“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(While at work last Thursday, September 9, at 11 AM, I had a vision of the type described on page 223. This time, while bending over my desk, I saw with inner vision a rusty opened sardine can lying on a worn wooden shelf. The colors were very vivid, the detail needle sharp. I saw clearly if briefly the flecks of rust on the can and the grain of the wood. The scene was lit by strong sunlight from my left, so that long shadows were cast to the right by the humble can.

(Earlier in the day I prepared the 7th envelope test for the session tonight. This time I picked a negative I had taken during our vacation in 1964 at York Beach, ME. The subject was the Driftwood Hotel, situated but a stone’s throw from the beach. This place has strong emotional attachments for Jane and me. It will be remembered that it was in the dancing room of the Driftwood that Jane and I saw the personality fragments we had ourselves created, on our vacation in York Beach in 1963. See the 9th session in Volume 1. We had this experience several months before these sessions began. See the sketch of the negative on page 255 of this Volume 4.

(Bill and Peggy Gallagher were witnesses for tonight’s session, and the session was held in our large front room. Traffic noise was not a problem, the windows being closed because of the cool night. Jane began speaking while sitting in her favorite Kennedy rocking chair. Her eyes were closed, her voice good but not loud, her pace a little fast. She used few pauses, and sat much of the time learning forward with her hands clasped before her and her head tilted down slightly. She began speaking at 8:59.)

(Break at 9:20. Jane was dissociated as usual for a first delivery. Her eyes had remained closed. Her pace had picked up as time passed, and by break her delivery was quite fast and businesslike.

(Jane resumed while sitting down and with her eyes closed once more. Again her brogue was apparent, her voice good, her pace fast. Resume at 9:33.)

(Break at 9:57. Jane was quite well dissociated, she said. Her eyes had remained closed. Her pace had been fast, her voice good, with more than a touch of brogue at times.

(Jane was now speaking to Peggy.)

(Our cat, Willy, had been sitting at the foot of Jane’s chair. As if by signal Willy now got up and walked toward Peggy, who sat but a few feet away. He brushed against her leg and she involuntarily jumped. The timing was perfect. We all laughed.)

(It was 10:23. The material had been so interesting that I had forgotten the time. I had planned to hand Jane the test envelope at about 10:00. Her eyes had been open up to this point, but she now closed them and sat waiting quietly while I handed the envelope to Bill; he passed it to Jane. She held it lightly in both hands, her eyes still closed.)

(Break at 10:28. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said she had no visual data during the material on the test; just the thought of the toothbrush and of herself. Her eyes remained closed until break.

(Peggy said that she watched me rather than Jane during the test, and that I did not betray by facial movement anything about whether Jane was doing well on the test, or not well.

The photograph was taken at four o’clock in the afternoon.

The federal represented all I could get through to Ruburt, I am sorry to say, concerning the fact that the building was a large one. He had the idea from my information of a large federal building.

(This little exchange was interesting to Jane and me. It will be remembered that Jane’s entity name is Ruburt, and that Seth refers to Ruburt as “he”; our interpretation of this being that Jane’s entity is male-oriented in the overall sense. Many sessions ago however Seth explained that this male or female orientation had little if anything to do with sex as we conceive it.

(This was a reference to Bill’s habit of closely scrutinizing Jane as she delivers the material.

(End at 10:50. Jane was dissociated as usual. It was evident that Seth enjoyed the exchange at the end of the session. Jane’s eyes remained open until the end.)