“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Seth, are trees and plants fragments?”)

(Break at 9:50. By now I had developed writer’s cramp from taking the above down at nearly top speed. We were both by now more than a little surprised and amazed. Jane had delivered the entire monologue exactly as I have recorded it here. She made no mistakes in delivery, did not lose her way, make any changes or corrections of any kind, at all. She said that Seth would have outdistanced her had she insisted on keeping to the board. She had to recite it because the words sounded within her. Resume at 10:00.

(“Seth, did I get all that down correctly?”)

(We took a short additional rest. During it, I remarked that the next question I wanted to ask Seth was whether either Jane or I, or both of us, had ever unknowingly seen a fragment of the type our friend Bill Macdonnel had. Once again, pacing back and forth while I took down the message, Jane began to dictate:)

(Jane and I of course clearly remembered the couple referred to by Seth in the above monologue. I recall that at the time Jane had seen them first, and pointed them out to me. I remember that she had seemed oddly intrigued by them, and that they had borne more than a little physical resemblance to us. The woman’s face especially had reminded me of Jane, though she had indeed been fatter. The man had my build, my shape of head, and much whiter hair. They had been a peculiarly unsmiling couple. I recall also that Jane mentioned that she wanted to talk to them. I had not wanted to, and we did not approach them.

(“Seth, why did I make Jane get up and do the twist with me in that dancing establishment at York Beach?”)

(“Seth, who left the dance hall first—Jane and I, or the projected fragments?”)

(“Seth, will you begin again on the subject of mental enzymes? I asked you to verify Jane’s answer on this in the 8th session.”

(There follows Jane’s version of the York Beach incident, dealt with so extensively by Seth in the 9th session.)