“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(By 8:58 Jane said she did not feel very nervous, but did feel strange because she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. Her mind was on the house we plan to buy, instead of on the session, she said. Our cat Willy was also very quiet.

(Jane began dictating in a normal voice, and maintained it throughout the session. Her pacing was moderate, her eyes dark as usual.)

(Jane’s delivery had by now slowed up considerably; she began to take long pauses between phrases. It appeared that this session would be another of the kind wherein Seth tries very hard to make accurate points; they usually leave Jane quite tired. While delivering the material she appears to search very carefully for just the right word.)

(Break at 9:26. Jane was dissociated as usual. She resumed in the same deliberate manner at 9:32.)

(Again, Jane was delivering this material very slowly, with many pauses.)

(Break at 10:03. Jane was dissociated as usual. My writing hand felt no fatigue. Jane resumed in the same manner at 10:10.)

(Now Jane took a long pause as she paced about the room.)

(Break at 10:36. Jane was dissociated as usual. My writing hand felt no fatigue. Jane resumed in the same very deliberate and searching fashion at 10:38.)

(Jane’s delivery was becoming quite forceful now.)

(I felt that Jane might enjoy the extra time off.)

(End at 11:10. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said Seth could have continued had we been willing. By now my writing hand had tired, and Jane was quite tired. It had been one of those sessions that really took something out of her; she had, she said, felt that Seth was pushing the material through.)

(Again, this is a Ouija board experiment Jane and I conducted on Sunday, July 19, 1964, at 10:45 PM.

(It was conducted principally because it was an exceedingly hot night; too hot to do much else, and Jane and I were not very sleepy. I made verbatim notes as we progressed. The words yes and no, spelled out on the board, are here enclosed in parenthesis whenever the pointer moved to them. Answers Jane received mentally before the board spelled them out, are indicated by *.

(Again, Jane’s reception of these answers was not in the manner of delivery by Seth; merely that she had the answers pop into her mind.

Elmar, Jane, Ruth, Maude, others.

(Elmar, Jane and I take to refer to Jane’s father, Delmer. His name is Delmer Roberts; and Hubbell is the family name. In this constant questioning about descendants, we wanted to get enough information for Jane to be able to ask her father some questions about his family tree; Jane knows nothing about it, and her father has not discussed it with her. So our task now is to learn if Delmer or Jane had a great great uncle named Tom Roberts, and if Tom Roberts had a brother named Hubbell Roberts.

(While trying psychological time Jane had the following experiences:

(Later, I was watching Jane and my mother. Jane was to my left, Mother to my right. Between them on the wall was a drawing of Jane’s, matted in a gray-white matte perhaps three inches wide. Pointing to the drawing, Mother asked Jane: “Did you do this?” “Yes,” Jane said. Mother then said, “It’s not framed very well. Maybe Dad can do it better.” These quotes are close to being exact, whereas for some reason I cannot remember at all what Father said.