages from first Frank Watts, and then Seth.)

Watts.

(“Are you there, Frank Watts?”)

(“Where did you spend most of your life, Frank Watts?”)

(“Have you had other lives here on earth, Frank Watts?”)

(“Are you there, Frank Watts?”)

(“Frank Watts, where do souls go after they leave this life?”)

(“What was the name of my oldest child, Frank Watts?”)

(Over the weekend I had devoted some time to trying to sort out the contradictory Frank Watts material given by FW in the first two sessions. [...] Jane and I had been talking about trying to check out some of this material, since presumably records concerning Frank Watts would exist locally; and possibly people who knew him, other than Miss Callahan, and a co-worker of Jane’s at the gallery when the sessions began, Mrs. Borst, might be found who would help us verify any data Seth gave. [...]

[...] However, the character of the answers we had been receiving for some little while before this point had been reached, had changed from the type of answer Frank Watts had been giving; I recall that even then we had wondered whether some other entity than Frank Watts had become involved.

(On the other hand, we did not doubt that some kind of a connection with Frank Watts had been established first. [...] Jane’s co-worker at the gallery, Mrs. Borst, who is now retired, had stated definitely that she had known a Frank Watts who had died in the 1940’s, and had also known his sister Treva.)

(“Are you there, Frank Watts?”)

(“Frank Watts, what do you think of the sum of your previous existences here on earth?”)

(“Frank Watts, is part of your psyche alive on earth now?”)

[...] It will be remembered that the sessions began when Jane contacted the Frank Watts personality. Frank Watts in turn is a fragment of the Seth entity. Seth discussed Frank Watts to some degree in the 85th and 88th sessions, promising more data in the future.)

(The word fragment was first used in the 4th session, Volume 1, page 22, by Frank Watts. Actually the Frank Watts personality was in the process of being superseded by Seth then, and on the next page Seth announced his presence by name. [...]

(“How’s my old friend, Frank Watts?”

(It will be remembered that these sessions began two years ago through our contacting a personality called Frank Watts, who was superseded by Seth in the fourth session. Jane and I have made a few sporadic attempts to learn more about Frank Watts; such a man did live in Elmira, we learned, through a resident who knew him. [...]

(Last Sunday, in the death notices in this section for the week of January 9-15,1946, I noted the name Richard J. Watts. We wondered if Richard Watts bore any connection to Frank, and I made a point of mentioning it just before session time tonight. [...]

(I now mentioned the Richard Watts death notice of twenty years ago, described in the notes on page 212.)

She did not remember Frank Watts, although he exaggerated to some degree. [...] Frank Watts considered her a friend, attaching more importance than she did to her influence upon his children; but beyond this her present personality has been gently disentangling itself from this plane, and she simply did not remember.

(“Seth, why did Miss Callahan tell us back in early December that she didn’t know, or at least remember, Frank Watts?”

(Jane had asked Miss Callahan about Frank Watts soon after our first session, of December 2/63.)

(In addition, Miss Callahan is the only person we have located who taught Frank Watts’ children in grade and high school; Frank Watts was the first personality Jane contacted in these sessions and was soon replaced by Seth. According to Seth Frank Watts had a high regard for Miss Callahan as a person and as a teacher. Miss Callahan however, cannot remember Frank Watts; only that she taught some “Watts children”. See Volume 1 for Callahan and Watts material.)

(At one point I remarked to Bill Gallagher that I used to have two favorite questions for Seth: “What do you do between sessions?” and “How’s my old friend Frank Watts?” Seth’s answer to my first question was “What do you do?” He now gave essentially that answer when Peggy asked my old question tonight. Commenting on Frank Watts, the personality Jane and I first contacted on the Ouija board to begin these sessions, Seth told me that there were records in town pertaining to Frank Watts, if we would stir ourselves to look for them.

(When Peggy asked him if the records pertained to Frank Watts being a teacher, Seth gave an answer I do not recall, except that I am sure it was not a direct yes or no. Frank Watts, Seth did tell us, is doing very well. Seth also said in a quietly humorous way that Frank Watts was still a fathead, as he had told us many sessions ago. [...]

[...] Even though I speak jokingly of assimilating my poor Frank Watts, this is not the case at all.

(“Seth, where is Frank Watts now, by the way?”

[...] had actually contacted Frank Watts rather than Seth. [...]

(“Seth, when you were incarnated on earth as Frank Watts, did you know a Treva Watts?”)

Frank Watts did indeed come from the state of sorrow. He was a makeup personality—that is, through Frank Watts I had to make up for past errors. [...] I should not make light of Frank Watts, since almost literally he redeemed me. This plane for Frank Watts was a plane of sorrow. [...]

(“Seth, when you were speaking to us as Frank Watts in the 2nd session, you said you came from the state of sorrows.

[...] Nevertheless I understand she came up against a Frank Watts in poet’s clothing—a shocking experience for anybody. [...]

(These sessions began when we contacted the Frank Watts personality through the Ouija board, in December 1963. The Frank Watts personality was replaced in the 4th session by Seth. Seth has dealt with Frank Watts to some degree in the following sessions: 4, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 21, 25, 29, 31, 51, 85, 88, 173, 184, 189, 224. [...]

[...] I am not emotionally in strong connection with any personalities known to Frank Watts, for example. [...]

(Miss Callahan was referred to by Frank Watts in the 1st session; Frank Watts stated that she was a mutual acquaintance of the three of us. Yet when Jane asked Miss Callahan if she remembered any Frank Watts, shortly after the first session, Miss C could not place him; on the other hand, she did not claim definitely that she did not know, or had not known, Frank Watts. Since she has at times exhibited a faulty memory, and suffers from hypertension, Jane and I did not think much, for or against, Miss C’s inability to place Frank Watts. [...]

[...] “Frank Watts had a hand like that,” Seth said. [...] Frank Watts was a fathead,” he said with obvious satisfaction, even though Frank Watts was a personality fragment of Seth’s own entity.

[...] See Volume 1, page 8. This first session material was given to us through Frank Watts, however. Frank Watts is a fragment of Seth’s entity. [...] See the 85th session, Volume 2, page 336, for Seth’s statement concerning the Frank Watts material.)

[...] Frank Watts, it will be remembered, was our communicator; the present Seth entity did not announce his presence until the 4th session, when he superseded Frank Watts.

(In the 3rd session, December 6,1963, Frank Watts told Jane and me that we had lived lives in Mesopotamia, our first, in the 4th century BC. Frank Watts and I were females, Jane was a male, our brother, and his name was Seth.

[...] We made contact with Frank Watts in that session. [...]

[...] I realize that your Frank Watts introduction is a year off, and hope that you both understand how much you have learned and how much you have progressed. [...]

[...] Miss Callahan, a retired schoolteacher, was also acquainted with Frank Watts. It was Jane’s initial contact with the Frank Watts personality, through the Ouija board, that led to these sessions. F. Watts has been dead perhaps twenty years, and is one of the personalities making up the Seth entity.