“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(And here again, Seth in the above paragraph immediately set about answering the questions that came to my mind.)

If Ruburt will permit me one small note here. You, Joseph, have been extremely helpful to Ruburt during the past few days, although I know it is on your part an extension.

(Here Jane laughed.)

The one exception here would be taking down verbatim the words of someone who Ruburt was convinced had superior creative ability or knowledge.

Here is a small note that Ruburt blocked earlier concerning you, Joseph. This fear also struck you, and had much to do with your outward acceptance of your job as it stood before you made a change, and a beneficial one, involving it.

The new director does indeed have a fussy, almost womanish love of detail for detail’s sake, and this sort of mind is one with which Ruburt finds it difficult to attune when closely involved. And here is a pretty point: Ruburt’s insistence upon the term gallery secretary left room for a certain independence and impersonality and leeway, that the term Mr. So-and-so’s secretary does not leave room for.

The money actually has little to do with it here, as far as the basic problem is concerned. Ruburt subconsciously wanted more money to make up for the lack of independence, or rather the taking away of independence. More pay will of course help generally but will not begin to make up for the basic situation, if it is not changed.

(Here Jane smiled.)

(This material is inserted into the record here because it is dealt with briefly by Seth in the following session, the 68th.

(It is, again, a Ouija board experiment Jane and I tried on Friday, July 3, 1964 at 10:05 PM. We sat at the board to begin without asking questions. Misspellings are included as received. I made verbatim notes as we went along. The words yes and no, spelled out on the board, are here indicated in parentheses whenever the pointer moved to them.

(This time, the pointer did begin to move, quite slowly. It gradually picked up speed while Jane wrote down each letter it paused over. No sense emerged from the series. It might be added here that out of a whole page of strings of letters, there were no instances of accidental spellings of words—not even short words like to, as, but, is, on, etc. It was almost as though either the pointer or myself deliberately chose to produce nothing at all recognizable.

(“The time you and Seth were friends here on earth.”)