“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Due to the very long unscheduled session of last Sunday, May 30, our regularly scheduled session for the next day, Monday, May 31, was not held. This was more to save me work in finishing up notes than because of any tiredness on Jane’s part. She had no ill effects from the session.

(Jane has been back on a regular schedule of psychological time now for a while, on the restricted twenty-minute schedule set by Seth. She experiments just before noon. She usually achieves what she calls an excellent state, and this is as far as the experiments have carried her.

(Jane’s cold still lingered to a lesser degree. She was coughing, but made no mention of not wanting to hold a session. Her cold had been worse when she held last Sunday’s long unscheduled session.

(Jane had no idea of the material for the session beforehand. For variety’s sake she wanted to hold the session in our living room again, as we used to do regularly. I was somewhat concerned about interruptions but as it developed there were none.

(Jane spoke while seated in the Kennedy rocker, and with her eyes closed for this first delivery. Her voice was rather quiet, although easily heard above the traffic noise. She coughed briefly occasionally, and used pauses that were not very lengthy. She opened the session with a smile.)

(Break at 9:21. Jane was dissociated more than usual for a first delivery. She said she felt like opening her eyes a couple of times, or rather that Seth did. Her voice was rather dry and hoarse at times but was not strained, and became no worse during the session. She did not appear tired.

(I was a little tired, however, from the extensive typing involved from the last session, and reminded Jane that some of her comments regarding this were not good suggestions. She agreed. She had lit a cigarette during break, and now when she resumed speaking she held the cigarette in a hand. I thought this meant she might be getting ready to open her eyes while delivering material. But she resumed with her eyes closed, in the same quiet dry voice, at 9:27.)

(Jane now smiled again, then opened her eyes. They were again dark and luminous as she looked at me. This however was not the intent stare of the last session, but a more conversational and quiet one.)

(Jane, now, looked at me but occasionally. Her voice remained quiet. She used pauses less often and they were short ones. She spoke while looking casually ahead for the most part, and performed such ordinary chores as putting out her cigarette, sipping from a glass of wine, sometimes rocking back and forth, etc.)

(Break at 9:50. Jane was well dissociated. She blinked several times without closing her eyes for any length of time, then she was out of her trance.

(It remained a quiet and easy session even when Jane’s eyes remained opened. In a slightly louder voice, she resumed at 9:55.)

(Break at 10:15. Jane was again well dissociated. She said that when speaking with her eyes open she is not as sharply aware of the transition from a trance state to a nontrance state. Now, she felt as though she could quite easily slip back into a trance, although she did not feel Seth.

(Jane resumed with her eyes open, in an average voice and at a faster rate, at 10:20.)

(Jane’s eyes now closed. She continued speaking without interruption, and her eyes remained closed for the balance of the session.)

(Jane spoke with a smile.)

(End at 10:32. Jane was dissociated as usual. She did not realize that she had closed her eyes before the end of the session. My writing hand felt little fatigue.)