“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Again this session took place without the board. As early as 8:35 Jane felt somewhat nervous. At 8:45 she had “no idea what he’s going to talk about tonight.” At 8:55, when I asked Jane if she had anything yet, she shook her head. She said that sometimes during a monologue she was aware that she was sipping wine or milk, and sometimes not.

(Jane began delivering material at precisely 9 PM. As she did, our cat Willy behaved in a most strange fashion. He had been sleeping on the couch but as Jane rose to begin Willy leaped down to the floor. Half crouching in the middle of the room, he looked all around with his eyes round and his ears drawn halfway back; it is a pose we have often seen him take when on the alert.

(Jane’s voice during delivery tonight was a little stronger than usual throughout the session. Her pace was not fast, her eyes dark as usual.)

(Break at 9:27. Jane was “in between” this time, or but partly dissociated. It seemed that we had not acquired as much material as usual. By the end of her delivery she was talking a bit louder and at a slightly faster rate. Resume at 9:29.)

(By now Jane’s delivery had speeded up to its usual rate.)

(Break at 9:56. This time we seemed to acquire a normal amount of material between breaks. Jane was fairly well dissociated also. She said that somehow the idea that all entities were in existence at the time of the creation of the earth shocked her.

(A few days ago, while doing some painting, the idea had popped into my conscious mind unbidden that the very act of painting a picture involved the construction of a plane. I had mentioned it to Jane at the time. Resume at 10:03.)

(Seth’s following answer, through Jane, tallied so closely with the words forming in my own mind that once again, as in the 28th session, I wondered if telepathy might be involved, as in the case of John Bradley.)

(Break at 10:30. The divider Seth referred to consists of an idea of mine to build a small bookshelf arrangement over Jane’s desk, so that she will have an enclosed working area at one end of our living room next to the windows.

(This time Jane was pretty well dissociated. She said that part of her knows when she smokes a cigarette, and part does not. I also asked her why she couldn’t sit down and deliver Seth’s messages, as well as do so much pacing. The question came up because I thought she was getting tired. Her voice was becoming hoarse. Resume at 10:36.)

(Now Jane sat down to dictate.)

(Here Jane laughed. And here again, she proceeded to immediately answer the question that came to my mind.)

(Break at 11:00. Jane was by now quite tired. She delivered most of the above material sitting down. Her voice was lower than usual also. In order to check a bit on whether any telepathy was involved between us, I told Jane I had a question I wanted to ask Seth, but was not going to voice it, at least not yet.

(Jane remained seated when we resumed at 11:05.)

(Jane and I had not seen Miss Callahan since our visit of Feb. 26, described in the 29th session.)

(I had to laugh as Seth-Jane began the following monologue, for as soon as it began Jane got to her feet and resumed pacing. At the end of the session Jane said she got to her feet because she felt very dissociated sitting down; she was talking with her eyes closed and felt that she might slip into a trance. She said that Seth didn’t care about her position. I thought, though, that it was more than coincidence that Jane became more active, considering the subject matter of the next paragraph.)

(“Why was Jane so upset about the killing of the starlings at the art gallery by the police over the weekend? She wrote a poem about it tonight, and she’s going to send it to the newspaper.”)

(End at 11:38. Jane was very tired. She said that toward the end of the session she got the idea that our furniture-moving bout had helped get me through my danger period, which is the last part of winter, and that it had also taken care of her own first springtime burst of energy.)