“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As usual, Jane had no idea of what tonight’s session would include. “Stuff for the Appendix, I hope,” she said. She was in an excellent mood, even a hilarious one. This quality also turned up in the session, in Seth’s funny, over-elaborate requests for me to use just the right punctuation and paragraphing.

(We were late getting started because of my own work in the studio. Talking and laughing, Jane and Sue waited for me to join them in the living room with my notebook. Jane’s delivery was quite brisk, with an occasional short pause.)

(Seth actually made an elaborately humorous request for the dash in the last sentence: Jane, her eyes very dark, leaned far forward over our coffee table and spoke to me in a soft voice.)

(To Sue, who sat beside me on the couch): I am pretty good on details too. New paragraph.

(“When Jane came out of trance it was, again, an almost audible experience for me — a feeling of slowing down from a high airy whine to our normal ‘sound’ or speed. There was a great sense of change. It was as though part of this acceleration was connected with a dimension where sound was more than a hearing thing. It’s a terrific, vital feeling. I could feel it starting up toward the end of each break.”

(When Sue and Jane questioned me about this, I had to tell them that I didn’t feel anything out of the ordinary, but then I seldom do during sessions. Concentrating on writing helps close out other effects also. I am always writing, it seems— just as I wrote through most of this break period.

(As I wrote, I took a quick look at Sue, beside me. She sat very quietly, watching Jane. Jane’s eyes were open now, her pace faster, her voice somewhat louder.)

(His loud and rapid voice soon quieting, Seth explained to me that he would give a “fine demonstration of an acceleration” in a session in which we used our recorder. Sue could sit in on it, and hopefully I would experience the acceleration as clearly as she does. This interlude ended in a break at 11:10.

(“Sometimes in ESP class, I could take the whole class with me on a real acceleration adventure, if they could go,” Jane said. She used the contrasting example of trees in a forest, comparing their passive state to the feeling of acceleration, of “being able to go right through the wall” that she sometimes gets. There was more here that I didn’t get down.

(To me): I feel sorry for you —

(“Before break at 11:10,” Sue wrote, “when Seth told me that he was speeding up the acceleration to see if I could perceive it, I had the definite feeling of greater speed and a visual change in Jane’s body. It seemed to become smaller, as though I were looking at it through the wrong end of binoculars. This was again connected with motion, as though the physical frequency was also changed, and Jane’s body was rushing past me, even while staying in the same place.

(“Then when Jane came out of trance at last break, I felt as though a force had been released in front of me, so that if I wasn’t careful I could topple over. And the same thing now, after the session.”)