“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(While trying psychological time on Wednesday, September 9, 8:15 PM, I had, after reaching a pleasant state, the rather strange sensation of having my legs pulled or stretched, as though some force was trying to elongate them. I felt rather strongly a sensation of gripping on the inside of each ankle, coupled with a downward pull, or stretching. It had some duration also; I had plenty of time to lightly explore the sensation.

(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.)

(Seth began referring to mental enclosures, mental enzymes, etc., many many sessions ago, at the same time he began to give the information on the inner senses. By the time the 20th session was held these discussions of such material were in full swing.)

(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.

Usually we have little difficulty in achieving a deeper state in compensation. Tonight however a really satisfactory state was not reached, considering the rather difficult material I had planned to give you. A note here: Of course experimentation on your own will benefit.

(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.

(Thursday evening, September 10, John Bradley visited us while on a selling trip to Elmira for his company, Searle Drug. It will be remembered that in the 63rd session, June 17,1964, Volume 2, page 159, Seth gave a date of September 2 for John, stating that on that day “plans may be born at that date which will affect his participation in his professional field.” John was a witness to that session.

(Tonight John told us that on September 2 he was meeting at his home in Williamsport, PA, with his district manager, and that of course business was discussed. John has in the past applied for a transfer to the West. The company to date has not granted his request. Seth has dealt with the upheavals going on beneath the surface of Searle Drug in various sessions, and in some detail; they are continuing, John informs us. It now develops that John’s district manager is not too sure of his own job. Whether any actual plans affecting John were born at the meeting of September 2, time will tell.

(John also noted that he was keeping alert for any sort of trouble involving a woman neighbor who lives three doors down the street from him. Seth also mentioned this in the 63rd session. See John’s map at the end of that session.

(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.)