“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Yesterday, 6/16, Jane and I bid a last farewell to Dee Masters and her husband, who left for a resort in Vermont for the summer. Dee had been Jane’s director at the art gallery for about 2½ years. Last Saturday, 6/13, Jane and I had attended a cocktail party for Dee, and Seth referred to this event briefly in the 62nd session.

(Perhaps because of the presence of a witness, Jane began dictating in a somewhat louder and deeper voice than usual, and maintained the voice all evening. Her dictation was also faster, though she paced at her usual rate. Her eyes darkened as expected.)

(Jane’s voice now became quite amused; she smiled at John and me as she paced back and forth. Miss Callahan’s name enters the discussion because we were discussing her before the session.)

(Making this pun, Jane’s voice became somewhat stronger and again a little deeper. This was the most voice change she had exhibited in some few sessions.)

(Here, Jane tapped on the table I use as a writing desk, for emphasis.)

(Break at 9:27. Jane was dissociated as usual. John Bradley set to work drawing a map of his neighborhood in Williamsport. On this map he indicated the location of each house, and it developed that there were two families with two children who lived three doors from him. Of these two families John said that the name of one of them, Snyder, immediately popped into his mind as Seth gave the pertinent material. A copy of John’s map will be found at the end of this session.

(Jane resumed in the same strong and somewhat deeper voice at 10:36.)

(At this moment, by coincidence both Jane and John lit cigarettes. Jane smokes often during her deliveries, yet has little memory of doing so. Habit operates here to perfection, since while delivering material Jane will pick up her package of cigarettes, shake one out, light it and puff away, without losing track at all of her material.)

(Break at 10:00. Jane was dissociated as usual. She resumed in the same strong and somewhat deeper voice at 10:15.)

(Break at 10:37. Jane was dissociated as usual. During break Jane, John and I discussed the above material, wondering what transpires when the three of us with our different viewpoints looked at the same object, for example our TV set; did we all see the same object?

(Jane resumed her strong and forceful delivery at 10:56.)

(Now Jane picked up a book of paper matches and held it up before John and me as she paced back and forth.)

([Jane:] “So long, kid.”

(End at 11:08. Jane was dissociated as usual. My writing hand felt no fatigue to speak of even though it had been a long and fast session. Neither Jane or I exhibited any other hand phenomena.

(Copy of Jane’s statement involving psychological time, of Thursday, June 18, 1964, from 10:00 to 10:30 AM.

(Tuesday, 6/23, 11:30 AM: Jane saw a brief flash of a woman in a print dress standing beside some chintz curtains. She also glimpsed a man in a bright figured robe lying down; she saw him from above.)

(Then again, later yet, I heard myself asking: “What’s your name, little girl?” This time a voice, it could have been my own, answered from offstage to my right: “I’m Bonnie Lou Ryerson.” “How old are you?” I asked. The same voice answered: “I’m seven years old.” I did not see anything this time. There was more, but I believe that by this time I was coming out of the desired state and was consciously connecting the name Ryerson with a local teacher by that name whom Jane sees occasionally in connection with the art gallery where she works. I do not know him, or whether he has children.

(It might be added that the next day as Jane and I were leaving the house we met Leonard Yaudes, our neighbor across the hall. Leonard knows Mr. Ryerson, and said that he did have a daughter, who was he thought possibly about seventeen. Her name, Leonard speculated, not knowing Mr. Ryerson too well, was Julie or Kathy, or something like that. Jane and I have not checked further. I remember that upon obtaining the name while in the trance state, I became very anxious that I remember it to write down later. Ironically, upon awakening I discovered that at least momentarily I had forgotten it; but as soon as I began writing this account the name Bonnie Lou came to mind, and I feel that it is correct.

(Monday, 6/22, Tuesday, 6/23: Missed. Jane’s father is visiting us for a few days. We also missed Monday night’s session. Jane experienced no discomfort of any kind as session time came and went. At session time Jane, Del, Midge [his companion] and I were visiting our landlord and his wife at their farm in Pine City.