“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 also wanted to borrow my studio for an hour to make up a chart for one of his medical displays. He thought he might miss the beginning of the session while working in the studio, but the informality of the idea seemed good. Jane agreed when I picked her up after work.

(In a further effort to relax, Jane worked on a painting of her own until 8:30 PM. John arrived at 8:35 with his materials and a bottle of wine. 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.

(Now John had finished his chart in the studio. While Jane continued to pace about the room, dictating in her clear strong voice, John entered, poured himself a glass of wine and lit a cigarette. I pointed to a pad and pen I had laid out in case he wanted to take his own notes. But John shook his head and settled down on the couch. Jane continued without a break.)

I am afraid I am a poor sort of host, and not much given to the niceties, or at least your niceties, being somewhat out of practice. Nevertheless, a good evening to Philip, and I recognize his presence.

Philip, earlier, mentioned hypnosis. Existence on your plane or any other plane is merely self-hypnosis. As far as an analogy is concerned, this one is very nearly perfect. Your existence, and mine for that matter, on any particular level is predetermined by complete concentration or focus of inner selves upon the particular universe in question. And your camouflage patterns can most aptly be compared to the hallucinary effects created by the hypnotist upon his subject.

(Break at 10:35. Jane was dissociated as usual. During break John wondered about the practicality of idea-concept application in the camouflage world. He was interested because he said he had been considering, lately, his own approach to certain problems in the business world. He is a drug salesman.

One man you have known in a previous life. There was a debt involved which was paid off. There is no need now for you to humiliate yourself to seek his favor, as you have paid off in full your debt to him. There is also a man’s wife who would intuitively know what you were up to. Such practicality doesn’t seem very practical to me.

(Break at 11:09. Jane was dissociated as usual. John talked more about his job. For my part I said I had not asked for specific names, although John was of course interested in this, because I thought there might be distortion in them. And I thought Seth might refuse to give the answers. When Jane began dictating again her voice was quieter. Resume at 11:16.)

(End at 11:32. Jane was dissociated as usual. Jokingly she asked John when he was going to become a ham radio operator. Whereupon John surprised us both by telling us that he was already actively considering such a hobby, had set aside a room in his home for it, and had acquired some equipment. He had not told us this before. A copy of his signed statement follows.)

(During this session, while Seth was advising me he suggested that it would give me a great deal of satisfaction to pursue a hobby in electronics, a ham radio was his choice. He said I had innate ability in this field.