“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Then, with shades down and a candle in another part of the room we sat at big green table. I said, “If there’s anyone here, give us a sign,” etc.; mentioned my inexperience with physical phenomena and said that ectoplasm would be great if possible. Now three or four of us definitely noticed a fog or mist in part of living room away from table, deeper in the interior of the room. Some of us had been smoking earlier, not now. Would the smoke show up more in the dark? None was noticeable with lights on earlier, and the mist seemed to move, from one side of the coffee table to the other. Sally said that sometimes she could see a painting on the far wall and at other times the mist obscured it.

Then we sat around coffee table with lights on, and lighted candle down to the end of the table. Aloud I asked for the candlelight to change, for the flame to rise. Instead, I felt a strange feeling of extension above my head and before I could comment on it, Rose and someone else —Sally?—called out that my aura had changed color and was now purple. Several more times this happened, aura changes taking place while I subjectively experienced this extension—the same feeling I have in the new sessions with Rob. Definitely not imagination, anyhow; quite definite; I’d say, physical, though the “physical” feeling is where no physical part of me is. No suggestions were given as to aura here, though finally I did tell them when I had the feeling and ask if there was an aura change. This the most vivid experience to me of the night.

We all had the feeling something was going for us.... It’s hard to see how suggestion operated. In the aura bit, I have given myself the suggestion I’d see my own on several occasions with no effect. Florence actively fights against any suggestions, and I purposely gave none. Obviously we were trying for something—which is in itself suggestion, but on other times we’ve tried for example to get the table to move and it wouldn’t budge. If this was the case, how come the auras were more visible in light than darkness, since you are more suggestible in the dark. The other manifestations also happened in light, though we did try darkness with no effects showing.