“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.)

(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.

(Naturally I wondered about this, and whether it was worth continuing the session under distortive conditions.)

(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.)

(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.

(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.

(At Oswego, I was awakened by a party of college students in a nearby residence hall. This time I was roused by the tenants downstairs, who came home at about 2:30 AM, with company, and sat in the backyard talking. It was a very hot and humid night.

(In a drowsy state, I lay on my left side with my arms loosely crossed over my chest. I began to feel the enlargement first in my hands, then across my chest. This time I was alert as to what was happening at the first signs, and tried to encourage it without making any strenuous effort of will. The results didn’t surpass those of July 9; they were just a bit different.

(My chest came to feel that it was much wider, much broader and stronger and thicker—perhaps a yard wide. My upper arms gradually grew to feel that they were as thick as my thighs. My hands, as on July 9, came to feel the size of baseball gloves. I was aware of a greatly enlarged feeling in each of the fingers to some degree, as before, but this time the feeling that my fingers were somehow united into a pawlike or clublike unit was dominant.

(The sensation was very pleasant and not at all frightening. This time I had no feeling of enlargement in my face, or in my body below the diaphragm. The sensation lasted very definitely for several minutes, giving me plenty of time to explore it, then gradually dwindled away.