“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Last week we received Dr. Instream’s letter of September 13, in which he wrote that he would like to try straight clairvoyant communication with Seth on Monday and Wednesday nights at 10 PM. Dr. Instream also noted that on the evening of August 23,1965 he and his wife stopped overnight at York Beach, ME, while traveling. It will be remembered that Jane’s second envelope test was held on the night of August 23, in the 180th session, and that the test photo featured Jane on the waterfront at York Beach. I took the picture in the summer of 1964.

(Dr. Instream would like us to ask Seth why he stopped at York Beach, since he had never been there before. For our part we want to know whether Dr. Instream understands that he was in York Beach on the same night a photo of York Beach was used in a session, or whether he remembers reading about York Beach in previous sessions.

These suggestions, as you know, were far from extreme. The exercises that I suggested Ruburt take also aid him in utilizing negative ions. Each individual has various ways in which he or she characteristically handles the protoplastic elements of which the physical being is composed.

Ruburt may be nervous initially but this will pass. He is actually learning rather quickly, more quickly than I had anticipated. Again, we work with fine distinctions.

(It will be interesting to learn from Dr. Instream, who was driving the car when he and his wife arrived at York Beach on August 23 for their overnight stay.)

Specifically two men. (Pause.) A chair with a blue seat, or seat cover. (Pause.) The men, I believe, were with him earlier rather than at this moment. I believe that he is now standing on the small terrace of his apartment, and is wearing slippers or a slipperlike shoe.

(Pause, at 10:14.) It is possible that these men are inside, however. One of the men rather formally dressed. There is something in the water in the distance, which catches his eye, and upon which he may be concentrating. (Pause.)

Ruburt is indeed being very cautious. But he is learning to open up more in these tests, to let more information through. The opening up of the channels is the important thing. Oftentimes information will come through in a rather indiscriminate fashion, and a spontaneous (underline spontaneous) choice of available information is important. A variety of impressions may be received, many valid, but not closely connected enough for your purposes. So it is in the area of distinctions that we must work.