“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At the exact time the session was due Monday, Jane, Del, Midge and I were visiting our landlord and his wife on their farm in Pine City. As 9 PM approached I watched Jane to see if she would give any sign that she was aware of Seth, or that he wanted a session. She gave none; later Jane said she hadn’t the slightest inkling of Seth’s presence as session time passed. Del and Midge have left, and we anticipate a normal session tonight.

(Trying psychological time on Wednesday, 6/24, 8:00 PM, I had no results. On the same day at 7:30 PM during psychological time, Jane once again heard within the static sound described on page 167. At the time she was thinking about calling the owner of the gallery where she works on business this coming Friday. Jane then thought she heard the owner’s mother-in-law say “He’ll be gone by the end of the week.” Also during this period, Jane experienced an odd sensation within the black field of inner vision: as though she was moving quickly through space and changing perspective.

(By 8:55 Jane was a little nervous, though not as much as in the past. She had no idea of Seth’s subject matter for the evening. As session time arrived our cat Willy also became quite active. Many insects had accumulated on the screens of our living room windows, and a few had gotten inside the room. Willy rushed several of them, even climbing up the screens at times.

However, they were not by any means identical, either in space, time, or physical bulk. Quite literally the cat’s bug was larger and heavier in bulk, existed longer in his—that is the cat’s—time, and also took up more space.

Your bug, Joseph, differed in actual physical construction also from Ruburt’s. It was better detailed and more precisely drawn, smaller in size from either Ruburt’s or the cat’s, existed less in your camouflage time, and took up a measurably less amount of your space.

(Now, Willy had deserted the torn carton. As he has done before occasionally, he gave a loud cry and jumped at Jane’s ankles as she paced back and forth. He nipped her. Jane then remained still and quiet while I once again got up; this time I put Willy in another room and shut the door.)

“You forget” (in quotes); that is, you forget to construct the chair in its correct location. If you continued to ignore the lapse of construction, you would not suffer the bruise. But you remember just in time, construct your chair where your knee is.

(Break at 10:05. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said her back, which had been bothering her during the day, felt fine while she was delivering the material; but as soon as breaks arrived the nagging discomfort returned each time. Jane resumed in the same strong, rather energetic fashion at 10:14.)

I was concerned at the time with other data. However we will go into this now. First, you and Philip and Ruburt, when you are all present in the room, each construct from energy your own physical materialization of the idea, television set.

(While receiving this material, I seemed to be in a light trance state myself, feeling quite lethargic at times. My writing hand displayed no weariness. Jane resumed her rather deep voice at 10:55.)

I will here close the session. We have covered much this evening, and there is much I would still like to cover. However, eleven o’clock time for now is a reasonable and overall effective closing time.

Do not grow impatient. You will become, or you will have, plenty of time to become tired of me yet. Ruburt, my bonus for an excellent session will be a more comfortable back. He is handling himself in a much more efficient manner lately however, and all is well.

(While trying psychological time I had the following experiences:

(While trying psychological time Jane had the following experiences: