“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane reports that during the sessions she now talks along on faith or trust in a way that she couldn’t do ordinarily. Also while delivering Seth’s messages her hands seem to be “fatter.” 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.

(Jane has long slim fingers with spaces easily observable between them close to the palms. 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. Inadvertently slipping a ring back on during a break, she had great difficulty getting it off. Normally it is easily removed.

(In this session Jane displayed no voice effects of note. She did not smoke except at breaks and the hoarseness was minimized. To begin we sat at the board as usual, fingers on the pointer. Seth spelled out his greeting on the board but Jane began to receive him within immediately. Thus she dictated the entire session.

(Break at 9:25. I had done my yoga exercises at 8:30 and felt very relaxed and light-headed. My handwriting was very fluid. Smoking a cigarette during break, Jane received the words “—and as far as mediums are concerned—” but told Seth to wait until she had finished. She also admitted that she had been somewhat upset with Seth because of what he had told me the last two sessions; this I had not known. Jane resumed dictating at 9:30.)

(Jane later said that this phrase, camouflage distortion effect, was to be a very important one.)

(Jane tapped upon the table for emphasis.)

(Break at 10:06. Time had passed very rapidly, it seemed, and we suspected time fore-shortening on Seth’s part. Jane said she could tell Seth was very pleased with the above dialogue. She resumed dictating at 10:15.)

(Break at 10:35. It was here that Jane, remarking about her fat hands, worked her ring back on. It took much pulling to get it off. She did not experience this odd sensation of change in any other part of her body. Resume dictation at 10:55.)

(Break at 11:10. During break Jane said Seth wanted to discuss there being more than one plane on earth. The phenomena with her hands persisted but her voice was normal. She resumed dictating at 11:18.)

(Break at 11:39. By now both of us were very tired yet reluctant to quit. Jane resumed dictating at 11:50.)

(End at 12:10. After the session we discussed Seth’s analysis of my particular problems. Jane then wondered aloud if she would get good results when her turn came, since she was the one giving voice to Seth’s messages. She received the following very clearly:)