“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This afternoon John Bradley, who was our witness for the 26th session, stopped in to ask if he could be a witness for the session tonight. [...] He thought he might miss the beginning of the session while working in the studio, but the informality of the idea seemed good. [...]

[...] After the glaring distortions of last session Jane had decided that she must relax, witnesses or no, so as the time for the session approached the radio still played, and we played with Willy, our cat, and exchanged banter with John.

(During this session, Jane spoke with much emphasis. [...] Seth began this session in a very positive manner, as though he would be all business this time, and kept at it hammer and tongs.)

(As session time arrived John was still busy in my studio. [...]

(This afternoon at about 2 PM workmen took down the tree that had partially fallen on March 6. See the 33rd session. [...] And as I watched it strike the ground, I felt a wave of sensation sweep over me, the rich tingling, the feeling of perhaps an inner wind that I described first in the 24th session. [...]

Such exercises as a rule will not take up time during sessions however, but will appear at other occasions, consume hardly any clock time at all, and seem spontaneous. [...] We will go into the other inner senses at future sessions.

[...] By first break her voice was normal, and since these conditions prevailed for the rest of the session they need not be mentioned again.)

[...] And of course we immediately thought of the session being interrupted. [...]

(To open this session we tried something different, to see if we would still get results. [...]

(“Out of curiosity, Seth, what do you do between these sessions?”)

(Whereupon I commented with a laugh that I was spending a lot of time thinking about these sessions.)

(Last night, while sitting quietly for a moment after my day’s work, I saw again briefly the scene of the 6th session-Ruburt on the path. [...]

[...] These sessions should be regular above all else. If we begin stretching them into longer sessions within one night, you will not have time to correlate the material or to completely recover from the effort involved. I am afraid we would then end up with only one session a week, and I prefer the two. [...]

[...] Sessions, she said, should be regular. [...] She said that the way Rob and I work together, we need both of us to succeed, and that our channels were open before the session. [...]

[...] We opened this session by sitting at the board as usual, without asking questions. [...]

[...] Our cat’s eyes also had that same look in the last session.”)

(Jane reports that during the sessions she now talks along on faith or trust in a way that she couldn’t do ordinarily. [...] She first noticed this phenomena two sessions ago but for some reason never mentioned it to me. At times during a session her hands feel heavier and waterlogged, the fingers fatter, the palms thicker, so that when she makes a fist her hand has a different feel to her than ordinarily.

[...] Examining her hands midway through the session, we saw these spaces somewhat closed up; her index fingers also appeared to be thicker than usual. At the start of the session Jane removed her rings because they had become uncomfortably tight in the previous two. [...]

(In this session Jane displayed no voice effects of note. [...] Thus she dictated the entire session.

[...] And you must remember that the tragic possibilities discussed in our previous session represent but one sample of such possibilities that are occurring constantly with every individual and every family.

[...] We wondered if this method of acquainting both of us with involved questions before the session began might not save asking the question during the session itself.

[...] Seth however began to talk faster than I could follow, so for the balance of the session I recorded key words and phrases and filled in between as soon as the session ended, while memory was still fresh. [...]

(I have the original account with my notes on the Seth sessions, along with three pages of notes she made with pen while in this state. [...] All of this material is presented here because Seth deals with it in the following session, the 15th.

However that will come later in the session. [...]

(The regular 11th session, scheduled for Monday, December 23/63, was not held for various reasons. [...] We did not manage to resume until this unscheduled session of January 1; and by then we wondered whether we could resume.

(This session began without plan, and involved Jane, Bill Macdonnel and myself. [...]

(However, once the three of us began talking about a “seance” [a word I did not want to use describing our sessions and experiments], getting into the mood, we found ourselves trying things that ordinarily we might not have considered.

[...] Yet at the same time the continuity of the board sessions will not be broken by a mass of material other than derived from the board.

(Jane had no voice phenomena this session, nor any changes in her hands; the same rings she was so troubled by last session bothered her not at all this time. [...]

If you two are not too tired to continue the session for a short time, then rest for a moment and continue. [...] So when you are ready to end the session simply say so.

(Jane said that once again she had stage fright, a feeling of apprehension and wonder, just before the session was due to begin. [...]

[...] Since we had dispensed with taking messages through the board in the main, this session was the slowest-paced one to date. [...]

(Indeed, Jane and I had both been strongly aware that Seth was evidently doing something with respect to time, during the last few sessions. The peculiar thing is that while the session is underway neither of us is aware of any change. [...] Yet during a session Jane while talking steadily, nevertheless pauses often, and I am no longer pressed to write at top speed to keep up with her.

[...] We spent the time remaining before the session was due in discussing the flash Jane had received from Seth, concerning her dream about Miss C., and then in sitting quietly for a few minutes.

[...] The session actually began at 8:55, when Jane rose and began to pace and dictate. [...]

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

[...] Surely after our pleasant chat the other evening you should know nothing of this sort would offend me, and I would much prefer more broken-up sessions, if they are necessary, than sessions in which I see myself as a torture master.

[...] We did not ask a question to open the session.

[...] Although there was quite a change, her voice did not reach either the depth or volume of the previous session.)

Joseph, your part in these sessions is extremely important. [...]

[...] She said she didn’t know what kind of a session we would have, yet by 8:58 she reported that she could “feel him.” The session actually began at 9:02, and without the board.)

This session has been very peaceful and pleasant, and I repeat: Some night we will have our party. Now that you have a recorder you can use it when we have our happy session and it will free you from taking notes.

[...] These sessions of trying to give up smoking are a definite help and the habit will finally give way. [...]

[...] Throughout this session she talked in a voice slightly stronger than normal, and paced at a slow even rate. [...]

I suggest that this session come to a conclusion. I hesitate to give you an excess of data on Monday when our next session is on a Wednesday. [...]

[...] (The following material is included here because it is dealt with in the next session, the 14th. [...] I began the drawing in reference to an image Seth had conjured up in an earlier session on the fifth dimension. [...]

(To begin this evening’s session Jane and I sat at the board as usual, with our fingers touching the pointer. [...]

SESSION 13

(Since Jane was tired, we decided to wind up this session with one more question. [...]

[...] Since Jane was so tired, we decided, again, to end the session. [...]

[...] For this type of session we really need three nights between. [...]

[...] We had wanted to ask Seth about it during this session, but forgot to.)

(This was our first attempt at recording Jane’s voice during a session. We knew little about operating the recorder yet, although the night before Jane had successfully recorded a hypnosis session in which she had helped me with my back trouble.

(We had but a 5-inch reel, and since the hypnosis material was also on this reel we didn’t think we could record the whole Seth session, even with 4-track technique. [...]

(To open the session, we sat silently at the board. [...]

[...] She displayed practically no voice or hand phenomena during the session.)

(“Seth, can we have others attend these sessions?”)

(“Then I did answer Jane’s question correctly the other session, when we tried receiving answers without the board. [...]

[...] I will go into it further next session. [...]

SESSION 8

[...] I had the board set up, ready for the opening of the session. [...] And so again we did not use the board to open a session. [...]

[...] The 26th session with John Bradley as a witness had done her much good; especially had the telepathy effect increased her confidence. [...]

(Jane said these flashes reminded her of her statements about concepts or patterns as a whole unit, made during the 24th session. [...]

[...] But then we had never told him these sessions began on a borrowed board. [...]

(This time we had our windows completely shielded by curtains, as Malba had requested we do in the first session with her. [...]

[...] Jane bent her head low to examine her hands, and she paid much attention to them for the rest of the evening; the session lasted until about midnight.

[...] I wrote the notes out immediately after the session, then Jane and I went over them, attempting to add anything either of us had forgotten earlier. [...]

SECOND MALBA BRONSON SESSION

(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. [...]

(Here Jane and I had the feeling the session might be over. [...]

(Jane had remarked that several times during the session, she appeared to know what the answer to my questions would be, before the board spelled them out.

[...] First session ended at 12:40 AM.)

(We conducted this session in the same way as the first two; that is, in quiet surroundings, with the shades pulled and two soft lights on. Jane thought that in the previous session she had quite often received the answer to my questions mentally, before the board had a chance to spell them out. [...]

SESSION 3

[...] As before, we sat in our living room, with the shades pulled and a couple of soft lights on, trying to duplicate the atmosphere of our first session. [...]

SESSION 2