“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Bill Macdonnel arrived to witness the session. With him he brought some rolls of copper sheeting for our table, and incense and a burner. Both of these items, Jane had read recently, had been shown to be useful in psychic states by adding negative ions to the air. A negatively charged atmosphere has been shown to effectively increase one’s psychic abilities.

(I thought the copper insufficient in quantity, but we unrolled it upon the table, and lit the incense. Its pleasant musty smell filled the room. I thought the trappings might bring forth some rather pungent comments from Seth, but kept my own counsel. Jane was not nervous before the session. She began dictating in a quiet and amused voice, quite slowly. Her pacing was also slow, her eyes dark as usual.)

(It might be added that this evening it had rained, and now the night was very hot and humid. The windows were open; from a neighbor’s house some distance away, we could hear a phonograph playing, the sound carrying clearly on the heavy air. Traffic noise also seemed much louder than usual. Jane, dictating, seemed to carry her head at an unusual angle, as though listening. Her delivery was by now very slow.)

(Jane had picked up a roll of copper tubing that we had not used on the table. Now she touched the left end of the tube as she held it before me.)

(Again, as it has done quite often in recent sessions, Jane’s voice turned abruptly deeper, and retained some of this heavier timbre for a while.)

(Break at 9:26. Jane was dissociated, she said, but not to much of a degree. The neighbor’s phonograph bothered her, she said, and so did the traffic noise. It was the first time she could remember that any outside influences had made themselves felt while she was dictating.

(Jane resumed in a voice a little deeper, but still with her very slow delivery, at 9:31.)

(End at 9:55. Jane was dissociated to some degree. The music from across the way had stopped sometime during the last delivery, but Jane said the traffic noise continued to bother her. She had been reading that exterior stimuli should be excluded during such sessions as we conduct, and supposed Seth was right in stating that she may have allowed herself to be bothered. Jane said she would try to avoid this pitfall in the future.

(Seth’s reference to experimentation on our part involved a discussion re holding another “seance” involving Jane, Bill and I. We had meant to set a date for such an effort but neglected to do so.)

(In the 84th session, September 2, Volume 2, pages 329 and 331, Seth stated that Jane was blocking “a picture of Philip,” Philip being Seth’s name for John’s entity. Without much thought Jane and I had taken the data given on this instance to refer also to John’s September 2 date, since by coincidence the 84th session also fell due on September 2. This evening John said that he’d had no “disagreement in a kitchen, involving two women and a man, with a child close by,” on September 2. So now we wonder whether the above incident is precognition, with the actual date being blocked by Jane, or whether Jane is just plain in error.)