“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Once again the session was held in our quiet back room. Both of us felt somewhat tired, but attributed it to the weather, which has been cloudy and oppressive for the past few days. Jane and I try to ignore such factors consciously, but have no doubt we feel the psychic effects of weather as much as anybody else.

(Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. As in the last session her voice was very quiet and clear, and she used many pauses. We hoped to obtain more material on dream therapy. She began speaking at 9:01 actually.)

(Jane now took what I term a long pause, lasting about a minute. Her pace had been slow; the above paragraph had been broken by many shorter pauses.)

(Jane took another pause. This one lasted a minute and a half by the clock. She sat quietly, eyes closed, her hands folded in her lap. It is probably as long a pause as she has taken during the sessions. Finally she resumed speaking, her voice quiet as before.)

(“We’ll take a break and see what Jane says.”)

(Break at 9:18. Jane reported that she was dissociated as usual for a first break. She was as surprised as I was that Seth had announced a poor connection. We had no conscious ideas as to why this should be, and indeed this was the first time this problem had come up during the sessions.

(We thought our feeling tired nothing unusual, nor had we been concerned at any effect the weather might have upon us. Jane said that the extra long pause listed above was a most unusual one, however, in that it reminded her of being connected with a “dead” telephone. During most pauses, when she is aware of them, she feels that even though she may not be speaking she is still connected with a live source.

(Jane elected to try to continue the session, since she felt all right. She resumed in the same quiet voice, though with a faster pace, and with her eyes again closed, at 9:25.)

(Jane’s delivery had again slowed up somewhat, so that she began to use pauses.

(Jane took another pause. The following material began to come through at 9:35 by our clock. Jane took many pauses while delivering it, and until just before break she sat quite still. Her eyes remained closed. Her manner was quiet and deliberate.)

Flowers somewhere, in a vase or outside a window, I don’t know. (Jane shook her head.) There seems to be something about a radio. I do not know to what this refers. A letter to you. Some cautiousness in it because of indecision, though the cautiousness may or may not be apparent.

(Break at 9:45. Jane was dissociated as usual. She did not realize she was using so many pauses in giving the above data. She said she had a very “hazy” impression, as Seth talked, of a group of figures at a table. She saw nothing plainly, and so feels she is taking Seth’s word for the above material.

(Jane said the above is the kind of material she would have blocked in earlier sessions as soon as she felt it coming up, although occasionally she has allowed it to come through. One instance of such data checking out concerned the Provincetown and Bill Macdonnel material of the 68th, 75th, 82nd, 83rd, and 84th sessions.

(Jane now emphasized that where she would have “stiffened up” earlier, she now feels it foolish to let the fear of failure block what might be good material. Her attitude now is that if she is wrong once, perhaps she’ll do better the next time.

(Jane now resumed in the same quiet manner, sitting down and with her eyes closed. This time she began speaking again while holding a hand to her eyes, at 9:55.)

I see also a box of clippings in a drawer, perhaps a desk drawer, (Jane took a long pause) and an unusually-shaped object, perhaps used as a paperweight.

(End at 9:57. Jane was again dissociated as usual. She said that again she had the vaguest kind of an impression, this time of an object, perhaps the paperweight, on top of a dark wooden desk. She pointed out that Seth said nothing about the desktop being dark.)

(On the above evening I again experienced a feeling of enlargement in parts of my body. This was very similar to my experience of July 9,1965, at Oswego State University College in Oswego, NY. See page 131. Both experiences seem to be related to sound, and both took place in the small hours of the night after I had been sleeping for some time, then awakened. In each case Jane slept on beside me.

(For data on my other sensations and some visions, see the following sessions: 22, 24, 26, 27, 65, 145, 146, 163, 169. Nor do these include the enlarged hand sensations that Jane and I have experienced during sessions.)