“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Ever since mailing in the finished manuscript of her ESP book Jane has been very restless. She is very eager to get to work on her next project, but keeps struggling among many ideas, notes, etc. I suggested to her that she skip tonight’s session if she felt so nervous, but she decided to hold it regardless.

(I had prepared the usual double test envelope earlier in the day, but doubted it would be used if Jane was not in a good mood for the session. This time I cemented a collection of used U.S. postage stamps, still on original paper, to a folded piece of white paper. See my tracing on page 250. I sandwiched this paper between two pieces of bristol board to prevent identification by touch, and slipped the assemblage into the usual two envelopes.

(The session was held in our small back room. Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was average, her pace good. She used a few pauses.)

(Break at 9:19. Jane was dissociated as usual.

(As in the 183rd session, Jane began to speak after break while sitting upright and cross-legged on the bed. She was still out of sorts and restless. She sat with a hand to her eyes, her head down. Her eyes were closed, her voice quiet. The pace was slower now, with more frequent pauses. Resume at 9:28.)

(Jane now took a long pause. She still sat with her head down, resting in one hand.)

(It was 9:34. Jane smiled as she asked the question. Again I was surprised, not expecting any interest in a test tonight. I fished the envelope out and handed it to her. She held it in her right hand. Her position was the same, head down, eyes closed.)

(Another pause. Jane sat without moving.)

(Break at 9:39. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed, her voice quiet. She had used many pauses in giving the test data, although she hadn’t appeared to be nervous. During the whole passage, she sat almost without moving, holding the test envelope almost motionless in her right hand. She had no visual impressions while speaking, she said.

(Jane regarded the test results as very poor, at first glance. I didn’t know what to think. Some of the information applied at first glance; other parts of it, I thought, were impressions attached to the test objects themselves, as in the 185th session.

(Still sitting upright on the bed, Jane resumed with her eyes closed, in a quiet voice and with pauses, at 9:47.)

(End at 9:54. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes remained closed until the end of the session, her voice quiet. Seth said no more about the results of the test, and in view of Jane’s state I thought it best not to query him about it tonight.

(No water scene appears specifically on any stamp, or a child. Men and women are shown. As far as I can tell no portion of an address shows, or a tavern or place of refreshment. Nor do we know what to make of “someone stubborn,” unless this was a personality trait of one of the people depicted on the stamps. I could speculate that Jane’s constant nagging at herself to begin another project was stubborn, in that she refused to relax. This is hardly the kind of test data we seek however. 3 6 is Jane’s age, but we discount this also.