“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This session was unscheduled. Today we had looked at a house in the country just outside Elmira. It had caught our fancy to some degree and was possibly within our ability to buy, if we could take the word of friends of ours. The house belonged to an artist and schoolteacher who had left town for good; Jane had met him at the gallery, I had not. The house offered privacy but seemed to raise as many questions as it answered, one of them being that it was situated on a hillside and was accessible only by a very steep dirt road that was not maintained by either state or county.

I am avoiding a direct answer immediately, and talking around the bush for a few moments for my own reasons, but I will not put you off. I am glad that you noticed that my prediction concerning a scandal was no idle one, and I would seriously recommend that you avoid any business transactions or personal transactions of any kind with Mr. Marvin, who I believe owns a schoolhouse which you were looking at this afternoon.

Your reluctance to buy a home with actually adequate privacy but without large acreage stems from a sort of self spite. Once you had much land, and if you cannot have much now then you think that you will not settle for less, even though you must wait twenty years.

The child who lived in the house until recently was somewhat disturbed, and had he lived there longer the house would not have remained psychically beneficial, but it is psychically beneficial now. High land such as this is good from a health and psychic viewpoint. I do not know of any impending danger with the neighbors, who stick alone.

(Break at 7:40. Jane was dissociated as usual. The time had passed rapidly, it seemed. The house had, we had been told, about an acre of land, although it was all on the steep side of a hill. We had found it unlocked and had gone inside, but had not thought to examine specifically the foundations. On one side the hill dropped down to the highway; on the other side it rose at a steep slant. Jane and I had wondered about landslides.

You have no worries at this amount. This is not a general statement, but applies to the specific house of which we speak. All the conditions change when the object or the land is different. A house psychically unsound would greatly cut down your ability to pay for it.

I anticipate no road difficulties. Your idea of trading your car for an old jeep would work out very well, and would not be costly. All windows in the house should be, as Ruburt suggested, opened; let the hilltop air blow through. The bottom of the house has been closed for too long, but there is no great difficulty here. Opening the windows in the lower portion will abet a slight musty dampness.

You will be able to find them all without difficulty. I mention this only because otherwise you and Ruburt might think it nice to save a few toys for the cat. There is no great danger here by any means, but these simple precautions will forestall any difficulties.

The man who lived in the house did have a destructive and sometimes cruel tendency. Nevertheless he was basically creative, and despite uncontrolled and undisciplined energies, his basic creative inner sense added to the psychic atmosphere, but would have turned against him had he remained.

I could go on, again, for quite a while, but I will leave you, hoping that I have helped. There are of course other locations that would be suitable. At this particular time this is the only one available, and it is, after all, no coincidence that you sought it out. Otherwise you would not have bothered.

The river about that location is beneficial. At some other points it is not, and there is malevolent seepage; but not there.

You will be sorry to leave, regardless of what you may think, but the new situation will prove greatly to your advantage, and will really be your first home.

Incidentally Ruburt, yes, the water there is safe for swimming. I will really close, but I did want to let you know of the importance of these particular good friends.

The gallery situation did not enter into my calculations of finances. I used Ruburt’s present situation, and the amount and so forth can be carried as things stand. They will not stand as such, but will improve. Nevertheless you do not have to wait for absolute notice of such improvement before entering into this particular transaction.