“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

SESSION 189

(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.

(It was a very hot and humid night but we held the session in our small back room. We opened the windows however. Jane said she felt a little nervous, embarking on the clairvoyant tests with Dr. Instream. She also felt anticipatory. She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet. She used many pauses.)

I am keeping your York Beach material until later in the session, close to the ten o’clock hour.

(I was somewhat irritated by the interruption, since we use the cramped back room to avoid such incidents. But Jane told me not to worry, that the session was going to be a good one, that she felt Seth coming through well.

This material will be most helpful in our own sessions, since when we are finished with it you will understand to some degree those conditions which may be advantageous and those which are not.

(Jane’s eyes now opened. This was quite early in the session for such a step. They did not open fully; Jane looked casually at me, and about the room, from beneath half-lowered lids. Her eyes closed at the end of the following paragraph.)

(See the 185th session.)

(Break at 9:27. Jane was very well dissociated for a first delivery, she said. Where in the last session everything had bothered her, even the sound of my writing, tonight nothing bothered her, not even the interruption. Her eyes were closed most of the time.

(Jane now told me she thought the “two people” referred to by Seth in the 2nd envelope test in the 180th session, were Dr. Instream and his wife Judy. See page 209. At the time, I had assumed that the two people referred to were Jane and me, since she was in the picture I took. We now know, of course, that Dr. Instream and his wife were in York Beach on the night of the 180th session.

One. Interruptions in themselves will not bother us once a session is under way. You may follow whatever course you personally prefer, as circumstances warrant.

As far as Ruburt is concerned, uncertainty as to whether or not a session will be held, is disturbing. There will be some circumstances when conditions are not of the best, however, when interruptions may bother. But generally we are beyond such disturbances.

You have noticed, I am sure, that at times visitors to a session are of definite value, for the psychic energy is pooled, and can be of value. The emotional impetus, when it is present, is also of benefit. Now in the same manner you can use and collect such energy when you are in a group, as in your Saturday evening excursions.

There is indeed a knack required here. Primitive peoples use it all unknowing. Unfortunately, in civilized conditions it sometimes needs relearning. All methods of gaining and renewing energy are important, in ordinary living and in our sessions.

There will be more said concerning this matter, since the same sort of mechanism is involved in the construction of materializations, in sessions such as this one, and in the construction of dream images.

(Here Jane pointed at herself rather vehemently. Again, see the 180th session, page 209.)

We will end our session shortly.

My heartiest regards to all, and I will close our session.