“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There is one point from our previous discussion that should be added to. It is in terms of a clearer definition. You call matter living or dead according to quite arbitrary designations. We have a step further here to take. In our last session, I mentioned that you considered live matter to be action in motion.

Without such cooperation no physical construction would be possible. I will, if I may, use our glass again to make another point clear.

However there is a point, an infinitesimal point, where Mark’s perspective, and yours, and Ruburt’s, overlap. Again, theoretically, if you could perceive that point, you could actually each see the other two physical glasses.

(From my writing table, to my right of the entrance to our bath, I could look easily at Bill as he sat in our Kennedy rocker, facing the bath entrance itself from the other side of the same door. As Jane continued her delivery I noticed that Bill was staring quite consistently into the open bath doorway; yet I did not pay great attention to this, taking it somewhat for granted that Seth would use Bill/Mark only as a talking point relating to whatever subject he discussed.)

(First Jane pointed at Bill as he sat in the Kennedy rocker, working on his sketch of the apparition; then she pointed at me. Bill in the meantime kept staring into the open bath doorway, and as before I could see nothing from my position at the table.)

This is the first time that I have attempted to approach in this manner during a session. I am pleased that I have been perceived, and I have been observing you from my own vantage point.

(Again Jane picked up Bill’s second sketch. Pacing around the room at a rather fast rate, she studied it and pointed to it frequently as she spoke.)

The chin is shaped somewhat differently than the second sketch. It is not so pointed, though it is as long. I am, nevertheless, pleased with the overall representation. It is simply that for many reasons Mark’s abilities have been developed along these lines.

I will make a point here concerning the Ouija board experiment in which you participated.

(Jane pointed at me.)

I hasten to assure you that my humor is not malicious. Nevertheless it can be pointed; and entry into your new house, old landowner, should indeed be the occasion for some fun.

(Jane grinned broadly and pointed at me from her perch on the arm of the couch. I take the term old landowner as another of Seth’s references to my life in Denmark in the 1600’s; at that time I owned much land.)

(Jane pointed vigorously at Bill.)