“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Recently Jane and I have made friends with a younger couple from Texas, Judy and Lee Wright. They have lived in Elmira [NY] for a year, and are interested in psychic study.

(Prior to this evening Jane and I had not mentioned the Seth material to them, although the four of us have tried a few ESP experiments on weekends. See page 231 of the 125th session. Tonight’s experiment began rather spontaneously and ended with Seth making an entrance, although I for one had not particularly planned it that way.

(In the beginning the four of us sat on the floor, grouped around our coffee table and holding hands as suggested by Seth in the 125th session, and as we had done before. Jane spoke for some little time in a repetitious voice, as a way of inducing a relaxed state within us, but no phenomena of any kind appeared. Dim lights were on. We had been using our recorder earlier but were not recording these monotonous inductions, and as will be seen this was a mistake on my part.

(We became cramped physically. Jane’s voice also tired, so to relieve her I began to speak. Now Jane, Judy and Lee were prone upon the floor by the divan. Our idea was that our receptive state might make it possible for one of us to speak for another personality should one be present, or for another level of the self. I did not try to bring Seth into the experiment. I had been speaking for perhaps ten minutes, however, when Jane abruptly began to speak for Seth from her prone position. She lay flat on her back but soon sat up.

(This of course startled our guests, but they listened without interruption. Jane’s voice was quite loud and somewhat deeper than usual. Indeed, she displayed much more animation than she has for any of our regular sessions since she began to deliver the material from a sitting position. Her eyes remained closed now however, but she spoke much more rapidly and gestured often.

(The recorder was not on, and I was not taking notes. I thought the session might be short and decided to rely upon my memory for a reconstruction. I soon regretted this, for Jane talked rapidly, in high good humor, and at some length. She took a break eventually, and I then set up the recorder. What follows then is a brief summary of the first half of the session, based upon our memory, and a verbatim transcription of the second half.

(Seth began by stating that he had been with us throughout the evening. He said we had chosen a poor method of experimentation, if we did not want to contact him, since Jane has been conditioned to respond through him when we sought contact with discarnate entities. My idea had been that Jane might speak for another personality, such as in the Sarah Wellington or the Malba Bronson instances. See Volume 1, page 64 for the former, and 103 and 127 for the latter.

(Seth expressed much pleasure at being able to speak in a natural manner, without dealing with the usual philosophical and complicated subjects that make up most of the sessions. My own thought, as soon as he began to speak, was that I had made a mistake in method, since his appearance was a complete surprise to our guests. Seth reinforced this by saying that in the future I should be careful if I did not want it to happen again. Jane and I now like to prepare witnesses beforehand, since the material has become so lengthy and complicated that it is increasingly difficult to explain briefly.

(Seth repeated several times that he felt in fine form, and Jane’s voice and manner so indicated. I asked some questions designed to keep the material on the level of reincarnational data, since our guests had done some reading on the subject. Seth said I had not known Lee Wright before, but that I had been “involved” with Judy in a past life. It was indeed in my Denmark existence, he said, “the life of which you are now so ashamed.” In that life Judy had been a man, and a sailor. This reminded me that Seth had given similar data for our friend Bill Macdonnel; he too had been a sailor in a Denmark contemporary existence, but as I recall I did not ask Seth whether Judy and Bill had known each other in that life. As it happens, Bill had been a guest also earlier tonight, leaving just before the session.

(Judy’s entity name was given as Rayuk, and Lee’s as Wonlin. While speaking Jane was now up on her knees, gesturing freely. Her eyes remained closed and she did not get up and pace about. Break came after 11:30. I had plenty of time to get the recorder set up. Jane resumed at 11:40 in the same rather strong voice, but at a somewhat slower rate.)

(Unfortunately, we are unable to distinguish here as to whether Jane pronounced the word forefinger, or the two words, fourth finger. Her diction was not quite clear enough on the tape for us to distinguish between the two. The question arises because after the session Lee Wright said that as a youngster he had injured the forefinger of his left hand. Indeed his finger bears even now a scar near the tip. Seth’s use of the phrase “at one time,” could refer, we suppose, to either a past life of Lee’s, or an earlier period in his present one.

(Prior to the session, neither Jane or I had noticed any scar on Lee’s finger.)

(End at approximately midnight. Jane was quite well dissociated, she said; about the usual state she has been attaining recently.

(The following recent notes are from Jane’s psychological time notebook.