“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As I had for the 179th session, I prepared a test envelope in case we had a chance to use it during the session. This time the double envelopes contained a black and white photo I took of Jane at York Beach, ME, a little over a year ago this month. I thought this would have an extra emotional content, as did the symbol I used in the first test. [This is to be our second such test.]

(I took care that Jane did not see me preparing the envelopes this evening, although she was well aware a test might take place. We had discussed the matter earlier in the day but she had not given me an unequivocal yes or no answer, as to whether we should make such tests an everyday procedure during sessions. See Seth’s comments on this in the last session.

I see you have no tests for me this evening. Soon perhaps I shall have some for you.

(This was a perfect opportunity for me to slip the test envelope out of its hiding place on the bookshelf, reach across my small writing table and drop the envelope into Jane’s lap. It was 9:10. Her eyes remained closed and she did not touch the envelope.

(The orange-yellow-sunny interpretation of this photograph is particularly intriguing to us because it was taken on an extremely bright day; we remember it well because some other pictures I took on this roll, of rocks and the sea, were overexposed because of brightness and reflections. It is of course a black-and-white photo. The two people involved, a man and woman, could be Jane, and me who took the picture. I am 46 now, but was 45 when I took the picture.

(I would like to note here that the Gallaghers have not pressed Jane to name the object, in trance or otherwise, nor have I. Jane has certainly been aware of it, since she has mentioned it to me at odd times during the last few days. Therefore I was somewhat surprised that either Jane or Seth might be considering an attempt to name it now.

We will build up Ruburt’s confidence until he will be sure enough of himself in relationship to me, so that he will be able to let undistorted material come through where tests are concerned.

He will actually be building up confidence in me, and therefore he will allow me to come through when it is required that I do so in any investigations. For regardless of my own occasional irascibility with the behavior of your scientific communities, such men seek after truth, and there are few enough involved in that search.

(“Was there any element of telepathy involved between you and me, in the test this evening?”)