“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.]

(Tonight’s session was held in our back room. My writing table is beside a bookcase, and before the session I slipped the test envelope between a couple of books without Jane being present. Thus I could easily reach it during the session.

Our Ruburt is indeed relaxing, having just finished his book, and he has my congratulations.

We will see now what we can do with your own little test, and with our friend Ruburt.

He has learned much however since our last session, and you can see that it was much better that we allowed the distortions to come through in our first test, since it allowed him to learn more about the simultaneous existence of our consciousnesses during a session.

(Peggy has had the object here in our apartment on a couple of visits not connected with the Seth sessions, and of course told Jane about it. Peggy began to carry it about with her a week or so ago after Jane and I had asked if Peggy and Bill, her husband, would cooperate with us in some future tests.

We have our beginning.

I am interested in these matters because they will show the ways in which the personality handles such data. They will be demonstrations to point up our own text, because I will handle them in that way.

It is most helpful however that at least now Ruburt can definitely differentiate between our two consciousnesses; or at least he is learning to do so.