“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Sunday, August 22nd, Jane discovered the tape recording of the first two Father Trainor episodes was deteriorating, for unknown reasons. Last evening she tried a rereading of the two poems involved, but stopped before getting through G. K. Chesterton’s Lepanto. She began the reading all right but soon felt a sense of strain. She turned off the recorder.

(Jane said she felt it when I dropped the test envelope into her lap. This did not make her nervous however; she was “already Seth,” she said. In the first test she had the envelope in her possession before the session began, and could not but help know that a test was in the offing.

(Also, while she was giving the data Jane experienced a concept. She had the mental picture of a border, of something square, as the photograph is, with a border around it. She had no indication of size; the photograph is 4” x 4”. And also again, at this time Jane had a “distant” thought or impression of the error she made in the first test regarding a license, but felt content that she was keeping herself in the background.

(Jane said she felt that Seth was trying to come through with material on the Gallagher object, and that she was trying not to block it. She had the feeling Seth wanted to say it was rock; the other day Jane had the conscious impression that it was tin or galvanized metal, of the sort Bill Gallagher uses in fashioning some of his modern sculpture.

(Break at 10:14. Jane was dissociated as usual. She ended the delivery with a smile. She felt very good. Her eyes remained closed, her voice quiet. She thought she might very well use Seth’s material above to end her book.